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 ===== Suggested Reading Ideas ===== ===== Suggested Reading Ideas =====
 Below you'll find some readings that have been taught by faculty and staff in the past or suggested. This is not a mandated reading list, but is provided to give you somewhere to start in your reading selection. These are readings that have been suggested by faculty and staff of the department, as well as by teaching assistants. These readings are in no way endorsed by us, but are instead offered as helpful suggestions from members of our department.   Below you'll find some readings that have been taught by faculty and staff in the past or suggested. This is not a mandated reading list, but is provided to give you somewhere to start in your reading selection. These are readings that have been suggested by faculty and staff of the department, as well as by teaching assistants. These readings are in no way endorsed by us, but are instead offered as helpful suggestions from members of our department.  
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 +==== Readings and Context ====
 +When writing and readings content from cultures outside of your own, you need to take care to treat content fairly and within the proper context. Some of the texts below have special contextualization notes that have been provided by faculty, staff, or others to help teachers and readers understand the larger context that these texts take place within. 
  
 ====Readers==== ====Readers====
 [[https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674251687|Racism in America: A Reader]], from Harvard University Press (free download) [[https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674251687|Racism in America: A Reader]], from Harvard University Press (free download)
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 +https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/race-justice/busing-desegregation.html
  
 ==== Prose ==== ==== Prose ====
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 +[[africa_and_the_global_south|//Africa and the Global South Readings//]] compiled by Jean Hugues Bita'a
  
 //Between the World and Me// by Ta-Nehsi Coates //Between the World and Me// by Ta-Nehsi Coates
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 +[[educated_contextual_note|Educated by Tara Westover (click for contextual note)]]
  
 //The Management of Grief// by Bharati Mukherjee //The Management of Grief// by Bharati Mukherjee
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 ==== Poetry ==== ==== Poetry ====
-"The Abuelita Poem" by Paul Martinez Pompa +  * "The Abuelita Poem" by Paul Martinez Pompa 
-"Sonrisas" by Pat Mora+  "Sonrisas" by Pat Mora
  
  
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 **Instructions** **Instructions**
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 +[[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=about&scroll=18|The Negro Traveler's Green Book]]
  
 [[https://www.liveabout.com/african-american-biracial-childs-hair-care-26867|Caring for Your Biracial or Black Child's Hair]] [[https://www.liveabout.com/african-american-biracial-childs-hair-care-26867|Caring for Your Biracial or Black Child's Hair]]
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