AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES: SYLLABUS
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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.
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