Part one: How we got here. On racial justice, Black history, Critical Race Theory and other felonious ideas / Robin D. G. Kelley
Black Studies is political, radical, indispensable, and insurgent / Keeanga Yamahatta Taylor.
Part two: The history they don't want you to know. Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829) / David Walker
"The meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (July 5, 1852) / Frederick Douglass
"The New Master and Mistress" from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) / Harriet Jacobs
"Our Raison D'être" from A Voice from the South (1892) / Anna Julia Cooper
"Introduction" from Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (1931) / Zora Neale Hurston
"Political education neglected" from The Mis-education of the Negro (1933) / Carter G. Woodson
"The Propaganda of History" from Black Reconstruction in America (1935) W. E. B. Du Bois
"The San Domingo Masses begin" from The Black Jacobins (1938) / C. L. R. James
"The Origin of Negro Slavery" from Capitalism and Slavery (1944) / Eric Williams
"A Talk to Teachers" (October 16, 1963) / James Baldwin
Black Panther Party "Ten-Point Program" (1966) / Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
"Double Jeopardy: to be Black and female" from Black Women's Manifesto (1969) / Frances Beal
"Black Studies: bringing back the person" (1969) / June Jordan
"Toward a Black psychology" (1970) / Joseph White
Reflections on the Black woman's role in the community of slaves (1971) / Angela Davis
Politics of the attack on Black Studies (1974) / Robert Allen
"A Black feminist statement" (1977) / The Combahee River Collective
"Toward a Black feminist criticism" (1977) / Barbara Smith
"The lost races of science fiction" (1980) / Octavia Butler
"Foreword, 1981" from This Bridge Called My Back: writings by radical women of color (1981) / Toni Cade Bambara
"Introduction: The politics of Black women's studies" from All the Women are White, All the Blacks are men but some of us are brave: Black women's studies (1982) / Gloria T. Hull and Barbara Smith
"Black women: shaping feminist theory" from Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center (1984) / bell hooks
"The race for theory" (1987) / Barbara Christian
"The social construction of Black feminist thought" (1989) / Patricia Hill Collins
"African American women's history and the metalanguage of race" (1992) / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
"White Lines" from White by Law: the Legal Construction of Race (1996) / Ian Haney López
"Punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens: the radical potential of Queer politics?" (1997) / Cathy J. Cohen
"Race: the floating signifier" (1997) / Stuart Hall
"Color blindness, history, and the Law" from The House That Race Built (1997) / Kimberlé Crenshaw
"Introduction: Black Studies and the Racial Mountain" from Dispatches from the Ebony Tower (2000) / Manning Marable
"Venus in two acts" (2008) / Saidiya Hartman
"Conclusion: The conundrum of criminality" from The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) / Khalil Gibran Muhammad
"Introduction" from The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness (2010) / Michelle Alexander
"The case for reparations" (2014) / Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Black study, Black struggle" (2016) / Robin D. G. Kelley
"Barack Obama: the End of an Illusion" from #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation (2016) / Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor
"Introduction" from Abolition, Feminism, Now (2022) / Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
"Introduction: Black health matters" from Black Disability Politics (2022) / Sami Schalk.
Part three: How we fight back. When Black Studies is contraband, we must be outlaws / Brea Baker
History is a beautiful, ugly story, and we must teach it / Marlon Williams-Clark
In the spirit of the midnight school / Roderick A. Ferguson.
