Course Texts
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (for purchase in the Baruch College bookstore)
Click here for online free version of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
2. Click here for “Betsy’s Borrowed Baby” an unpublished short story by Mary Church Terrell NOTE: You need to log into your CUNY library account to access this text.
3. Click here for “Venus and the Night Doctors” by Mary Church Terrell NOTE: You need to log into your CUNY library account to access this text.
4. Click here for an archival “Letter from Mary Chruch Terrell to Mr.Metealf” NOTE: You need to log into your CUNY library account to access this text.
5. Passing by Nella Larsen (for purchase in the Baruch College Bookstore)
Click here for an online free version of Passing by Nella Larsen
6. Click here for Gwendolyn Books’s “The Bean Eaters”
Click here for Gwendolyn Books’s “kichenette building”
Click here for Gwendolyn Books’s “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed”
Click here for Gwendolyn Books’s “We Real Cool”
Click here for Gwendolyn Books’ “Boy Breaking Glass”
7. Sula by Toni Morrison (available for purchase in the Baruch College bookstore)
Audiobooks on YouTube
Link to an audiobook version of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs Link to Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen Link to a reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Bean Eaters” Link to a reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “kitchenette building” Link to video and a reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” Link to a reading and brief podcast about Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” Link to a reading of Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison (Playlist of readings of chapters)
