Summer Forum Series Presentation given on July 26, 2020 by NKenna Onwuzuruoha. NKenna Onwuzuruoha is the Outreach Coordinator for Write Here, Westminster College community writing center, and is a doctoral student in Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the U of U. She is a facilitator for the YWCA Woke Words project
From Nkenna Onwuzuruoha:
Listed below are the publications I referenced in my presentation, and the Salt Lake Tribune article, “Trying to better understand racism? Here’s what four black Utahns suggest you read.” https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2020/06/07/trying-better-understand/ Email me at if you’d like a copy of my presentation.
Further Reading Suggestions:
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain. Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Cleage, Pearl. Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs. Atria Books, 2014. Davis, Angela. “Reflections on The Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves.” The Black Scholar, vol. 3, no. 4, 1971, pp. 2–15. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41203704 Giovanni, Nikki. Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement. W. Morrow, 1979. Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: an Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. The New Press, 1996. Jess, Tyehimba. Olio. Wave Books, 2016. Sensoy, Özlem, and Robin J. DiAngelo. Is Everyone Really Equal?: an Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education. Teachers College Press, 2017. Suddler, Carl. Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York. New York University Press, 2019. Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. Harcourt, 2004. Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing: a Novel. Scribner, 2018. Williamson-Lott, Joy Ann. Black Power on Campus: the University of Illinois, 1965-75. University of Illinois Press, 2013.