Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)

• Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience - 2nd Edition, CC BY.

Farrington, Powell, Graham, and Anyanwu, Eastern Kentucky University, 2019.

This collaborative, interdisciplinary open textbook by EKU faculty "gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews." 

• Open Textbook Library (contains reviews)

• EKU Open (1st edition)

• Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies (2017) by Michel DeGraff, MIT OpenCourseware, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. This course connects the experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic patterns.

• African American History (2023) by Christorpher Collins, Skyline College, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

This text is a compilation of selected readings from African American History (Lumen), American Yawp, Boundless US History, and US History by Chris Collins for Skyline College ZTC Early Adopter Program.

• African American History and Culture (2023) Scott Matthews, Florida State College Jacksonville, Simple Book Publishing, CC BY 4.0.

This book is a cloned version of African American History and Culture by Florida State College at Jacksonville, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY (Attribution) license. It may differ from the original.

• African American Studies 40A: African American Studies (2024) by Bridget Cooks, UC Irvine, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to important historical, cultural, literary, and political issues concerning African Americans. Through critical readings of literary, artistic, and filmic texts, this course provides an overview of African American experiences from the 17th through mid-20th centuries. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the historical and cultural experiences of African Americans from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the Civil Rights Movement.