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 Non-Fiction

Albrecht, Lisa, & Brewer, Rose M. (Eds.). (1990) Bridges of Power: Women’s Multicultural Alliances. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers. (The chapter, “Alliances Between Women Overcoming Internalized Oppression and Internalized Domination” by Gail Pheterson, relates a caucus-like experiment.)

Anzaldua, Gloria (1990) Making Face, Making Soul, Haciendo Caras, Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books.

Arredondo, Gabriela F. Arredondo, Olga Najera-Ramirez, and Aida Hurtado (2003) Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, Duke University Press.

Asim, Jabari (2007) The N word : who can say it, who shouldn't, and why, Boston : Houghton Mifflin.

Chideya, Farai (2007) The Devil and Dave Chappelle New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, a collection of essays about the art and politics of black culture.

Collins, Patricia Hill (1998) Fighting Words, Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis, MN: Regents of University of Minnesota Press.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth (1996) Anti-Indianism in Modern America (essays). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth (2001) Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner (essays). Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Doane, Ashley W. (2003) White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism. New York: Routledge Press.

Dyson, Michael Eric (2007) Debating Race, New York : Basic Civitas Books

Hagedorn, Ann (2007) Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America , 1919. New York : Simon & Schuster. The year 1919 resonates today. Among the issues: immigration, spying on citizens, racial tensions and freedom of speech.

Hooks, Bell (2003) Teaching Community-A Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Routledge Press.

Howard, Ravi (2007)Like Trees, Walking, New York : Amistad was inspired by the 1981 lynching of 20-year-old Michael Donald in Mobile , Ala.

Hull, Gloria T., Scott, Patricia Bell, & Smith, Barbara (Eds.) (1982) All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press.

Ifill, Sherrilyn (2007) On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty First Century. Boston : Beacon Press

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. (2006) Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Jaspin, Elliot (2007), Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America . New York : Basic Books The book surveys 12 incidents of racial cleansing in America during the first part of the 20th century.

Littleton, Darryl (2006) Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh, NY: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books.

Lorde, Audre. (1984) Sister Outsider, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press. 

Malcomson, Scott. (2000) One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

McIntosh, Peggy. (1995). “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” In Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Eds.), Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (2nd ed.), pp. 76-86. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Pough, Gwendolyn D. ()Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology

Scott, Ellen K. (1998). “Creating Partnerships for Change: Alliances and Betrayals in the Racial Politics of Two Feminist Organizations,” Gender & Society, 12 (4): 400-423.

Scott, Ellen K. (2000) “Everyone against racism: Agency and the production of meaning in the anti-racism practices of two feminist organizations,” Theory and Society (29):785-818.

Scott, Ellen K. (2001). “From Race Cognizance to Racism Cognizance: Dilemmas in Antiracist Activism in California.” In France Winddance Twine & Kathleen M. Blee (Eds.), Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice, pp. 125-149.

Scott, Ellen K. (2005). “Beyond Tokenism: The Making of Racially Diverse Feminist Organizations,” Social Problems, 52 (2): 232-254.

Tanz, Jason (2007) Other Peoples Property, Boston : Beacon Press, which looks at the ways hip-hop has been adopted by white America .

Washington, Harriet (2007)Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present; New York : Doubleday, c2006. visiting scholar, DePaul University School of Law.

Williams, Lena (2000). It’s the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy and Divide the Races. Orlando, FLA: Harcourt Books.

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      Fiction

Angelou, Maya (1969) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House.

Bambara, Toni Cade (1992) Salteaters. New York: Vintage Contemporaries.

Erdrich, Louise (1993). Love Medicine. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Hagedorn, Ann (2007) Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America , 1919. New York : Simon & Schuster. The year 1919 resonates today. Among the issues: immigration, spying on citizens, racial tensions and freedom of speech.

Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor (1994). The Sweeter the Juice. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Hogan, Linda (1990). Mean Spirit. New York: Ballantine Publishing Group.

Howard, Ravi (2007)Like Trees, Walking, New York : Amistadwas inspired by the 1981 lynching of 20-year-old Michael Donald in Mobile , Ala.

Hurston, Zora Neale (1998) Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: First Perennial Classics.

Marshall, Paula (1996) Brown Girl, Brownstones. City University of New York: The Feminist Press.

McMillan, Terry (1990) Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. New York: Penguin Press.

Morrison, Toni (1994) The Bluest Eye. New York: First Plume Printing.

Naylor, Gloria (1985) Women of Brewster Place. New York: Penguin Books.

Petry, Ann (1998) The Street. New York: Mariner Books.

Silko, Leslie Marmon (1986) Ceremony. New York: Penguin Press.

Stodghill, Ron (2007)Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta , New York : Amistad a true-crime story about the murder of a wealthy black entrepreneur in Georgia .

Toomer, Jean (1923) Cane. Liverwright, New York: Boni and Liverwright Press.

Walker, Alice (1976) Meridian. Orlando, FLA: Harcourt Books.

FILM/VIDEO

LINKS

Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Words

Black Liberation Theology: A Historical Perspective

Racism in America and Other Uncomfortable Facts

RIGHTS-US: U.N. Panel Finds Two-Tier Society

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