Common Reading 2024 My Monticello: Connected Readings

Connected Readings

Throughout My Monticello, there are references (some subtle, some overt) to real-world people, places, and events. We've compiled a list of resources relating to some of those references, organized by each story in the collection. Many of these books, articles, and videos are available freely on the Internet or via the library's subscription databases. The others can be requested via our InterLibrary Loan borrowing service.

"Control Negro"

• A Black Student, Bloodied [Inside Higher Education]
• Black UVA student bloodied during arrest: ‘How could this happen?’ [CNN]

"Virginia Is Not Your Home"

• Nausea [Jean-Paul Sartre]
• Political Writings [Simone de Beauvoir]

"Something Sweet on Our Tongues"

• The Lynching of John Henry James [Wikipedia]
• National School Lunch Program [The Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Food Labels]

"Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse"

• Bracing for the Apocalypse: An Ethnographic Study of New York’s "Prepper" Subculture [Amy Cooter]
• Consuming the Apocalypse, Marketing Bunker Materiality [Gwendolyn Audrey Foster]
• Dimensions of Challenging Parenting Practice: Nigerian Immigrants in the United States [Osagie Festus Amayo]
• Disaster Prepper: Health, Identity, and American Survivalist Culture [Allison Kabel]

"The King of Xandria"

• Lagos, Nigeria [Wikipedia]
• Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation [Ezekiel Umo Ette]

"My Monticello"

• Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan [Nancy MacLean]
• The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea [Christopher J. Lebron]
• Song of Solomon [Toni Morrison]
• Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA [Hawes Spencer]