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“Alternative
Parents, Thomas Jefferson & Sally
Hemmings: 
Rethinking the Racial Origins of the American
Republic”
Clarence Walker, Department of History
University of California, Davis
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Clarence Walker is Professor of History
at University of California, Davis. Educated
at University of California Berkeley,
his publications include: We Can't
Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism,
"Asante’s Aposteori”
in Chretien, Fauvelle, and Perrot, Afrocentrisme:
Histoire, Memoire, Identities , Recomposee’s,
“Denial Is Not A River In Egypt:
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson”
in History, Memory, and Civic Culture
, Edited By Jan Lewis and Peter Onuf,
and “If Everybody was a King, who
Built the Pyramids?: Afrocentrism and
Black American History,” in Emerging
Structures, ed., Rudi Keller and
Karl Menges. Recently he served as academic
advisor to the PBS American Experience
television series : Reconstruction:
The Second Civil War (2004).
Readings
- North American Slave Narratives,
Beginnings to 1920 (includes
Mahommah G. Baquaqua, Olaudah Equiano,
Harriet Jacobs, Venture Smith and
more) Published by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/
- C.
Walker booklist
pdf file which includes following
titles:
- George Fredrickson, The
Black Image in the White Mind:
The Debate on African-American
Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
(New York: Harper & Row, 1971,
reprint 1986)
- Michael P. Johnson and James
L. Roark, Black Masters: A
Free Family of Color in the Old
South (New York: Norton,
1984) more
about this book
- Thomas R. Frazier, ed., Readings
in African-American History,
3rd edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson
Learning, 2001)
- Herbert Aptheker, ed., A
Documentary History of the Negro
People in the United States, Vol.
1 (New York: Citadel, 1st
ed 1951, 1994)
- Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas
Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An
American Controversy (Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia,
1997) more
about this book
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr, ed.,
The Classic Slave Narratives
(New York: 1987) including:
- Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl,
Written by Herself (Boston:
1861, many editions available)
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting
Narrative (Great Britain,
1789, many versions available)
- Venture Smith, A Narrative
of the Life and Adventures of
Venture, A Native of Africa and
Resident Above Sixty Years in
the United States of America
(New London, CT: C. Holt, 1798)
- Melton A. McLaurin, ed.,
Celia: a Slave (Athens, GA:
1991)
- Paul Lovejoy and Robin Law,
eds., The Biography of Mahommah
Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from
Slavery to Freedom in Africa and
America (Princeton: 2001)
- Valerie Martin, Property
(New York: Doubleday, 2003)
- Philip Roth, The Human
Stain (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
2000)
- Kate Chopin, “Desirées
Baby,” in The Awakening
(Chicago: 1899, reprint New York:
Norton, 1976)
- Lalita Tademy, Cane River
(New York: Warner Brooks, 2001)
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