Texts:

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

---, "The Black Writer and the Southern Experience"

---, "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self"

---, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"

Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat"

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

Wendell Berry, That Distant Land

---, "Preserving Wildness"

---, The Bringer of Water

Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.o."

---, "Where is the Voice Coming From?"

Flannery O'Connor, "Revelation"

Gloria Anzaldúa