SUMMER 2011 READINGS
W. E. B. Du Bois, Herbert Aptheker (Editor), The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on
Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century.
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (In Three Negro Classics).
Founding Documents in Black History (pdf files will be provided on CD-ROM).
John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom (recommended).
AFROAM 701: MAJOR WORKS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES I
READING LIST FOR FALL 2011
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (selections)
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (selections)
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone
Melville Herskovits, The Myth of the Negro Past
Michael Gomez, Exchanging our Country Marks (Selections)
Sidney W. Mintz, and Richard Price, The Birth of African-American Culture
Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll
Slave Narratives of Douglass, and Jacobs (in Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed. Classic Slave
Narratives)
Antebellum Poetry, including Phillis Wheatley (in Joan Sherman, selections, African American Poetry
of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology)
Martin Delany, Blake
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins
Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts
James and Lois Horton, In Hope of Liberty
Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists
Jean Humez, Harriet Tubman
Don Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long
Eric Foner, Reconstruction
Frances E. W. Harper, Iola Leroy
Postbellum, Pre-Harlem Renaissance Poetry, including Paul Laurence Dunbar (in Joan Sherman,
African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century)
Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, African American Music
Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (in Three Negro Classics)
Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind
August Meier, Negro Thought in America; Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (in Three Negro
Classics)
James Anderson, The Education of Blacks in the South
AFRO AM 702: MAJOR WORKS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES II
READING LIST FOR SPRING 2012
Charles Mills, The Racial Contract
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Mary Frances Berry, Callie House
Alain Locke, The New Negro
Harlem Renaissance Poetry, including Sterling Brown (in James Weldon Johnson, Book of American
Negro Poetry)
Jean Toomer, Cane
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kim D.Butler, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won
David E. Cronon, Black Moses
St. Clair Drake, Black Metropolis
Glenda Gilmore, Defying Dixie
Richard Wright, Native Son
Ann Petry, The Street
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha and Selections from poetry (in Gwendolyn Brooks’ Blacks)
Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, African American Music
Langston Hughes, The Best of Simple
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain
Howard Winant, The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II
Judy Richardson, et al, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
John Dittmer, Local People
James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Amiri Baraka, Dutchman (in Call and Response)
Black Arts / Post-Black Arts (in Call and Response)
Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls
Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose
Toni Morrison, Jazz
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Wow. I guess I should get to work.
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