Spring 2018 Readings and Sounds

This semester's books (and music):

Honors Social Science Seminar #HUAFRO091

  • W.E.B. DU BOIS, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (New York: Free Press, 2000)

  • W.E.B. DU BOIS, The World and Africa: An Inquiry Into the Part Which Africa has Played in World History (New York: International Publishers, [1946], 1965)

  • W.E.B. DU BOIS, Writings, ed. Nathaniel Huggins (New York: Library of America, 1986)

  • W.E.B. DU BOIS, The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Century, ed. Nahum Dimitri Chandler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015)

  • ERIC J. SUNDQUIST, ed. The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)

  • DAVID LEVERING LEWIS, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2009)

Music: Honors Social Science Seminar

Twentieth Century Black Social and Political Thought #HUAFRO134

  • W.E.B. DU BOIS, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing my Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (New York: International Publishers, 1968)

  • CEDRIC JOHNSON, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

  • ROBIN D.G. KELLEY, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002)

  • TONI MORRISON, Paradise (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997)

  • TONI MORRISON, Song of Solomon (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977)

  • NIKHIL PAL SINGH, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)

  • ROBIN D.G. KELLEY AND EARL LEWIS, eds. To Make Our World Anew: Volume Two: A History of African Americans since 1880 (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)

  • MANNING MARABLE AND LEITH MULLINGS, Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology, 2nd Edition (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009)

  • CEDRIC J. ROBINSON, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2000)

Music: 20th Century Black Social and Political Thought

Introduction to Africana Studies I#HUAFRO05

  • ITON, RICHARD. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)

  • STUCKEY, STERLING. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (New York: Oxford University Press, [1987], 2013)

  • GOMEZ, MICHAEL A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

  • HOLLOWAY, JOSEPH E., ed. Africanisms in American Culture (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993)

  • WELSH-ASANTE, KARIAMU, ed. The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Traditions (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993)

Music: The Black Fantastic, or an Unbroken Circle

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