African American Studies

1. Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies

   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jennifer Burton

   Class-tested by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his groundbreaking course, Call and Response is an innovative core reader for African American Studies.More

2. Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

   Hazel Rose Markus, Paula M. L. Moya

   A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to race and ethnicity.
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3. Uncle Tom's Cabin

   Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

   Second Edition

   One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.More

4. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

   Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

   “Remarkable . . . an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world.” —Washington PostMore

5. The Age of Jim Crow

   Jane Dailey

   America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More

6. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

   Michael K. Honey

   "The definitive appreciation of the Memphis garbage strike, one of the pivotal human-rights moments in late twentieth-century America."—David Levering LewisMore

7. Passing

   Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan

   Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.More

8. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nellie Y. McKay, William L. Andrews, Et Al.

   Second Edition

   Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.More

9. Death and the King's Horseman

   Wole Soyinka, Simon Gikandi

   This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient Yoruban city of Oyo, Soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional Nigerian myth and culture.More

10. Modern African Drama

    Biodun Jeyifo

    The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya.More

11. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Harriet Jacobs, Frances Smith Foster, Nellie Y. McKay

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.More

12. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself

    Olaudah Equiano, Werner Sollors

    The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.More

13. Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

    Regina Austin, Manthia Diawara, Walter Mosley, Et Al.

    Thirteen of black America's most eloquent voices share their visions for a self-sufficient, self-determined future.More

14. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

    Deborah Gray White

    "Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."--Akilah Monifa, EmergeMore

15. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

    Quintard Taylor

    "This is an enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come. You finish it understanding how integral a part blacks were of the making of the West and, indeed, America." — David Nicholson, Washington PostMore