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Reading Lists for Native American and Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month

Amber Starks' Black and Native Reading List

Articles

Affirming Indigenous Sovereignty: A Civics Inquiry / Sarah B. Shear, Leilani Sabzalian, and Lisa Brown Buchanan

Shear, Sarah B. ; Sabzalian, Leilani ; Buchanan, Lisa Brown / National Council for the Social Studies

Social studies and the young learner, 2018, Vol.31 (1), p.12-18

 

Alternative Epistemologies / Charles Mills

Mills, Charles W. / Tallahassee, Fla: Department of Philosophy The Florida State University

Social theory and practice, 1988, Vol.14 (3), p.237-263

H1 .S63

 

Australian Blackness, the African Diaspora and Afro/Indigenous Connections in the Global South / Kaiya Aboagye

Aboagye, Kaiya / Cambridge: Indiana University Press

Transition (Kampala, Uganda), 2018 (126), p.72-85, Article 72

 

Behold the Land: W.E.B. Du Bois, Cotton Futures, and the Afterlife of the Plantation in the US South / Jarvis McInnis

McInnis, Jarvis C / Indiana University Press

The global South, 2016, Vol.10 (2), p.70-98

 

Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Settler Colonial Critique. / Iyko Day

Day, Iyko / University of Minnesota Press

Critical ethnic studies, 2015, Vol.1 (2), p.102-121, Article 102

 

Curriculum Strategies for Black Liberation / James A. Banks

Banks, James A. / Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

School review, 1973, Vol.81 (3), p.405-414

L11 .S39

 

Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor / Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

 

Ecological Memory in the Biophysical Afterlife of Slavery / Tianna Bruno *

Bruno, Tianna / Washington: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2023, Vol.113 (7), p.1543-1553

 

Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty / Amber Starks

 

Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana / Shanya Cordis

Cordis, Shanya / DURHAM: Duke University Press

Small axe : a journal of criticism, 2019, Vol.23 (3), p.18-33

 

Fugitive Justice / Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman

Best, Stephen ; Hartman, Saidiya / University of California Press

Representations (Berkeley, Calif.), 2005, Vol.92 (1), p.1-15

NX1 .R36

 

Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler Amnesia: Robert Houle's "Premises for Self Rule" / Stacy A. Ernst

Ernst, Stacy A. / UAAC-AAUC (University Art Association of Canada | Association d'art des universités du Canada)

RACAR, 2017, Vol.42 (2), p.108-120, Article 108

 

Our Sacred Waters: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility / Charles Sepulveda

 

Peoplehood: A Model for the Extension of Sovereignty in American Indian Studies / Tom Holm, J. Diane Pearson and Ben Chavis

Holm, Tom ; Pearson, J. Diane ; Chavis, Ben / University of Minnesota Press

Wicazo sa review, 2003, Vol.18 (1), p.7-24, Article 7

 

Political Authority and Indigenous Sovereignty / Burke Hendrix

Hendrix, Burke A / Penn State University Press

The good society - PEGS (Organization), 2010, Vol.19 (2), p.47-52

 

Settler Unfreedoms / Shanya Cordis

Cordis, Shanya / Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles

American Indian culture and research journal, 2019, Vol.43 (2), p.9-23, Article 9

E75 .A5124

 

Subjects of Empire: Indigenous People and the 'Politics of Recognition' in Canada / Glen S. Coulthard

Coulthard, Glen S / London: Palgrave Macmillan

Contemporary political theory, 2007, Vol.6 (4), p.437-460, Article 437

 

“The Blackness of Blackness”: Meta-Black Identity in 20th/21st Century African American Culture / Casey Hayman

 

The Combahee River Collective Statement / Zillah Eisenstein

Encyclopedia of African-American Writing, 2018

 

The Political Dimensions of Black Liberation / James M. Jones

Jones, James M / USA: Routledge

The Black Scholar, 1971, Vol.3 (1), p.67-75, Article 67

 

The Racial Formation of American Indians / Eba Marie Garroutte

Garroutte, Eva Marie / Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

American Indian quarterly, 2001, Vol.25 (2), p.224

 

Toward Black Liberation / Stokely Carmichael

Carmichael, Stokely / Amherst: The Massachusetts Review, Inc

The Massachusetts review, 1966, Vol.7 (4), p.639-651

AS30.M3 A22

 

Undercounting Native Americans: The 1980 Census and the Manipulation of Racial Identity in the US / Jack D. Forbes

Forbes, Jack D. / Cheney, Wash: Indian Studies, Eastern Washington University

Wicazo sa review, 1990, Vol.6 (1), p.2-26, Article 2

 

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument / Sylvia Wynter

Wynter, Sylvia / E LANSING: Michigan State University Press

CR (East Lansing, Mich.), 2003, Vol.3 (3), p.257-337

LH1 .C392

 

Whiteness as Property / Cheryl I. Harris

Harris, Cheryl I. / CAMBRIDGE: Harvard Law Review Association

Harvard law review, 1993, Vol.106 (8), p.1707-1791, Article 1707

K8 .A37

Books

Africans and Native Americans : the language of race and the evolution of Red-Black peoples / Jack D. Forbes

Forbes, Jack D. / Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1993 / 2nd ed., 1st Illinois pbk. ed 1993

1993

E59.M66 F67 1993

 

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States / Kyle T. Mays

Mays, Kyle T., 1987- author. / Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]

2021

E98.R28 M39 2021

 

An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- author. / Boston : Beacon Press, [2014] / ©2014

2014

E76.8 .D86 2014

 

Appropriating Blackness: performance and the politics of authenticity / Patrick Johnson

Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967- / Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003

2003

E185.625 .J64 2003

 

Becoming Abolitionists: police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom / Derecka Purnell

Purnell, Derecka, author. / New York : Astra House, 2022. / ©2021 / First paperback edition.

2022

HV8141 .P87 2021

 

Black Indians: a hidden heritage / William Katz

Katz, William Loren / Atheneum

1986

 

Black Reconstruction / W. E. B. DuBois

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, author. / New York, NY : The Library of America, [2021]

2021

E668 .D83 2021

 

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South / Barbara Krauthamer

Krauthamer, Barbara, 1967- / Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

2013

E98.R28 K73 2013

 

Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family / Claudio Saunt

Saunt, Claudio. / Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

2005

E99.C9 S27 2005

 

Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment / David Scott

Scott, David, 1958- / Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

2004

F1923 .S36 2004

 

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country / Tiya Miles and Sharon Holland (editors)

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

2006

E98.R28 C76 2006

 

Custer Died for Your Sins / Vine Deloria, Jr.

Deloria, Vine. / [New York] : Macmillan, [1969]

1969

E467.1.C99 D37

 

Discourse on Colonialism / Aime Cesaire

Césaire, Aimé. / New York : MR, [1972]

1972

JV51 .C413

 

Fatal Invention: how science, big business, and politics re-create race in the twenty-first century / Dorothy Roberts

Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- / New York : New Press, ©2011

©2011

GN269 .R64 2011

 

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017

2017

HQ1426 .H689 2017

 

I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land / Alaina E. Roberts

Roberts, Alaina E., author. / Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

2021

E185.93.O4 R63 2021

 

Imagining Sovereignty: self-determination in American Indian law and literature / David Carlson

Carlson, David J / U of Oklahoma P

2016

 

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route / Saidaya Hartman

Hartman, Saidiya V. / New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 / 1st ed.

2006

DT510.2 .H375 2006

 

Pedagogy of the Oppressed / Paolo Freire

Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997. / [New York] : Herder and Herder, [1970]

1970

LB880 .F7313

 

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture) / Saidaya Hartman

Hartman, Saidiya V. / New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

1997

E443 .H37 1997

 

Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity / Laura Harjo

Harjo, Laura / Boston: University of Arizona Press / 1

2019

 

That the Blood Stay Pure / Arica Coleman

Coleman, Arica L / Bloomington: Indiana University Press / 1

2013

F235.N4 C65 2013

 

The Black Shoals / Tiffany L. King

King, Tiffany Lethabo, 1976- author. / Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2019. / ©2019

2019

E98.R28 K56 2019

 

The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations / K. Ratteree and N. Hill (Editors)

Golden, CO : Fulcrum Publishing, [2017] / ©2017

2017

KIE2145 .G74 2017

 

The Inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America / Thomas King

King, Thomas, 1943- / [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, ©2012

©2012

E77 .K566 2012

 

The Invention of the White Race / Theodore Allen

Allen, Theodore (Theodore W.) / London ; New York : Verso, [1994]-1997

1994-1997

E185 .A44 1994

 

The Other Slavery / Andrés Reséndez

Reséndez, Andrés, author. / Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. / ©2016

2016

E98.S6 R47 2016

 

The Racial Contract / Charles W. Mills

Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade) / Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997

1997

HT1523 .M56 1997

 

The Settler Colonial Present / Lorenzo Veracini

Veracini, L. author. / London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. / 1st ed. 2015.

2015

 

The Wretched of the Earth / Frantz Fanon

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961, author. / New York, NY : Grove Press, 2021. / Revised sixtieth anniversary edition.

2021

DT33 .F313 2021

 

Ties that Bind / Tiya Miles

Miles, Tiya, 1970- author. / Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015] / ©2015 / Second edition.

2015

E99.C5 M553 2015

 

Thicker Than Blood: how racial statistics lie / Tukufu Ziberi

Zuberi, Tukufu. / Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.

©2001

E184.A1 Z83 2001

 

Toward A Global Idea of Race / Denise Ferreira da Silva

Silva, Denise Ferreira da. / Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

©2007

HT1521 .S47 2007

 

Traces of History: elementary structures of race / Patrick Wolfe

Wolfe, Patrick / London: Verso

2016

 

Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America / Four Arrows (editor)

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006 / 1st ed.

2006

E98.P99 U55 2006

 

Unsettling Truths: the ongoing, dehumanizing legacy of the doctrine of discovery / Mark Charles

Charles, Mark, 1970- author. / Downers Grove, IL : IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2019]

2019

E93 .C428 2019

 

White Mythologies / Robert JC Young

Young, Robert, 1950- / London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 / 2nd ed

2004

D16.8 .Y67 2004