Week #1 Readings

For the first week of the program, we covered a range of readings:

• From The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

• A Notebook on slavery/liberation, which included runaway slave ads, writings by and about enslaved people

• Poetry Packet #1: Works by Opal Palmer Adisa, Lucille Clifton, Robert Hayden, Vievee Francis, Dudley Randall, Ishmael Reed, and Phillis Wheatley

• “Message to the Grassroots” by Malcolm X

• Poetry Packet #2: Works by Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Helene Johnson,  Claude McKay, and Margaret Walker

• The Black Book 

• "Behind the Making of The Black Book" by Toni Morrison

• "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You: The BeyHive" By Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Related:
• AALCI 2015
 
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