People Of Color Reading List

Submitted by grlprpl19 on Fri, 11/24/2006 - 10:46
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  1. The Autobiography of Malcom X: As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X, Alex Haley (AutoBio/Memoir)
  2. Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara - Jorge G. Castaneda
  3. anything written by Edward Said
  4. House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
  5. Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
  6. Black Boy - Richard Wright
  7. Native Son - Richard Wright
  8. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
  9. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
  10. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  11. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  12. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  13. The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart - Alice Walker
  14. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - Alice Walker
  15. Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center And Pentagon - Alice Walker
  16. Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
  17. Sula - Toni Morrison
  18. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  19. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (AutoBio/Memoir)
  20. Dreaming In Cuban - Cristina Garcia
  21. Persepolis (1&2)- Marjane Satrapi (AutoBio/Memoir)
  22. The Power of One - Bryce Courteney
  23. Tandia - Bryce Courteney
  24. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology - Natalie Handal
  25. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua
  26. Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. - Luis J. Rodriguez (AutoBio/Memoir)
  27. Death Blosoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience - Mumia Abu-Jamal
  28. Live From Death Row - Mumia Abu-Jamal
  29. Our World is Our Weapon - Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
  30. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zin
  31. Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir of Books - Azar Nafisi
  33. When I Was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda Santiago (AutoBio/Memoir)
  34. Assata Shakur: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur (AutoBio/Memoir)
  35. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose - Alice Walker
  36. Sidewalk - Mitchell Duneier
  37. In the Midnight Hour - Paul Harris
  38. The Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor
  39. Elbow Room - James Alan Mcpherson
  40. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  41. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  42. Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
  43. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
  44. Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice - Ian Haney Lopez
  45. White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race - Ian Haney Lopez
  46. Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America - Juan F. Perea, Richard Delgado, Angela P. Harris, Stephanie M. Wildman
  47. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
  48. Woman Hollering Creek, and Other Stories - Sandra Cisneros
  49. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  50. Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe - edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman
  51. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda - Philip Gourevitch
  52. Progressive Law Practice
  53. Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus - Carolina Maria De Jesus (AutoBio/Memoir)
  54. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
  55. In The Walled Gardens - Anahita Firouz
  56. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala - Rigoberta Menchu (AutoBio/Memoir)
  57. For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier - Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
  58. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo - Jose Antonio Burciaga
  59. Ceremony - Leslie Marmom Silko
  60. Dogeaters - Jessica Hagendorn
  61. Corregidora - Gayl Jones
  62. Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertoriquenos - Aurora Levins Morales
  63. Women, Race & Class - Angela Davis
  64. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi (AutoBio/Memoir)
  65. Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala - Linda Green
  66. Odyssey to the North - Mario Bencastro
  67. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran - Shahrnush Parsipur
  68. Rebelious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of
  69. Happy To Be Nappy - bell hooks (children's book)
  70. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  71. Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
  72. Nigger - Dick Gregory (Crucial!)
  73. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
  74. What Is The What - Dave Eggers
  75. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  76. Chicano - Richard Vasquez
  77. Sisters of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  78. Love Poems from Spain & Spanish America - Perry Higman (selected and translated by)
Author Comments: 

i felt the other lists were great, but under inclusive. this list will hopefully just add to the rest.

please give me more books and authors by/for/concerning people of color.

fyi, bold = fiction

nyybella11/27/2006

Wondered if you might like to consider these:
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Elbow Room by James Alan Mcpherson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

grlprpl1911/27/2006

great thanks!

grlprpl1911/27/2006

here are a couple of websites given to me by a friend.

http://womens-studies.osu.edu/jotas/jotas3.html

http://www.h-net.org/~women//bibs/

Kofstradamus11/30/2006

Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Pedagogy of the Oppressed- Paulo Freire
Nigger- Dick Gregory (Crucial!)
The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin

grlprpl1912/01/2006

thanks kof