![]() The Source of Self-Regard, available February 12, does not begin with a foreword explaining the editor’s selection criteria or providing summaries of each entry. The Source of Self Regard is an elegant collection of Morrison’s writings that is especially engaging for those who know her primarily as a novelist. What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction), While it includes previously published material (with some pieces that appeared in her 2008 volume ![]() Spanning four decades, this is a prophetic volume that is unsettling in its continued relevance. ![]() The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison offers a one-woman syllabus for our time. Subsequent hashtag syllabus campaigns such as #CharlestonSyllabus and #BlackPantherSyllabus included crowdsourced lists of books, articles and blog posts by numerous authors. This Twitter hashtag became an online space for resources on African American history, civil rights and policing as well as suggestions on how to address these events in classrooms. Following protests in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, Georgetown professor Marcia Chatelain created #FergusonSyllabus. ![]()
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