Daughters of the Dust

Check out these interviews at Indie Wire and UCLA with Julie Dash, who made Daughters of the Dust. 

W.E.B. Du Bois

Check out this annotated version of his essay "The Conservation of Races" that we read for class.

Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs

We recently read selections from Harriet Jacobs' narrative, Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl. If you would like to learn more about her and her life, check out some of these links:

This site gives a good overview
You can read the newspaper runaway notice for her here
You can view a useful timeline here 
Check out her archive at Yale here