Subversive and satirical contemporary African-American stories

📚 About our sessions
Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.

📖 About this session
This week we are hearing different voices from contemporary African-American literature that share subversive and satirical views about race, oppression, assimilation, and cultural appropriation. For this session, we will discuss the following stories:

🎵🛻🟥⚔️🟦 The Appropriation of Cultures - Percival Everett (2004, Damned if I Do) (2700 words)
🪚👮🤢😡 The Finkelstein 5 - Nana Kwame-Adjei Brenyah (2018, Friday Black) (7500 words) [NOTE: This story contains descriptions of episodes of extreme violence.]
✉️🏫😒 Belle Lettres - Nafissa Thompson-Spires (2018, Heads of the Colored People) (3700 words)

After the discussion, feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕