Mon, July 18 • Viet Thanh Nguyen, “I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It.” Time, 15 Nov. 2018.
• Jewelle Gomez, “The Event of Becoming” (1997).

Tues, July 19 •  Aurora Levins Morales, “Child of the Americas.” Getting Home Alive. Firebrand Books, 1986.
• Aurora Levins Morales, “What Race Isn’t: Teaching About Racism” Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals. Duke University Press, 2019.
• Toni Morrison, “Racism and Fascism” The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Wed, July 20 • Winona LaDuke, “What is Sacred?,” from Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming. South End Press, 2005.
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “Introduction: This Land.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2015.

Thurs, July 21 • Myron Dewey, Josh Fox, and James Spione (directors), ​Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock ​(excerpts) (2017)

Mon, July 25 • “Historical Foundations of Race,” National Museum of African American History and Culture.
• Ronald Takaki, “The ‘Tempest’ in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery,” A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Seven Stories Press (1993).

Tues, July 26 • “Declaration of Independence” (1776).
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, “The Idea of America,” The New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019.

Wed, July 27 • Walt Whitman, “I Hear America Singing,” “Song of Myself,” (excerpts) Leaves of Grass (1855).
• Hugh Ryan, “From Leaves of Grass to the Brooklyn Bridge: The Rise of the Queer Waterfront, 1855-1883,” When Brooklyn Was Queer. St. Martin’s Press (2019).

Thurs, July 28 • Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” (1883).
• Anzia Yezierska, “America and I,” Children of Loneliness: Stories of Immigrant Life in America. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1923.

Mon, Aug 1 • Poetry Foundation, “An Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance”
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” The Nation, 1926.
• Zora Neale Hurston, “How it Feels to be Colored Me,” World Tomorrow, 1928.

Tues, Aug 2 • Mine Okubo, Citizen 13660 ([part 1] and [part 2] excerpts), Columbia University Press, 1946.
• Lilly Fowler, “‘Never Again is Now’: Japanese Americans driven by history in immigration fight,” Crosscut, 21 Feb. 2020.

Wed, Aug 3 • Judith Butler, “Your Behavior Creates Your Gender,” June 2011.
• Michael Kimmel, “Masculinity as Homophobia,” Theorizing Masculinities, 13 June 1994.

Thurs, Aug 4 • Philip Levine, “What Work Is,” What Work Is, Knopf Press, 1991.
• Raymond Carver, “Cathedral,” Cathedral: Stories, Vintage Press, 1983.

Mon, Aug 8 • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s introduction to How We Get Free and Combahee River Collective Statement (1977), Haymarket Press, 2018.

Tues, Aug 9 • Audre Lorde, “I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities,” Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1985. “A Litany for Survival,” The Black Unicorn: Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, 1978.
• Adrienne Rich, “Notes toward a Politics of Location (1984),” Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985, W.W. Norton & Company, 1986.

Wed, Aug 10 • Gloria Anzaldua,  “The Homeland, Aztlán”  and “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” from Borderlands/La Frontera: the New Mestiza, Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Thurs, Aug 11 • Katie Mitchell (director), Watched, 2016. (20 minutes)
• Jeanne Theoharis, “‘I Feel Like a Despised Insect’: Coming of Age Under Surveillance in New York,” The Intercept, 18 Feb. 2016.

Mon, Aug 15 • Debt Collective, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition excerpts, Haymarket Press, 2020.
• Astra Taylor (director), “You Are Not A Loan,” The Intercept, 25 Jan. 2021. (45 minutes)

Tues, Aug 16 • The New York Times, “Can You Answer These Sex Ed Questions?: A Post-Roe Quiz” (2022).
• Anne Rumberger, “The Abortion Rights Movement Must Now Turn to Grassroots Organizing and Direct Action,” Jacobin Magazine (2022).
• Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “The Voices of Men Affected by Abortion,” The New York Times (2022)

Wed, Aug 17 • Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy (directors), Jane: An Abortion Service (1996) (57 minutes)

Thurs, Aug 18 • Anti-Racist Coalition at Brooklyn College, July 14, 2020 Town Hall (1 hour, 41 minutes)

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