Local and Global Perspectives in Education

Building Cultures Initiative:

Local and Global Perspectives in Education

Center for African Studies

Professor Erik S. McDuffie

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

July 7, 2017

Suggested Reading on Africa and the African Diaspora

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah: A Novel (New York: Anchor Books, 2014)

Jafari S. Allen, ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011)

Molefi Asante, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony (New York: Routledge, 2007)

Theresa Barnes, We Women Worked So Hard: Gender, Urbanization and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999)

Carole Boyce Davies, “Sisters Outside: Tracing the Caribbean/Black Radical Intellectual Tradition,”

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 28, 1 (March 2009): 217-228

Combahee River Collective Statement in Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, ed. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (New York: The New Press, 1995), 231-240

Cheikh Anta Diop, translated by Mercer Cook, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1974)

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (New York: Antheneum, 1992)

Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a

Movement (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016)

Basil Davidson, The Search for Africa: History, Culture, Politics (New York: Times Books, 1994)

Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1965)

Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (New York:

Vintage Books, 1983)

Ada Ferrer, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2014)

Robeson Taj Frazier, The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination (Durham:

Duke University Press, 2014)

Amy Jacques Garvey, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey: Or, African for the Africans (Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 1986)

Michael A. Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

-----. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and

Antebellum South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ed., Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (New York: The New Press, 1995)

Faye V. Harrison, Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008)

Marc A. Hertzman, Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Durham: Duke

University Press, 2013)

C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, 2nd Ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1989 [1963])

Tricia Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, ed. Black France, France Noire:

The History and Politics of Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012)

Robin D. G. Kelley, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012)

-----. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002)

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name-A Biomythography (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1982)

Erik S. McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of

Black Left Feminism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011)

Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

The Movement for Black Lives, “A Vision for Black Lives Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice”

Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Robin D. G. Kelley, “Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World,” African Studies Review 43, 1 (2001): 11-45

Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition Rev. Ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

Christine A Smith, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (Urbana: University

of Illinois Press, 2016)

Keenga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016)

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Andrea Benton Rushing , eds, Women in Africa and the African Diaspora: A

Reader, eds. (Washington: Howard University Press, 1996)

Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944)