Short stories (Russia/New York): There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar
Impact of the Changing Media
YouTube: Digital Media and Society
Series by Jean
Burgess & Joshua Green
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle
Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy by Alex S.
Jones
Exploring Memoir: Overcoming Adversity and Journeying to
Selfhood
Philippines
– The
Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America by Pati Navalta Poblete
Vietnam – The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X.
Pham
Pakistan – In the Name of Honor by Mukhtar
Mai
Honduras – Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
Banned Books: Meanings Behind Censorship
Opposing
Viewpoints Series - Censorship (paperback edition) by Andrea C. Nakaya
The
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Am I Blue?: Coming Out
from the Silence
by Marion Dane Bauer (editor)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Crossing Countries, Crossing Cultures
Poetry:
Dominican Republic – The Other Side: El Otro Lado by Julia
Alvarez
Spain – The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca eds Lorca and Allen
Mexico – Mexican
Poetry: An Anthology
complied by Octavio Paz, trans. Samuel Beckett
Latin
America -- These
Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women eds. Marjorie Agosin
El Salvador
-- The Country Between Us poetry by
Carolyn Forche
Novels:
Africa -- Things Fall Apart by Chinua
Achebe
Cuba -- Dreaming in
Cuban by Cristina Garcia
India – The
White Tiger: A Novel
by Aravind Adiga
Africa -- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Philippines
-- The
Umbrella Country
by Bino Realuyo
Short Stories:
Russia -- Best Russian Short Stories
ed. Thomas Seltzer
Middle East – Arab
Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories by Dalya
Cohen-Mor
India -- Diamond Dust: Stories by Anita Desai
Plays:
Russia – Chekhov:
The Essential Plays
by Anton Chekhov, trans. Michael Henry Heim
Britain --
Cloud
9 play by Caryl Churchill
China -- The Other
Shore plays by Gao Xingjian
South Africa -- Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard
Living in the U.S.A: American
Values and Ideologies
America Street: A Multicultural
Anthology of Stories ed. Anne Mazer
Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge Ph.D.
Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge by
Kalle Lasn
The Argument Culture: Stopping America’s War of Words by Deborah
Tannen
American
Values: Opposing Viewpoints ed. Mary E. Williams
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
I'll Be Short by Robert B. Reich
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Hate Crimes by Jack Levin & Jack McDevitt
Amusing Ourselves to
Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Writing as a Form of Protest
The Crucible by
Arthur Miller
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Storm from the East by Milton Viorst
1984 by George Orwell
Madness and Genius
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
Diaspora: Those Forced from Their Homelands
Perfume
Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall Robinson
Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing ed. MariJo Moore
Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the Southern Diaspora eds. Women of S. Asian Decent
Collective
Science Fiction
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The African-American Experience (ASTEP)
The Rap on Gangsta
Rap: Who Run It? Gangsta Rap and Visions of Violence by Bakari Kitwana
The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America by Ellis Cose
The Black Woman: An Anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika
Shakur aka Monster Kody
Scott
Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
The Debt by Randall Robinson
What is Cool?: Understanding Black
Manhood in America by Marlene Kim Connor
Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives by Patricia Bell-Scott
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The
Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
The Latino Experience
(Puente)
House
on Mango
Street by Sandra Cisneros
A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Hombres y Machos by Alfredo Mirande
Strangers Among Us by Robert Suro
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
The Red Camp
by Debra Diaz
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
De Colores Means All of Us by Elizabeth
Martinez
The Latino/a Condition eds. Delgado and Stefancic
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
Growing Up Chicano/a by Tiffany Ana Lopez
Macho! by
Victor Villasenor
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Always Running
by Luis J. Rodriguez
In
the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Savages by Joe Kane
Marginalized Peoples
Mexican Migrant Workers: The Red Camp by Debra Diaz
Asian Americans: Asian Americans: Oral
Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans by Joann Faung Jean Lee
Economics for Women: Glass Ceilings and
Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty by Albelda
and Tilly
Homeless Women: Tell Them Who I Am by
Elliot Liebow
Gays and Lesbians: Homophobia: How We All
Pay the Price by Warren J. Blumenfeld
The Disabled: The Body Silent: The
Different World of the Disabled by Robert F. Murphy
Black gangs: Makes me Wanna
Holler by Nathan McCall
Revolutionaries
The
Essential Gandhi
by Mahatma Gandhi
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn
A Triumph of Spirit by Cesar Chavez
A Call to Conscience by Martin Luther King Jr.
Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che"
Guevara
Search for Self and Identity
Man’s
Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Growing Up Asian American ed. Maria Hong
Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial &
Bicultural
ed. Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn
Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
Honky by Dalton Conley
Two Americas
The
Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Growing Up Asian American ed. Maria Hong
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs by Gini Sikes
Farewell
to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki
Houston & James D. Houston
Exploring California
Toward
the Setting Sun
by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
California Time by Ernest J. Finney
Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? by Mia
Tuan
Five Fires by David Wyatt
Macho! by Victor Villasenor