Reading Race: America in Black and White

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Primary texts

A selection from the following primary texts:

• Anderson, Sherwood, Dark laughter., New York, Liveright, 1960
• Baldwin, James, Go tell it on the mountain: James Baldwin, London, Penguin, 1991
• Bontemps, Arna Wendell; Bibler, Michael P.; Adams, Jessica, Drums at dusk, Baton Rouge, Louisiana state university press, 2009
• Butler, Octavia E, Kindred, Boston, Beacon Press, c2003
• Cable, George Washington, The grandissimes, New York, Scribner, 1899 (Available on-line at Project Gutenberg)
• Chesnutt, Charles W., The marrow of tradition, New York, Penguin, 1993
• Child, Lydia Maria, A romance of the republic, Lexington, Ky., University Press of Kentucky, [1997], c1867
• Delany, Martin R., Blake, or, The huts of America: a novel, Boston, Beacon press, 1970
• Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986
• Douglass, Frederick, The heroic slave, CreateSpace, 2014
• Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, The souls of Black folk, Boulder, Paradigm Publishers, 2004
• Ellis, Trey, Platitudes, Vintage
• Ellison, Ralph, Invisible man, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965
• Equiano, Olaudah; Eversley, Shelly, The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Modern Library pbk. ed., New York, Modern Library, 2004
• Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!, [New ed.], London, Cape, 1965
• Gaines, Ernest J., Of love and dust, New York, Dial Press, 1967
• Howells, William Dean, An imperative duty.: A novel., New York, 1892
• Hurston, Zora Neale, Their eyes were watching God: a novel, New York, Perennial Library, 1990
• Jacobs, Harriet Ann, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988
• Johnson, Charles, Middle passage, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998
• Johnson, James Weldon, The autobiography of an ex-colored man, London, X Press, 1995
• Johnson, T. Geronimo, Hold it 'til it hurts: a novel, 1st ed., Minneapolis [Minn.], Coffee House Press, 2012
• Jones, Edward P., The known world, London, Harper Perennial, 2004
• Jones, Gayl, Corregidora, 5-star ed., London, Serpent's Tail, 2000
• Larsen, Nella, Passing, New York, Random House ; a London : b Kuperard, 2002
• Melville, Herman, Benito Cereno, Bedford, 2005
• Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon, London, Vintage, 1998
• Mosley, Walter, RLs̀ dream, *1995
• O'Neill, Eugene, The Emperor Jones, Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, c1997
• Poe, Edgar Allan, The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Boston, Mass, cop. 1973
• Prince, Mary.; Salih, Sara., The history of Mary Prince: a West Indian slave, London, Penguin Books, 2000
• Reed, Ishmael, Mumbo Jumbo, New York, Avon, 1973
• Roth, Philip., The human stain, London, Vintage, 2001, c2000
• Schuyler, George S., Black no more: being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940, 1. Dover ed., Mineola, New York, Dover, 2011
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's cabin, New York, Bantam books, 2003
• Thomas, Michael, Man gone down, New York, Black Cat, cop. 2007
• Toomer, Jean, Cane, New York, Liveright, 1993
• Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, [New ed.] Reissued., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008
• Twain, Mark, The Tragedy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Project Gutenberg ; NetLibrary, 2000
• Ward, Jesmyn., Salvage the bones: a novel, New York, Bloomsbury, 2011
• Washington, Booker T., Up from slavery, New York, Norton, c1996
• Wideman, John Edgar, Philadelphia fire, London, Picador, 1995
• Whitehead, Colson, John Henry Days: a novel, 1. ed., New York, Doubleday, 2001
• Wright, Richard, Native son, 1. Perennial Classics ed., New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

Selected Poetry: Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Michael Harper, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Audre Lorde,

Critical Material

Excerpts from the following texts:

• Baker, Houston A., Modernism and the Harlem renaissance, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American voices, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1994
• Gates, Henry Louis, The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988
• Morrison, Toni, Playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1992
• Nelson, Dana D., The word in black and white: reading "race" in American literature 1638-1867, New ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 1994
• Sollors, Werner, Beyond ethnicity: consent and descent in American culture, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1986
• Sundquist, Eric J., To wake the Nations: race in the making of American literature, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap P., 1993
• Warren, Kenneth W., What was African American literature?, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2011