“Readings for Now” Seminar #6: The Question of Reparation (with Ellena Basada)

Texts for discussion (click to view):

Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations," The Atlantic, June 2014

Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, "Paranoid and Reparative Reading," in Touching Feeling (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002), 123-153

Naomi Zack, "Reparations and the Rectification of Race," The Journal of Ethics 7 (2003): 139-151

Jackie Wang, "Against Innocence," LIES: A Journal of Materialist Feminism 1 (2012): accessed 21 July 2020

Saidiya Hartman, "The Dead Book Revisited," History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History 6: no. 2 (Fall 2016): 208-215

Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton, "The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy," Social Identities 9, no. 2 (2003): accessed 21 July 2020