READING LIST

ON BACON’S REBELLION

Cockacoeske's Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Indigenous Slavery, and Sovereignty in Early Virginia
Hayley Negrin

Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
James D. Rice

Mapping the Dragon: An Indigenous History of Bacon's Rebellion
Megan D. Postemski, Allyson Gray, Julia A. King,
Edward D. Ragan, James D. Rice, G. Anne Richardson,
Kendall Stevens & Jeffrey W. Wright

ON WHITENESS

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Edmund S. Morgan

Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today
Jacqueline Battalora

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Jonathan M. Metzl

The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter

Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
Marimba Ani

ON THE POWHATAN PEOPLES

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow & Angela L. Daniel "Silver Star"

Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America
Hayley Negrin

The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture
Helen C. Rountree

Breaking the House of Pamunkey: The Final Powhatan War and the Fall of an American and Indian Empire
Lars C. Adams

Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Ethan A. Schmidt

ON VIRGINIA

"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640–1676
T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes

Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
Warren M. Billings

A Mercy
Toni Morrison

Jamestown
Bill Gallagher

Roots (EPISODES II and III)
Alex Haley

BLACK NAVIGATORS

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Reconstruction in America
W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis

ON THE COLONIZER

Exterminate All the Brutes
Raoul Peck

Tantura
Alon Schwarz

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire

Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism,
and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
Gerald Horne

ON HIERARCHY

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Silvia Federici

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James

MORE

The 1619 Project Magazine
Nikole Hannah-Jones / The New York Times Magazine

Dealing with the Past: Shared and Contested Narratives in 'Post-Conflict'
North of Ireland/Northern Ireland
Leah Wing

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison

The Susquehannocks: New Perspectives on Settlement and Cultural Identity
Paul A. Raber

Democracy by Default: Dependency and Clientelism in Jamaica
Carlene J. Edie