Books Published by UNCF/Mellon PhDs

Bartee, RoSusan D. and Brown II, M. Christopher. (2007). School Matters: Why African American students need multiple forms of capital. New York: Peter Lang.

Davis, L. M.. (2010). Interlopers: A Shifters Novel. Lake Forest: Lyndberry Press.

Jenkins, Candice. (2007). Private Lives, Proper Relations [Regulating Black Intimacy]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Johnson, Brian.  (Ed.). (2005). Du Bois on Reform: Periodical-based Leadership for African Americans. Lanham: Altamira Press.

--Co-Ed. (Ed Blum) Conflicts in American History Series: Volume 3 Civil War, (Gen. Ed.) Matthew Bruccoli, New York: Facts on File Publishing, 2010.

--Co-Ed. (Ed Blum) Conflicts in American History Series: Volume 4 Reconstruction, (Gen. Ed.) Matthew Bruccoli, New York: Facts on File Publishing, 2010.

--Co-Ed. (Zoe Trodd) Conflicts in American History Series: Volume 7 The Long Civil Rights Movement , (Gen. Ed.) Matthew Bruccoli, New York: Facts of File Publishing, 2010.

--Co-Ed. (Zoe Trodd) Conflicts in American History Series: Volume 8 Toward the Next American Century, (Gen. Ed.) Matthew Bruccoli, New York: Facts of File Publishing, 2010.

--William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Toward Agnosticism (1868-1934), New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.

--The Yancy Years: The Age of Infrastructure, Technology and Restoration (An Institutional History), Charlotte: Johnson C. Smith University, 2008.

 

Recommended Readings

• Drewry, Henry K. and Doermann, Humphrey. (2001).  Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Green, Anna L. and Scott, Lekita V.  (Eds.).  (2003).  Journey to the Ph.D.: How to Navigate the Process as African Americans.  Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.
• Mays, Benjamin E.  Born to Rebel: An Autobiography.  University of Georgia Press, 2003.
• Peters, Robert L. (1997). Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s or Ph.D. (revised edition). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

International Seminar Readings

Bahia, 2011 - “Constructing Women in the African Diaspora: Identities, Culture, and Power”

• Caldwell, Kia Lilly. Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
• Amado, Jorge. Tent of Miracles. trans. Barbara Shelby. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. (other editions available)
• da Silva, Benedita. Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman’s Story of Politics and Love. Oakland, CA: Institute for Food & Development Policy, 1997.
• de Jesus, Carolina Maria. Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus. NY: New American Library, 2003.
• Furtado, Júnia Ferreira. Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Landes, Ruth. The City of Women. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. (other editions available).
• Morgan, Jennifer. Labouring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
• Romo, Anadelia A. Brazil’s Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Atlanta, GA, 2010 - Two Faculty Seminars were hosted during the 2010 Summer

“Legacies and Treasures: Exploring the Archival Collections of Black Intellectual Scholar-Activists” & "Publishing Research in the Area of HIV/AIDS: A Writing Workshop for Peer-Reveiewed Journals"

• Rouse, Jacqueline Anne. Lugenia Burns Hope, Black Southern Reformer. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1989.
• Byrd, Rudolph, Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, eds. I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Crawford, Vicki L., Jacqueline Anne Rouse and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941—1965. Indiana University Press, 1993.

Cape Town, 2009 - “The Community Confronts HIV/AIDS: Cultural Responses to Social and Political Policy”

• Fakkows, Irwin, and Millen, Joyce. Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic. South End Press, 2003.
• Levy, Peter B. The Civil Rights Movement. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.
• McAdam, Dough. Freedom Summer. Oxford University Press US, 1990.
• Pollack, Rosalind. Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights. Zed Books, 2003.

    ARTICLES:

• International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, “Positive Women: Voices and Choices” – Zimbabwe Report.
• Robert E. Fullilove, “African Americans, Health Disparities, and HIV/AIDS: Recommendations for Confronting the Epidemic in Black America,” A Report from the National Minority AIDS Council.

Cape Town, 2008 - “Race and Nation: the Social Construction of National and Racial Identities in the United States and South African from 1896 to the Present”

• Brown, Jacqueline Nassy. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
• Cooper, Fred, and Ann L. Stoler, eds. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. 1st ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.
• Dominguez, Virginia. White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
• Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
• Magubane, Bernard. The Ties that Bind: African American Consciousness of Africa. 2nd ed. Africa World Press, 1987.
• Magubane, Zine. Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa. 1st ed. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
• McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. 1st ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995.
• Nixon, Robert. Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond. 1st ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994.
• Stone, Judith. When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided By Race. Miramax, 2007.
• Thomas, Deborah. Modern Blackness: Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica. Duke University Press Books, 2004.

Ghana, 2007 - “Towards Intra-Racial and Interracial Understanding: African Voices on the Atlantic Slave Trade”

• Aidoo, Ama Ata.  Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa. New Jersey: Longman Press, 1995.
  Bailey, Anne C. (2005).  African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade.  Boston: Beacon Press.
• Butler, Kim D. (2000).  Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador.  New  Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
• Inikori, J.E. (Ed.).  (1982). Forced Migration: The impact of the export slave trade on African societies.  New York: Africana Publishing Company.
• Mwakikagile, Godfrey. (2006).  Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities. Continental Press.
• Nassy Brown, Jacqueline. (2005). Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ghana, 2006 - “HIV and AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora: Science, Politics and Power”

• Behrman, Greg. (2004). The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time. New York: Free Press.
• Campbell, Catherine.  (2003). Let Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Cohen, Cathy J. (1999). The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Farmer, Paul. (1992). AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkely: University of California Press.
• Hammonds, Evelynn.  (1999). Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.
• Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother. New York: The Noonday Press, 1997.
• Levenson, Jacob. (2004). The Secret Epidemic. Pantheon.

Ghana, 2005 - “Women, Culture and Politics in Africa and the United States”

• Agbasiere, Joseph Therese. (2000). Women in Igbo Life and Thought. London: Routledge.
• Cole, Johnetta B. and Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. (2003). Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities. The Ballantine Publishing Group.
• Crenshaw, Kimberle. (1994). "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color". In M.A. Fineman and R. Mykitiuk (Eds.), The Public Nature of Private Violence: The Discovery of Domestice Abuse (pp. 93-118). New York: Routledge.

          --- The Intersectionality of Race and Gender Discrimination.

• Dangarembga, Tsitsi. (1988). Nervous Conditions. Seattle: Seal Press.
• Imam, Ayesha, and Sow, Fatou. (Eds.). (2000). Engendering African Social Sciences. Codesria.

Senegal, 2004 - “The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Critical Perspectives in History, English and Anthropology”

• Barry, Boubacar.  (1998) Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Equiano, Olaudah.  The Life of Olaudah Equiano.
• Foster, Frances Smith. (1979). Witnessing Slavery: the Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narrative.  Westport: The Greenwood Press.
• Harding, Rachel. A Refugee in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.
• Harms, Robert.  (2002). The Diligent:  A Voyage through the Worlds of Slavery. New York: Basic Books.
• Rediker, Marcus and Linebaugh, Peter.  (2001). The Many-Headed Hydra: the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Beacon Press.
• Walker, Sheila.  (2001).  African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Senegal, 2003 - “Pan Africanist Aesthetics: the Literature, Film and Culture of the Francophone World"

• Dewitte, Phillippe.  (1985). Les Mouvements negre en France, 1919-1939. Paris, L’Harmattan.
• Diawara, Manthia.  (1992). African Cinema: Politics & Culture. Indiana University Press.
• Fanon, Frantz.  (1963). The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.
• Nardal, Paulette.  La Revue du Monde Noir/The Review of the Black World.
• Ousmane, Sembene. (Director). (1968). The Money Order.

Senegal, 2002 - "Gods, Knowledge and Modernity"

• Appiah, Kwame A. (1992). In My Father’s House: Africa in the philosophy of culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Idowu, Bolaji. (1962). Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief. London: Longmans.
• Moore, Gerald.  (1963). Modern Poetry from Africa. London: Penguin African Library.
• Verger, Pierre.  (1996). Dieux d’Afrique. Editions Revue Noire.