Texts
The texts listed below are appropriate for a history course with a focus on the African American experience. Supplemental materials would be needed for an African American/Black Studies course taught from an ethnic studies perspective.
- Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (Farrington et al., 2019); Slavery to Liberation (Farrington et al., 2019) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC) Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding the origins and manifestations of White supremacy in the United States. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.
- African American History (Licenses Vary) African American History for HIST 244 is a compilation of selected readings from African American History (Lumen), American Yawp, Boundless US History, and US History by Chris Collins for Skyline College.
- African American History (Lumen) in LibreTexts (Licenses Vary)
Other Resources
Courses
- Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies (MIT Open Courseware)
- Open Yale Course: African American Studies
- African American Studies 40A: African American Studies This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to important historical, cultural, literary, and political issues concerning African Americans. Through critical readings of literary, artistic, and filmic texts, this course provides an overview of African American experiences from the 17th through mid-20th centuries. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the historical and cultural experiences of African Americans from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the Civil Rights Movement. To focus our journey, the course begins with a discussion of the discourse of African American Studies as an academic discipline. Students will proceed to examine the process of forced emigration from Africa, chattel slavery in the British Colonies, the formation of African American identity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and struggles for social transformation and resistance by African Americans in the United States.
Journals – Open Access, Not Modifiable
- Beltramini, Enrico. “SCLC Operation Breadbasket: From Economic Civil Rights to Black Economic Power.” Fire!!!, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 5–47. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/fire.2.2.0005. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
- Harris, Angelique C. “Sex, Stigma, and the Holy Ghost: The Black Church and the Construction of AIDS in New York City.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, pp. 21–43. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41819234. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
- Staples, Robert. “The Post Racial Presidency: The Myths of a Nation and Its People.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, pp. 128–144. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41819240. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
- Strayhorn, Terrell L., and Derrick L. Tillman-Kelly. “Queering Masculinity: Manhood and Black Gay Men in College.” Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, vol. 1, no. 2, 2013, pp. 83–110. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/spectrum.1.2.83. Accessed 3 Apr. 2021.
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