Black History Binge Blog. So you want to go to Princeton Reading List

It's college admissions season, that spell of uncertainty between application submissions and letters from Admissions offices. For reasons RantWoman does not want to specify, RantWoman is spending the interval in time warp, thinking back to her time at Princeton, forward to today, and landing on many different moments.

RantWoman remembers arriving on campus as a freshman meeting person after person whose image of Princeton was F. Scott Fitsgerald, This side of Paradise. RantWoman did finally, after graduation, read This Side of Paradise, under somewhat un-Princetonian conditions. RantWoman's other memory of arriving on campus is about slavery. Freshman year RantWoman lived with two other women in a 3-room suite. In the 19th century this dorm room would have been used by a Princeton man and his slave. RantWoman has not deeply fact-checked this lore but she has been told the custom was that slaves were freed upon the Princeton man's graduation. To say the least, RantWoman had no idea what to make of this lore as a fresh-faced freshman from MT, from a large high school with but a handful of African American students.

RantWoman realizes this is an eccentric time to post a reading list by authors from RantWoman's era in college, but the following list of authors muddled out of RantWoman's head. Several of the authors have specific connections to Black History Month. A couple RantWoman just tossed in without enough contact with their work to have an opinion.

Michelle Obama

Laurence O Graham

Yuval Taylor

Douglas Rushkoff

Walter Kirn

Geerat Vermeij: Privileged Hands (not from RantWoman's era but on her mean to read list.)

Happy reading!