- Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition, ed. Nina Baym (Norton, 2012) (ISBN: 978-0393918854)
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, 2016) (ISBN: 978-0385542364)
- Other readings and viewings will be made available on iCollege. These must be with you either in print or digital form in class. Some of these texts include:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Ethan Brand” and “Wakefield”
- Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson” and “Man of the Crowd”
- Abraham Lincoln, “Lyceum Address”
- Excerpts from The Confession of Nat Turner
- Mark Twain, “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It”
- Charles Chesnutt, “Dave’s Neckliss”
- Nella Larsen, “Sanctuary”
- Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
- Flannery O’Connnor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
- Eudora Welty, “Where is the Voice Coming From?”
- Allen Ginsberg, “America”
- Audra Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
- Audra Lore, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
- John Updike, “A & P