Required Texts

Course Textbook

Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal. An African-American Anthology. 2nd. ed. (2009) Roman & Littlefield. Available as e-pub online.

Critical Readings (assigned chronological order) ***May require download from link

Ira Berlin, “Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America” American Historical Review 85:1 (Feb. 1980), pp. 44-78.

Ira Berlin_Time Space and the Evolution of Afro-American Society

Michael Gomez, “Of Du Bois and Diaspora: The Challenges of African American Studies,” Journal of Black Studies 35:2, pp. 175-194. 

Molefi K. Asante, “Afrocentricity: Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of a Discipline.” pp. 21-32 in A Companion to African-American Studies http://www.asante.net/articles/1/afrocentricity/

Phillip D. Morgan “Ending The Slave Trade” Chap. Four ed. Peterson, Derek R_2010_Abolitionism And Imperialism in Britain, Africa and Mainland America. (2010) pp. 101-128

Patricia Hagler Minter, “‘The State of Slavery’: Somerset, The Slave, Grace, and the Rise of Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World.” Slavery & Abolition 36:4, pp. 603-17.

David W. Blight, “For Something beyond the Battlefield”: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War.” Journal of American History 75:4 (1989), pp. 1156-1178. DOI 10.2307/1908634

Donald J. Calista, “Booker T. Washington: Another Look.” Journal of Negro History 49:4 (1964) pp. 240-255  DOI 10.2307/2716459

Sonia Delgado-Tall, “The New Negro Movement and the African Heritage in a Pan-Africanist Perspective.” Journal of Black Studies 31:3 Special Issue: Africa: New Realities and Hopes (2001), pp. 288-310. DOI

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told To Alex Haley [PDF] pp. 10-26.

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son essay http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/570f15/baldwin.pdf [PDF]

James Baldwin, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” The New Yorker, November 17, 1962 issue

https://www.newyorker.com/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind 

Roy Rosenzweig, “An Outline of the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Controversy” http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill

Emma Gray, “Why Anita Hill’s 1991 Testimony is So Haunting Today” from the Huffington Post, April 15, 2016

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-hill-matters-hbo-confirmation

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Case for Considering Reparations, The Atlantic, January 27, 2016

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/tanehisi-coates-reparations/427041/

 

Additional Resources

Purdue OWL (MLA Citation Guidelines)

CCNY Libraries New Student Libguide: Find Articles

Texas A&M Writing Center “Analyzing Poetry” Handout

Texas A&M Writing Center “Paraphrasing” Handout

UNC-CH Writing Center “Summary” Handout

Critical Essay Analysis (Instructor Handout)

Citation Basics (Instructor Handout)

The Quad “15 Logical Fallacies” 

Additional Readings

The Life of Olaudah Equiano (T/C) [Full PDF]

W.E.B. Du Bois “Strivings of The Negro People” The Atlantic, August 1897. Accessed Sept. 20, 2020.

Tynesha Foreman “The Double Consciousness of A Dark Body” (The Atlantic animation of excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois’ essay “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”