African American History Prelims Reading List Professor William Jones Spring 2013 Surveys/Overviews Berlin, Ira. The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations. New York: Viking, 2010. Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: Norton & Co., 1998. Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. New Ed. Princeton University Press, 2002. Kelley, Robin D.G. and Earl Lewis, eds. To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Singh, Nikhil Pal. Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. Slavery Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves. Cambridge: Belknap, 2004. Fields, Barbara Jean. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Glymph, Thavolia. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Johnson, Walter. Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. New York: Norton, 1967. Morgan, Edmund. American Slavery, American Freedom. New York: Norton, 1975. Penningroth, Dylan C. Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Rucker, Walter C. The River Flows On: Black Resistance Culture and Identity Formation in Early America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Sidbury, James. Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Smallwood, Stephanie E. Salt Water Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Wade, Richard. Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. Northern Slavery/Abolition

Essah, Patience. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1996. Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africans Americans in New York City, 1626 – 1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Hodges, Graham Russell. Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison House, 1997. Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: the Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720 -1840. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. Nash, Gary and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 17701810. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1991. Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1967. Civil War/Reconstruction Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2002. Foner, Eric. Forever Free: the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 2005. Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Perennial Classics, 2002. Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: the Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: the Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Hunter, Tera W. To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Kantrowitz, Stephen. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Knopf, 1979. Manning, Chandra: What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 2007. Schwalm, Leslie A. Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Early 20th Century African American History Baldwin, Davarian L. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Bates, Beth Tompkins. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Brophy. Alfred L. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. ed. Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Fairclough, Adam. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Gregory, James N. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Hirsch, James. S. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and its Legacy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Jones, William P. The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Klarman, Michael. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Lewis, David L. W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 2009. Lipsitz, George. Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1998. Madigan, Tim. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. Moses, Wilson. Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. Oxford University Press, 2009. Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Smith, J. Douglas. Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press,

2002. Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Weems, Robert. Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth. American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955. Civil Rights Movement Group Uprisings/Movements Bernstein, Shana. Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in TwentiethCentury Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Biondi, Martha. To Stand and to Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. Chafe, William. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Dowd Hall, Jacquelyn. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” The Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (Mar., 2005): 1233-1263. Estes, Steve. I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Hirsch, Arnold. Making the Second Ghetto: Race & Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Hogan, Wesley. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Honey, Michael. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Jones, Patrick. The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Joseph, Peniel, ed. The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. New York:Routledge, 2006. Joseph, Peniel. Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt & co., 2006. Kelley, Robin D.G. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working-Class. New York: Free Press, 1994. Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage, 2004.

Kurashige, Scott. Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Lawson, Steven. Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944 – 1969. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. Lawson, Steven and Charles Payne. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield, 2006. MacLean, Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to Black Power. New York: Knopf, 2010. Murch, Donna Jean. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Orleck, Annelise. Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. Sugrue, Thomas. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008. Sullivan, Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New Press, 2010. Thompson, Heather Ann. Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Wiese, Andrew. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Individuals Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. Fosl, Catherine. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. New York: Viking, 2011. Ransby Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Smith, Lillian. Killers of the Dream. New York: Norton, 1994. Tyson, Tim. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. International Context Anderson, Carol. Eyes Off The Prize: The United Nations And The African American Struggle For Human Rights, 1944-1955 Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. New York: Norton, 2008. Horne, Gerald. W.E.B. DuBois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 19441963. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1986. Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 19351960. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Plummer, Brenda Gayle. ed. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Von Eschen, Penny M. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Postwar Culture/Society Countryman, Matthew. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Kelley, Robin D.G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002) Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, Second Edition. Oxford, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, 1991. Self, Robert. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Smethurst, James Edward. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Smith, Suzanne E. Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Widener, Daniel. Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2010.