I highly recommend making a Spotify playlist from your “Harlem Shuffle” series. Did it for my novel “Harlem Mosaics,” and there is a good one of Kerouac‘s “On the Road” on Spotify already. I also put one together for Amira Baraka‘s “Wise, Why’s, Y’s” as well. Adds a dimension to the text.

Hart Crane has these in the first three sections of his long poem
“The Bridge.” I always found them fascinating especially given the musicality of poetry. How do these pull quotes “sound” within the rest of the poem’s music?

They really showed their ass.

Attend and organize protests. As an American living in Germany, I can say that Europe really needs to see a large opposition to Trump from the American people, or they will assume Americans are mostly all in step.

I would also urge people to run for office locally. If I still lived/worked in the US, although I have never wanted to get into politics professionally, I would feel compelled to run for some sort of office right now, or at least join with community activists working local politics.

Some great choices here. I would add: for fiction (1) Ishmael Reed, “Flight to Canada” or Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Sower”; (2) Poetry, Amira Baraka, Sonia Sanchez and Langston Hughes; (3) Political Theory, “Black Power” by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton; (4) Essays, James Baldwin

Can I recommend my own novel about Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, “Harlem Mosaics”? Publishers Weekly called it “a delight
.” multicanon.com/harlemmosaic...

Fortunately he doesn’t seem to have had much of an effect

No doubt; it is very unsettling being an American in Germany (teaching American Studies no less!) right now. Especially since I side with Europe.