Book list/Human Relations
Organized by Theme/Title/Author
Non-Fiction
Autobiography/Child Molestation Laid Daughter Helen Bonner
Autobiography/Racism I know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Native American The Broken Cord Michael Dorris
Native American Novel Yellow Raft in Blue Water Michael Dorris
Native American Novel Cloud Chamber Michael Dorris
Memoir of Mental Illness An Unquiet Mind Kay Jamison
Memoir of White Mother/Black Sons Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness Jane Lazarre
Memoir/Irish Immigrant Angela’s Ashes Frank McCort
Memoir/Irish Immigrant ‘Tis Frank McCort
Adult Child of Alcoholism/Autobiography Keeping Secrets Suzanne Summers
Egyptian/Muslim Immigrant Family in America Coming to America Bernard Wolf
Feminist Articles and Speeches Life and Death Andrea Dworkin
Men’s Oppression over Women Intercourse Andrea Dworkin
Feminist/Revisionist History The Chalice and the Blade Riane Eisler
Teacher Success with African Americans The Dream Keepers Gloria Ladsons-Billings
Teachings of Native American Elder Neither Wolf nor Dog Ken Nerbum
Native American Short Stories Storyteller Leslie Marmon Silko
Native American Novel Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
| American Indian historical fiction for upper el Jennifer Boyson Oct 17, 2010 9:51 PM |
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| Stone Fox by John Reynold Gardiner, Traders in Time by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos, or Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. Each book is a work of historical fiction describing the clash in cultures between whites and Indians. The books are listed in increasing reading difficulty. The last one is a Newberry Award winner. | |||
Apocolyptic Native American Epic Novel The Almanac of the Dead Leslie Marmon Silko
History/Devastation of Europeans on New World American Holocaust David Stannard
African American/Racial Identity Why are all the Black Kids sitting together Dorothy Tatum
Young Girls Memoir/Japanese Internment Camp This is my Country, Too Jane Schuman
African American Oppression in 1963 This is my Country, Too John Williams
Critique of Underfunded Minority Schools Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol
Report on Hispanic/Black NY Neighborhood Amazing Grace Jonathan Kozol
Modern Life/Spokane Indian Reservation Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie
Modern Life/Spokan Indian Reservation The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fight in Heaven Sherman Alexie
Kids Medicated in School Club Meds Katharine Hall Page
Girl’s Struggle with Drugs Go Ask Alice Anonymous
Teens/Gangs If I Grow Up Todd Strasser
Herbal/Alternative Drugs Rats Saw God Rob Thomas
Streets/Drug Dealer Street Pharm Allision Van Diepen
Hmong/Western Medicine Clash The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman
Struggle for Educational Justice Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire
Chinese American/Woman’s Autobiography Warrior Women Maxine Hong Kingston
Mexican Family/Slums of Mexico City Children of Sanchez Oscar Lewis
Mexican Case Studies/Poverty Five Families Oscar Lewis
Puerto Rican Family/Poverty La Vida Oscar Lewis
Mexican/Middle School Teacher Holler if you Hear Me Gregory Michie
Native American/Mixed Blood Heritage All my Sins are Relatives William Penn
American History through Oppresses Viewpoints A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn
American Indian Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie
Fiction
Rural Southern Tale Bastard out of Carolina Dorothy Allison
Dwarf’s Tale of Small German Community/WW II Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
Stories of Four Chinese Women The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Tales of Chinese Mothers/Daughters The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan
Native American Women/Alaskan Yukon Two Old Women Velma Wallis
African American Woman’s Story The Color Purple Alice Walker
Cherokee Customs and Lifestyles Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
Realities of the Slave Trade Copper Sun Sharon Draper
Nigerian Tribal Life Things Fall Apart Chinua Achbee
African American/Post WW II Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin
Anishinaabe Short Stories Love Medicine Louise Erdich
Cherokee Novel/Trail of Tears Pushing the Bear Diane Glancy
Native American/Coming of Age Solar Storms Linda Hogan
African American/Women’s Literature Their Eyes were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Seven Generations of Anishinaabe Last Standing Woman Winona LaDuke
Post Civil War/Slavery Beloved Toni Morrison
Young Black Girl’s Story The Bluest Eye Toni Morrision
Native American Short Stories/Vietnam Walking the Rez Road Jim Northrup
Native American Lore/Fantasy The Bone Game Louis Owens
Native American/North Dakota Grass Dancer Susan Powers
Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
The Millennial Party by Mark Palmer
Sugar Blues by William Duffy Sugar
Critical Condition by Bartlett and Steele
Warrior Nation by Anton Treuer
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler