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Reading List

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(*Purchase required)
 
*Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Vol. 1, Edited by Hope Nicholson (Brok Windsor, Lost Heroes, Nelvana of the Northern Lights) (Alternative History Comics, 2015)
 
*Zong!, M. NourbeSe Philip (Wesleyan Press, 2011)
 
*Dance Dance Revolution, Cathy Park Hong (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008)
 
*Kindred, Octavia Butler (Beacon Press, 2003)
 
*Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom (Metonymy Press, 2016)
 
*Ghost Girl in the Corner, Daniel Jose Older (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2016)

 
Select Short Stories/Essays (Available online):
 
"The Space Traders,” Derrick Bell
“Monstro,” Junot Diaz
“The H8TE,” Lilliam Rivera
“The Water that Falls on You from Nowhere,” John Chu
“Auténtico,” Hector Ramirez
 

Critical Reading
 
*The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, Edited by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Cap Max King (Fence Books, 2015)
 
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, André M. Carrington (online excerpt provided by instructor)
 
“What is contagion: A Roundtable” with Candice Lin, Mel Y. Chen, and Jih-Fei Cheng
 
“Opacity,” from Poetics of Relation, Edouard Glissant (online excerpt provided by instructor)
 

Viewing
 
Get Out (2017), Directed by Jordan Peele
 

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