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Research has shown that the general act of writing by hand can promote quite a few physical and mental benefits, fr

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

Black Youth Rising: Activism and Radical Healing in Urban America by Shawn Ginwright

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhart, 

“Knowledge consumption and knowledge creation are not separate but parallel processes, as knowledge is co-constructed, contextualized, cumulative, iterative, and recursive.”

Why would I choose these texts before even meeting the students and understanding their needs? Is there a better way to allow students multiple points of entry to a course? Can I use free online readings instead? Recommended print books? And only require students buy materials those students see as having value beyond a single semester?

inclusive access

But, increasingly, commercial textbook companies are confusing the movement by pushing high-cost digital alternatives to textbooks. Students are offered limited licenses to these books and so they are, in a sense, only renting access to a digital file that is much less flexible than a print book.

Textbooks are a social justice issue.

Open texts are undoubtedly public, but they are far from finished products. And this is a good thing.

The ever-changing and delightfully imperfect character of these open texts inspires future learning opportunities, blurs the boundaries between discrete classes, builds a broader sense of intellectual community amongst students, and calls instructors and students to embrace the messiness of learning.

Indeed, as Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani write, “[t]hough students may be beginners with most of the content in your course, they are often more adept than you at understanding what beginning students need in order to understand the material.”

An ever-proliferating phenomenon, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature is far from a completed, perfected, “public product.” In many ways, it has only just begun.

as conversations that build and become more complex each year.

To utilize open texts is to invite students into the challenging and often thorny process of knowledge-production

they committed the cardinal sin of citing information from Wikipedia?

I say “radical”