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2	Tuesday, February 14, 2023	Read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle(1906) Chapters 21-22 (Skip 23-25); Chapters 26-31.	Kenia Torres
3	Thursday, February 23, 2023	Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903) “Dedication,” “The Forethought,” “Chapter I: Of our Spiritual Strivings,” ” Chapter IV: Of the Meaning of Progress” ” Chapter XIII: Of the Coming of John” and Chapter IV: Sorrow Songs.”	Date Past
4	Tuesday, February 28, 2023	Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Amy M. Bueno	Ganna Sizikova
5	Thursday, March 2, 2023	Read Georgia Douglass’s drama Blue Eye’d Black Boy and Claude McKay’s poems “If We Must Die” and “America”		Open Slot	Extra Credit (1 person)
6	Tuesday, March 14, 2023	Read Allen Ginsberg’s long poem “Howl” (1955)	Marco Velecela Bermeo	Michael Skrypnyk	Extra Credit (1 person)
7	Tuesday, March 21, 2023	read the “Foreword,” “Introduction,” “Preface,” “1” and “2” of John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957)* This book is available for Baruch student with Baruch login through Newman Library. this is the version we will stick to in out class. There is also a pdf available online that you can access if you do not have Baruch login here: wordpress scan of No No Boy by John Okada.	Open	Carty	Extra Credit (1 person)
8	Tuesday, March 28, 2023	Read “Letter to My Nephew” (1962) by James Baldwin	Natalia Flores	Amara Cordero	Extra Credit (1 person)
9	Tuesday, April 4, 2023	Read from CUNY 1969 Student Protests for Open University Archive “Introduction” (about 10 pages) to Realizing the Dream of a Black University and Other Writings by Toni Cade Bambara by Makeba Lavan & Conor Tomás Reed; Read “Summer 1968 SEEK report” (about 12 pages) and “Realizing the Dream of a Black University”	Kevin Perolli	Carty	Extra Credit (1 person)
10	Tuesday, April 18, 2023	Read from CUNY 1969 Student Protests for Open University Archive Go to Cuny 1969 site and Read contextualizing narrative on page“The Scene at CUNY: Down Convent Ave.” (About 2 pages) You do not need to click buttons to go to other pages or documents on this page. Click “Continue.”	Natalia Flores	Ahmed Muharram	Extra Credit (1 person)
11	Tuesday, April 25, 2023	Read Joy Harjo’s poem, “American Sunrise” and Gwendolyn Brooks’s short poem “We Real Cool”	Sophia Torres	Junhyeok Lee	Extra Credit (1 person)
12	Tuesday, May 2, 2023	Read first 3 chapters of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)	Ryan Rodriguez	Ryan Chowdhury	Omar Placencia
13	Tuesday, May 9, 2023	Readings on Stonewall ( read the short overview about Stonewall “riots” 1969 ( “Intro,” “First March”) and Poetry by Raquel Salas Rivera , “They” and “each translation is a transformation” (see course schedule for details)	Hudson Hooton	Jasmina Drekovic	Extra Credit (1 person)
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