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Civil Rights Reading List:

Brophy, Alfred L. (2002) Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press

Douglass, Frederick (1968) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York, NewYork: Signet Press

Echenberg, Myron (1996) Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the politicsof Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.  Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann

Equiano, Olaudah (1995) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself. Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martin’s

Friedman, Benjamin (2005) The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. New York,New York: Vintage Books

Fussell, Paul (1983) Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster

Hine, Darlene Clark; Hine, William C. & Harrold, Stanley (2004) African Americans: A Concise History Combined Volume.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall

Jordan, Winthrop D. (1974) The Whiteman’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press

Lafeber, Walter (1994) The American Age: U.S. Forgein Policy at Home and Abroad, Volume 2 Since 1896 2^nd edition.  New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company

Lynn, Martin (1997) Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century.  Cambridge, United kingdom: Cambridge University Press

Nash, Gary B. (2005). The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America.  New York, New York: Penguin Books.

Northup, Solomon (1996) Twelve Years a Slave. Baton Rogue, Louisianan: Louisiana State University Press

Paine, Thomas (1984). Rights of Man. New York, New York: Penguin Classics.

Paine, Thomas (1987) The Thomas Paine Reader. London, England: Penguin Classics

Patterson, James T. (2000) America’s Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Quadagno, Jill (1994) The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. New York, New York: Oxford University Press

Rowling, J.K. (2005). Harry Potter: and the Half Blood Prince. New York, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books

Sunseri, Thaddeus (2002) Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania.  Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann

Thompson, Hunter S. (1973) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72.  New York, New York: Straight Arrow Books

Wilson, William Julius; Taub, Richard P. (2006) There Goes the Neighborhood: How Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. New York, New York: Vintage Books

Wright, Donald R. (1997) The World and a Very Small Place in Africa.  Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe

Wright, Richard (1998) Black Boy. San Francisco, California: Perennial Classics

Zinn, Howard & Barsamian (2006) Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics. New York, New York: Harper Perennial

And, or course, for those of you with my tastes, no list of civil rights books can be complete without:

Claremont, Chris (2000) X-Men: Days of Future Past. New York, New York: Marvel Comics