LaQuette’s Resource List

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LaQuette was kind enough to let us host a list of resources from her Critical Lens course. These videos, articles, and books will help you read more critically about race and LGBTQIA+ topics.

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Online Resources

Adichie’s, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, Oct. 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.

Bois, W. E. Burghardt Du. “Strivings of the Negro People.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 19 Aug. 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/.

Foreman, Tynesha. “How It Feels to Be a Problem.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/554972/web-dubois-striving-negro/.

Magazines

McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” Peace and Freedom Magazine, 1989, pp. 10-12, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.

Books


Pleasure Activism: the Politics of Feeling Good

Adrienne M. Brown


White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin J. DiAngelo


The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. 2nd ed

Nellie Y. McKay


Black Queer Studies: a Critical Anthology

E. Patrick Johnson


When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele


So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo


Transgender History: the Roots of Today's Revolution

Susan Stryker


The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

Michael Warner