Part I, Readings & Questions
- “Active Reading” Brogan Sullivan
- “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan
- “Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie
- “Learning to Read” Malcolm X
- “My Nigerian Culture” Abimbola Ogundipe Â
- “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found” Colson Whitehead
- “Campus Racism 101” Nikki Giovanni
- “Five Stories” Lydia Davis
Part II, Readings & Questions
- “I Have a Dream…” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr
- “The Death of the Book” Ursula LeGuin
- “Black Men and Public Space” Brent Staples
- “Williamsburg Renaissance” Jessica Guerra
- “Silent Dancing” Judith Ortiz Cofer