TARGET: High School: Multicultural Books (long)

[Mary Simmons <mbsimms@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Dear Netters,
   I am trying to update a multicultural author bibliography for our AP
English 11 teacher.  Do any of you know of some new books by Asian-American
authors, Native American Authors, African-American Authors, and Hispanic
Authors that should be on such a list.  She has said that Tony Hillerman
does not count for Native American authors since he is not of Native
American heritage.  Below is the list from our English teacher and she got
it from a conference.
  My list is from her and she has a disclaimer that she has not read them
all.  If you have any personal comments on some of these, send me your
comments.

African-American
A Gathering of Old Men                 Ernest Gaines
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man     James Weldon Johnson
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman     Ernest Gaines
Bailey's Cafe                          Gloria Naylor
Beloved, Sula, Paradise, Song of Solomon    Toni Morrison
Bluest Eye                              Toni Morrison
Brown Girl, Brownstones                Paule Marshall
Color Purple                           Alice Walker
Confessions of Nat Turner              Turner Via Thomas Gray
Different Drummer                      William Kelly
Go Tell it on the Mountain             James Baldwin
I love myself when I am Laughing       Zora Neale Hurston
In my father's house                   Ernest Gaines
In Search of our Mother's Gardens      Alice Walker
Incidents of a slave girl              Harriet Jacobs
Invisible Man                          Ralph Ellison
Jubilee                                Margaret Walker
Mama Day                               Gloria Naylor
Maud Martha                            Gwendolyn Brooks
Meridian                               Alice Walker
Native Son                             Richard Wright
Praisesong for the widow               Paule Marshall
Sassafras                              Ntozake Shange
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People  Paule Marshall
The Color of Water                     James McBride
Their Eyes were watching God           Zora Neale Hurston
Women of Brewster Place                Gloria Naylor

Asian Americans
Aiiieeeee!                             Frank Chin, editor
China Boy                              Gus Lee
Dark sky, dark land                    David Moore
Death and Life of dith Pran            Sydney Schanberg
Donald Duk                             Frank Chin
Books by Laurence Yep
Home to Stay                           Asian Women Writers
Joy Luck Club, Kitchen God's Wife      Amy Tan
Laughing Sutra                         Mark Salzman
No-No Boy                              John Okada
Obasan                                 Joy Kogawa
Pangs of Love                          David Wong Lee
Snow Falling on Cedars                 David Guterson
Through the arc of the rainforest      Karen Tei Yamashita
To destroy you is no loss              Criddle and Man
Woman Warrior                          Maxine Hong Kingston

Native American
Ancient Child                          N. Scott Momaday
The antelope wife                      Louise Erdrich
Anpao                                  Jamake Highwater
Baptism of Desire                      Louise Erdrich
Beet Queen                             "
Bingo Palace                           "
Black elk speaks                       John Neihardt
Ceremony                               Leslie Marmon Silko
Crown of Columbus                      Dorris and Erdrich
Dreamwalker; Earthway                  Mary Summer Rain
Fools Crow                             James Welch
House made of dawn                     N. Scott Momaday
Jacklight                              Louise Erdrich
Lakota Woman                           Mary Crow Dog
Love Medicine                          Louise Erdrich
Many Smokes, many moons                Jamake Highwater
Mean Spirit                            Linda Hogan
Phoenix Rising                         Mary Summer Rain
River Song                             Craig Lesley
Sharpest Sight                         Louis Owens
Spirit Song                            Mary Summer Rain
Storyteller                            Leslie Marmon Silko
The Indian Lawyer                      James WElch
The Sacred                             Peggy Beck and Anna Walters
Touch the Earth                        T. C. McLuhan
Tracks                                 Louis Erdrich
Winter in the Blood                    James Welch
Winterkill                             Craig Lesley
Wisdomkeepers                          Steve Wall and Harvey Arden
Woman who owned the shadows            Paula Gunn Allen
Yellow Raft in Blue Water              Michael Dorris (I am reading this one
now)

Hispanic
100 Years of Solitude                  G.G. Marquez
Bless Me Ultima                        Rudolfo Anaya
Cantora                                Sylvia Lopez-Medina
How the Garcia girls lost their...     Julia Alvarez
Hunger of Memory                       Richard Rodriguez
Leaf Storm                             G.G. Marquez
No one writes to the Colonel           "
Old gring                              Carlos Fuentes
Rain of Gold                           Arturo Islas
Strange Pilgrims                       G.G. Marquez
The House of the Spirits               Isabel Allende
The House of Mango Street              Sandra Cisneros
The Last of the menu Girls             Denise Chavez
The Monkey Grammarian                  Octavio Paz
The Revolt of the Cockroach People     Oscar Acosta
The Storyteller                        Mario Llosa
Two Strange tales                      Mircea Eliade
Woman Hollering Creek                  Sandra Cisneros
Like Water for Chocolate               Laura Esquivel

We do not have all of the above books but we do have some.  Any comments and
suggestions of new stuff would be great!!  Thanks so much in advance.

Mary Simmons
Media Specialist
mbsimms@hotmail.com
Currituck County High School
4203 Caratoke Hwy.
Barco, NC 27917



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