Readings that are open access are available on this page. Note, if an assigned reading is not on this page, it is likely on the “Private Readings” page, which requires a password for access.

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)

W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Charlotte Gilman Perkins’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)

Georgia Douglass’s “Blue Eye’d Black Boy” (1930) 

Claude Mckay’s “If We Must Die” (1919) and “America” (1921)

Allen Ginsberg “Howl” (1955)

Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” (1959)

Joy Harjo “American Sunrise” (2017)

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) 3 chapters

Raquel Salas Rivera “They” and “each translation is a transformation” (20