African American Experience Mumia Abu-Jamal Live From Death Row Maya Angelou  And Still I Rise James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son Derrick Bell Faces at the Bottom of the Well Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters Bebe Moore Campbell Your Blue Eyes Ain’t Like Mine Abraham Chapman Black Voices: An Anthology of African American Literature Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice Angela Davis Women, Race and Class Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk Ralph Ellison Invisible Man Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Robert Hemenway Zora Neale Hurston Billie Holiday Lady Sing the Blues bell hooks Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism Zora Neale Hurston Jonah’s Gourd Vine Langston Hughes General Works Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Edward Jones The Known World Jamaica Kincaid Annie John Alex Kotlowitz There Are No Children Here Audre Lorde Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Paule Marshall Brown Girl, Brown Stones Nathan McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler Toni Morrison Tar Baby Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place Kesho Scott The Habit of Surviving Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf Taigi Smith Sometimes Rhythm, Sometimes Blues: Young African Americans on Love, Relationships, Sex, and the Search for Mr. Right Barbara Smith Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology Ronald Suskind  A Hope in the Unseen Alice Walker In Search of Her Mother’s Garden Richard Wright Uncle Tom’s Children Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X

 Asian American/Pacific Islander Experience Asian Women United Making Waves: An Anthology Peter Bacho Cebu Carlos Bulosan America Is in the Heart Marilyn Chin Dwarf Bamboo Shusaku Endo Silence David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars Jessica Hagedorn Gangster of Love Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior Yuji Ichioka The Issei Gish Jen Chinese American, Typical American Richard E. Kim Last Names Lilikala Kamaelehiwa Native Land, Native Rights Akemi Kikumura Through Harsh Winters Joy Kogawa Obason Li-Yong Lee The City in Which I Love You R. Zamora Linmark Rolling the R’s Jeffrey A. McNeely and Paul S. Sochaczewski Soul of the Tiger Bharati Mukherjee Darkness David Mura Turning Japanese Milton Murayama All I’m Asking for Is My Body Vickie Nam YELL-Oh Girls! Gary Y. Okihiro Cane Fires Chang Rae Lee Native Speaker Kim Ronyoung Clay Walls Sonia Shah (ed.) Dragon Ladies Breathe Fire Monica Sone Nisei Daughter Paul Spickard  Japanese Americans: The Formation and Tranformations of an Ethnic Group Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali Ronald Takaki Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife Haunani-Kay Trask From a Native Daughter V.S. Naipaul India: A Million Mutinies Jeanne Wakatsuki Houseon and James Houston Farewell to Manzanar Shawn Wong American Knees

 Caucasian/White Experience Much of American literature features novels about the Caucasian experience.  
The following readings provide a more analytical look at racial identity.   Chris Crass  Beyond the Whiteness: Essays on Grassroots Anti-Racist Organizing Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror Paul Kivel Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice George Lipsitz The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics Paula Rothenberg White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism Becky Thompson A Promise and a Way of Life: White Anti-Racist Activism Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry Brod  White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories

 Chicano/Chicana/Latino/Latina Experience Adalberto Joel Acosta From Common Clay Miguel Algarin Time Is Now Isabel Allende The Stories of Eva Luna Gloria Anzaldua Borderlands/La Frontera Toni Cade Bambara Gorilla, My Love Nash Candelaria Inheritance of Strangers Ana Castillo So Far from God Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street Angela De Hoyos Woman, Woman Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic  The Latino/a Condition Buchi Emecheta Second Class Citizen Carlos Fuentes The Old Gringo Alma Gomez, Cherrie Moraga, and Mariana Romo-Carmona Cuentos: Stories by Latinas Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Graciela Limon Memories of Ana Calderon Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude Rigoberta Menchu I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Nicholosa Mohr El Bronx Remembered Michelle Herrera Mulligan and Robyn Moreno Border-line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting Alejandro Moralea Barrio on the Edge Octavio Paz Collected Poems of Octavio Paz Alvina Quintana Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices Alberto Rios Five Indiscretions: A Book of Poems Luis Rodriguez Always Running: LA Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Richard Rodriguez Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father Richard Rodriguez  Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Piri Thomas Down These Mean Streets Evangelina Vigil Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Women Write Marcia Yarmus The Hispanic World of John Steinbeck

 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Experiences James Baldwin Giovanni’s Room Evelyn Torton Beck Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaw Rita Mae Brown Rubyfruit Jungle Georgia Cotrell Shoulders Martin Duberman Stonewall Larry Duplechan Blackbird Lilian Faderman Chloe Plus Olivia Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues E.M. Forster Maurice Aaron Fricke Reflections of a Rock Lobster Judy Grahn Another Mother Tongue James Earl Hardy B-Boy Blues E. Lynn Harris Invisible Life Kevin Jennings Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students June Jordan Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays of June Jordan Moisés Kaufman The Laramie Project Jackie Kay Trumpet Jamaica Kincaid Lucy Tony Kushner Angels in America David Leavitt The Lost Language of Cranes Audre Lorde Sister Outsider Armistead Maupin Tales of the City (series) Eric Marcus Is It a Choice? Diane Middlebrook Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton Paul Monette Becoming a Man Claire Morgan The Price of Salt Joan Nestle A Restricted Country Leslea Newman A Letter to Harvey Milk Suzanne Pharr Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism Richard Plant The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Sarah Schulman People in Trouble Carla Trujillo Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About Patricia Nell Warren The Front Runner Bett Williams Girl Walking Backwards Virginia Woolf Orlando

 Multicultural & Cross-Cultural Experiences Elenore Smith Bowen Return to Laughter Jimmy Santiago Baca Black Mesa Poems G. Reginald Daniels  More Than Black?: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order Daniela Gioseffi On Prejudice Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Adrienne Rich Dark Fields of the Republic Alan Archer Stephens White River Poems Ronald Takaki  A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki  A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices Robert W. Terry For Whites Only MitsuyeYamada Sowing TI Leaves: Writings by Multicultural Women

 Native American Experience Gretchen Bataille American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives Nicholas Black Elk  Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux Forrest Carter The Education of Little Tree Joy Harjo She Had Some Horses David Jones Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees Nancy O. Lurie Mountain-Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder Kathleen Mullen Sands Telling Their Lives John Neihardt Black Elk Speaks Kent Nerburn  Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder Alfonso Ortiz The Tewa World Vicki Rozema Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation Leslie Silko Ceremony Irene Stewart A Navajo Woman’s Own Story Mary Tall Mountain A Quick Brush of Wings

 Experiences with Religion & Spirituality Yekeda Amichai A Life of Poetry Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Carlo Ginzburg The Cheese and the Worms Anne Lamott  Traveling Mercies Stanford Lyman  Essential Readings on Jewish Identities, Lifestyles and Beliefs Bernard Malamud The Assistant Caroline Myss  Sacred Contracts Caroline Myss  Invisible Acts of Power Robert Nash  Spirituality, Ethics, Religion, and Teaching: A Professor’s Journey Kent Nerburn  The Wisdom of Native Americans Chaim Potok The Chosen Sogyah Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Henry Roth Call it Sleep Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Anya Paul S. Seaver Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London Isaac Bashevis Singer Shosha Huston Smith The World’s Religion Paul Spickard  The Global History of Christians Leon Uris Exodus Brian Weiss Many Lives, Many Masters Elie Wiesel Night Herman Wouk Inside, Outside: A Novel Anzia Yezierska Bread Givers

 Women’s Experience Dorothy Allison Bastard out of Carolina Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale Tracy Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring Lucille Clifton Quilting: Poems 1987–1990 Johnnetta Cole All-American Women: Lines That Divide, Ties That Bind Mary Daly Gyn/Ecology Nawal El Sadawi Woman at Point Zero Cynthia Enloe Bananas, Beaches & Bases Eve Ensler The Vagina Monologues Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Marilyn French The Women’s Room Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power Mary Gordon Final Payments Jessica Hagedorn Dogeaters Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God Jamaica Kincaid Annie John Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior Noretta Koetge Valley of the Amazons Anne Lamott  Operating Instructions:  A Journal of My Son’s First Year Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook Grace Metalious Peyton Place Chandra Mohanty, Anna Russo, and Lourdes Torres Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism Anne Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi Cherrie Moraga Loving in the War Years Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time Janice Radway Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson Powers of Desire Patrick White The Cockatoos Patricia Williams The Alchemy of Race and Rights Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth Cathy Young Ceasefire!

 Men’s Experience Much of American literature features novels about the male experience. The following readings provide a more analytical look at gender and male identity.   Gary Brooks A New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men Susan Faludi Stiffed Richard Hawley Boys Will Be Men: Masculinity in Troubled Times Jackson Katz  Why Men Hurt Women Jackson Katz  More Than a Few Good Men Sam Keen Fire in the Belly Paul Kivel Boys Will be Men Paul Kivel Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart Ronald Levant Masculinity Reconstructed Ronald Levant and William S. Pollack A New Psychology of Men Robert L. Moore and Douglas Gillette King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Sam Osherson Wrestling with Love William Pollack Real Boys: Rescuing Our Boys from the Myths of Boyhood Terrence Real I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Gail Sheehy Understanding Men’s Passages Lionel Tiger The Decline of Males Bernie Zilbergeld The New Male Sexuality