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Alphabetized bibliography of course readings

Abrahams, Peter. Mine Boy. In Mine Boy. Heinemann, 1963. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2138580130/citation/27A7B379D6894DC6PQ/1.

Addei, Cecilia, and Felicia Annin. “Diasporic Citizenship: Slavery, Identity And Kinship In Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.” Celtic : A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics 11, no. 2 (2024): 523–35. https://doi.org/10.22219/celtic.v11i2.33950.

Berlin, Ira. “From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African- American Society in Mainland North America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 53, no. 2 (1996): 251–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/2947401.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt). The Quest of the Silver Fleece. 1911, 2005. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15265.

DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Edited by Vann R. Newkirk II and Steve Prince. Restless Books, 2017. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6944003.

Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. With Robin D. G. Kelley. Monthly Review Press, 2000. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1114598.

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell). The Marrow of Tradition. 1901, 2004. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11228.

Corbould, Clare. Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939. Harvard University Press, 2009. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3300845.

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb31944.0001.001.

Dubois, Laurent. The Banjo: America’s African Instrument. Harvard University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674968813.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Sport of the Gods. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902. HathiTrust. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001375625.

Edwards, Brent Hayes. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Harvard University Press, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb30564.0001.001.

Fauset, Jessie Redmon. There Is Confusion. Boni and Liveright, 1924. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000389422.

Ferrer, Ada. “Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic.” American Historical Review 117, no. 1 (2012): 40–66. 71793859. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.117.1.40.

Gilroy, Paul. “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity | Chapter 1.” In The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press, 1993. https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/49089/files/2026/01/Chapter-1.-The-black-Atlantic-_-modernity-and-double-consciousness-Paul-Gilroy-London-New-York-England-1993-Verso-Books.pdf.

Gomez, Michael A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identity in the Colonial and Antebellum South. University of North Carolina Press, 1997. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3039488.

Griggs, Sutton E. Imperium in Imperio. Editor Pub. Co., 1899. Reprint, AMS Press, 1975. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102067254.

Guridy, Frank Andre. Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow. University of North Carolina Press, 2010. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=837907.

Hellwig, David J. “Black Meets Black: Afro-American Reactions to West Indian Immigrants in the 1920’s.” South Atlantic Quarterly 77, no. 2 (1978): 206–24. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-2-206.

Holt, Thomas C. “A War of the Races. Chapter 8” In: The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb01559.0001.001.

Hopkins, Pauline E. Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self. Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2021. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6426352.

Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Sherman, French and Company, 1912. Reprint, Project Gutenberg, 2004. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11012. Direct Text link: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11012/pg11012.txt.

McKay, Claude, and Wayne F. Cooper. Home To Harlem. Northeastern University Press, 2012. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1085070.

Mitchell, Michele. “The Strongest, Most Intimate Hope of Our Race | Chapter 3.” In Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction. The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=413362.

Mitchell, Michele. “The Righteous Propagation of the Nation | Chapter 4.” In Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction. The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=413362.

Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, and Robin D. G. Kelley. “Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World.” African Studies Review 43, no. 1 (2000): 11–45. 511159621, pp. 11–45. Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson). https://doi.org/10.2307/524719. URL: https://research-ebsco-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/c/nu2vsi/viewer/html/rkwvobqx4f.

Putnam, Lara. “Alien Everywhere | Chapter 3.” In Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1120513.

Swanson, Robert. “‘The Fires of Liberty’: American Abolitionist Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution, 1791–1806.” American Nineteenth Century History 25, no. 2 (2024): 171–94. 180590561. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2024.2361532.

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. “Rewriting the African Diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic.” African Affairs 104, no. 414 (2005): 35–68. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518632.

Further Suggested Readings

Achebe, Chinua. The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart ; Arrow of God ; No Longer at Ease. With Anthony Appiah. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.

Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart. New windmill series. Heinemann, 1958 (1st Edition)

Aidoo, Ama Ata. The Dilemma of a Ghost. With Internet Archive. Accra : Longman, 1965. http://archive.org/details/dilemmaofghost0000aido.

Ferrer, Ada. Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Perry, Kennetta Hammond. London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race. 1st paperback edition. Transgressing Boundaries, Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route. 1st paperback edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Second edition revised., Vintage books edition. Vintage Books, 1989.

Sidbury, James. “Chapter 5 | Becoming African in America.” In Becoming African in America : Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, with Internet Archive. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. http://archive.org/details/becomingafricani0000sidb.

Watkins-Owens, Irma. Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930. Blacks in the Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 1996.

Whittaker, David. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: 1958-2008. 1st ed. Cross/Cultures 137. Rodopi, 2011.

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