Primary Texts:
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
- Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
- Richard Wright, The Long Dream
- James Baldwin, Another Country
- James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan
- James Baldwin, “Going to Meet the Man”
- Ann Deavere Smith, Twilight
Secondary Texts:
- Winant, Howard and Michael Omi. “Racial Conditions”
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- Robyn Wiegman, “The Anatomy of Lynching”
- Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”
- Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property”
- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, selections
- Sylvia Wynter, “Sambos and Minstrels”
- Others tbd…