See a listing of 31 texts for May HERE (add in comments any text you will be teaching and a date; I will add to the sheet)
May 1: “Help me”
The Handmaid’s Tale (Graphic Novel): A Novel by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
May 2
“We Wear the Mask,” Paul Laurence Dunbar
National Days of Teaching Truth to Power
May 3
“Let America Be America Again,” Langston Hughes
Listening to Langston Hughes about “Make America Great Again”
May 4
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, Howard Zinn
Recommended
May 5
Karl Marx: ten things to read if you want to understand him
Karl Marx (b. 5 May 1818)
The Soul of Man under Socialism, Oscar Wilde
May 6
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Audre Lorde
May 7
Gender Queer: A Memoir, Maia Kobabe
What to Do When Your Kid Is Reading a Book That Makes You Uncomfortable
May 8
Letter from a Region in My Mind, James Baldwin
May 9
Mississippi Goddam, Nina Simone
May 10
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming, Neil Gaiman
May 11
Vision: The Complete Collection
A Vision of Being Human: “Am I normal?”
May 12
Final Words of Advice/ “Where do we go from here?” 1967), Martin Luther King Jr.
May 13
“Peculiar Benefits,” Roxane Gay
May 14
Maus, Art Spiegelman
May 15
The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter Godwin Woodson
May 16
“Diving into the Wreck,” Adrienne Rich (b. 16 May 1929)
May 17
“A Report from Occupied Territory,” James Baldwin
Time Magazine (James Baldwin, 17 May 1963)
May 18
Malcolm X press conference on deadly police raid in Los Angeles (footage excerpt, 1962)
May 19
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry (b. 19 May 1930)
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
Caribbean Matters: On Malcolm X’s birthday, remember that his mother’s Caribbean roots shaped him
May 20
“Harlem,” Langston Hughes
May 21
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, bell hooks
White Lies, Black Incarceration, and the Promise of Reading in Prison
May 22
“We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks
May 23
Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller (b. 23 May 1810)
May 24
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument, Caroline Randall Williams
May 25
Statement to the Court, Eugene V. Debs
Kurt Vonnegut letter on censorship
May 26
What These Children Are Like, Ralph Ellison
May 27
All Boys Aren’t Blue, George M. Johnson
May 28
The Soul of Man under Socialism, Oscar Wilde
May 29
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?, James Baldwin
May 30
“Incident,” Countee Cullen (b. 30 May 1903)
Banning the N-word on campus ain’t the answer — it censors Black professors like me, Vershawn Ashanti Young
May 31
“I Sing the Body Electric,” Walt Whitman (b. 31 May 1819)
dr. p.l. (paul) thomas 