This is the updated list of texts used in the ATLAS program. This literary compilation was curated and selected by Associate Dean Karin Beck, Dr. LaRose Parris, Associate Professor Mila Burns, and Dr. Julie Maybee.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Fawcett, 1959. | Nigeria/Africa | Nigerian/Igbo | Male | Novel | 1959 | P | English | |||
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists. Anchor Books (2015) | ||||||||||
Hansberry, Lorraine, To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Vintage Books, 1969. | USA | African American | Female | Memoirs | 1969 | P/S | ||||
Davis, Angela. Women, Culture, and Politics. Vintage Books, 1989. | USA | African American | Female | Essay | 1981 | P/S | ||||
Davis, Angela. Women, Race and Class. Random House, 1981. | USA | African American | Female | Essay | 1981 | P/S | ||||
Alexie, Sherman. War Dances. Grove Atlantic, 2010. | USA | Native American | Male | Novel | 2010 | P | English | |||
Allende, Isabelle. The House of the Spirits. Translated by Magda Bogin, Atria, 1982. | Chile/Latin America | LatinX | Female | Novel | 1982 | P | Spanish | |||
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies. Workman Publishing, 1994. | USA/Immigrant/Latinx | LatinX | Female | Novel | 1994 | P | English | |||
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1979. | USA | African American | Female | Memoir | 1979 | P | English | |||
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands. Aunt Lute Books, 1999. | USA | Chicana | Female | Essays/Poems | 1987 | Combination of essays and poems. Has become a seminal work (changing not only the way we think about the areas around the border, but also introducing new forms of expression (made the marginal central), should be considered primary | P | English | ||
Assis, Machado de, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. Penguin Classics, 2020. | Brazil | Afro Brazilian | Male | Novel | 1881 | P | Portuguese | |||
Ba, Mariamâ. So Long a Letter. Translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas, Heinemann, 1981. African Writers Series. | Senegal/Africa | Senegalese | Female | Novel | 1980 | P | French | |||
Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Beacon Press, 1955. | USA | African American | Male | Essays | 1955 | P | English | |||
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. The Dial Press, 1963. | US | African American | Male | Essays | 1963 | P | English | |||
Baraka, Amiri. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, edited by William J. Harris, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991. | USA | African American | Male | Poetry/Drama | 1991 | P | English | |||
Bennett, Louise. Selected Poems. Sangster’s Book Store Limited, Kingston, Jamaica, 1982. | Caribbean/Jamaica/ | Black | Female | Poetry | 1982 | P | Patois/English | |||
Brathwiate, Kamau. Mother Poem. 1977. Oxford UP, 1982. | Barbados/ Caribbean | Black | Male | Poetry | 1977 | P | English/Nation Language | |||
Brooks, Gwendolyn. The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, edited by Elizabeth Alexander, Library of America, 2005. | USA | African American | Female | Poetry | 1930-2000 | P | English | |||
delete | Caribbean/Cuba | White | Male | Novel | 1974 | P | Spanish | It is not always noted as one of his major works. | ||
delete | Caribbean/Cuba | White | Male | P | French/Creole | |||||
Carpentier, Alejo. The Kingdom of this World. Translated by Harriet DeOnís, Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. | Caribbean/Cuba | White | Male | Novel | 1949 | P | Spanish | Haitian Revolution | ||
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham, Monthly Review Press, 1972 | Martinique | Black | Male | Essay | 1950 (French) 1972 (English) | This essay reflects on colonialism and 20th century European history from the point of view of the colonized and challenges traditional points of view. | P? | French/English/ | ||
Cesarie, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. 1947. Translated and edited by Annette Smith, Wesleyan UP, 2001. | Martinique | Black | Male | Poem/Epic | 1939 | P | Multilingual | |||
USA | African American | Female | Essay | 1969 | Davis’s comparative analysis of Frederick Douglass’ and Jean-Paul Sartre’s writings is the first Marxist and existential critique to | P? | ||||
Césaire, Suzanne. The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945), ed. Daniel Maximin, trans. Keith L.Walker. Wesleyan University Press, 2012 | Martinique | Black | Female | Essays/Articles | 1941-45 | P | ||||
USA/Nigeria | Nigerian | Female | Speech | 2015 | P | |||||
Cliff, Michelle. Abeng. The Crossing Press, 1984. | USA – Jamaica | Jamaican American | Female | Novel/semi autobiographical | 1984 | P | LGBTQ | |||
USA – Jamaica | Jamaican American | Female | Essays | 2008 | P | LGBTQ | ||||
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Grau, 2015. | USA | African American | Male | Essay | 2015 | P | ||||
Conde, Maryse. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. Translated by Richard Philcox, Ballantine Books, 1992. | Guadeloupe/France | Black | Female | Novel/Historical Fiction | 1986 | P | French | |||
Condé, Maryse. “Language and Power: Words as Miraculous Weapons.” CLA Journal 39,no. 1: 18–25 (1995). | France | Afro Carribean? | Female | Speech | 1995 | P | French | |||
Guadeloupe/France | Black | Female | Novel/Historical Fiction | 1987 | P | French | ||||
Cooper, Anna Julia. 1852. A Voice from the South. Negro Universitites Press, 1969. | USA | African American | Female | Essays | 1892 | P | ||||
Cooper, Anna Julia. The Answer. 1691. Translated by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell, The Feminist Press, 2009. | Mexico | Mexican (I think she is par Spanish, part indigenous) | Female | Essay | 1691 | a seminal letter to church officials who tried to silence her (a nun, scholar, scientist) on the need for women to be involved in science and scholarship. Written in 17th c colonial Mexico. | P | Spanish | ||
Cooper, Helene. Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Simon & Schuster (2018) | USA/Liberia | Female | Biography | 2018 | P/S | |||||
Cugoano, Ottobah Quobna. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and other Writings. 1787, edited by Vincent Carretta, Penguin Classics, 1999. | Ghana | Fanti | Male | Essay | 1787 | P | ||||
USA/Haiti | haitian American | Female | Novel | 1995 | P | |||||
Dantica, Edwige. The Farming of Bones. Soho Press, 1998. | USA/Haiti | haitian American | Female | Novel | 1998 | P | ||||
USA | African American | Female | Essay | 1971 | Seminal work on prisons by a political activist | P | ||||
do Nascimento, Abdias. Brazil, Mixture or Massacre?: Essays in the Genocide of a Black People, translated by Elisa Larkin Nascimento, The Majority Press, 1989. | Brazil | Afro Brazilian | Male | Essays | 1979 | P/S | not sure | |||
Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. 1855. Washington Square Press, 2003. | USA | African American | Male | Essay/Memoirs | 1855 | P | ||||
Douglass, Frederick.“The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered.” 1854. The Life and Writings of | USA | African American | Male | Essay | 1854 | P | ||||
Douglass, Frederick, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 1852. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, vol. 1, edited by Henry Louis Gates and Valerie Smith, 3rd ed., W.W. Norton &Company, 2014, pp.402-13. | USA | African American | Male | Essay/Speech | 1852 | P | ||||
DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. Atheneum, 1962. | USA | African American | Male | Essay | 1935 | P | ||||
USA | African American | Male | Essay/Autobiography | 1940 | P | |||||
DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. 1903, edited by David Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams, Bedford Books, 1997. | USA | African American | Male | Essay | 1903 | P | ||||
DuBois, W.E.B. The World and Africa. 1946. International, 1965. | USA | African American | Male | Essay | 1946 | P | ||||
El Saadawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero, Zed Books (1975) | Egypt | Egyptian | Female | Creative non fiction | 1975 | P | Arabic | |||
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Vintage Books, 1972. | USA | African American | Male | Novel | 1952 | P | ||||
Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and Act. 1953. Vintage International, 1995. | USA | African American | Male | Essays | 1964 | P | ||||
Emecheta, Buchi. Kehinde. Heinemann, 1994. African Writers Series. | Nigeria/Africa | Nigerian | Female | Novel | 1994 | P | ||||
Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. Heinemann, 1979. African Writers Series. | Nigeria/Africa | Nigerian | Female | Novel | 1979 | P | ||||
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Life of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. 1789. Modern Library, 2004. | Nigeria/Africa/Britain | Nigerian/Igbo | Male | Autobiography | 1789 | P | ||||
Algeria/Africa | Black | Male | Essay | 1959 | P | French | ||||
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann, Grove Press, 1967. | Algeria/Africa | Black | Male | Essay | 1952 | P | French | |||
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington, Grove Press, 1963. | Algeria/Africa | Black | Male | Essay | 1961 | P | French | |||
Farah, Nurrudin. Maps. Penguin, 2000. | Somalia/Africa | Somali | Male | Novel | 1986 | P | ||||
Firmin, Antenor. The Equality of the Human Races. 1885. Translated by Asselin Charles, Illinois UP, 2002. | Haiti | Haitian | Male | Essay | 1885 | P | French | |||
Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1970. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, Bloomsbury Academic, 2000. | Brazil | Male | Essay | 1968 | P | Portuguese | ||||
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory.”NWSA Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, Autumn 2002, pp. 1–32. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316922. Accessed 13 August 2021. | U.S. | White | Female | Essays | 2002 | This is a now classic exploration of the tensions between standard feminist theory and feminist disability theory and of how feminist theory should be reformed to take more account of disabled women. It is a work of philosophy by a disabled philosopher. | P | |||
Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. 1923. Atheneum, 1986. | Jamaica | Afro Jamaican | Male | Essay | 1923 | “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (originally published in 1923). It is a collection of his speeches and essays compiled by his widow, Amy Jacques Garvey, setting out a vision to unite Africa and Africans. ” (from Barnes and Noble book description) | P | As this is a collection of speeches, it should be a primary source. But I am not sure | ||
Gbowee, Leymah. Mighty Be Our Power: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Country at War. Best Books (2011) | Liberia | Liberian | Female | Autobiography | 2011 | P | ||||
Gbowee, Leymah. Violet Bulawayo. We Need New Names. Little Brown and Company (2013) | Liberia | Liberian | Female | Novel | 2013 | P | ||||
Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe, The First New Chronicle and Good Government. 1615. Translated by David Frye, Hackett Classics, 2006. | Peru | Quechua | Male | Letter | 1615 | One of the only conquest-era chronicles written by an indigenous person. Guaman Poma’s 1300+ page letter to King Felipe written in the 17th c criticizes Spanish conquest and rule of the Inca, inserting Inca history into European Catholic historical timeline, dating to Genesis, and thus making a powerful claim to the legitimacy, rights, humanity and dignity of indigenous people in the Americas | P | ? | ||
Guillén, Nicolás. Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén. Translated by Roberto Marqéz and David McMurray, Massachusetts UP, 1972. | Cuba | Afro Cuban | Male | Poems | 1972 | P | Spanish | |||
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Signet, 1966. | USA | African American | Female | Drama | 1959 | P | ||||
Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Heinemann, 1974. African Writers Series. | Botswana | Black | Female | Novel | 1974 | P | ||||
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. Riverhead Books, 2013. | USA | Afghan American | Male | Novel/Historical Fiction | 2003 | P | ||||
Hughes, Langston. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad, Vintage Books, 1994. | USA | African American | Male | Poetry | 1926-64 | P | ||||
Hughes, Langston. I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. 1956, Hill and Wang, 1993. | USA | African American | Male | Autobiography | 1956 | P | ||||
Hughes, Langston. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937. Illinois UP, 1978. | USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1937 | P | ||||
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. 1861. Dover Thrift, 2001. | USA | African American | Female | Autobiography | 1861 | P | ||||
Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. 1785. Barnes & Noble, 2010. | USA | White | Male | Essay | 1785 | P | ||||
Jesus, Carolina Maria de, Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus. Translated by David St. Clair, New American Library, 1962. | Brazil | Afro Brazilian | Female | Diary | 1960 | P | ||||
Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. 1903. Dover Thrift, 1996. | USA | White | Female | Memoirs | 1903 | P | ||||
Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1988. | Antigua | Antiguan American | Female | Creative non fiction | 1988 | P | ||||
King, Martin Luther. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, a Brief History with Documents, edited by David Howard-Pitney, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004, pp. 74-90.. David Howard-Pitney, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004, pp. 74-90.. | USA | African American | Male | Letter/Essay | 1963 | P | ||||
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. | USA | Chinese American | Female | Novel | 1976 | P | ||||
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. Mariner Books, 2019. | USA | Indian American | Female | Novel | 2019 | P | ||||
Laye, Camara. The African Child, B191 Plon (1953) | Guinea | Guinean | Male | Novel | 1953 | P | French | |||
Leon Portilla, Miguel. Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press, 1994. | Mexico | Nahuatl | both | Testimony | 16th century | Leon Portilla compiled conquest-era texts written in Nahuatl (many from the Florentine Codex) to tell the story of the arrival of Cortés in Aztec territory. The perspective “of the vanquished”, too often silenced and absent in European accounts provides vivid testimony of the horror and violence of the Spanish domination of Central Mexico in the 16th c. Although Leon Portilla is the editor, the text is a compilation of texts by indigenous authors in the 16th c. | P | |||
Lispector, Clarice. The Hour of the Star. New Directions, 2011. | Brazil | Ukrainian Brazilian | Female | Novel | 1977 | P | ||||
Lispector, Clarice. Sister Outsider. Ten Speed Press, 1984. | USA | African American | Female | Essays/Speeches | 1984 | P | ||||
USA | African American | Female | Essays | 1988 | P? | |||||
Kenya | Kenyan | Female | Speech | 2004 | P | |||||
Maathai, Wangari. Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World. Random House (2010) | Kenya | Kenyan | Female | essay? Article? | 2010 | P | ||||
Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: A Memoir. Random House (2007) | Kenya | Kenyan | Female | Memoirs | 2007 | P | ||||
Machado, Carmen Maria, Her Body and Other Parties. Graywolf Press, 2017. | USA | LatinX | Female | Short Stories | 2017 | P | ||||
Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones. 1959. The Feminist Press, 1981. | USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1959 | P | ||||
Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1970. Translated by Gregory Rabassa, Harper Perennial 2003. | Colombia | LatinX | Male | Novel | 1967 | P | Spanish | |||
Martí, José, Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2002. | Cuba | LatinX | Male | Poetry/Essays | 1870-95 | P | ||||
Brazil | LatinX | Female | Speech | 2018 | LGBTQ, feminism, politics | P | ||||
McKnight, Kathryn Joy, and Leo J. Garofalo, eds. Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812. Hackett Publishing, 2009. | Latin America | Afro-Latino | all | court documents and letters | 2009 | This collection of first person narratives, court testimony, wills, testaments, and letters from and about Afro-Latinos in colonial Latin America is one of the few collections of primary texts that reveal the lived experience and agency of Afro-Latinos during the colonial era. | P | |||
Mistral, Gabriela. Madwomen: The “Locas mujeres” Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition. Chicago UP, 2009. | Chile | Chilean | Female | Poetry | 1914-1957 | P | ||||
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. | USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1987 | P | ||||
USA | African American | Female | Speech | 1993 | P | |||||
USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1993 | P | |||||
USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1977 | P | |||||
Morrison, Toni.The Origin of Others, Harvard UP, 2017. | USA | African American | Female | Novel | 2017 | P | ||||
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. 1970. Vintage, 2007. | USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1970 | P | ||||
Nardal, Jane. Black Internationalism (1929), trans. in Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Négritude Women. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. | Martinique | Black? | Female | Essay | 1929 | P | ||||
Martinique | Black? | Female | Essay | 1932 | P | |||||
Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place. Penguin Books, 1982. | USA | African American | Female | Novel | 1982 | P | ||||
Niane, D.T. Sundiata an Epic of Old Mali. Longman Group, 1965. Longman African Writers. | Mali/Africa | Malian | both | Epic | 1217-1255 | P | French | |||
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. 1945. Plume, 1983. | Great Britain | White | Male | Novel | 1945 | P | ||||
Oyono, Ferdinand. House Boy, Rene Julliard (1956) | Cameroon | Cameroon | Male | Novel | 1956 | P | French | |||
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquiet. Penguin Classics, 2002. | Portugual | Portuguese | Male | Novel | 1982 | P | Portuguese | |||
France | French | Male | Essay | 1755 | P | |||||
Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract. Common Courage Press, 2002. | USA | Female | essay? Article? | 1998 | P/S | |||||
Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debry, translated by Ann Wright, Verso, 1983. | Guatemala | K’iche’ | Female | Autobiography | 1983 | P | Spanish/K’iche’ | |||
Menchu, Rogoberta. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1781. Penguin Books, 1953. | France | French | Male | Essay | 1770 | P | ||||
Sanchez, Sonia. Collected Poems. Beacon Press, 2021. | USA | African American | Female | Poems | 1960s-present | P | ||||
Santos, Milton, The Nature of Space. Duke UP, 2021. | Brazil | Afro Brazilian | Male | Essay | 1956 | P? | ||||
Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. Zed Books, 1987. | Cuba/USA | African American | Female | Autobiography | 1988 | P | ||||
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus. 1818. Penguin Books, 1992. | Great Britain | White | Female | Novel | 1818 | P | ||||
Soyinke, Wole. A Shuttle in the Crypt. Methuen Publishing, 1972. | Nigeria | Yoruba | Male | Poetry | 1971 | P | ||||
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience. 1849, 1854, edited by Owen Thomas,W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. | USA | White | Male | Essay | 1849 | P | ||||
Truth, Sojourner, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, vol. 1, edited by Henry Louis Gates and Valerie Smith, 3rd ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2014, pp. 176-178. | USA | African American | Female | Essay | 1851 | P | ||||
Truth, Sojourner. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence. 1850. Edited by Nell Irvin Painter, Penguin Classics, 1998. | USA | African American | Female | Autobiography | 1850 | P | ||||
Turner, Nat. The Confessions of Nat Turner. 1831. Edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg, Bedford/St.Martin’s 1996. | USA | African American | Male | Autobiography | 1831 | P | ||||
United Nations. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women/CEDAW (1979) | Global | Document | 1979 | P | ||||||
United Nations. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) | Global | Document | 1948 | P | ||||||
Vasconcelos, José, The Cosmic Race. 1925. Translated by Didier Jaen. Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. | Mexico | LatinX | Male | Essay | 1925 | P | ||||
Vasquez, Romero, Norma, of Las Patronas, speech at Premio Nacional de Derechos Humanos. | USA | LatinX | Male | Speech | 2000? | This speech, delivered by the founder of an organization that feeds Central American migrants who ride atop a freight train through Mexico is a poignant testimony about human rights and mobility | P | |||
Walcott, Derek. Collected Poems 1948-1984. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1986. | Saint Lucia | Afro Carribean | Male | Poetry | 1948-84 | P | ||||
Walcott, Derek. Omeros. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1990. | Saint Lucia | Afro Carribean | Male | Epic | 1990 | P | ||||
Walker, Alice. “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, vol. 2, edited by Henry Louis Gates and Valerie Smith, 3rd ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2014, pp. 1180-88.. | USA | African American | Female | Essays | 1983 | P | ||||
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Washington Square Press, 1982. | USA | African American | Female | Essays | 1982 | P | ||||
Walker, David. Walker’s Appeal In Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America. 1829. Hill and Wang, 1965. | USA | African American | Male | Essay | 1829 | P | ||||
Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery. 1944. Capricorn Books, 1966. | Trinidad and Tobago | Mixed? | Male | Essay | 1944 | P/S | ||||
Wills, Vanessa. “Bad Guys and Dirty Hands: Ethical policing” in the Face of Racial Injustice.” The Critique, 18 July 2016, http://www.thecritique.com/articles/bad-guys-dirty-hands/. Accessed 16 August 2021. | USA | African American | Female | essay? Article? | 2016 | P/S | I remember Yodell saying that he thinks this text is transformative because it challenges our basic assumptions about policing. But is it a primary text? Help, please! | |||
USA | African American | Male | Autobiography | 1945 | P | |||||
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Row, 1966. | USA | African American | Male | Novel | 1940 | P | ||||
Wright, Richard. The Outsider. 1953. Perennial Library, 1989. | USA | African American | Male | Novel | 1953 | P | ||||
X, Malcolm and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1965. Ballantine Books, 1992. | USA | African American | Male | Autobiography | 1965 | P | ||||
X, Malcom, King, Martin Luther Jr. “Press Conference on Return from Africa.” Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, a Brief History with Documents, edited by David Howard-Pitney, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004, pp. 157-160. | USA | African American | Male | Press Conference | 1964 | P | ||||
USA | African American | Male | Speech | 1967 | P | |||||
~, All About Love: New Visions. William Morrow, 2018. | USA | African American | Female | Scholary/Essay | 2000 | P? | ||||
Alcoff, Linda Martín. “The Problem of Speaking for Others,” Cultural Critique, vol. 20, pp. 5-32. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1354221.Accessed 25 April 2021. | Canada | White | Female | essay? Article? | 1991 | While this is a scholarly essay, it has been re-published 3 times in different publications. An essay on intersectionality, feminism, anti-racism. Thought provoking. | P/S | English | Borderline? | |
USA | African American | Male | Collection of documents and history | 1960s-present | P/S | |||||
Barbados | Afro-Caribbean | Male | Poetry/Essays | 1969 | P | |||||
Poetry/Essays | 1982 | |||||||||
Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable. New York, Verso, 2009 | ||||||||||
x | Chavez, Cesar E. ‘The Mexican-American and the Church’ (1968), 118-121 [in Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo, ed., Prophets Denied Honor: An Anthology of the Hispanic Church in the United States (Orbis Books, 1980)]. | |||||||||
Curry, Tommy. The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2017. | ||||||||||
Dante Alighieri and John Ciardi. Inferno. Signet: NY. 2001. | ||||||||||
Ecclesiastes. New Revised Standard Version. 1989. | ||||||||||
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González, Rodolfo ‘Corky, ‘I am Joaquín’ (1967), 1-7 [in Francisco H. Vázquez, ed., Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics and Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)]. | ||||||||||
Gordon, Lewis. An Introduction to Africana Philosophy. Cambridge UP, 2008. | ||||||||||
Gordon, Lewis. Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism. Humanity Books, 1999. | ||||||||||
x | Federici, Silvia , Caliban and the Witch | |||||||||
Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela |