Sundiata Djata

Major Publications

Books

• Blacks at the Net: Blacks Achievements in the History of Tennis, Volume Two. Syracuse University Press, 2008.
• Blacks at the Net: Blacks Achievements in the History of Tennis, Volume One. Syracuse University Press, 2006.
• The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization, 1712-1920. Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996.

Articles/Book Chapters

• "Racial Politics in the History of American Tennis." Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. London: Routledge, 2019.
• "Game, Set, and Separatism: The American Tennis Association, a Tennis Vanguard," in David K. Wiggins and Ryan Swanson, eds., Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
• "Arthur Ashe," in Steven A. Riess, ed., Sports in America: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century. Sharpe Reference, 2011.
• "African Americans in Sports: The Other Champions," in Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds., The Columbia Guide to African American History since 1939. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
• "Viva a Liberdade: The Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1910," Journal of Caribbean Studies, 11 (Winter/Spring 1996): 39-56.
• "Madison Avenue Ignores the Black Consumer," Business and Society Review, 62 (Winter 1987): 9-13.

Public History Projects

• “Darkside of the 90s,” Chris Boehnisch, producer, Vice Media, episode: “Race and Representation in Tennis and the Tennis Media Complex in the 1990s and Beyond.” 2024. (Consultant).
• Documentary “Annetta Tucker,” Harlem High School students. Screened May 12, 2019. (Consultant).

Courses Taught

• HIST 270: African-American History to 1865
• HIST 271: African-American History Since 1865
• HIST 348: African History to 1600
• HIST 349: African History Since 1600
• HIST 353: Women in African History
• HIST 354: Black Business and Entrepreneurship
• HIST 355: History of Black American Music
• HIST 363: U.S. Sport History
• HIST 375: Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1974
• HIST 390: Film & History
• IDSP 219: Introduction to African Studies

Interdisciplinary Affiliations

• Center for Black Studies
• Center for Southeast Asian Studies
• Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality
• College of Business
• School of Music