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A Selected Multicultural Non-Fiction Reading List
-all books available at the Melrose Public Library-
| Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience 070/Nelson |
1993 | Jill Nelson |
| The Delaney Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom 170/Del |
1994 | Sarah Louise Delaney |
| You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation 302/Tan |
1990 | Deborah Tannen |
| On Prejudice: A Global Perspective 303.85/On Prejudice |
1954 | Gordon Allport |
| And Don't Call Me a Racist A treasury of quotes on the past, present, and future of the color line in America. 305.08/And |
1998 | selected by Ella Mazel |
| Within the Plantation Household: Black And White
Women of the Old South 305.4/Fox |
1988 | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
| I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who
Changed America Oversize/305.4/Lan |
1989 | Brian Lanker |
| Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe
Fire 305.48/Dragon |
1997 | edited by Sonia Shah |
| A Shining Thread of Hope: The History Of Black
Women in America 305.48/Hin |
1998 | Darlene Clark Hine |
| Falling Leaves: A True Story of an Unwanted Chinese
Daughter 305.48/Mah |
1998 | Adeline Yen Mah |
| Visions of America: Personal Narratives From the
Promised Land 305.8/Vis |
1993 | Persea Books |
| Faces at the Bottom of the Well 305.8/Bell |
1992 | Derek Bell |
| Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children
in a Multiracial World 305.8/Everyday |
1996 | edited by Maureen T. Reddy |
| Two Nations: Black, White, Separate, Unequal 305.8/Hac |
1992 | Andrew Hacker |
| Race Manners: Navigating the Mine Field Between
Black and White Americans 305.8/Jacobs |
1999 | Bruce A. Jacobs |
| Chain of Change 305.8/King |
1981 | Mel King |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X 305.8/Malcolm X |
1992 | Malcolm X |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in
the Cafeteria? 305.8/Tatum |
1997 | Beverly Daniel Tatum |
| Race Matters 305.8/West |
1993 | Cornel West |
| Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an
American Chinatown 305.895/Nee |
1973 | Victor Nee |
| Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about
the American Obsession 305.896/Terkel |
1992 | Studs Terkel |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong
Child, Her Doctors, and The Collision of Cultures 306.46/Fadiman |
1998 | Ann Fadiman |
| The Racist Mind 320.5/Eze |
1995 | Raphael Ezekial |
| Ella Baker Freedom Bound 323/Baker/Gra |
1998 | Joanne Grant |
| Lift Every Voice 323/Guinier |
1998 | Lani Guinier |
| Voices of Freedom:An Oral History of the Civil
Rights Movement From the 1950's through the 1980's 323.1/Ham |
1990 | Henry Hampton/Steve Fayer |
| Andrew Young An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights
Movement and the Transformation of America 323/Young |
1996 | Andrew Young |
| Eyes on the Prize 323.4/Wil |
1987 | Juan Williams |
| Before the Mayflower: A Brief History Of the Negro
in America 1619-1964 325.26/Bennett |
1964 | Lerone Bennett |
| From Slavery to Freedom: A History Of African
Americans 325.26/Franklin |
1994 | John Hope Franklin |
| The Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro 325.26/Halsey |
1946 | Margaret Halsey |
| Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story 325.26/King |
1958 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| A Nation of Immigrants 325.73/Kennedy |
1964 | John F. Kennedy released by the ADL |
| I Shared the Dream: The Pride, Passion & Politics
of the First Black Woman Senator from Kentucky 328.769/Powers |
1995 | Georgia Davis Powers |
| Hard Hatted Women: Stories of Struggle And Success
in the Trades 331.4/Har |
1988 | Molly Martin |
| Moving Violations:War Zones, Wheelchairs And a
Declaration of Independence 362.4/Hockenberry |
John Hockenberry | |
| Manchild in the Promised Land 362.7/Brown |
1965 | Claude Brown |
| The Family of Adoption 362.47/Pavao |
1998 | Joyce Maguire Pavao |
| Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World 371.912/Coh |
1994 | Leah Hager Cohen |
| Black Ice 373.18/Car Memoir of a black girl's integration of a previously all male private boarding school. |
1991 | Lorene Cary |
| Jocelyn Elders, MD: From Sharecropper's Daughter
To Surgeon General of the USA 610.9/Elders |
1996 | Jocelyn Elders with David Chanoff |
| Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My
Life with Autism 616.8982/Grander |
1995 | Temple Grander |
| The Measure of Our Success: A Letter To My Children
and Yours 649/Ede |
1992 | Marian Wright Edelman |
| Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural World 649.157/Rodriguez |
1998 | Gloria Rodriguez |
| With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together 792.028/Davis |
1998 | Ossie Davis/Ruby Dee |
| Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories
by Black Writers, 1967 to Present 808.83/Chi |
1995 | edited by Gloria Naylor |
| Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers
and Daughters 810.8/Dou |
1991 | |
| Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction & Poetry 810.8/Sis |
1994 | edited by Sherman |
| The Women 810.9/Als |
1996 | Hilton Als |
| Down From the Mountain: Black Women's Novels in
the Wake of the Civil Rights Struggle 1966-1989 813.09/Wal |
1991 | Melissa Walker |
| Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997) 818/Ang |
Maya Angelou | |
| Daughter of the River 895.6/Hong |
1999 | Ying Hong |
| Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China 915.1/The |
1988 | Paul Theroux |
| Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei 915.2/Mur |
1991 | David Mura |
| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man 920.71/Gat essays from The New Yorker |
1997 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Fifty Black Women Who Changed America 920.72/Alexander |
1998 | Amy Alexander |
| Roots 929.2/Haley |
1976 | Alex Haley |
| Angela's Ashes 929.2/McCourt Family |
1996 | Frank McCourt |
| The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and
White 929.2/Hairston Family/Wiencek |
1999 | Henry Wiencek |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 951.05/Cha |
1991 | Jung Chang |
| Daughters of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her
Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution 955.05/Farman |
1992 | Sattareh Farman Farmaian |
| Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas
Transformed the World 970.1/Wea |
1988 | Jack Weatherford |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History
of the American West 970.5/Brown |
1971 | Dee Alexander Brown |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American
History Textbook Got Wrong 973/Loe |
1995 | James W. Loewen |
| Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of
Asian Americans 973/Tak |
1989 | Ronald Takaki |
| A Different Mirror:A History of Multicultural
America 973/Tak |
1993 | Ronald Takaki |
| A People's History of the United States 973/Zinn |
1980 | Howard Zinn |
| Playing Indian 973.049/Deloria How white Americans have used their ideas about Indians to shape national identity. |
1998 | Philip J. Deloria |
| How the Irish Became White 973.049/Ign |
1995 | Noel Ignatiev |
| Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's
Black Daughter 973.049/Allen/McCray |
1998 | Carrie Allen McCray |
| We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth
Century 973.049/Ste |
1984 | Dorothy Sterling |
| King of the Cats: The Life and Times Of Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr. 973.92/Hay |
1993 | Wil Haygood |
| The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His
White Mother 974.71/McBride |
1996 | James McBride |
| When I Was Puerto Rican 974.71/Santiago |
1993 | Esmeralda Santiago |
| The Woman Warrior 979.461/Kingston |
1976 | Maxine Hong Kingston |