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Racial Reading Suggestions
300 Years of Black Poverty Lomax, Alan/ Abdul, Raoul
A Class Divided: Then and Now Peters, William
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America Shipler, David
A Slaver's Log Book Conneau, Theophilus
Affirmative Discrimination Glazer, Nathan
Africa in History Davidson, Basil
African American Research Persepectives Taylor, Robert Joseph
African Genesis Ardrey, Robert
African Heritage Drachler, Jacob
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn MeRound: The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South Couto, Richard
And We Are Not Saved:The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice Bell, Derrick
Asian Americans Lee, Joann Faung Jean
Before the Mayflower A History of the Negro in America Bennett, Lerone
Black America Ernst, Robert/Hugg, Lawrence
Black Power U.S.A. Bennett, Lerone
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Brown, Dee
Caucasians Only Vose, Clement
Chavez, man of migrants Pitrone, Jean Maddern
Chicano!: The History of the MexicanAmerican Civil Rights Movement Rosales, Francisco
Class and Race in the United States Allyn and Bacon
Color And Race Franklin, John H.
Confrontation: Black and White Bennett, Lerone
Confronting Diversity Issues Bowster, B. / Auletta, G. / Jones, T.
Cracks in the Melting Pot Steinfeld, Melvin
Creek Mary's Blood Brown, Dee
Crisis in Black and White Siberman, Charles
Dynamics of Ethnic Identity Jae Hyup Lee
Frederick Douglas Quarles, Benjamin
From Slavery to Freedom Franklin, John Hope
Ghetto Revolts Rossi, Peter H.
Growing Up Puerto Rican: An Anthology De Jesus, Joy 
Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics,and the Constructing of Identity Fox, Geoffrey
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
If Not Now, When? Pantell, Dora/Greenidge, Edwin
Illegal But Not Criminal Conklin, John
Indian Givers-How the Indians of the America's Transformed the World Weatherford, Jack
Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph
La Vida Lewis, Oscar
Lakota Woman Dog, Mary Crow
Life in a Mexican Village Lewis, Oscar
Mexican Americans in Transition Choldin, Harvey M./ Trout, Grafton D.
Native American Testimony Nabokov, Peter
Neither Black nor White Degler, Carl N.
Polite Lies: On Being aWoman Caught Between Cultures Mori, Kyoko
Race and Ethnic Relationsin America McLemore, S. Dale
Race, Class, and Power Mack, R.
Racism Leinwand, Gerald
Slave & Citizen Tannenbaum, Frank
Social Stratification In The United States Cuber,John/Kenkel, William
Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson Genet, Jean
Soul on Ice Cleaver, Eldridge
Stranger to These Shores Parillo, Vincent
The Algiers Motel Incident Hersey, John
The American Indian: Past and Present Nichols, Roger/ Adams, George
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Haley, Alex
The Battle of The 1,000 Slain Porter, C. Fayne
The Black Man's Burden Morel, E.D.
The Black Muslim in America Lincoln, C. Eric
The Black Panthers Shames, Stephen/ Jones, Charles
The Chicanos Mexican American Voices
The Color Purple Walker, Alice
The Content of Our Character Steele, Shelby
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Cruse, Harold
The Gift of Black Folk Burghardt, W.E.
The Hispanic 100 Novas, Himilce
The Hispanic Almanac Kanellos, Nicolas
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick
The Negro in the Making of America Quarles, Benjamin
The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W.E.B.
To Kill A Black Man Lomax, Louis E.
Twice a Minority- Mexican American Women Melville, Margarita B.
Uncle Tom's Children Wright, Richard
Uprooting Racism:How White People Can Work for Racial Justice  Kivel, Paul
Whitewashing Race:The Myth of a Color-Blind Society Brown, Michael K.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now Angelou, Maya
YELL-Oh Girls! Nam, Vickie

 

 
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