Course Readings

Books:

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Little, Brown, 2009)

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (Vintage, 1992)

Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Vintage, 1999)

Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Penguin, 1992)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Scribner, 1999)

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage, 2004)

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (Harvard, 2006)

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

Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Part I (My Father Bleeds History) (Pantheon, 1991)

Richard Wright, Uncle Tom’s Children (Harper Perennial, 2004)

Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (Persea, 1999)

Other selections:

[Coming soon]