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I. Slavery & Reconstruction

Weeks 1–5

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life

Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life (Excerpts)

Sojourner Truth

Ain't I A Woman?

Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery (Excerpts)

W.E.B. Du Bois

Of Mr. Booker T. Washington...

Paul Laurence Dunbar

We Wear the Mask

Sympathy

II. Harlem & 20th Century

Weeks 6–10

Langston Hughes

Theme for English B

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

The Weary Blues

I, Too

Elevator Boy

Zora Neale Hurston

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Sweat

Countee Cullen

Heritage

Gwendolyn Brooks

kitchenette building

James Baldwin

A Letter to My Nephew

Black Arts Movement

Amiri Baraka: Ka'ba

Maya Angelou: Still I Rise

Nikki Giovanni: Nikki-Rosa

Intro to Black Arts Movement

III. Contemporary

Weeks 11–15

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Letter to My Son

Octavia Butler

Bloodchild

Wesley Morris

Who Gets to Decide? (NYT)

Who Gets to Decide? (PDF)

Novels & Graphics

The Gilded Ones (Namina Forna) BUY BOOK

Ironheart: Vol. 1 (Eve L. Ewing) BUY BOOK