Week 4:  Fugitive Pedagogies

February 19

Jarvis R. Givens, “Introduction,” in Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press: 2021)

Danica Savonick, “Introduction” and “June Jordan’s Public and Project-Based Pedagogy,” in Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (Duke University Press: 2024)

Spend some time looking at the “CUNY Pedagogy Series,” with digitized archival and teaching materials from June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Toni Cade Bambara, and Audre Lorde. Select at least one source to bring in to seminar. 

Mark Nowak, “A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop: Watts, New York City, Attica,” in Social Poetics (Coffee House Press: 2020) **focus on chapter 2!

Elleza Kelley, “Roofscapes: Narrative Geographies of Fugitive Praxis,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (2023)

Shannon Mattern, “Fugitive Libraries,” Places Journal (2019)

Browse some of these library  projects:

• Deeply Rooted: The Library Series (Norway)
• The Reefat Mobile Library
  
• Libraries of Matter
  
• Occupy People’s Library
  
• Daniel Weaver,  “On Encampment Libraries” 
  
• Library of Study (Brooklyn)
• Interspecies Library (Brooklyn)
• Seed Biblioteek (South Africa)
• Ziemniaki Potato Library (Warsaw)
  

Additional readings:

Sheldon Wolin, Fugitive Democracy (Princeton: 2015) (part 3 or 5)