• Houston A. Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987)
• Crispin Bates, Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007)
• Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819)
• James Chandler, England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (1998)
• Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; comprising Three Voyages Round the World (1817)
• Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
• W.E.B. DuBois, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928)
• Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to Younger Negro Artists (1926)
• Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (2014)
• Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
• Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (1926)
• Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road (1942)
• ––––. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
• Indian fiction in English, e.g. Soshee Chunder Dutt, Shunker (1885), G.A. Henty, ‘A Pipe of Mystery’ (1898)
• C.L.R. James, selections from The Black Jacobins (1938)
• John William Kaye, The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-8 (1864-76) – excerpts
• John Keats, Ode to Psyche
• Mike Leigh dir., Peterloo (2018)
• Alain Locke ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925)
• Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928)
• Jacob Lawrence, The Complete Jacob Lawrence
• Herman Melville, Benito Cereño (1855)
• The 9/11 Commission Report
• Ma Rainey, “Prove It On Me Blues” (1928)
• Michael North, The Dialectic of Modernism (1998)
• Parama Roy, Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1998)
• Tapti Roy, The Politics of a Popular Uprising: Bundelkhand in 1857 (1994)
• William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, In the Year 1858-9 (1859, repr. 2010)
• Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry (1929)
• Jean Toomer, Cane (1926)
• Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works (2009)
• Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers (2003)