On Racism, Interlocking Forms of Oppression, and Creative Writing
Essays
Ali, Kazim. “Addressing Structural Racism in Creative Writing Programs.” Writer’s Chronicle (October 2016).
Cole, Teju. "The White-Savior Industrial Complex." The Atlantic (2012).
Derricotte, Toi. “Baring/Bearing Anger: Race in the Creative Writing Classroom.” Writers Chronicle (October/November 1995).
Eady, Cornelius. Interview. "It Felt Like a Door Had Opened." Sampsonia Way 2011.
Greenidge, Kaitlyn. "Who Gets To Write What?" New York Times (2016).
Hegamin, Tonya. “Inclusion and Diversity: A Manifesto and Interview.” Journal of Creative Writing Studies 1.1 (2016).
James, Marlon. "Why I'm Done Talking about Diversity." LitHub (2016). (Also see article at The Guardian.)
James, Marlon. Interview. "It's Bullsh*t to Say There Is 'High' and 'Low' Literature." Irish Times (2019).
Larson, Sonya. "Degrees of Diversity: Talking about Race in the MFA." Poets & Writers (Sept/Oct 2015).
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. “Lore, Practice, and Social Identity in Creative Writing Pedagogy: Speaking with a Yellow Voice?” Pedagogy 10.1. (Winter 2010).
McCrary, Micah. "A Legacy of Whiteness: Reading and Teaching Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land." Assay 2.2
Mura, David. “Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, and the Teaching of Creative Writing.” Writers Chronicle (October/November 2016).
Mura, David. “White Writing Teachers (or David Foster Wallace vs. James Baldwin).” Journal of Creative Writing Studies 1.1. (2016).
Onyebuchi, Tochi. "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest." Tor.com (2020).
Perez, Craig Santos. "Dr. Craig's 11 Step Program to Curing 'Mainly White MFA' Sickness." (2015).
Perez, Craig Santos. Interview. "To Decolonize Our Imaginations." Kenyon Review 2019.
Perez, Craig Santos. "The Indigenous Sovereign Imaginary." The Umiverse 2012.
Perez, Craig Santos. Interview. "Poetic Archives as Ethnic Studies. Ploughshares.
Rankine, Claudia. “In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing.” Writer’s Chronicle (October/November 2016).
Salesses, Matthew. "Who Is at the Center of the Workshop and Who Should Be?" Pleiades (2015).
Sloan, Christine. "Challenging the Whiteness of MFA Programs: A Year of Confrontations at UW." The Workshop (2016).
Teleky, Richard. “‘Entering the Silence: Voice, Ethnicity, and the Pedagogy of Creative Writing.” MELUS 26.1 (Spring 2001).
Xi, Xu. “Three Commandments for Writing about Race.” Brevity 53. Fall 2016.
Also see: De-Canon: A Visibility Project
Ali, Kazim. “Addressing Structural Racism in Creative Writing Programs.” Writer’s Chronicle (October 2016).
Cole, Teju. "The White-Savior Industrial Complex." The Atlantic (2012).
Derricotte, Toi. “Baring/Bearing Anger: Race in the Creative Writing Classroom.” Writers Chronicle (October/November 1995).
Eady, Cornelius. Interview. "It Felt Like a Door Had Opened." Sampsonia Way 2011.
Greenidge, Kaitlyn. "Who Gets To Write What?" New York Times (2016).
Hegamin, Tonya. “Inclusion and Diversity: A Manifesto and Interview.” Journal of Creative Writing Studies 1.1 (2016).
James, Marlon. "Why I'm Done Talking about Diversity." LitHub (2016). (Also see article at The Guardian.)
James, Marlon. Interview. "It's Bullsh*t to Say There Is 'High' and 'Low' Literature." Irish Times (2019).
Larson, Sonya. "Degrees of Diversity: Talking about Race in the MFA." Poets & Writers (Sept/Oct 2015).
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. “Lore, Practice, and Social Identity in Creative Writing Pedagogy: Speaking with a Yellow Voice?” Pedagogy 10.1. (Winter 2010).
McCrary, Micah. "A Legacy of Whiteness: Reading and Teaching Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land." Assay 2.2
Mura, David. “Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, and the Teaching of Creative Writing.” Writers Chronicle (October/November 2016).
Mura, David. “White Writing Teachers (or David Foster Wallace vs. James Baldwin).” Journal of Creative Writing Studies 1.1. (2016).
Onyebuchi, Tochi. "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest." Tor.com (2020).
Perez, Craig Santos. "Dr. Craig's 11 Step Program to Curing 'Mainly White MFA' Sickness." (2015).
Perez, Craig Santos. Interview. "To Decolonize Our Imaginations." Kenyon Review 2019.
Perez, Craig Santos. "The Indigenous Sovereign Imaginary." The Umiverse 2012.
Perez, Craig Santos. Interview. "Poetic Archives as Ethnic Studies. Ploughshares.
Rankine, Claudia. “In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing.” Writer’s Chronicle (October/November 2016).
Salesses, Matthew. "Who Is at the Center of the Workshop and Who Should Be?" Pleiades (2015).
Sloan, Christine. "Challenging the Whiteness of MFA Programs: A Year of Confrontations at UW." The Workshop (2016).
Teleky, Richard. “‘Entering the Silence: Voice, Ethnicity, and the Pedagogy of Creative Writing.” MELUS 26.1 (Spring 2001).
Xi, Xu. “Three Commandments for Writing about Race.” Brevity 53. Fall 2016.
Also see: De-Canon: A Visibility Project
Books
Alexander, Will. Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, 1997-2007. Edited by Taylor Brady. Essay Press, 2012.
Ben-Oni, Rosebud, ed. On Poetics, Identity, and Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out. Essay Press. 2017.
Black, Sheila and Bartlett. Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Cinco Puntos Press, 2011.
Bolina, Jaswinder. Of Color: Essays. McSweeney's, 2020.
Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom. Haymarket, 2021. (Forthcoming)
Crushway, Phil and Michael Warr, eds. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. Norton, 2016.
Danticat, Edwidge. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Princeton UP, 2010.
Hill, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle and McCall, Sophie. The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation. ARP, 2015.
Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., Lisa L. Moore, Sharon Bridgeforth, eds. Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project. University of Texas Press, 2010.
Lee, Sherry Quan, ed. How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Modern History Press, 2007.
Licona, Adela C. Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric. SUNY, 2013.
McCullough, Laura, ed. A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race. U of Georgia P, 2015.
Melamed, Jodi. Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism. U of Minnesota P, 2011.
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Vintage, 1992.
Muller, Lauren, and June Jordan. June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. Taylor & Francis, 1995.
Mura, David. A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing. U of Georgia P, 2018.
Oliver, Stephanie Stokes. Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing. Ink 37 (2018).
Park Hong, Cathy. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. One World, 2020.
Peterson, Trace, and TC Tolbert, eds. Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Nightboat, 2013.
Philip, M. NourbeSe. Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture. Mercury P, 1992.
Rankine, Claudia, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap, eds. The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Fence, 2015.
Wang, Dorothy. Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American Poetry. Stanford University Press, 2014.
Ward, Cynthia, and Nisi Shawl. Writing the Other: A Practical Conversation. Aqueduct, 2005.
Ziff, Bruce, ed. Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation. Rutgers UP, 1997.
See also bibliographies available at: De-Canon: A Visibility Project and Conscious Style Guide
Alexander, Will. Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, 1997-2007. Edited by Taylor Brady. Essay Press, 2012.
Ben-Oni, Rosebud, ed. On Poetics, Identity, and Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out. Essay Press. 2017.
Black, Sheila and Bartlett. Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Cinco Puntos Press, 2011.
Bolina, Jaswinder. Of Color: Essays. McSweeney's, 2020.
Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom. Haymarket, 2021. (Forthcoming)
Crushway, Phil and Michael Warr, eds. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. Norton, 2016.
Danticat, Edwidge. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Princeton UP, 2010.
Hill, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle and McCall, Sophie. The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation. ARP, 2015.
Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., Lisa L. Moore, Sharon Bridgeforth, eds. Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project. University of Texas Press, 2010.
Lee, Sherry Quan, ed. How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Modern History Press, 2007.
Licona, Adela C. Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric. SUNY, 2013.
McCullough, Laura, ed. A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race. U of Georgia P, 2015.
Melamed, Jodi. Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism. U of Minnesota P, 2011.
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Vintage, 1992.
Muller, Lauren, and June Jordan. June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. Taylor & Francis, 1995.
Mura, David. A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing. U of Georgia P, 2018.
Oliver, Stephanie Stokes. Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing. Ink 37 (2018).
Park Hong, Cathy. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. One World, 2020.
Peterson, Trace, and TC Tolbert, eds. Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Nightboat, 2013.
Philip, M. NourbeSe. Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture. Mercury P, 1992.
Rankine, Claudia, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap, eds. The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Fence, 2015.
Wang, Dorothy. Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American Poetry. Stanford University Press, 2014.
Ward, Cynthia, and Nisi Shawl. Writing the Other: A Practical Conversation. Aqueduct, 2005.
Ziff, Bruce, ed. Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation. Rutgers UP, 1997.
See also bibliographies available at: De-Canon: A Visibility Project and Conscious Style Guide
More Reading Lists
Ibram X. Kendi's "An Antiracist Reading List" (New York Times, May 2019).
Decolonization Reading List
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
List of Antiracist Resources
Decolonization Reading List
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
List of Antiracist Resources
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