Overview

For all readings, you need to submit a reflection post on Piazza the night before class, due 11:59PM.

Readings for RAGE

February 19th

• Ruja Benjamin, Informed Refusal: Toward a Justice-Based Bioethics.
• Neil Roberts, Introduction and Afterword in Freedom as Marronage
• National Library of Medicine: Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA

March 11th

• Simone Brown, “B®anding blackness : biometric technology and the surveillance of blackness” in Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. PDF
• Irvin Hunt, “Afterword. This Bridge Called the System: An Interview with Stephanie Morningstar” in Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics and the Black Cooperative Movement

April 10th

• Caraballo Muller, “The Impossible Project, A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian Moment” in Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present. [forthcoming 2024]. 
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress [PDF TBD] and “Imagination” in Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom.