A Complete List of Black World Seminar Texts Fall 2019 to Spring 2022

(Compiled and organized by Gregory Smaldone)

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Semester List with Link to Syllabi

Black World I: Fall 2019 (Dr. Nathan Connolly)

Black World II: Spring 2020 (Dr. Nathan Connolly and Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson)

Black World III: Fall 2020 (Dr. Martha Jones)

Black World IV: Spring 2021 (Dr. Nathan Connolly and Dr. Sasha Turner)

Black World V: Fall 2021 (Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson and Dr. Lawrence Jackson)

Black World VI: Fall 2022 (Dr. Minkah Makalani)

Alexander, Adele Logan, Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim         Crow South (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).^[1]

Alexander, M. Jacqui, Pedagogies of Crossing: Mediations on Feminism, Sexual Politics,         Memory, and the Sacred, (Duke University Press Books, 2006).^[2]

Allen, Jafari, There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life, (Duke University         Press, 2022).^[3]

Bald, Vivek, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Cambridge:         Harvard University Press, 2013).^[4]

Bay, Mira, Griffin J., Farah, Jones, Martha S., and Savage, Barbara D, “Introduction: Toward an         Intellectual History of Black Women,” (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

Bedasse, Monique, Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of         Decolonization, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2017).^[5]

Bennet, Herman, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early         Modern Atlantic, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).^[6]

Best, Lloyd, “Independent Thought and Caribbean Freedom,” New World Quarterly III, no. 4,         (1961):13-34.^[7]

Bogues, Anthony, “Rastafari: Babylon, Dread History, and the Politics of Jah,” in Black         Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals, (Routledge, 2003), 153-85.^[8]

Brown, Vincent, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” American Historical         Review, (Dec. 2009): 1231-49.^[9]

Bynum, Tara, “Caesar Lyndon’s Lists, Letters and a Pig Roast: A Sundry Account Book,” Early         American Literature 53, No. 3 (2018): 839-849.^[10]

Byrd, Brandon, “The Rise of African American Intellectual History,” Modern Intellectual         History, (2020), 1-32.^[11]

Campt, Tina M., “Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive,” Social Text         98, vol. 27, no. 1, (Spring 2009), 83-114.^[12]

Carby, Hazel V., Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Penguin/Random House, 2019).^[13]

Christian, Barbara, “Race for Theory,” Cultural Critique 6, (Spring 1987): 51-63.^[14]

Cooper, Brittney C., Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Urbana:         University of Illinois Press, 2017)^[15]

Connell, Erica Williams, “Address to the PNM Women’s League,” and “Bournes Road         Address,” in Eric Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence, ed.         Sewlyn         R. Cudjoe, (Calalous Publications, 1993), pp. 353-368, 369-396.^[16]

Cowling, Camilia, Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery         in Havana and Rio de Janiero, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2013).^[17]

Davis, Angela Y., Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, (Seven Stories         Press: 2005).^[18]

Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)^[19]

Drake, St. Clair, “Diaspora Studies and Pan Africanisms” in Global Dimensions of the African         Diaspora, ed. Joseph Harris, (Howard University Press, 1993).^[20]

Du Bois, W. E.B., Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880.^[21]

Fanon, Frantz “The Fact of Blackness,” in Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove         Wiedenfeld, 1967)^[22]

Field, Kendra, Growing Up With the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War         (Yale University Press, 2018).^[23]

Fields, Barbara Jean, “Of Rouges and Geldings,” American Historical Review 108, no. 5         (December 2003): 1397-1405^[24]

Fought, Leslie, “A True Mother’s Heart,” Women in the World of Frederick Douglass, (Oxford         University Press, 2017), 9-69.^[25]

Foner, Eric “My Life as a Historian.” In Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of         History, 91–110. Indiana University Press, 1996.

Griffin, Farah Jasmine, “That the Mothers May Soar and the Daughters May Know Their         Names: A Retrospective of Black Feminist Literary Criticism,” Signs 32, no. 2 (2007),         483-507,  https://doi.org/10.1086/508377.^[26]

Gomez, Pablo, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early         Modern Atlantic, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2017).^[27]

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, “Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,”         Journal of American History 91.4 (Mar. 2005), 1233-63.^[28]

Harding, Vincent, “The Vocation of the Black Scholar and the Struggles of the Black         Community,” Education and Black Struggle: Notes from the Colonized World, (Atlanta:         Institute of the Black World, 1974), 3-30.

Harris, Leslie et al., Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (Athens: University of         Georgia Press, 2019).^[29]

Hartman, Saidiya, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval         (W. W. Norton, 2019)^[30]

Hine, Darlene Clark. “Carter G. Woodson, White Philanthropy and Negro Historiography.” The         History Teacher 19 no. 3 (1986): 405–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/493381^[31]

Hurston, Zora Neale, Baracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’, (Amistad, 2018).^[32]

Iton, Richard, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil         Rights Era, (Oxford University Press, 2010).^[33]

Jackson, Lawrence, “Baltimore,” Frederick Douglass in Context, (Cambridge University Press,         2021), 1-9.^[34]

Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, (New         York University Press, 2020).^[35]

James, C.L.R., Beyond a Boundary, (Duke University Press: 2013 [1963]).^[36]

_________. Beyond a Boundary, (Duke University Press: 2013 [1963]).^[37]

Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic         World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).^[38]

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie, They Were Her Property, (Yale, 2019)^[39]

Joseph-Gabriel, Annette, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship         in the French Empire (2019).^[40]

Kelly, Robin D. G., “Foreward: “Why Black Marxism, Why Now?,” in Black Marxism, (The         University of North Carolina Press, Revised and Updated Third Edition, 2021), xi-xxiv.^[41]

King, Tiffany Lethabo,The Black Shoals:Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies,         (Duke2019)^[42]

King, Tiffany Lethabo and Wilderson III, Frank B., “Staying Ready for Black Study,” in         Otherwise Worlds: Against Sttler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, (Duke University         Press, 2020).^[43]

Kincaid, A Small Place, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).^[44]

Lackey, Michael ed. The Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial         Justice, (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press).^[45]

Levine, Robert, “Frederick Douglass and Thomas Auld: Reconsidering the Reunion Narrative,”         Journal of African American History 99, 1-2 (Winter-Spring 2014), 33-45.^[46]

Lewis, Earl “To Turn as on a Pivot: Writing African Americans into a History of Overlapping         Diasporas,” American Historical Review 100, no. 3 (Jun. 1995): 765-787^[47]

Madison, Avril Johnson and Wesley, Dorothy Porter , “Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley:         Enterprising Steward of Black Culture,” The Public Historian 17, no. 1 (Win. 1995): 15-        40.

Madison, Avril Johnson and Wesley, Dorothy Porter, “Dorothy Burnett Porter Wesley:         Enterprising Steward of Black Culture,” The Public Historian 17, no. 1 (Win. 1995): 15-        40.^[48]

Mandy, Banton, “Destroy? Migrate? Conceal?: British strategies for the disposal of sensitive         records of colonial administrations at independence, Journal of Imperial and         Commonwealth History 40(2): 321-355.^[49]

_____. “‘Lost’ and ‘found’: the concealment and release of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ‘migrated archives’. Comma: International Journal of Archives, 40(2): 33-46.^[50]

Manjapra, Kris, “Plantation Dispossessions: The Global Travel of Agricultural Racial         Capitalism,” in Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, ed. American Capitalism: New         Histories (New York: Columbia University Press).^[51]

McKittrick, Katherine “On Plantations, Prisons, and a Black Sense of Place,” Social and         Cultural Geography 12, no. 8 (2011): 947-963.^[52]

______. “Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor),” Dear Science and Other Stories, (Duke University Press, 2021).^[53]

Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliott, Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980,         (Illinois, 1986).^[54]

Morgan, Jennifer L., Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early         Black Atlantic, (Duke University Press, 2021).^[55]

Myers, John, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition, (Polity: October,         2021).^[56]

Olusoga, David, “Windrush: Archived Documents Show the Long Betrayal,” The Guardian, Jun.         16, 2019.^[57]

Paton, Diana, The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity in the         Caribbean World, (Cambridge University Press, 2015).^[58]

Perry, Imani, Vexy Things: On Gender and Liberation, (Duke University Press Books, 2018).^[59]

Patterson, William, We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief         from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People (Civil Rights         Congress and International Publishers, Washington D.C., 1951).^[60]

Petty, Adrienne. “Guess Who’s Coming to Interview? Oral History across the Color Line.”         Agricultural History 84, no. 3 (2010): 298–306.^[61]

Reddock, Rhoda, “Conceptualizing ‘Difference’ in Caribbean Feminist Theory, in ed. Brian         Meeks         and Fole Lindahl, New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, (The University of the         West Indies Press, 2001), 196-209.^[62]

Sato, Shohei, “‘Operation Legacy’: Britain’s Destruction and Concealment of Colonial Records         Worldwide,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45 (4): 697-719.^[63]

Scott, Julius S., The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian         Revolution, (Verso Books: 2019).^[64] 

Scott, Rebecca and Hébrard, Jean, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of         Emancipation, (Harvard, 2014).^[65]

Sharpe, Jenny, “Thinking ‘Diaspora’ with Stuart Hall,” Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and         Social         Sciences 27, no. 1 (2018): 21-46.^[66]

Sprague, Rosetta, Anna Murray Douglass: My Mother As I Recall Her, (Washington: DC, 1900),         https://www.loc.gov/resource/mfd.02007/?sp=1.^[67]

Spillers, Hortense J., “Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New World,” in         Conjuring Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition, ed. Hortense J. Spillers and         Marjorie Lee Pryse, (Indiana University Press, 1985).^[68]

        -“Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Diacritics 17, no. 2         (1987): 65-81.

Stoler, Anne Laura, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense,         (Princeton University Press, 2008).^[69]

Trotz, Alissa ed, The Point Is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye, (Pluto Press,         2020).^[70]

        -“Red Thread: The Politics of Hope in Guyana,” Race & Class 49, 2 (2007), 71-130.^[71]

Turner, Sasha, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica, (University         of Pennsylvania Press: 2017).^[72]

de Vastey, Baron Jean Louis, The Colonial System Unveiled (Liverpool, [1814] 2018).^[73]

Wekker, Gloria, “Afropessimism,” European Journal of Women’s Studies 28, no. 1, (February 1,         2021): 86-97, https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506820971224.^[74]

Wells, Ida B., A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United         States,1892-1893-1894, (Privately Published: Chicago, 1895).^[75]

White, Deborah G. “My History in History,” in Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in         the Ivory Tower, edited by Deborah G. White, 85–100. (Chapel Hill: University of North         Carolina Press, 2008).^[76]

White, Sophie, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana         (2019).^[77]

Wilderson III, Frank B., Afropessimism, (Liveright, 2020).^[78]

Wilkerson, Isabel, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (New York, NY: Random House,         2020).^[79]

Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery, (University of North Carolina Press: 2014 [1944])^[80]

        -Inward Hunger: Education of a Prime Minister, (Markus Wiener: 2017 [1969])^[81]

Williams, Raymond, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, (Oxford University Press:         1983 [1976]).^[82]

Woods, Clyde, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post         Katrina New Orleans, (University of Georgia Press: 2017).^[83]

Woodson, Carter G., “An Accounting for Twenty-Five Years,” The Journal of Negro History 25,         no. 4 (October 1, 1940): 422–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/2715130.^[84]

Wynter, Sylvia, Hills of Hebron, (Ian Randle Publishers, 2010).^[85]

________ “On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our         Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Désêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project,”         in Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon ed, Not Only The Master’s Tools: African         American Studies in Theory and Practice, (Routledge, 2015).^[86] 

Zeleke, Elleni Centime, Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016,         (Haymarket Books, 2020).^[87]