====== Foregrounding Diverse Perspectives ======

===== Syllabus Statement =====
**Foregrounding Diverse Perspectives**

In this course, we’re going to push to open ourselves up to new ways of seeing the world and its people. Each unit will be begin with an outside reading that will help us center the current unit’s conversation from a perspective that you might not otherwise encounter in a standard textbook. Our goal in doing this is to encourage you to think outside of your normal approach to problems, issues, and culture, and to help us all understand the value that diversity and diverse perspectives bring to our work and lives.


===== 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.  

==== 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====
[[https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674251687|Racism in America: A Reader]], from Harvard University Press (free download)

https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/race-justice/busing-desegregation.html

==== Prose ====

[[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

[[educated_contextual_note|Educated by Tara Westover (click for contextual note)]]

//The Management of Grief// by Bharati Mukherjee

//Rules of the Game// by Amy Tan

==== Poetry ====
  * "The Abuelita Poem" by Paul Martinez Pompa
  * "Sonrisas" by Pat Mora


==== Short Stories ====
[[https://apex-magazine.com/welcome-to-your-authentic-indian-experience/|Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience]] by Rebecca Roanhorse
==== Videos ====

[[https://nsi-canada.ca/2012/03/im-not-the-indian-you-had-in-mind/|"I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind"]]


==== Technical Writing Texts ====
**General Discussions and Culture**

[[https://www.printmag.com/post/the-black-experience-in-graphic-design-1968-and-2020?fbclid=IwAR0ktdzGIhuwZrE_wvCsOFG-Cq-xmn1ugMcfkuS_wuoxVfH2PUpLG88D0B4|The Black Experience in Graphic Design]]

**Instructions**

[[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]]

**Archival Materials**

If requested, we can share PDFs from Dr. Don Unger of the University of Mississippi that document community work by Black farmers in that state.