Please choose ONE reading from each of THREE main headings: Anticolonialism and Liberation; The Quest for Racial Equality; and the Quest for Gender Equality.

Then in a post share 1) pertinent excerpts; 2) characterize the sentiments, views, lessons, lives, arguments, justifications, perceptions, titular definitions, social contradictions, or experiences, etc; 3) consider how the sentiments or circumstances still pertain to today; and 4) propose a discussion question; 5) Respond to the post of at least one classmate.

I. Anticolonialism and Liberation:

36.1 Islamic Pomes

36.2 Neruda's "United Fruit Co."

II. The Quest for Racial Equality:

Harlem Renaissance

36.3 The Poems of Hughes

36.4 The Poems of Brooks

Reality of Racism

36.5 From Wright's The Ethics of Living Jim Crow

The Civil Rights Movement

36.6 From King's Letter from Birmingham Jail

36.7 From Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots"

The Black Revolution

36.8 From Ellison's Invisible Man

36.9 Walker's "Elethia"

III. The Quest for Gender Equality

36.10 From Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"

36.11 From Beauvoir's The Second Sex

36.12: Feminist Poems