Syllabus - ENGL 3165 / AMST 3004

For the course syllabus, click HERE.

Suheir Hammad, Mohja Kahf, Philip Metres

Suheir Hammad, "First Writing Since" (video)

Mohja Kahf, "The Spiced Chicken Queen of of Mickaweaquah, Iowa"

Dulce Pinzón, "Superheroes" photo-essay

Dulce Pinzón, "The Real Story of the Superheroes"

Nuyorican and Latino Poetry

Poems by Miguel Algarín, Aurora Levins Morales, and Pedro Pietri

Tato Laviera poems

Jimmy Santiago Baca, "So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans"

William Ripley and Randolph Bourne

William Z. Ripley, "Race Progress and Immigration"

Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America"

Claude McKay, Selected Poems

Claude McKay, from Selected Poems

Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, "The Danger of a Single Story"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie TED talk, "The Danger of a Single Story"
Transcript available here.

Early American Immigration Accounts: Crevecoeur, Wheatley, Frethorne

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer excerpt

Phyllis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America"

Richard Frethorne, Letter to his Parents