Readings on Reserve

Here's the list of works that I asked to be put on reserve at Reed Library--a small sampling of some of the most important works on African American literature and culture. Please be aware that some of them had to be ordered (those without call numbers by them in particular), and may not have arrived yet. Although I will periodically update this list to indicate when newly-ordered books have arrived at the circulation desk, your best bet for the most up-to-date availability results is to check the list in the black book at the circulation desk. You can also go to the Reed Library web site, click on "Reed's Online Catalog," and search for works that don't yet have call numbers listed below.

Literature

• William Andrews, ed., Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance PS 647 A35 C57 1994
• --, ed., Three Classic African-American Novels PS 647 A35 T47 1990
• Toni Cade Bambara, ed., The Black Woman E 185. 86 .B57 1970
• Melvin Donalson, ed., Cornerstones: An Anthology of African-American Literature
• Moira Ferguson, ed., Nine Black Women PS 508 N3 N56 1998
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., The Classic Slave Narratives E 444 C63 1987
• --, and William L. Andrews, eds., Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815 E 444 P56 1998
• Nathan Irvin Huggins, ed., Voices from the Harlem Renaissance PS509.N4 V6
• Marcy Knopf, ed., The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women PS 647 A35 S58 1993
• Charles Rowell, ed., Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe PN 6120 .92 B45 A53 1995

Literary Criticism

• William Andrews, To Tell a Free Story E 185.96 .A57 1986
• Houston Baker, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature PS 153 N5 B23 1987x
• -- and Patricia Redmond, eds., Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s
• Barbara Christian, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition PS374.N4 C5
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Figures in Black PS 153 N5 G27 1987
• --, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism PS 153 N5 G28 1988
• Addison Gayle, Jr., The Black Aesthetic NX 512.3 .N5 G38
• Farah J. Griffin, "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative PS 374 N4 G75 1995
• Stephen Henderson, Understanding the New Black Poetry PS 591 .N4 H37
• Samira Kawash, Dislocating the Color Line PS 153.N5K38 1997
• Deborah McDowell and Arnold Rampersad, eds., Slavery and the Literary Imagination PS 217.S55S55 1989
• Angelynn Mitchell, ed., Within the Circle PS 153 N5 W58 1994
• Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark PS173.N4 M67 1992
• Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers, eds., Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition PS 153 .N5 C63 1985
• Robert Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative PS 366 .A35 S7
• Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature PS 153 N5 S9 1993
• Cheryl Wall, ed., Changing Our Own Words PS 153 N5 C44 1989
• Mary Helen Washington, Invented Lives PS647.A35 I58 1987

Cultural and Historical Criticism

• The Black Public Sphere Collective, ed., The Black Public Sphere E 185 .86 B533 1995
• Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery
• Marcellus Blount and George Cunningham, eds., Representing Black Men E 185 .86 R43 1996
• James F. Brooks, ed., Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America E98.R28C66 2002
• Barbara Browning, Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture DT16.5B76 1998
• Hazel Carby, Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America CB 235 C37 1999
• Kimberle Crenshaw, et al., eds., Critical Race Theory KF 4755 A 75 C7 1995
• Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, and Class HT 1521 .D38
• Gina Dent, ed., Black Popular Culture E 185 .86 B532 1998x
• Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act PS 153 .N5 E4
• Jack Forbes, Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples E59.M66F67 1993
• Judith Jackson Fossett and Jeffrey Tucker, eds., Race Consciousness: African American Studies for the New Century E 185 R 23 1997
• Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic CB235.G55 1993
• Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield, eds., Mapping Multiculturalism E 184 A1 M29 1996
• Ed Guerrero, Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film PN1995.9.N4G84 1993
• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider PS 3562 O75 S5 1984
• Wahneema Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built E 185 .615 H68 1998
• Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death HT 871 .P37 1982
• Richard Powell, Black Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century
• Vijay Prashad, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity E185.615.P73 2001
• Cedric Robinson, Black Movements in America E185.R68 1997
• David Roediger, ed., Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White E 185 .G1 B586 1998
• Valerie Smith, ed., Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video PN 1995 .9 N4 R47 1997
• Cornel West, Race Matters E185.615.W43 1994
• Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery HC254.5W5 1994
• Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights KF4757.W53 1991