... motivated to cause change. Currently, though, there’s an abundance of knowledge, and of media, about how fucked up the world is. A variety of texts—memes on “Weird Facebook,” Claudia Rankine’s Citizen , and journalism about Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket —register frustration with assumptions that the...

... minoritarian knowledge. Recently I taught Claudia Rankine’s Citizen before introducing my students to Theresa Cha’s Dictée . Both books of poetry are theoretically informed and complex. Many of the students (who primarily identified as students of color) initially found Cha’s book too obtuse and...