The Myth, The Legend, The Truth:  A Study of American Minorities


Suggested Reading List

General

 

Bernardi, Daniel, Editor.  The Birth of Whiteness; Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1996

 

Clark, Carol. L.A. Stories: The Voices of Cultural Diversity, Ottesen, Intercultural Press, 1993, Garmouth, ME.  (RLC - PS 572.L6.C3)  Essays written by African American,  Latino American, Asian American, & Native American students

 

Dorfman, Ariel;  The Empire's Old Clothes:  What the Lone Ranger, Baber, and other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds,  New York:  Pantheon, 1983  (BH - PN 56. P55 D66 1983)

 

Gonzales,  Alberto, Marsha Houston, Victoria Chen, Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity & Communication: CA, Roxbury Publishing Co. 1994.  (KC)

 

Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer;  Voices of Freedom: an Oral History of the Civil Rights Movements from the 1950s through the 1980s,  (RL - E185.61 .H224 1990)

 

Jacobson, Matthew Frye.  Whiteness of a Different Color; European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race,Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998.

 

Kozal, J.;  Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, N.Y: Crown Publishing.  (RL - LC 409.K69 1991)

 

Miller, Randall; The Kaleidoscopic Lens:  How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups,.

Nielsen, Aldon L.; Writing between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality.  Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1994.

 

Rothenberg, Paula S.. Race, Class and Gender in the U.S.: An Integrated Study,

Storti, Craig.  Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters W/ Cultural Difference, (KC)

 

The "Racial" Economy of Science:  Toward a Democratic Future, Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, c1993.


 NATIVE AMERICAN

 

Bataille, Gretchen and Charles Silet;  The Pretend Indians,


Crow Dog, Mary, Lakota Woman, Harper Perennial.  (RL - E 99. D1 C833)


Deloria Jr, Vine  Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto,.  (RL - E 467.1 C99 D37)


Ehle, John; Trail of Tears:  The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation, (RL - E99 .C5 E45 1989)


Fire, John;  Lame Deer Seeker of Visions  (RL - E 99. T34)


Frederkc, Tur; The Portable North American-Indian Reader, (RL - E 77 T 937)


Friar, Ralph and Natasha;  The Only Good Indian: The Hollywood Gospel,


Gilbert, Bill; God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War,.  (BH  - E99 .535 T147 1989)


Heinerman, John;  Spiritual Wisdom of the Native Americans,


Hilger, Michael,  The American Indian in Film,


Hirschfelder, Arlene;  Happily May I Walk: American Indians and Alaska Natives Today,.


Hogan, Linda:  Mean Spirit


Josephy, Alvin Jr; Now that the Buffalo's Gone:  A Study of Today's American Indian,. (BH, EC, NL, MV)


Katz, Jane; I am the Fire of Time:  The Voices of Native American Women, (BH , EC - E98.W812 1977)


Mails, Thomas E. Fools Crow, Council Oak Books  (MV, EC)


Momaday, N. Scott, House Made of Dawn, N.Y. Harper.  (RL - PS 3563.47 H6)


Momaday, N. Scott, The Way to Rainy Mountain,


Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks The Legendary "Book of Visions" of an American Indian


Niethammer, Carolyn;  Daughters of the Earth: the Lives and Legends of American Indian Women,.  (RL - E98 .W8 N53)


O'Brien, Sharon;  American Indian Tribal Governments,


Sarris, Greg,  Grand Avenue


Sarris, Greg,  Mabel McKay; Weaving the Dream, 1994


Seals, David;  The Powwow Highway,


Silko, Leslie, Ceremony


Trenton, Patricia;  Native Americans:  Four Centuries of Changing Images, (EC - E59 .P89 T74 1989)


Vecsey, Christopher; Imagine Ourselves Richly:  Mythic Narratives of the North American Indians, (BH - E98.R3 V43 1988)

 

Walters, Anna Lee; The Spirit of Native America:  Beauty and Mysticism in American Indian Art, (BH - E98.R A7 W32)

 

Weatherford, Jack  Indian Giver, How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, (RL - E59. I53 W43 1990)


Welch, James;  Fools Crow


 HISPANIC/LATINO AMERICAN

 

Anaya, Rudolfo Bless Me, Ultima,


Anzaldua, Gloria:  Borderlands/LaFrontera: The New Mestiza,  San Francisco:  Spinster/Aunt Lute Book Co. (BH, NL, EC - PS 3551.N93 B6)

 

Barrio, Raymond;  The Plum Plum Pickers


Belpre, Pure; Once in Puerto Rico,


Bethancourt, Ernesto;  The Me Inside of Me,


Castillo Ana;  So Far From God,  New York, Plume, 1994 ( BHC - PS 3553. A8135 S65 1994


Cisneros, Sandra;  House on Mango Street..  (RL - PS 3553.I78 H6)


Condon, John;  Good Neighbors,.  (RL - F1210.C6)


Del Castillo, Richard;  La Familia:  Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest 1848 to present,.  (EC - F790. M5 G75 1984)

 

Garcia, Mario; Mexican Americans:  Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, (RL - E184 .M5 G375 1989)


Growing up Latino:  Memories & Stories,   (RL - PS 647 .H58 G76 1993)


Hispanic USA :  Breaking the Melting Pot,  Thomas, Weyr (RL - E184.S75 W45 1988)


Jankowski; Martin Sanchez; City Bound:  Urban Life and Political Attitudes among Chicano Youth,


Keefe, Susan and Amado Padillo Chicano Ethnicity, (MV, NL - E184 .M5 K43)


Llerena, Rafael and Lorin Philipson; Freedom Flights,


Martinez, Oscar; Troublesome Border, (EC - F786.M42 1988)


Masud-Piloto, Roberto; With Open Arms:  Cuban Migration to the United States:


Mexican Voices/American Dreams: An Oral History of Mexican Immigration to the U.S.


Mirande, Alfredo and Evangelina Eriquez La Chicana:  The Mexican-American Woman, (RL - E184 .M5   M55)


Mirande, Alfredo; Gringo Justice, (MV, NL - HV9950. M57 1987)


Mirande, Alfredo; The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective, (EC - E184. M5 . M553 1985)


 NY: Henry Holt & Co., Inc.  (RL - E184.M5 D28)

 

Olivas, Michael et al Latino College Students, (EC, BH, CV, EF, MV)


Paz, Octavio:  The Labyrinth of Solitude.


Portes, Alejandro and Robert Bach;   Latino Journey:  Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States,


Rodriguez,  Richard; Hunger of Memory, (RL - F 870.M5 R62)


Rodriguez, Clara; Puerto Ricans Born in the USA, (RL - E184 .P85 R59 1991)


Thomas, Piri;  Down these Mean Streets
 
  AFRICAN-AMERICAN

 

Abrahams, R.D. ;  Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia N.Y., Columbia University Press 1970.  (not in district)

 

Angelou, Maya; The Heart of a Woman, 1st ed., New York:  Random House, c1981.


Baldwin, James;  The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 1st ed., New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1985.


Baldwin, James;. Go Tell It on the Mountain, 1st ed., New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.


Bates, Daisy; The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoire, (RL - F419 .L7 .B3 1962)


Bell, Derrick A.;  And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice, New York:  Basic Books, 1989

 

Branch, Taylor; Parting the Waters:  America in the King Years 1954-63, (RL - E185 . 61. B7914 1988)


Douglas, Frederick;  My Bondage and My Freedom


DuBois, W.E. B;   The Souls of Black Folk,.


Ely, Melvin Patrick: The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy:  A Social History of an American Phenomenon


Farmer, James;  Lay Bare the Heart:  An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement, (NL, CV, EC, BH)


Franklin, John Hope and  Alfred Moss Jr.;  From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans


Franklin, John Hope and August Meier Black Leaders of the 21st Century,


Frazier, E. Franklin;  Black Bourgeoisis:  The Emergence of a New Middle Class in America


Gay, Geneve and Willie Baber;  Expressively Black:  The Cultural Basis of Ethnic Identity,


Gould, Stephen Jay;  The Mismeasure of Man,   W.W. Norton and Co., 1981


Haley, Alex;  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

 

Hooks, Bell.  Black Looks : Race and Representation, Boston, MA:  South End Press, c1992.


Hooks, Bell.  Bone Black : Memories of Girlhood, 1st ed., New York:  Henry Holt and Co., 1996.


Hooks, Bell.  Killing Rage : Ending Racism, 1st ed., New York : H. Holt and Co., 1995


Hughes, Langston, Milton Meltzer, and Eric Lincoln;  Four Centuries of Black Life:  African American History,


Hunter-Gualt, Charlayne.  In My Place, 1st ed., New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.


Jackson, George;  Black Women Makers of History:  A Portrait,.  (BH - E185.96.J25 1985)


Jacob, Harriet;  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

 

King, Martin Luther, Jr. King, Malcolm, Baldwin :  Three Interviews


Kochman, Thomas; Black & White Styles in Conflict, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983.


Litwack, Leon and August Meier Black Leaders of the 19th Century, (RL - E185.96.B535 1988)


Morrison, Tony; Beloved,  (RL PS3563 .O8749 .B4 1988b)


Morrison, Tony; Song of Solomon


Reynolds, Barbara; And We Still Rise:  Interviews with 50 Black Role Models,


Snowden Jr, Frank N.; .Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient Views of Blacks,


Wade, Brent. Company Man. New York: Doubleday, 1992.


Washington, Booker T.;  Up From Slavery


West, Cornel;  Race Matters,  NY. Vintage Books, 1994.  (RL - E 185.615.W43 1993)


Williams, Gregory Howard;  Life on the Color Line,


Woodson, Carter G.;  The Mis-Education of the Negro.


Wright, Richard;  Black Boy

 

ASIAN-AMERICAN

 

Chin, Frank;  Donald Duk, EC - PS 3553 .H4897 D6 1991


Cordova, Fred;  Filipinos:  Forgotten Asian Americans,


Hamanaka, Sheila;  The Journey,


Hayslip, Le Lay;  When Heaven and Earth Changed Places:  A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace


Hongo, Garrett Kaoru,  Under Western Eyes, New York, Anchor Books, 1995 (MVC - E 184 .06 U47 1995)


Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston Farewell to Manzanar, (RL - E184.J3 H63)


Kadokata, C. ;  The Floating World, , New Y: Viking, 1989


Kingston, Maxine Hong;  Chinaman


Kingston, Maxine Hong;  Tripmaster Monkey


Kingston, Maxine Hong;  The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, (RL - E 184.C5 K51)


Kogama, Joy;  Itsuka


Kogama, Joy;  Obasan,


Lum McCunn, Ruthanne;  Thousand Pieces of Gold


Mura, David ; Where the Body Meets Memory,


Mura, David;  Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, (ECC - E 184 J3 M784 1992)


Ng, F.M. ;  Bone,  New York: Hyperion/Pullman, Wash. St. Univ. Press  (BH, EC, MV)


Okada, J.;   No-No Boy,  Seattle: U. of Wash. Press 1981, (BHC, MVC, ECC - PS 3565 .K33 N6 1981.)


Sone, M.  Nisei Daughter,  Seattle: U. of Wash Press 1979  (not in district)


Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry;  The Chinese Experience in America,. (RL - E184.C5 T833 1986)

 

Uchida, Yoshiko Desert Exile, The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family, (EF - D769 . 8 A6 U25 1982)


Uyemoto, Holly,  Go,


Wei, Katherine Second Daughter, (MV - CT 1828 .W435 A37 1984)


Wong, J.S.;   Fifth Chinese Daughter, (NL - NK 4210 .W55 A45 1950)

 

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