For Thursday, September 5 read and annotate the essay I handed out to you in class, If-Black-English-Isn’t-A-Language-Then-Tell-Me-What-Is-James-Baldwin
Recommended reading (but not required): Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture serves as an apt companion piece to Baldwin‘s polemic.
Also recommended, as a companion piece to Tan’s essay, is Maxine Hong Kinston’s “The Misery of Silence.”
Reading assignment for Wednesday, September 4, print, read, and bring to class: Mother-Tongue-by-Amy-Tan
