Faculty of the Department of Art & Public Policy have contributed titles that currently influence their consideration of arts politics and shape their courses. Some of these texts are taught, while others may cite theories and ideas explored through coursework. We welcome you to delve into the list below as a way to understand what guides us.
Some of Us Did Not Die, Essays by June Jordan
The Collected Essays of James Baldwin, edited by Toni Morrison
Language for a New Century, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar (Norton)
Walking Words, Eduardo Galeano
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis
Politics of Piety, Saba Mahmood
Social Works, Shannon Jackson
Against the Romance of Community, Miranda Joseph
Citizen, Claudia Rankine
- Aberrations in Black and The Reorder of Things, Rod Ferguson
- Toward a Global Idea of Race, Denise Ferreira da Silva
- Cruising Utopia, José Esteban Muñoz
- The Birth-mark, Susan Howe
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
- Orientalism, Edward Said
- Race and Class in Postcolonial Society, Stuart Hall
- Poetry is Not a Luxury, Audre Lorde