Readings

Tue 9/11
"Class and the politics of writing" from Remembered Rapture by bell hooks

Tue 9/16

"The Emergence of Colorism in the Americas" from The Color Complex


Tue 9/30

Coraline - Graphic Novel
Coraline 


Thu 10/2

 American Born Chinese  by Gene Luen Yang


Tue 10/7

Preface of Playing in the Dark:Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Thu 10/9

"It's Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism" by Susan Mauddi Durraj

Tue 10/14

"Dutiful Hijas: Dependency, Power, and Guilt" By Erica Gonzalez Martinez

Thu 10/16

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Tue 10/21

In class video

Thu 10/23

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria AnzaldĂșa 

Tue 10/28

Latino USA: A Cartoon History by Ilan Stavans


Tue 11/4

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Thu 11/6

"No Name Woman" from The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Tue 11/11

“It is Bigger Than Microaggressions” by Kortney Ziegler

Thu 11/18
“When Eating Organic Was Totally Uncool” by Pha Lo

Thu 11/27 PRINT OUT FOR IN-CLASS ESSAY

“What Happens When Your Hood is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express?" by Taigi Smith