G-85. Why Black Bibliography Matters - Advance Reading List

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  • Required Readings

    Charles L. Blockson, “Black Giants in Bindings,” in Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History, ed. Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, W. Paul Coates, and Thomas C. Battle (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1990), 117-28.

    **Percival Everett, Telephone. I Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2020.

    Dorothy B. Porter, “Fifty Years of Collecting,” in Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies, comp. Richard Newman (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984), xvii-xxviii.

    Arthur A. Schomburg, “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” Survey Graphic, March 1925, 670-72.

    **Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf (date TBD), sample ISBN 9780684843261

  • Recommended Readings

    Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), “The Fire Must Be Permitted to Burn Full Up: Black ‘Aesthetic,’” and “Technology & Ethos: Vol. 2, Book of Life,” in Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays since 1965 (New York: Random House, 1971), 117-23, 155-57.

    Stephanie Leigh Batiste, “Performance,” in Keywords for African American Studies, ed. Erica R. Edwards, Roderick A. Ferguson, and Jeffrey O .G. Ogba. New York: New York University Press, 2018, 136-41.

    Gerald Early. “The New Negro Era and the Great African American Transformation.” American Studies, vol. 49, no. 1/2, 2008, 9-19.

    Teresa A. Goddu, “Slave Narrative As Material Text,” The Oxford Handbook of African American Slave Narrative, 2014, 149-64.

    Teresa A. Goddu, “Fugitive Sight: African American Panoramas of Slavery and Freedom” in Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 175-217.

    Frances Smith Foster, “Intimate Matters in This Place: The Underground Railroad of Literature,” Legacy 36.2 (2019): 245-48.

    Alain Locke. “Legacy of the Ancestral Arts,” in The New Negro (New York: Touchstone, 1992), 266. Originally published by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc., 1925.

    Meredith McGill, “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Circuits of Abolitionist Poetry.” In Early African American Print Cultures, edited by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Stein, 53–74. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

    Richard Powell, “The Aaron Douglas Effect” in Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist. edited by Douglas, Aaron, Susan Elizabeth Earle, and Renée Ater. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

    Howard Rambsy II, “Understanding the Production of Black Arts Texts” in The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011), 77-100.

    Richard Wright, “The Man Who Lived Underground” in Cross-Section: A Collection of New American Writings, ed. Edwin Seaver. L. B. Fischer Publishing Corp, 1944.

    Autumn Womack, Reprinting the Past/Re-Ordering Black Social Life, American Literary History, Volume 32, Issue 4, Winter 2020 ,755–80.

    ** Please bring personal copy of these items to session.