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Readings

Texts

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. New expanded edition. New York: H. Holt, 1993.

Faulkner, William. Go Down, Moses. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Mitcham, Judson. The Sweet Everlasting. Athens, Ga: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Additional Readings

Baldwin, James. "Notes of a Native Son." In Collected Essays. Edited by Toni Morrison. New York: Library of America, 1998, pp. 5-136.

Cose, Ellis. "Our New Look: The Colors of Race." Newsweek 134, n. 26 (1 January 2000): 28-30.

Kelley, Robin D. G. "The People in Me." The Utne Reader 95 (September/October 1999): 79-81.

Kothari, Geeta. "If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?" In The Best American Essays 2000. Edited by Alan Lightman. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, pp. 91-100.

Lee, Chang-Rae. "Coming Home Again." Chap. 57 in One Hundred Great Essays. Edited by Robert DiYanni. New York: Longman, 2002.

Look, Lenore. "Facing the Village." In The Best American Essays 2001. Edited by Kathleen Norris. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, pp. 152-164.

Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1993, pp. 1-17.

Tan, Amy. "Mother Tongue." Chap. 17 in The Best American Essays 1991. Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991.

Williams, Patricia J. "Reflections on Law, Contracts, and the Value of Life." Ms. 1, no. 6 (May/June 1991): 42-46.

Williams, Sherley Ann. "Meditations on History." In Black-eyed Susans/Midnight Birds. Edited by Mary Helen Washington. New York: Anchor Books, 1990, pp. 223-279.

Films

Lone Star.

The Long Walk Home.

Mississippi Masala.

Smoke Signals.

Twilight L.A.



 



 








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