20th c. Canon from Columbia Core Curriculum (Apr 2024)

Literature Humanities:

Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Morrison, Song of Solomon
Rankine, Citizen (actually, 2014, 21st century)

Contemporary Civilization:

Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, “Of the Culture of White Folk” 

ANTICOLONIALISM
- Gandhi, “Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule” 
- Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Arendt, Crises of the Republic
Foucault, Discipline and Punish

RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
- Fields, “Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America” *
- Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” 
- Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” *
- Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother *

CLIMATE AND FUTURES
- Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses” *
- Whyte, “Is It Colonial Déjà Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice" *