The list below includes materials that were presented or read in class so you can easily find familiar sources.
Note: In accordance with MLA style, these are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name!
Cohen, Roger. “America Never Was, Yet Will Be.” New York Times.” 6 Jul. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/opinion/america-independence-day-langston-hughes.html. Accessed 21 Sept. 2018.
Hitt, Jack, and Chenjerai Kumanyika, writers and performers. “The Raid.” Uncivil, Gimlet Media, 4 Oct. 2017, https://www.gimletmedia.com/uncivil/the-raid. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Jackson, Andrew. “On Indian Removal.” United States Congress, 6 December 1830, National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/museum/tmc/MANZ/handouts/Andrew_Jackson_Annual_Message.pdf. Accessed 9 Jun. 2018.
Landrieu, Mitch. “Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues.” YouTube, 19 May 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=t0jQTHis3f4. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Waters, Derek, Jeremy Konner, and Octavia Spencer. “Harriet Tubman Leads an Army of Bad Bitches.” Drunk History, 22 Sept 2015.
As I prepared for this class, I read, watched, and listened to many fascinating texts that I would have loved for us to read together if only we had more time! The list below includes some excellent texts that I just couldn’t squeeze in this semester, but it may be helpful for you as you pursue your focused research project …
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”
B.A. Parker, “History Is Not a Toy” (transcript)
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
And now came the trying hour for that drove of human beings, driven away like cattle, to be sold they knew not where. Husbands were torn from wives, parents from children, never to look upon each other again this side the grave. There was wringing of hands and cries of despair.
George Takei, “Why I love a country that once betrayed me”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Civil War Wasn’t About Slavery”
Kathleen Belew, “The History of White Power”
Gabriel J. Chin and John Ormonde, “The ‘War’ Against Chinese Restaurants”
Lauren Smiley, “A Murder Shatters the Dreams of Immigrant Tech Workers”
Melissa Harris-Perry, “Can We? A Brief History of American Racism”
Isabel Wilkerson, “The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration”
They were seeking political asylum within the borders of their own country, not unlike refugees in other parts of the world fleeing famine, war and pestilence.
Erin Blakemore, “The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America”
Adrian Florido, “An Impromptu Memorial To Demand That Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Dead Be Counted”
Ava DuVernay, 13th. (transcript)
Charles (Chuck) Bryant & Josh Clark. “How Removing Public Monuments Work.”
Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. “The Spin.”
Mat Johnson, Mat. Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery.
items below need to be edited and updated …
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. “The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing: A new Documentary on Michael Brown Comes Just in Time.” The Nation, 17 May 2018, https://www.thenation.com/article/the-history-of-lynching-and-the-present-of-policing/. Accessed 9 Jun. 2018.
Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Barbaro, Michael. “Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder?” The Daily, 30 May 2018–https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/podcasts/the-daily/kevin-cooper-death-row.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-daily&action=click&contentCollection=podcasts®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
Chappatte, Patrick. “Memories of Execution Day,” New York Times, 4 May 2016–https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/04/opinion/memories-of-execution-day.html
Campbell Robertson, “A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It,” The New York Times, 25 April 2018.
“History is Not a Toy” By B.A. Parker, This American Life, 6 Oct 2017–https://www.thisamericanlife.org/627/suitable-for-children/act-two
JOHNSON, MAT. Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery. S.l.: DARK HORSE COMICS, 2018.
Strange Fruit
Henry Louis Gates, “Life After the Emancipation Proclamation,” Many Rivers to Cross–films on demand–http://www.gpb.org/television/shows/the-african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/episode/81eb2946-ae8e-4dae-ae27-d72affaaafda
“Lynch Law in America” by Ida B. Wells, January 1900, Chicago–http://www.sojust.net/speeches/ida_wells_lynch_law.html
Mike Brown’s shooting and Jim Crow lynchings have too much in common. It’s time for America to own up,” Isabel Wilkerson–the Guardian
Between the World and Ferguson, By Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, August 26, 2014
Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville, The Atlantic, ELIZABETH KLEIN AND JAMES FORMAN JR. SEP 3, 2017
#MemeOfTheWeek: Harriet Tubman And The Evolution Of Internet Phenomena–Sam Sanders, NPR Politics, 21 April 2016
What Does It Mean for America to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill? (roundtable discussion)–Adrienne LaFrance, Shauna Miller, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, and Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 20 April 2016
Lerner, Barron H. “Scholars Argue Over Legacy of Surgeon Who Was Lionized, Then Vilified.” New York Times, 28 Oct. 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/health/scholars-argue-over-legacy-of-surgeon-who-was-lionized-then-vilified.html. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Levin, Kevin M. “Why I Changed My Mind About Confederate Monuments.” The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-confederate-monuments/537396/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Mars, Roman. “Curb Cuts.” 99% Invisible, 99percentinvisible.org, 22 May 2018, https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana. 2017, http://www.museodelaresistencia.com/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Sewer, Adam. “The Myth of the Kindly General Lee.” The Atlantic, 4 Jun. 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2017.
Vedantam, Shankar, and Maggie Penman, writers. “Remembering Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology.” Hidden Brain, NPR, 16 Feb. 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/02/16/466942135/remembering-anarcha-lucy-and-betsey-the-mothers-of-modern-gynecology. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Wall, L.L. “The Medical Ethics of Dr. J. Marion Sims: a Fresh Look at the Historical Record.” Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 32, no. 6, Jun. 2006, pp. 346–350, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563360/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Young, Greg, and Tom Meyers. “Robert E. Lee in the Hall of Fame? There were concerns even back in 1900.” The Bowery Boys, boweryboyshistory.com, 17 Aug. 2017, http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2017/08/robert-e-lee-hall-fame-concerns-even-back-1900.html. Accessed 7 Jun. 2018.
Wolfe-Rocca, Ursula. “Downplaying Deportations: How Textbooks Hide the Mass Expulsion of Mexican Americans During the Great Depression”
What happened is that men, women, and children — immigrant and U.S.-born, citizen and noncitizen, long-time residents and temporary workers — all became the targets of a massive campaign of forced relocation, based solely on their perceived status as “Mexican.”
