If you are interested in doing any pre-reading for this course, these books are highly recommended. The full reading list for this course can be found on the Library Reading Lists

• Ira Berlin, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
• Keisha Blain et al (eds), Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence
• Martha Biondi, The Black Revolution on Campus
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
• Emilye Crosby, Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement
• Pero Dagbovie, African American History Reconsidered
• John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present
• Peniel Joseph, The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era
• Ibram Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas
• Peter Kolchin, American Slavery 1691-1877
• Khalil Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
• Jesmyn Ward (ed.), The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
• Cornel West, Race Matters