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I put together a reading list for students to help them contextualize the moment they're living through. So far, have writing from @robgreeneII, @KeishaBlain, @KeeangaYamahtta, @elizabhinton, and @esglaude. What other readings are you using in the classroom to teach this moment?
Here are the links, if others want them:
Robert Greene II: "We are living in a Red Spring" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/red-summer-riots-african-americans-pandemic-police
Robert Greene II: "We are living in a Red Spring" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/red-summer-riots-african-americans-pandemic-police
Elizabeth Hinton: "The Minneapolis Uprising in Context" https://bostonreview.net/race/elizabeth-hinton-minneapolis-uprising-context
Keisha N. Blain: "Violence in Minneapolis is rooted in the history of racist policing in America" https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/30/violence-minneapolis-is-rooted-history-racist-policing-america/
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: "Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/george-floyd-minneapolis.html
Eddie S. Glaude: "George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism" https://time.com/5844645/george-floyds-shows-we-cannot-wait-end-racism/
For context, the syllabus for this week imagined democracy as a contested future. Readings incl. Ruth Wilson Gilmore on prison abolition, Charlene Carruthers on a queer, Black feminist reimagining of the Black radical tradition, Fanon's conclusion from The Wretched of the Earth
