Related Courses

• African American Studies

African American Studies

1. 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

2. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education

   Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

   "An effective blend of memoir, history and legal analysis."—Christopher Benson, Washington Post Book WorldMore

3. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery

   Henry Mayer

   "Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book."--William E. Cain, Boston GlobeMore

4. American Slavery, American Freedom

   Edmund S. Morgan

   "Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

5. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin

   Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Hollis Robbins

   Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.More

6. The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830

   Ronald G. Walters

   "A fresh and provocative contribution . . . . the clearest, most penetrating, and best-informed study of the post-1830 antislavery movement that exists." —Richard Bardolph, North Carolina Historical ReviewMore

7. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

   Deborah Gray White

   Revised Edition

   "This is one of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field. Professor White has done justice to the complexity of her subject."—Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityMore

8. Army Life in a Black Regiment

   Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

   "One of the great source documents in human history, but one of our greatest Americans. . . . Thrilling reading." —Tillie OlsenMore

9. 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

10. Black in America

    Eli Reed, Gordon Parks

    Noted Magnum photographer Eli Reed's provocative and often poignant portrait of black life in America.More

11. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

    Peter H. Wood

    A groundbreaking study of two cultures in early America.
    More

12. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South

    Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark

    "A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of BooksMore

13. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

    Toi Derricotte

    "The Black Notebooks is the most profound document I have read on racism in America today. . . . [It] is not just one of the best books on race I have ever read but just simply one of the best books I have ever read."—SapphireMore

14. Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

    Charles B. Dew

    A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.More

15. 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