New Reading
Cornel West, “The ignoble Paradox of Modernity”
Cornel West, “Horace Pippin’s Challenge to Art Criticism”
Sharon Zukin, “What Shopping Should Be”
Caroline Randall Williams, “My Body is a Confederate Monument”
Ibram X. Kendi, “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?”
Ibram X. Kendi, “Patience is a Dirty Word”
Cathy Park Hong, “The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020”
Cathy Park Hong, “Bad English”
Ostherr, Kirsten, “Movies have perpetuated racist ideas about illness for more than a century.”
Alex Vitale, “The Answer to Police Violence is Not Reform”
Sonia Shah, “It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus”
Saida Grundy, “The False Promise of Anti-Racism Books”
John McWhorter, “The Coronavirus Generation Will Use Language Differently”
Maurice Berger, “Picturing Obama” from Vision & Justice
Sarah E. Lewis, “Where Are All the Photos of People Dying of Covid?” NYT
Salamishah Tillet, “Meghan Markle and the Bicultural Blackness of the Royal Wedding” NYT
Salamishah Tillet, “Female Visibility Matters”
James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers”
James Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown”
Toni Morrison, “Racism and Fascism”
Toni Morrison, “Race Matters”
Gabriel Okara, “African Speech . . . English Words”
M. Nourbese Philip, “The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy”
W. E. B. Dubois, “Our Spiritual Strivings” from The Souls of Black Folk
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
George Schyuler, “The Negro Art Hokum”
Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
James McBride, “School/Shul”
Dawn Lundy Martin, “When a Person Goes Missing”
Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
Alexander Chee, “Future Queer”
Bernie Sanders, “We Must Make Public Colleges & Universities Tuition-Free”
Robert Applebaum, “Debate on Student Loan Debt Doesn’t Go Far Enough”
Justin Wolfers“Forgive Student Loans? Worst Idea Ever”
Julia Serano, “Free Speech and the Paradox of Tolerance”
Derek Bok, “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus”
Kenan Malik, “The Bane of Cultural Appropriation”
Kenan Malik, “In Defense of Cultural Appropriation”
Yo Zushi, “What’s Mine Is Yours”
K Tempest Bradford, “Cultural Appropriation is, in Fact, Indefensible”
Hossain Derakshan,“How Social Media Endangers Knowledge”
Navneet Alang, “Eat, Pray, Post”
Sunnivie Brydum,“The True Meaning of the Word Cisgender”
Jia Tolentino, “Where Millenials Come From”
Deborah J. Glick & Toby Ann Stavinsky,“Attacking CUNY at the Worst Moment Possible”
Nicholas Fredenberg and Erinn Bacchus“After COVID-19, We Must Save CUNY”
Richard Gottfried & Susan Kang, “Tax the Rich to Save CUNY: An Economic and Social Justice Imperative”
Ben Lerner, “The Backward Logic of Austerity Threatens America’s Most Vibrant Campus”
https://citylimits.org/2020/05/13/opinion-spare-cuny-and-save-the-education-our-heroes-deserve/
Wanda Nanibush, “Idle No More: Strong Hearts of Indigenous Women Leadership
Julian Brave Noisecat & Anne Spice, “A History and Future of Resistance”
Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, “Why the Founder of Standing Rock Sioux Camp Can’t Forget the Whitestone Massacre" (
Also refer to list of resources from the Black Lives Matter Poetry Alliance: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tKsTVBL4VyXuJE-qwo86N7wPXytFBgIJkEb7TXqo-LQ/edit
And the Black History Month Library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync
