Reading or Re-Reading:

• The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
• Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
• Distinction, Pierre Bourdieu
• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, C.L.R. James
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire

Read and (often) Revisited:

• Criteria of Negro Art, W.E.B. DuBois
• Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation, Toni Morrison
• The Master’s Tools, Audre Lorde
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• kitchenette building, Gwendolyn Brooks
• Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Sula, Toni Morrison
• Let England Shake, PJ Harvey
• The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin
• Take Care of Yourself, Sophie Calle
• In Search of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker
• The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America (Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley), June Jordan
• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Chapter 1 – The Medium is the Message, Marshall McLuhan
• Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
• Does Size Matter? Geoffrey Batchen
• Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, Glenn Ligon Ed. Scott Rothkopf
• The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
• Our Town, Thornton Wilder (and then as a complement Dogville, Lars von Trier)
• Photography: A Middle-Brow Art, Pierre Bourdieu