Readings

Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” and “Here be Dragons: Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood” by James Baldwin

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks” by Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Toni Morrison, Revolutionary Political Thinker” by Angela Davis and Farah Jasmine Griffin

The Rhetorical Situation” by Lloyd Blitzer

The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders

America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic” by Linda Villarosa

Genre and Design

How TikTok Holds Our Attention” by Jia Tolentino

Why I Write” by Joan Didion