Race and Climate Reading Group

...entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene.

The Cooper Union Library is thrilled to continue its partnership with the Race and Climate Change Reading Group by providing access to the titles chosen and a space for everyone to meet.

See you soon! 

Readings for Fall 2021

Friday, October 8th — 11:AM to 1:00 PM (EST)

• “Seven Birthdays” by Ken Liu 

• “Haven” by Karen Lord

Friday, November 5th — 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EST)  

• Selections from Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick 

Friday, December 3rd — 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EST) 

• Poems from A Fortune for your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib 

• Poems from The Tradition by Jericho Brown 

• Poems from Black Nature, edited by Camille T. Dungy 

Readings from Spring 2021 

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Spill by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Readings from Fall 2020  

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson

Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick

Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Bruce Erickson, et al.

Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway.