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Footsteps to Freedom Dr. Walker’s Lectures 

 

Reading List: 

– African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection — Katherine Coryton White

– American Negro Slavery – Alexander M’Leod and Ulrich Bonnell

– American Negro Slave Revolts

– American Slavery American Freedom – Edmund S. Morgan

– Benito Cereno – Herman Melville

– Black Family in Slavery — Herbert Gutman

– Black Issues in Higher Education

– Black Majority — Peter H. Wood

– Black Society in Spanish Florida – Jane Landers

– Black Women in Whites – Darlene Clark Hine

– Blues People: Negro Music in White America – Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

– Born a Child of Freedom Yet a Slave- Norrece T. Jones, Jr.

– Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest 1492-1650 – Noble David Cook

– Capitalism and Slavery – Eric Williams

– Catching Sense – Patricia Guthrie

– Color Adjustment (documentary) – Marlon T. Riggs

– Destruction of California Indians — Robert Heizer

– Destruction of the Indies – Bartolome de Las Casas

– Drums and Shadows – Mary Granger

– Econocide – Seymour Drescher

– Epic of old Mali

– Exchanging our country marks – Michael Gomez

– Faces at the Bottom of the Well – Derrick Bell

– Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

– Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl- Harriet Jacobs

– Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

– Life in a Black Regiment – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

– Making of the English Working Class – EP Thompson

– Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer – James L. Swanson

– Many Thousands Gone – Ira Berlin

– Mismeasure of a Man – Stephen Jay Gould

– Motherwit, an Alabama Midwife’s Story – Onnie Lee Logan

– Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Douglass Family Edition)

– Nigger Heaven — Carl Van Vechten

– No More No More – Dr. Daniel Walker

– Orientalism – Edward Said

– Parting of the Waters – Taylor Branch

– People’s History of America – Howard Zinn

– Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave – Daniel C. Littlefield

– Scenes of Subjection – Saidiya V. Hartman

– Slave Community – John Blassingame

– Slave Culture – Sterling Stuckey

– Slave Trade Census

– Slavery and Social Death – Orlando Patterson

– Slavery by Another Name — Douglas Blackmon

– Slavery Voyages – (website)

– Slavery: A Quantitative Study (chapter in book) – Stanley

– Slaves Without Masters – Ira Berlin

– Sweetness and Power – Sidney Mintz

– Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

– The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave- Esteban Montejo

– The Common Wind – Julius Scott

– The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron

– The Creation of Patriarchy- Gerta Lerner

– The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin

– The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano – Gustavus Vassa

– The Making of the English Working Class — E.P. Thompson

– The Negro in the American Revolution – Benjamin Quarles

– They Came Before Columbus, Ivan Van Sertima

– Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks – Donald Bogle

– Trade in Colonial South Carolina – Daniel C. Littlefield

– Types of Mankind – Josiah C. Nott

– Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism – Joseph Miller

– White Over Black: Americans Attitudes Toward the Negro – Winford Jordan

 

Resources:

 

100% of tuition: http://blog.collegegreenlight.com/blog/colleges-that-meet-100-of-student-financial-need/

 

 

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Douglass Family Edition): https://bookshop.org/p/books/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglas-frederick-douglass/19069724?ean=9781637631706