TRAVELING SHOES BLACK TRAVEL WRITINGS, 1993- 2003

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2003 SUMMER READING LIST
TRAVELING SHOES: BLACK TRAVEL WRITINGS, 1993-
2003
Compiled by Kathleen E. Bethel
African American Studies Librarian
Northwestern University Library
“No matter where you travel,
You still be Black,
You carry all your history
On your own damn back.”
Houston A. Baker, title poem from No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be
Black (Detroit: Lotus Press, 1979)
Achebe, Chinua. Home and Exile. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Anderson, Christiann, and Monique Y. Wells. Paris Reflections: Walks Through
African-American Paris. Blacksburg: McDonald & Woodward Publishing, 2000.
Angelou, Maya. Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now. New York: Random
House, 1993.
Baldwin, Katherine Anne. Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading
Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963. Durham: Duke University Press,
2002.
Chipenda, Eva de Carvalho. The Visitor: An African Woman’s Story of Travel and
Discovery. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1996.
Coles, Robert. Black Writers Abroad: A Study of Black American Writers in Europe and
Africa. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.
Cousins, Linda. Caribbean Bound: Culture, Roots, People and Places. New York:
Universal African Writer Press, 1994.
Danticat, Edwidge. After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti. New
York: Crown,…