POSTSCRIPT TO THE TUTORIAL ON AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES

It occurred to me that folks might be interested in the required reading list for the double seminar on Major Works of Afro-American Studies taken by each in-coming class of doctoral students in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The seminar meets five hours a week for a year, and is considered the equivalent of four graduate courses. Here is the current list:

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