AFAS 2000:Introduction to African-American Studies

I will add more information about this course soon. For now, you can view the reading list and preview some of the texts. Please check back later for more.

Time/ Location

Fall Semester 2012

Tuesdays and Thursdays

11:00-12:15

University Hall 111

Required Texts

  • African-American Odyssey Course Pack (course pack?
    A course pack is a group of texts that are sold together. Hine’s text will be packaged with two other texts and an access card to MyHistoryLab (the online companion to the text). Therefore, you will need to buy this course pack from the AASU Bookstore. If you buy a used version, you will not get the additional materials that come with the course pack I ordered for this course.
    ) / Darlene Clark Hine
  • The Warmth of Other Suns / Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Best of Simple / Langston Hughes
  • The Fire Next Time / James Baldwin
  • Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond / Percival Everett

Preview Texts

The Best of Simple (American Century)

A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel) (Akashic Urban Surreal)

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

African-American Odyssey, The, Combined Volume (5th Edition)

The Fire Next Time

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)

African-American Studies at AASU

Did you know that you can minor in African-American Studies?

Learn more about the African-American Studies Program at AASU