Introductory Bibliography on African-American History
Allen, Theodore. The Invention of the White Race. London; New York: Verso, 1994.
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New
York: Jackson, Tenn.: New Press, 2010.
Armstrong, Thomas M., and Natalie R Bell. Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life As a
Foot Soldier for Civil Rights. Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, 2011.
Armstrong, Tim. The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature. New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Calonius, Erik, The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its
Sails. New York; St. Martin's Press, 2006.
Clarke, John Henrik. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of
European Capitalism, Brooklyn, NY: A & B Publisher Group, 1998.
Cobb, James C. The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2005.
Escott, Paul D. Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-century Slave Narratives. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Fairclough, Adam. Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow. Athens, Ga.:
University of Georgia Press, 2001.
Gates, Henry Louis. Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History, 1513-2008.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Gates, Henry Louis. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her
Encounters With the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003.
Hill, Christine M. John Lewis: From Freedom Rider to Congressman. Berkeley Heights, NJ:
Enslow Publishers, 2002.
Hunter, Tera W. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil
War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Kitch, Sally. The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United
States. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang. 2003.
Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York:
Knopf, 1998.
Mack, Angela D., et al. Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. Columbia, S.C.:
University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Miller, Jake. Sit-ins and Freedom Rides: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance. New York:
PowerKids Press, 2004.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings,
1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Parish, Peter J. Slavery: History and Historians. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Rose, David. The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice. New York:
New Press, 2007.
Russell-Brown, Katheryn. The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism,
Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions. New York: New York University
Press, 1998.
Schultz, Mark. The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2005.
Smith, John David. Slavery, Race, and American History: Historical Conflict, Trends, and
Method, 1866-1953. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Tuck, Stephen G. N. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press,
1982.
Zinn, Howard. Howard Zinn On Race. York: Seven Stories Press, 2011.