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- Afro Am 117: Survey of African American Literature I
- Afro Am 118: Survey of African American Literature II
- Afro Am 170/171: The Multicultural Experience in American Life and Culture
- AFRO AM 222 Black Church In America
- Afro Am 236: History of the Civil Rights Movement
- Afro Am 254 Introduction to African Studies
- Afro Am 290c/753: The Blues
- Afro Am 293B: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND THE WAR ON DRUGS (Afro American Studies 293B
- Afro Am 297A: Black Springfield Matters
- Afro Am 326: Black Women in U.S. History
- Afro Am 331: The Life and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois
- Afro Am 491C: Cuba: A Social History
- AFROAM 494DI: The W.E.B. Du Bois Senior Seminar
- Afro Am 365: Composition: Style and Organization (Junior Year Writing)
- Afro Am 605/History 797S: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery
- Afro Am 652/234: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Afro Am 691C: Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies
- Afro Am 691C: Historiographical Methods in Afro-American Studies
- Afro Am 692G: African American Women's Narrative
- Afro Am 692U: Dynamics of Race and the Law
- Afro Am 701 & 702: Major Works in Afro American Studies
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- Introducing Special Collections and University Archives
- Summer Readings
- AFRO AM 701 List (Fall 2015)
- AFRO AM 702 List (Spring 2016)
- English 891BB: African American Women Playwrights
- History 591FG: First Generation-Urbanism and Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier
- History 593K: African Americans in Antebellum New England
- History 594Z: Black Women’s Political Activism
- Black Women Suffragists
- Educ 218: Hip Hop Nation Language and Literacy Practices
- Journalism 395M: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Mass Media
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Introducing Special Collections and University Archives
Special Collections and University Archives continues in its efforts to build around the Du Bois collection, adding other important printed and manuscript materials in African American history.
Summer Readings
- American History Now by Eric Foner; Lisa McGirr; Kevin Gaines' Chapter: "African-American History," page 400-420Call Number: E175 .A454 2011 and online
- Representing the Race: a new political history of African American literature by Gene Andrew JarrettCall Number: PS153.N5 J398 2011 And online
SUMMER 2022 READINGS
Margo Crawford, What Is African American Literature? (2020) [on order at UMass]
Pero Dagbovie, What is African American History? (2015) [on order at UMass]
The Discipline and the African World 2022: The National Council for Black Studies Annual Report
Previous Readings
SUMMER 2014 READINGS
- Kevin Gaines, African American History (pdf), in American History Now by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr
- Gene Jarrett, Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature
- Meier and Rudwick, Black History and the Historical Profession
Read one of the following survey texts:
- Lerone Bennett, Jr., Before the Mayflower (any of last 2 or 3 editions)
- ...., The Shaping of Black America
- Mary Frances Berry and John W. Blassingame, Long Memory: the Black Experience in America
- John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom
- Darlene Clark Hine et al, African American Odyssey—any edition
- James & Lois Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: the Story of African America
- Deborah Gray White et al, Freedom On My Mind
- Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980 by August Meier; Elliott RudwickCall Number: E184.65 .M45 1986ISBN: 0252012690No e-book available
- Before the Mayflower by Lerone BennettCall Number: E185 .B4 1993ISBN: 0874850290Publication Date: 1993
- The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett; Charles White (Illustrator)Call Number: E185 .B43ISBN: 0874850711Publication Date: 1975No e-book available
- Long Memory: the Black Experience in America by Mary Frances Berry; John W. BlassingameCall Number: E185.5 .B4ISBN: 0195029097Publication Date: 1982No ebook available
- From Slavery to Freedom: a History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin; Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamCall Number: E185 .F8266 2011ISBN: 9780072963786Publication Date: 2011No ebook available.
- The African-American Odyssey by Darlene Clark Hine; William C. Hine; Stanley HarroldCall Number: E185 .H533 2000ISBN: 013571852XPublication Date: 2000No ebook available
- Hard Road to Freedom by James Oliver Horton; Lois E. HortonCall Number: E185 .H643 2001ISBN: 0813528518Publication Date: 2001
AFRO AM 701 List (Fall 2015)
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney; Vincent Harding (Introduction by); Robert W. Hill (Introduction by); William Strickland (Introduction by)Call Number: HC800 .R62 1981 Reserve-3 hr and via Inter-Library Loan and online
Books listed below in the order in which they appear on the syllabus.
- Capitalism and Slavery by Eric WilliamsCall Number: HC254.5 .W5 1994 and online
- The Myth of the Negro Past by Melville Jean HerskovitsCall Number: HT1581 .H4 and online
- Exchanging Our Country Marks: the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South by Michael Angelo GomezCall Number: Online and via Inter-Library Loan
- Laboring Women: reproduction and gender in New World slavery by Jennifer L. MorganCall Number: HT1048 .M67 2004ISBN: 0812218736Publication Date: 2004Also online
- Many Thousands Gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America by Ira BerlinCall Number: E446 .B49 1998 and online
- Roll, Jordan, Roll by Eugene D. Genovese; Eugene D. GenoveseCall Number: E443 .G46 and online (limited user access)
- The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates (Editor)Call Number: E444 .C63 1987ISBN: 0451627261Publication Date: 1987This particular book not online, but most slave narratives are.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick DouglassCall Number: E449 .D74905 and online from various sources
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself.Call Number: Online via HATHI Trust Library
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself by Harriet A. JacobsCall Number: E444.J17 A3 1987 And online via Black Women Writers and elsewhere
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself by Harriet A. JacobsCall Number: Online via HATHI Trust Library
- African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century by Joan R. Sherman (Editor)Call Number: PS591.N4 A35 1992ISBN: 0252019172Publication Date: 1992No ebook available.
Many poems in the African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVA at: http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-poetry-database-from-uva.html - African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVACall Number: Free online database of poetry
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweCall Number: PS2954 .U5 2010d and online
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. JamesCall Number: F1923 .T85 1963ISBN: 0679724672Publication Date: 1989
- Blake; or, The huts of America, a novel. by Martin R. DelanyCall Number: PS3507.E36 B63 1970
- American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker; John H. Bracey (Foreword by)Call Number: E447 .A67 1977ISBN: 0527030007Publication Date: 1997Link to 1983 version: http://silk.library.umass.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat06087a&AN=umass.000352261&site=eds-live&scope=site
- In Hope of Liberty: culture, community, and protest among northern free Blacks, 1700-1860 by James O. Horton; Lois E. HortonCall Number: E185 .H644 1997ISBN: 019504732XPublication Date: 1997
- All Bound up Together: the woman question in African American public culture, 1830-1900 by Martha S. JonesCall Number: E185.86 .J663 2007 and online
- Been in the Storm So Long: the aftermath of slavery by Leon F. LitwackCall Number: E185.2 .L57 1980ISBN: 9780394743981Publication Date: 1980
- Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric FonerCall Number: E668 .F66 1988ISBN: 0060158514Publication Date: 2002
- Iola Leroy, or, Shadows uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Hazel V. Carby (Introduction by)Call Number: PS1799.H7 I6 1987ISBN: 0807063177Publication Date: 1999Also online
- African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century by Joan R. Sherman (Editor)Call Number: PS591.N4 A35 1992ISBN: 0252019172Publication Date: 1992No ebook available.
Many poems in the African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVA at: http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/A/african-american-poetry-database-from-uva.html - African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVACall Number: Free online database of poetry
- African American Music by Mellonee Burnim (Editor); Portia K. Maultsby (Editor)Call Number: ML3556 .A34 2006 And online
- The Conjure Woman by Chesnutt, Charles WCall Number: PS1292.C6 C65 1969 and online via HATHI Trust Library
- The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales by Charles Waddell Chesnutt; Richard H. Brodhead (Editor)Call Number: PS1292.C6 A6 1993ISBN: 0822313782Publication Date: 1993
- Three Negro Classics by John Hope Franklin (Editor); James Weldon JohnsonCall Number: E185.97.W278 T4 1965Publication Date: 1965
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon JohnsonCall Number: PS3519.O2625 A95 2011 And 1912 edition online via HATHI Trust Library
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. WashingtonCall Number: E185.97.W4 A3 2003 And online
- An Army of Lions by Shawn Leigh AlexanderCall Number: E185.61 .A437 2013 and Online via JSTOR
AFRO AM 702 List (Spring 2016)
Books listed below in the order in which they appear on the syllabus.
- The new Negro: an interpretation by edited by Alain Locke; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.Call Number: E185.82 .L75 and Online via Alexander Street PressPublication Date: 1925Locke, Alain Le Roy, 1886-
- The Works of Alain Locke by Alain LeRoy Locke; Charles Molesworth (Editor)Call Number: Online bookISBN: 0199795045
- The Book of American Negro Poetry by James Weldon JohnsonCall Number: PS591.N4 J6 1931 and Online via HATHI Trust Library
- African-American Poetry Database 1760-1975 from the Electronic Text Center at UVACall Number: Free online database of poetry
- Cane by Jean ToomerCall Number: PS3539.O55 C3 1975ISBN: 9780393931686Publication Date: 2011No ebook available. Order copies via Inter-Library Loan at this link.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonCall Number: PS3515.U789 T5ISBN: 9780060931414Publication Date: 1998No ebook available
- Black Metropolis : a study of Negro life in a northern city by St. Clair DrakeCall Number: F548.9.N4 D73 1993ISBN: 0226162346Publication Date: 1993No ebook available
- Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won by Kim D. ButlerCall Number: F2651.S2 B85 1998ISBN: 0813525047Publication Date: 1998No ebook available
- Jesus, Jobs, and Justice by Bettye Collier-ThomasCall Number: BR563.N4 C644 2010 And online (Only one reader at a time)ISBN: 9781400044207Publication Date: 2010-02-02This groundbreaking book begins with slavery and gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. Collier-Thomas makes clear that while religion has been a guiding force in the lives of most African Americans, for black women it has been essential. As co-creators of churches, black women were a central factor in their development. Collier-Thomas explores the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in black churches as well as racism in mostly white denominations in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women's conventions; and how, within the church, men treated women as second-class citizens despite their importance to the very existence and survival of the church itself. African American churchwomen created national organizations such as the National Association of Colored Women and the National Council of Negro Women, they confronted racism in white-led quasi Christian groups such as the YWCA, and they worked in male-dominated organizations such as the NAACP and National Urban League, to demand civil rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities, and to protest lynching, segregation, and discrimination. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice restores black women to their rightful place in American history, elucidating both the quality and consequence of their faith in themselves, their race, and their God.
- The World Is a Ghetto by Howard WinantCall Number: HT1507 .W56 2001ISBN: 0465043402Publication Date: 2001No ebook available
- Hammer and Hoe by Robin D. G. KelleyCall Number: HX91.A2 K45 1990 And online
- Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia by Winston JamesCall Number: E184.C27 J36 1998 and online
- Native Son by Richard WrightCall Number: PS3545.R815 N3 2014ISBN: 9780062357250Publication Date: 2014No ebook available
- The Street by Ann PetryCall Number: PS3531.E933 S75 1991ISBN: 0395573807Publication Date: 1991No ebook available
- Maud Martha by Gwendolyn BrooksCall Number: PS3503.R7244 M28 1974ISBN: 0404113680Publication Date: 1974No ebook available
- African American Music by Mellonee Burnim (Editor); Portia K. Maultsby (Editor)Call Number: ML3556 .A34 2006 And online
- The Best of Simple by Langston HughesCall Number: PS3515.U274 B4 1990ISBN: 9780374521332Publication Date: 1990
- Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonCall Number: PS3555.L625 I5 and online (only one reader at a time)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinCall Number: PS3552.A45 G62 2016ISBN: 9781101907610Publication Date: 2016Library has 1985 and other editions. If our copy is checked out, request through Inter-Library Loan via link above. Give it a few days to arrive.
- Lift Every Voice by Patricia SullivanCall Number: E185.5.N276 S85 2009 and online
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley (As told to); M. S. Handler (Introduction by)Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57943 1992ISBN: 9780345379757Publication Date: 1992
- Local People by John DittmerCall Number: E185.93.M6 D58 1994ISBN: 0252021029Publication Date: 1994No ebook available
- A Raisin in the SunCall Number: PS3515.A515 R3 and online (only one reader at a time)
- Call and Response: the Riverside Anthology of African-American Literature by Patricia Liggins-HillCall Number: PS508.N3 C35 1997ISBN: 9780618449095Publication Date: 1997
- The Color Purple by Alice WalkerCall Number: PS3573 .A425 C6 1985ISBN: 0671727796Publication Date: 1985No ebook available
- Beloved by Toni MorrisonCall Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 And online (Only one reader at a time)
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