Race and Its Meaning --- Lecture & Discussion Series, 2001-2002

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Discussion Series on Race: Preliminary Reading List

Suggested Readings

Adams, W. Royce, ed. Risking Contact: Readings to Challenge our Thinking. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Armour, Jody David. Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism. New York: New York University Press, 1997

Berry, Mary Frances. The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women’s Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother. New York: Viking, 1993

Berry, Mary Frances. Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America. New York: A. Lane, 1994.

Berry, Mary Frances. The Pig Farmer’s Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present. New York: Knopf, 1999.

Berry, Mary Frances, and John W. Blassingame. Long Memory: The Black Experience in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Bloom, John. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Churchill, Ward. "The Indian Chant and the Tomahawk Chop." In Risking Contact: Readings to Challenge Our Thinking, ed. W. Royce Adams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Colton, Larry. Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn. New York: Warner Books, 2000.

Cose, Ellis. The Rage of a Privileged Class. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Creel, Margaret Washington. A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs. New York: New York University Press, 1988.

Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: New Press, 1995.

Derman-Sparks, Louise, and Carol Brunson Phillips. Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.

Dyson, Michael E. Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line. New York: Vintage, 1997.

Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Garrod, Andrew, Janie Victoria Ward, Tracy L. Robinson, and Robert Kilkenny, eds. Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Gates, E. Nathaniel, ed. Cultural and Literary Critiques of the Concepts of Race. New York: Garland, 1997.

Gay, Geneva. Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.

Goulbourne, Harry, ed. Race and Ethnicity: Critical Concepts in Sociology. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Harris, David E., and Eve A. Raimon. "What Is Race? A Transdisciplinary Course/A Pedagogical Challenge." College Teaching 46, 2 (1998): 68–71.

Hartmann, Douglas. "Rethinking the Relationships between Sport and Race in American Culture: Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain." Sociology of Sport Journal 17, 3 (2000): 229–253.

Hawkins, Billy. The New Plantation: The Internal Colonization of Black Student Athletes. Winterville, Ga.: Sadiki Publishing, 2000.

Helms, Janet E. A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life. Topeka, Kans.: Content Communications, 1992.

Hill, Mike, ed. Whiteness: A Critical Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

hooks, bell. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press, 1981.

hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.

hooks, bell. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation. New York: Routledge, 1994.

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994.

hooks, bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. New York: Holt, 1995.

hooks, bell. Reel to Real. New York: Routledge, 1996.

hooks, bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Hurtado, Aida. The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Jackson, J. S., ed. Life in Black America. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1991.

Jamail, Milton H. Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Jhally, Sut, and Justin Lewis. Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1992.

Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power, and Difference. Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield, 2001.

Johnson, Allan G. The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

Joshi, S. T., ed. Documents of American Prejudice: An Anthology of Writings on Race from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Kaminsky, Amy. "Gender, Race, Raza." Feminist Studies 20, 1 (1994): 7–31.

King, C. R., and C. F. Springwood, eds. Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Kinsler, Kimberly, and Sue Zalk. "Teaching Is a Political Act: Contextualizing Gender and Ethnic Voices." In Women’s Ethnicities: Journeys through Psychology, ed. Karen Wyche and Faye Crosby. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1996.

McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. Thorndike, Maine: G. K. Hall, 1996.

Mohawk, John C. Utopian Legacies. A History of Conquest and Oppression in the Western World. Santa Fe: Clear Light, 2000.

Moses, Robert, and Charles E. Cobb Jr. Radical Equations. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Orbe, Mark P., and Tina M. Harris. Interracial Communication: Theory into Practice. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1991.

Polumbo-Liu, David. Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. Edited by Judith L. Raiskin. Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1998.

Roberts, Helen, Juan C. Gonzales, and Olita D. Harris. Teaching from a Multicultural Perspective: Survival Skills for Scholars, vol. 12. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1994.

Rucker, Mark, and Peter C. Bjarkman. Smoke: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball. New York: Total/Sports Illustrated, 1999.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

Schiller, Bradley R. The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination, 8thed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Shanklin, Eugenia. Anthropology and Race. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1994.

Steele, Claude. "Race and the Schooling of Black Americans." Atlantic Monthly, April 1992, 68–78.

Steinhorn, Leonard, and Barbara Diggs-Brown. By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. New York: Dutton, 1999.

Storti, Craig. Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, 1994.

Takaki, Ronald T. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Takaki, Ronald T. Democracy and Race: Asian Americans and World War II. New York: Chelsea House, 1995.

Takaki, Ronald T. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

Takaki, Ronald T., ed. From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Van Ausdale, Debra, and Joe Feagin. The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Watkins, William H., James H. Lewis, and Victoria Chou. Race and Education. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Williams, Gregory H. Life on the Color Line. New York: Dutton, 1995.

Yinger, John. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995.

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