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The course will explore selected texts from the 19th to the 21st centuries that engage with haunting memories, dreams, and the desire for more just futures. Students will be encouraged to creatively critique how the authors and artists address issues of access to resources, equity, participation, diversity, and human rights in the real and imagined worlds they depict. The variety of texts ranges from appeals such as David Walker’s, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of His Life, and The Heroic Slave, the documentary report Southern Horrors and The Red Record, Imperium In Imperio, George S. Schuyler’s satire Black No More, poetry such as Zong! by NourbeSe Philips, and fiction by Samuel R Delaney, Octavia Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and Janelle Monae.