Recommended Reading

Below are selected texts (both primary and secondary sources) related to some of the conference presentations.

Session 1 - Strategies of Defiance 

Alcott, Louisa May. “My Contraband” [Originally published as “The Brothers”]. Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th Century American Women. 1863. Selected and Introduced by Elaine Showalter. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997. Print. For web link, click here: “The Brothers,” Louisa May Alcott. 

---. “An Hour.” Hospital Sketches; and Camp and Fireside Stories. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Print. For web link, click here: “An Hour,” Louisa May Alcott. 

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, Eds. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation. New York: New Press, 2000. Print. 

Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War.  Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2010. Print.

Douglass, Frederick. The Heroic Slave, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Supplement Volume 1844-1860. Vol. V. Ed. Philip S. Foner. New York: International, 1975. 473-505. Print. For e-text, click here. 

Foreman, P. Gabrielle. “Sentimental Abolition in Douglass’s Decade: Revision, Erotic Conversion, and the Politics of Witnessing in ‘The Heroic Slave’ and My Bondage and My Freedom.” Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler, Eds. Berkeley: U of California P, 1999. Print. For web text of Foreman article, click here. For web text of Sentimental Men, click here.

Noble, Marianne. “Sympathetic listening in Frederick Douglass's ‘The Heroic Slave’ and My Bondage and My Freedom.” Studies in American Fiction, 34:1 (Spring 2006): 53-66. Print. 

Naughton, Gerald David. “Inapproximable Domestic Ideals: Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave’ as Invocatory Narrative.” The Americanist, 26 (2011): 119-131. Print. For web text of Naughton article, click here. 

Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: Norton, 2007. Print. 
 
Patterson, Mark. “Racial Sacrifice and Citizenship: The Construction of Masculinity in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘The Brothers.’” Studies in American Fiction, 25:2 (Autumn 1997): 147-166. Print.

Reisen, Harriet. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. New York: Picador, 2010. Print. For link to DVD, click here:  Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women 

Willis, Deborah and Barbara Krauthamer. Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2012. Print.

Session 2 - Envisioning Freedom

Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor Books, 2009. Print. 

Ellison, Ralph, and John F. Callahan. Juneteenth: A Novel. New York: Random House, 1999. Print. 

Nash, Michael. Islam among Urban Blacks, Muslims in Newark, NJ: a Social History. University Press of America, 2008. Print. 

Pollard, Sam., et al. Slavery By Another Name. PBS Home Video, 2012. DVD. To watch film, click here.    


Session 3 - Global Liberation

DuBois, W.E.B. “The Propaganda of History.” DuBois W. E. B, and David Levering Lewis. Black Reconstruction in America. New York: Free Press, 1998. Print. For PDF of DuBois article, click here 

Obadike, Mendi+Keith. Big House / Disclosure. Northwestern University, 2007. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. <http://bighouse.northwestern.edu/>

Obadike, Mendi+Keith. Black Net Art. Black Net Art, n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. <http://blacknetart.com/>

Stewart, Jacqueline. “‘We Were Never Immigrants’: Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity.” Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005. Print. For PDF of Stewart article, click here. 




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