assigned readings Not in Textbook

On Writing

10 Myths of College Writing – handout

Excerpt from "The Subject in Discourse" by John Clifford 

"Composing Guidelines" by Sondra Perl

On Racism

"Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law" by Nikole Hannah-Jones

"The Birth of Mass Incarceration" by Michelle Alexander

Excerpt from "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

Excerpt from The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

On Ethnicity/Immigration/Religion

Full text of President Trump's executive order on 7-nation ban, refugee suspension from CNNPolitics.com

"The Asian-American Wakening" by Connie Zhou

Excerpt from How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi – handout

"The Danger of a Single Story," a TED Talks by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On Actionable Solutions

“Paths to Social Change: Conventional Politics, Violence and Nonviolence” by Brian Martin

Excerpts from Political Activism edited by Tom Landsford

“The Real Problem with Immigration...and the Real Solution” by Kirk Johnson and Tim Kane

“Inequality and Economic Growth” by Joseph Stiglitz

Additional Readings

"Family Literacy or Community Learning? Some Critical Questions on Perspective" by Shirley Brice Heath

"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell

"George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'" by Stacy Tartar-Esch – Companion Article

"What Is 'Academic' Writing?" by L. Lennie Irvin