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Storia degli Stati Uniti d’America
Anno accademico 2014-2015 / II° semestre, primavera 2015
Seminario: “L’esperienza afro-americana”
TESTI PRINCIPALI
1. FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Frederick Douglass, Ricordi di uno schiavo fuggiasco, a cura di Bruno Maffi, 1962
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 1)
Testo originale, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), online in
vari luoghi, anche in http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/
Testo più ampio: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882, written by himself;
with an Introduction by the Right Hon. John Bright, ed. John Lobb (London: Christian Age Office,
1882), in vari luoghi, anche in
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2007
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass, in
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a21
Frederick Douglass, L’indipendenza e la schiavitù, introd. di Alessandro Portelli, 1995
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Testo originale, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, in vari luoghi, anche in
http://www.africawithin.com/bios/whose_independence.htm
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2. AUTOBIOGRAFIE DI SCHIAVI
La condizione dello schiavo. Autobiografie degli schiavi neri negli Stati Uniti, a cura di Bruno
Armellin, Einaudi, Torino, 1975.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
George P. Rawick, Lo schiavo americano dal tramonto all’alba. La formazione della comunità nera
durante la schiavitù negli Stati Uniti, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1973
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
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3. BLACK ABOLITIONISTS & NATIONALISTS
Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey, ed. Wilson
Jeremiah Moses, NYU Press, New York, 1996.
(Biblioteca mia)
Modern Black Nationalism: From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan, ed. William L. Van Deburg,
NYU Press, New York, 1997.
(Biblioteca mia)
Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation, ed. C. Peter
Ripley, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1993.
(Biblioteca mia)
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4. DODICI ANNI SCHIAVO
Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave, 1855
Twelve Years A Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup. A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in
Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in
Louisiana, New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. Online in vari siti, per esempio:
https://archive.org/details/twelveyearsasla01nortgoog
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/northup/northup.html
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5. ABOLIZIONE E RICOSTRUZIONE
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America [1935], with an introd by David L. Lewis, 1992
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Eric Foner, Nothing But Freedom, Emancipation and Its Legacy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
University Press, 1985.
(Biblioteca mia)
Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, New York, Norton, 2010
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, New York, Harper &
Row, 1988.
(Biblioteca Scienze politiche)
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6. BLACK WOMEN
Black women in white America: a documentary history, ed. by Gerda Lerner, New York, Vintage,
1992, 630 pp.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women
in America, New York, Broadway Books, 1998.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
Carla L. Peterson, Doers of the word: African-American women speakers and writers in the North
(1830-1880), New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1998.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
Frances Foster Smith, ed., A brighter coming day: a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper reader, New
York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c1990
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
Marilyn Richardson, ed., Maria W. Stewart, America’s first black woman political writer. Essays
and speeches, Bloomington: Indiana university press, 1987.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia)
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7. EX-SCHIAVE ABOLIZIONISTE: SOJOURNER TRUTH & HARRIET TUBMAN
The narrative of Sojourner Truth, a northern slave emancipated from bodily servitude by the State
of New York, in 1828, dictated to Olive Gilbert. Stampa di Electronic edition; reperibile all’interno
del progetto: Documenting the American South. Il testo elettronico contiene l’edizione: Boston:
printed for the author, 1850.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia – anche online)
Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman: the Moses of her people, Ristampa anastatica 2008 (Milton
Keynes UK : Lightning source UK). Riproduzione facsimilare dell’ed. 1886.
(Biblioteca Filosofia e Storia – anche online)
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8. BLACK WOMEN – IDA B. WELLS CONTRO I LINCIAGGI
Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (1970)
Non trovato?
Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892), online in
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm
Ida B. Wells, Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900), online in
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14976/14976-h/14976-h.htm
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9. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, with an introd. by Langston Hughes, 1965
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 - Anglistica - ZS. VI. WASH-UP (D)-Prestito:Ammesso
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, ed. by William L. Andrews, 1995
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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10. W.E.B. DU BOIS
W.E.B. Du Bois, Writings, edited by Nathan Huggins, 1996
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. Essays and Sketches, Greenwich: Fawcett, c1961
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 - Anglistica
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black reconstruction in America, with an introd by David L. Lewis, 1992
Bibl. Filosofia e storia ( 1/ 0)
W.E.B. Du Bois, Negri per sempre: l’identità nera tra costruzione della sociologia e linea del colore, a
cura di Raffaele Rauty; presentazione di David L. Lewis, Roma: Armando, 2008
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
W.E.B. Du Bois, Sulla linea del colore: razza e democrazia negli Stati Uniti e nel mondo, Il Mulino:
Bologna, 2010, 370 pp
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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11. MARCUS GARVEY
Marcus Garvey, edited by Robert A. Hill and Barbara Bair, 1987
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Black leaders of the nineteenth century, ed. by Leon Litwack and August Meier, 1988
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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12. THE NEW NEGRO 1920s
The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke ; with an introd. by Arnold Rampersad 1992
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan, introd. by Sondra Kathryn Wilson 1991
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949 / an anthology ed. by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps,
Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday, 1949
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 – Anglistica
Poeti politici del Rinascimento di Harlem (1920s): Langston Hughes, Claude McKay
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13. BLACK BOURGEOISIE
E. Franklin Frazier, Black Bourgeoisie (1955, 1957), Free Press, 1997
Bibl. Filosofia e storia - 305.896073 FRA-Prestito: Ammesso – novità
E. Franklin Frazier and C. Eric Lincoln, The Negro Church in America (1963)/The Black Church
Since Frazier, Schocken Books 1974.
Bibl. Filosofia e storia-Prestito:Esaurito (obsol.)
Bibl. Filosofia e storia, ordinato ottobre, out of print
(Biblioteca mia)
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14. JAMES BALDWIN
James Baldwin (1924-1987), The Fire Next Time, Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1964
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 – Anglistica
James Baldwin (1924-1987), Notes of a native son, Boston: The Beacon Press, [1955] (1968)
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 – Anglistica
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15. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr, edited by James
Melvin Washington, New York: HarperOne, 1991, 720 pp.
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963, online, per esempio qui:
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson (1998), Grand Central
Publishing, 2001
Bibl. Filosofia e storia
Martin Luther King Jr., La forza di amare, traduzione di Ernesto Balducci, Torino: Società Editrice
Internazionale (SEI) , copyr. 1967
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Ralph D. Abernathy, ... E le mura crollarono: le molte vite di Martin Luther King,
Milano : SugarCo, c1989
Scienze del turismo( 1/ 0)
Bruno Cartosio, I lunghi anni sessanta, Movimenti sociali e cultura politica negli Stati Uniti, Feltrinelli,
Milano, 2012
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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16. MALCOLM X
Malcolm X, Autobiografia di Malcolm X, Milano : Rizzoli, c1993
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Malcolm X, Con ogni mezzo discorsi e interviste, Torino : Einaudi, c1973
Bibl. Scienze politiche - Scienze sociali
Malcolm X on Afro-American History, New York : Pathfinder, 1991
Bibl. Scienze politiche - Scienze della politica
Manning Marable, Malcolm X. Tutte le verità oltre la leggenda, Donzelli, Roma, 2011
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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17. AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES)
Leroi Jones, Il popolo del blues: sociologia dei negri americani attraverso l’evoluzione del jazz
(1963), Torino : Einaudi, c1968
Bibl. Scienze politiche - Scienze sociali
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.1
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Il popolo del blues, traduzione di Carlo Antonelli e Raf "Valvola"
Scelsi, titolo originale: Blues People: Negro Music in White America (1963), Milano: Shake, 1994
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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18. BLACK POWER
Stokely Carmichael, Charles V. Hamilton, Strategia del potere negro, Bari: Laterza, 1968.
Bibl. Filosofia e storia
Roberto Giammanco (ed), Black Power: potere negro, analisi e testimonianze, Bari: Laterza, 1967.
Bibl. giuridica - Diritto Pubblico
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19. BLACK PANTHERS
Bobby Seale, Cogliere l’occasione! La storia del Black Panther Party e di Huey P. Newton, Torino,
Einaudi, 1971
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 - Anglistica
Alessandro Martinelli e Alessandro Cavalli (ed), Il Black Panther Party, Torino: Einaudi, 1971.
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 - Anglistica
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20. LOUIS FARRAKHAN / NATION OF ISLAM
Louis Farrakhan, A torchlight for America, 1993
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Million Man March, Day of Absence: a commemorative anthology: speeches, commentary,
photography, poetry, illustrations, documents, edited by Haki R. Madhubuti and Maulana Karenga
1996
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Elena Andreani, The endangered black male: la Million man march di Louis Farrakhan,
Washington 16 ottobre 1995, tesi di laurea, 2004, Università di Pisa, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia,
Corso di laurea in storia, a.a. 2003-2004
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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21. ANGELA DAVIS
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie
Holiday, New York, Knopf, 2011
Biblioteca mia
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22. BELL HOOKS (Gloria Watkins)
bell hooks, Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem, New York [etc.] : Atria Books, c2003
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
bell hooks, Elogio del margine: razza, sesso e mercato culturale, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1998
Bibl. Scienze politiche - Scienze sociali
bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters, New York, Routledge, 2009.
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 – Anglistica
bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism, New York, Holt, 1995.
Biblioteca mia
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23. HENRY LOUIS GATES & CORNEL WEST: RIFLESSIONI SULLA RAZZA
Cornel West, La razza conta, prefazione di Gianni Riotta 1995
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Henry Louis Gates, Cornel West, The Future of the Race, New York: Knopf, 1996.
Biblioteca mia
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24. THE LANGUAGE OF RACE
Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, New York : Pantheon
Books, 2002.
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race
in the U.S., New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
Randall Kennedy, The Presistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency,
New York : Pantheon Books, 2011.
Bibl. Filosofia e storia( 1/ 0)
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25. BARACK OBAMA
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995), Three Rivers
Press, 2004
Bibl. Filosofia e storia
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 - Anglistica
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006),
Vintage, 2008
Bibl. Filosofia e storia
Bibl. Lingue e lett. mod.2 - Anglistica
David Remnick, The bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama, New York : A. Knopf, 2010
Bibl. Filosofia e storia
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: 'A More Perfect Union' (& watch the speech) Philadelphia, PA
| March 18, 2008
http://www.barackobama.com/2008/03/18/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_53.php
Barack Obama, Sulla razza, Bologna: Rizzoli, 2008, 74 pp.
Bibl. Scienze politiche