Lit 160: Essays for class on Dec 5/6

Here are six essays for class on Wed/Thurs 5/6 December 2012. Choose at least two and be prepared to discuss them in class.

Alexander, Michelle. "Introduction." The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2010. Print. This is the introductory essay from Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Kennedy, Randall. "Who is Black?" Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. Print. This is the first chapter from Randall Kennedy's book, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal.

Hopkinson, Natalie and Natalie Moore. "Tyronity." Deconstructing Tyrone. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2006. Print. This is the second chapter from Hopkinson's and Moore's book, Deconstructing Tyrone.

Reed, Ishmael. "Obama Scolds Black Fathers, Gets Bounce in Polls." Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2010. Print. This is the fourth chapter of Ishmael Reed's book, Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers.

---. "Black Men and the White Left: Why Some White Progressives Make Me Sick." Going too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2012. Print. This is the second chapter from Ishmael Reed's book, Going too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown.


Toure. "Thirty-Five Million Ways to be Black." Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What it Means to be Black Now. New York: Free Press, 2011. Print. This is the first chapter from Toure's book, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What it Means to be Black Now.