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Dr. Ward's Booklist Dr. Ward’s Booklist Black Women The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur Sula Toni Morrison For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Chana Kai Lee Ain't I a Woman bell hooks Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Beverly Guy-Sheftall How Long? How Long? African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights Belinda Robnett Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Patrica Hill Collins Empowerment Coming of Age in Mississippi Ann Moody Bone Black bell hooks Incidents of a Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs In Search of My Mother's Gardens Alice Walker Sister Outsider Audre Lorde Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in Paula Giddings America Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery bell hooks Daughters of Africa: an International Anthology of Words and Writings by Margaret Busby Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Davis Women, Race, & Class Angela Y. Davis For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange The Color Purple Alice Walker Dr. Ward’s Booklist Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Melissa Harris-Perry I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Black Narratives Song of Solomon Toni Morrison The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Native Son Richard Wright Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth Richard Wright 12 Years A Slave Solomon Northup Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois The Autobiography of Malcom X As Told to Alex Haley Alex Haley The Fire Next Time James Baldwin Go Tell it on The Mountain James Baldwin Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent Tyrone Powers The Spook Who Sat By the Door Sam Greenlee Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Donald Bogle Blacks in American Films Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the Olaudah Equiano African The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur Dr. Ward’s Booklist Sula Toni Morrison Ain't I a Woman bell hooks Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Beverly Guy-Sheftall Coming of Age in Mississippi Ann Moody Bone Black bell hooks I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Incidents of a Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs In Search of My Mother's Gardens Alice Walker Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Daughters of Africa: an International Anthology of Words and Writings by Margaret Busby Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Davis For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange The Color Purple Alice Walker The People Who Could Fly Virginia Hamilton The Collected Poems of Langston Langston Hughes Someone Knows My Name Lawrence Hill Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today Ted Shine and James V. Hatch Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans From 1847 to 1938 Ted Shine and James V. Hatch Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage William Loren Katz Revolutionary Suicide Huey P. Newton Bi-Racial Dr. Ward’s Booklist Passing Nella Larsen Imitation of Life Fannie Hurst Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson Indigenous to America We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf Vine Deloria Jr. Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder Kent Nerburn Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History Kark Jacoby Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means Russell Means and Marvin Wolf Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing MariJo Moore The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America James Wilson Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America Will Roscoe Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming Winona LaDuke Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement Dennis Banks and Russell Means Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Bob Drury Legend If You've Forgotten the Names of Clouds, You've Lost Your Way: An Bayard Johnson and Introduction to American Indian Thought and Philosophy Russell Means Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the S. C. Gwynne Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar- Ortiz Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools Tim Giago Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (North Brenda J. Child American Indian Prose Award) Paperback – February 1, 2000 Dr. Ward’s Booklist Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women Wilma Mankiller Mean Spirit Linda Hogan Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie The Toughest Indian in the World Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes Charles River Editors Voices from the Trail of Tears (Real Voices, Real History Series) Vicki Rozema The Trail of Tears Gloria Jahoda Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage William Loren Katz Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac Multicultural Education Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Friere A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom Lisa Delpit Skin that We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom Lisa Delpit & Joanne Kilgour Dowdy The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria Beverly Daniel Tatum The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children Gloria Ladson- Billings A People's history of The United States Howard Zinn Black Teachers on Teaching Michele Foster Shame of the Nation Jonathan Kozol Dr. Ward’s Booklist Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Jonathan Kozol Teaching to Transgress bell hooks Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got James Lowen Wrong Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Jean Anyon Movement Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring Angela Valenzuela Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Annette Lareau Decade Later Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America 1865-1954 William H. Watkins The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 James D. Anderson We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools Gary R. Howard Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, & Practice Geneva Gay "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People’s Lisa Delpit Children Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know Donald Macedo Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old Kirsten Olson School Culture Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Jawanza Kunjufu Immigration Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Ronald Takaki Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir Lac Su Yellow Race in America Beyond Black and White Frank H. Wu Dr. Ward’s Booklist Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People Helen Zia Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values May Pao-may Tung The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation Leo R. Chavez Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the Juan F. Perea United States The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child Francisco Jimenez International The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Linda Sue Park The Bolivian Diary Ernesto Che Guevara The Motor Cycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey Ernesto Che Guevara Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life Jon Lee Anderson Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Reader Bernhard Schlink Night Elie Wiesel Boy in the Stripped Pajamas John Boyne Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence Doris Pilkington Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Ji-Li Jiang Dr. Ward’s Booklist Race Class Gender White Like Me Tim Wise Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity Tim Wise The Whiteman's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States Winthrop D. Jordan The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism James W. Loewen Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism Alice Walker Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent Tyrone Powers The Spook Who Sat By the Door Sam Greenlee Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver 100 Years of Lynching Ralph Ginzburg Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America James Allen The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks Randall Robinson Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land Randall Robinson Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Michael Eric Dyson The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Isis Papers Francis Cress Welsing Is Bill Cosby Right? Michael Eric Dyson Medical Apartied: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Harriet A.
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