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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this list. We are using it and a series of questions as a basis for all our 11th grade English students' final projects, which will be written in class. In addition to reading the book students are expected to: -research information on the author -research information on the immigrant/ethnic group -correlate problems the characters in the book had with problems the ethnic group has experienced Here is the list (cut and paste it into Word). You will note that there are some glaring omissions from the list. The teachers deleted almost everything that has been made into a movie, or has been read as a class book. They wanted the kids to actually read a new book. ETHNIC AMERICAN AUTHORS Compiled by the Sweet Home HS Library AFRICAN-AMERICAN Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Heart of a Woman Baldwin, James Another Country Go Tell it on the Mountain If Beale Street Could Talk Notes of a Native Son (nonfiction) Campbell, Bebe Moore Brothers and Sisters Your Blues Ain't Like Mine Carey, Lorene Black Ice Childress, Alice A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich Rainbow Jordan Cooper, J. California Family Homemade Love Curtis, Christopher The Watsons Go to Birmingham Bud, Not Buddy Ellison, Ralph The Invisible Man Juneteenth Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman A Lesson Before Dying Guy, Rosa The Disappearance The Friends Haley, Alex Mama Flora's Family Roots Hamilton, Virginia A White Romance Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Hansberry, Lorraine To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (autobiography) Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Jonah’s Gourd Vine Moses, Man of the Mountain McMillan, Terry Disappearing Acts A Day Late and a Dollar Short Paradise Jazz Moody, Anne Coming of Age in Mississippi (autobiography) Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye Tar Baby Sula Mowry, Jess Way Past Cool Myers, Walter Dean The Glory Field Motown and Didi Somewhere in the Darkness Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place The Men of Brewster Place Porte, Barbara Ann Something Terrible Happened Straight, Susan I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out all the Pots Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Land Thomas, Joyce Carol Marked by Fire Walker, Alice The Color Purple Wesley, Valerie Williams Where Evil Sleeps No Hiding Place Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do West, Dorothy The Wedding Williams, Gregory Life on the Color Line (nonfiction) Williams-Garcia, Rita Fast Talk on a Slow Track Like Sisters on the Home Front Wilson, August The Piano Lesson Woodson, Jacqueline If You Come Softly Wright, Richard Lawd Today! Black Boy (autobiography) Uncle Tom’s Children Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X (autobiography) ASIAN-AMERICAN Blumberg, Rhoda Shipwrecked! Choi, Sook Hyul Gathering of Pearls Chong, Denise The Concubine’s Children (autobiography) Crew, Linda Children of the River Fire on the Wind Desai, Anita Clear Light of Day Garland, Sherry The Last Rainmaker Song of the Buffalo Boy Shadow of the Dragon Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Farewell to Manzanar (nonfiction) Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior (autobiography) Lee, Gus China Boy Honor and Duty Liu, Eric The Accidental Asian (nonfiction) Lord, Bette Bao In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson The Middle Heart (1996) Spring Moon (1981) Mah, Adeline Yen Falling Leaves (autobiography) Chinese Cinderella (autobiography) Mori, Kyoko Polite Lies (nonfiction) Murayama, Milton Five Years on a Rock Na, An A Step from Heaven Ng, Fae Myenne Bone Okada, John No-No Boy Okimoto, Jean Davies Molly by Any Other Name Pham, Andrew X. Catfish and Mandala (autobiography) Tan, Amy The Bonesetter’s Daughter The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God’s Wife Uchida, Yoshiko Picture Bride Desert Exile (nonfiction) Wartski, Maureen Crane Belonging Candle in the Wind Dark Silence The Face in My Mirror A Long Way From Home Watkins, Yoko Kawashima So Far from the Bamboo Grove Wong, Jade Snow The Fifth Chinese Daughter (autobiography) Yep, Laurence The Case of the Firecrackers Child of the Owl Dragonwings HISPANIC-AMERICAN Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents In the Name of Salome Yo! Baca, Jimmy Santiago Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet in the Barrio (nonfiction) Boyle, T. C The tortilla curtain Buss, Fran Leeper Journey of the Sparrows Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street De La Garza, Beatrice Eugenia Pillars of Gold and Silver Fernandez Barrios, Flor Blessed by Thunder: Memories of a Cuban Girlhood (autobiography) Hernandez, Irene Beltran The Secret of Two Brothers Hinojosa, Maria Raising Raul; Adventures of Raising Myself and My Son (nonfiction) Jenkins, Lyll Becerra de So Loud a Silence Martinez, Victor Parrot in the Oven Mohr, Nicholasa El Bronx Remembered Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination (autobiography) Nava, Michae The Death of Friends Ortiz Cofer, Judith An Island Like You Rodriguez, Luis J. Always Running: La Vida Loca (autobiography) Rodriguez, Richard Hunger of Memory (autobiography) Santiago, Danny Famous All Over Town Santiago, Esmeralda When I Was Puerto Rican (autobiography) Almost a Woman (autobiography) Skinner, Jose Flight and Other Stories Soto, Gary A Summer Life (autobiography) Buried Onions Living Up the Street (autobiography) Jesse Leaving Home (short stories) Suarez, Virgil Spared Angola: Memories of a Cuban-American Childhood (nonfiction) Villarreal, Jose Pocho JEWISH-AMERICAN Allen, Woody Without Feathers Bellow, Saul The Actual The Adventures of Augie March Mr. Samler’s Planet The Victim Doctorow, E.L. The Book of Daniel Ragtime City of God Franken, AL Why Not Me? Heller, Joseph Good as Gold Kerr, M.E. Gentlehands Levitin, Sonia Journey to America Silver Days The Cure Levoy, Myron A Shadow Like a Leopard Malamud, Bernard The Assistant Meyer, Carolyn Drummers of Jericho Killing the Kudu Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Orlev, Ur The Man From the Other Side The Island on Bird Street Potok, Chaim The Chosen The Promise I Am the Clay My Name is Asher Lev Davita’s Harp In the Beginning Roth, Philip Goodbye Columbus Salinger, J. D. Franny and Zooey Speigelman, Art Maus Maus II Wiesel, Elie And the Sea is Never Full (autobiography) All Rivers Run to the Sea (autobiography) The Testament Yolen, Jane Briar Rose NATIVE-AMERICAN Brown, Dee Alexander Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (nonfiction) Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow (nonfiction) The Way to Bright Star Carter, Forrest The Education of Little Tree Crow Dog, Mary Lakota Woman (autobiography) Deloria, Vine Red Earth, White Lies (nonfiction) Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Cloud Chamber The Antelope Wife The Broken Chord (nonfiction) The Bingo Palace Erdrich, Louise The Beet Queen Tracks Highwater, Jamake Anpao Hogan, Linda Solar Storms Power Jekel, Pamela She Who Hears the Sun LaDuke, Winona Last Standing Woman McNichols, Charles Longstreth Crazy Weather Momaday, N. Scott The Ancient Child The Way to Rainy Mountain (nonfiction) House Made of Dawn Power, Susan The Grass Dancer Silko, Leslie Marmon Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit (nonfiction) Welch, James Fool's Crow IRISH-AMERICAN McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes (autobiography) 'Tis (autobiography) McDermott, Alice Charming Billy Quindlen, Anna Object Lessons ITALIAN-AMERICAN Ardizzone, Tony In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu Buscaglia, Leo Papa, My Father Ferraro, Geraldine Framing a Life Iacocca, Lee Iacocca: An Autobiography Puzo, Mario The Last Don Quindlen, Anna Object Lessons One True Thing Black and Blue Scottolini, Lisa Everywhere That Mary Went Rough Justice The Vendetta Defense OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS Khalil Gibran (Arab-American) The Prophet Kincaid, Jamaica (West Indian) Lucy WOMEN (NOTE: These authors are not listed under a specific ethnic group) Cather, Willa My Antonia Oates, Joyce Carol Black Water Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Sexton, Anne Poetry Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant If Morning Ever Comes The Accidental Tourist Saint Maybe Back When We Were Grownups "In theory, there isn't any difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." - Yogi Berra Mrs. Carolyn Gierke, Librarian Sweet Home High School 1901 Sweet Home Road Amherst, NY 14228 Phone: 1-716-250-1227 FAX: 1-716-250-1360 email: cgierke@shs.k12.ny.us =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=