Some pre-approved Books for 2265
Book assignment is first-come, first-served.
Send your first and second choices to me at
kathrynkemp@clayton.edu
[If this link does not work, copy/paste the address into an email and send.]
If you propose a book not on the list, please submit a second choice as well.
Be sure to include the author's name in your message.Updated Tuesday, 12. July 2011 04:03 PM
Author Title Reader Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Ambrose Crazy Horse and Custer Angelou I Know why the Caged Bird Sings Austin Ball Slaves in the Family* Benedict No Bone Unturned Berry The Pig Farmer's Daughter Blackmon Slavery By another Name Bolton Hadacol Days (new) Brown, D Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Smith, R. Brown, S Standing Against Dragons Bayars Separate Fountains Carter An Hour Before Daylight* Cather My Antonia Cisneros Caramelo Clarke Dwelling Place Cooper Wake of the Wind Cronon Changes in the Land Current Those Terrible Carpetbaggers DuBois Souls of Black Folk [Only for experienced students.] Ehle Trail of Tears Ellison Invisible Man Equiano True Narrative….. Gaines Bloodline Garrow Bearing the Cross Gault In My Place Greene Praying for Sheetrock* Greene The Temple Bombing Griffin Black Like Me Gruenewald Looking Like the Enemy Dobson, M. Halberstam The Children Height Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir Haley Autobiography of Malcolm X* Hong The Woman Warrior Hughes The Ways of White Folks Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God Jacob Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jackson A Century of Dishonor Jenkins The Real All Americans...* Johnson Black Wall Street Abdul-Azeez Johnson Autobiography of an Ex-colored man Crittondon Jordan Vernon Can Read Krech The Ecological Indian King Why We Can't Wait Lewis Walking with the Wind Li Journey Across the Four Seas Lumpkin Making of a Southerner* Martinez Crossing Over: A Mexican Family…Migrant… Garcia Matte They Say the Wind is Red McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler: ...Young Black Man in America Williams, G McLaurin Separate Pasts* Momaday House Made of Dawn Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi* Anderson, T. Morrison The Bluest Eye* Brown, R. Moses Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights Murayama All I Asking for is My Body Nestle, et. al Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary Nerburn Neither Wolf No Dog* Nichols The Milagro Beanfield War Parson From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights Philbrick The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, ...Little Bighorn. Nair Pomerantz Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn* Puleo The Boston Irish Quarles The Negro in the Making of America Ray Ecology of a Cracker Childhood* Roark Black Masters* Rodriguez, R. Hunger of Memory Roth The Human Stain Rothenburg White Privilege Sinclair The Jungle Tan The Joy Luck Club Tannenbaum Slave and Citizen Taulbert Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson Lidrbauch Utley The Lance & the Shield: the Life ... of Sitting Bull* Vollers Ghosts of Mississippi Nickson Wakin Enter the Irish-American Walker The Color Purple Welty One Writer's Beginnings Wienck The Hairstons Williams, E Capitalism and Slavery Williams, W "Dear Senator" [re:] ... Daughter of Strom Thurmond Woodson The Miseducation of the Negro Woodward Strange Career of Jim Crow* Wright Native Son Zellner The Wrong Side of Murder Creek* (new) * A special favorite--they are all worthwhile, but these are a few that I found particularly enjoyable or interesting. I'm interested in adding books on immigrant groups in general and on Asians in particular. Suggestions are welcome!
