AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES:   SYLLABUS  |  KEY QUESTIONS  |  READING LIST

Texts for Course:

• No Textbook.

Reference Scripture, Concordances for Course:

• The Holy Bible, King James Version.
• The Koran.
• The Book of Mormon, Revised Authorized Version.
• The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, Thomas Jefferson, ed.
• The Strong Concordance of the Holy Bible.

Short excerpts from the following texts may be used for classroom comment and critique:

• Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God. New York: Borzoi Books, 2000.
• Augenbraum, Harold and Ilan Stavans, ed. Growing Up Latino. Boston: Marc Jaffe Books, 1993.
• Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
• Bell, Derrick. Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home. New York: Basic Books, 1996.
• Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr. The White Man’s Indian. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.
• Burciaga, José Antonio. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo. Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 1993.
• Cooper, Zachary. Black Settlers in Rural Wisconsin. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1977.
• De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. New York: Mentor Books, 1984
• Dionne, E.J., Jr. and John J. Diiulio, Jr. What’s God Got To Do With The American Experiment? Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
• Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston: Bedford Books, 1993.
• Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. (Library of America Edition).
• Dyer, Richard. White. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
• Hirschfelder, Arlene and Beverly R. Singer. Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans. New York: Ivy Books, 1992.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. New York: Harper Perennial, 1935.
• Kromkowski, John A., ed. Race and Ethnic Relations 98/99. Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1998.
• Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
• Ma, Sheng-Mei. The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
• Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964.
• Mills, Nicholas, ed. Debating Affirmative Action: Race, Gender, Ethnicity and the Politics of Inclusion. New York: Delta Books, 1994.
• Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Laurel Books, 1968.
• Mori, Kyoko. Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures. New York: Fawcett Books, 1997.
• Neihardt, John G., translator. Black Elk Speaks. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1932.
• Posner, Gerald. Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. San Diego: Harvest Books, 1998.
• Prothero, Stephen. American Jesus. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
• Prothero, Stephen. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't. HarperOne: San Francisco, 2007.
• Quinn, Eithne. Nuthin' But A "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
• Quinn, Philip L. and Charles Taliaferro, ed. A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, 2002.
• Schaefer, Richard T. Racial and Ethnic Groups. New York: Longman, 1998.
• Schneider, Bart, ed. Race. New York: Crown Trade, 1992.
• Shaheen, Jack. Reel Bad Arabs. New York: Olive Branch Press, 2001.
• West, Cornel. Race Matters. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.
• Wideman, John Edgar. Brothers and Keepers. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.
• Yandell, Keith E. Philosophy of Religion. Routledge: New York, 2004.