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Recently Acquired Books By and About Americans of Color

Added to the Collections in 2005/2006

 

*In alphabetical order by author's last name

A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z

A

Alcala, Kathleen. Treasures in Heaven
PS3551.L287 T74 2003.

 

Alexander, Meena. The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience
E184.E2 A44 1996

Anaya, Rudolfo A. The Man Who Could Fly and other Stories
PS3551.N27 M36 2006.

 

Anaya, Rudolfo A. Rio Grande Fall
PS3551.N27 R56 1996.

 

Aw, Tash. The Harmony Silk Factory
PR6101.W2 H37 2005.

 

B

Baptist, Edward E. and Stephanie M.H. Camp. New Studies in the History of American Slavery
E441 .N53 2006.

 

Barnes, Kenneth C. Journey of Hope: The Back-To-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s
DT634 .B37 2004.

 

Bell, Bernard W. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
PS374.N4 B45 2004.

Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine : Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915
BR563.N4 B47 2005.

 

Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
E185.615 .B67 2006 

Brewer, Mary F. Staging Whiteness
PS338.W45 B74 2005.

Busto, Rudy V. King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina
F805.M5 T5415 2005.

Butler, Octavia E. Fledgling: A Novel
PS3552.U827 F47 2005.

Byrd, Rudolph P. Charles Johnson's Novels : Writing the American Palimpsest
PS3560.O3735 Z59 2005.

 

C

Caponi, Gena Dagel, editor. Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin' & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture
E185.86 .S575 1999.

 

Chao, Lien and Wong-Chu, Jim. Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.


Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. A Business Career
PS1292.C6 B87 2005.

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. Evelyn's Husband
PS1292.C6 E94 2005.

Chieng, Chieh. A Long Stay in a Distant Land: A Novel
PS3603.H547 L66 2005.

 

Cobb, James C. The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
KF4155 .C63 2005.

Conley, Robert J. The Peace Chief: The Novel of the Real People
PS3553.O494 P4 2001.

 

Conley, Robert J. Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer
E99.C5 L54 2005.

Cramer, Renée Ann. Cash, Color, and Colonialism/The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment
KF8210.R32 .C73 2005.

 

D

Delany, Samuel R. About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews
PS3554.E437 Z474 2005.

 

Demetria, Martinez. Confessions of a Berlitz-tape Chicana
PS3563.A7333337 Z469 2005.

 

Dempsey, Hugh A. The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories
E99.S54 D45 2003.

Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss
PS3554.E82 I54 2006.

 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
PS1556 .A4 2005.

Duvall, Deborah L. Rabbit and the Wolves
E99.C5 D88 2005.

 

E

Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1970s through the Civil War
F232.P83 E49 2004.

Erdrich, Louise. The Painted Drum
PS3555.R42 P35 2005.

Evers, Medgar Wiley. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.

 

G

Gaunt, Kyra D. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
ML3479 .G38 2006.

Gibson, Truman K. Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America
E748.G46 G53 2005.

Gonzalez, Michael J. This Small City will be a Mexican Paradise: Exploring the Origins of Mexican Culture in Los Angeles, 1821-1846
F869.L89 M5173 2005.

 

Grafe, Steven L. Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915
E78.C63 G75 2005.

 

H

Harroun, Martha. We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community
E99.M47 F67 2006.

 

Hayes, Roland. MY FAVORITE SPIRITUALS: 30 Songs for Voice and Piano
M1670.H4 M9 1948a.

Henderson, George Wylie. Harlem Calling: The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson, An Alabama Writer of TheHarlem Renaissance
PS3515.E43422 A6 2006.

 

Highway, Tomson. Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.

Highway, Tomson. Rose
PR9199.3.H472 R67 2003.

Horne, Gerald. Red Seas : Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica
HD6509.S6 H67 2005.

 

I

Ingersoll, Thomas N. To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Tiems to the Indian Removals
E98.M63 I54 2005.

 

J

Jonas, Gilbert. Freedom's Sword : The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969
E185.5.N276 J66 2005.

 

Johnson, Hall. The Hall Johnson Collection: Over 50 Classic Favorites for Voice and Piano Including Two Performance CDs
M1670.J63 H35x 2003.

Johnson, Sara E. and Veve A. Clark. Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
GV1785.D82 K35 2005.

Johnson, Kelli Lyon. Julia Alvarez: Writing a New Place on the Map
PS3551.L845 Z74 2005.

 

K

Keller, Gary D. Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican American Art
N6538.M4 K465 2005.

 

Keller, Gary D/ Erickson, Mary and Pat Villeneuve . Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community
N6538.M4 K45 2004.

 

Kitwana, Bakari. Why White Kids Love Hip-hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
ML3531.K58 2005.

 

L

Levy, Andrew. The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, The Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves.
F229.C34 L48 2005.

 

Lewis, Randolph. Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker
PN1998.3.O24 2006.

 

M

Maclean, Nancy. Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Work Place
HD4903.5.U58 M33 2006.

 

Mariscal, George. Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons From The Chicano Movement, 1965-1975
E184.M5 M3565 2005.

 

Martin, Darnise C. Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church
BP605.U53 M37 2005.

McKendree, Bishop D. Barbed Wire and Rice: Poems and Songs From Japanese Prisoner-Of-War Camps
PS595.W64 B37 1995.

McMillan, Terry. The Interruption of Everything
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.

McWilliams, Dean. Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race
PS1292.C6 Z77 2002.

 

Morgan, Stacy I. Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953
NX504 .M67 2004.

Mosley, Walter. Cinnamon Kiss
PS3563.O88456 C56 2005.

Muñoz, Manuel. Zigzagger
PS3613.U69 Z54 2003.

Murray, Albert. The Magic Keys
PS3563.U764 M34 2005.

 

N

Nabhan-Warren, Kristy. The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism
BT660.G8 N33 2005.

Nelson, Jill. Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island
F72.M5 N45 2005.

 

P

Pérez Firmat, Gustavo. Scar Tissue
PS3566.E69138 S27 2005.

 

Phillips, Caryl. Dancing in the Dark
PR9275.S263 P47285 2005.

 

Pizarro, Marcos. Chicanas and Chicanos in School : Racial Profiling, Identity Battles, and Empowerment
LC2688.L7 P59 2005.

Plascencia, Salvador. The People of Paper.
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.

 

Q

Quinn, Eithne. Nuthin' but a "G" Thang : The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
ML3531 .Q56 2005.

 

Quintana, Leroy V. La Promesa And Other Stories
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.

 

R

Reay, Dianel, et al. Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race, and Gender in Higher Education
IN PROCESS. Request at circulation desk or online.

 

Robeson, Paul. A Black Way of Seeing: From "Liberty" to Freedom
E185.615 R523 2006

Rodriguez, Luis J. Music of the Mill: A Novel
PS3568.O34879 M87 2005.

Ross, Marilyn J. Success Factors of Young African American Women at a Historically Black College
LC2781 .R665 2003.

 

S

Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
E185.93.L6 S29 2005.

See, Lisa. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
PS3569.E3334 S66 2005.

Sellers, Cleveland. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC
E185.97.S44 A3 1990.

Shelby, Tommie. We Who are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
E185.615 .S475 2005.

 

Shellum, Brian G. Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
E185.97.Y63 S53 2006.

Sotiropoulos, Karen. Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
PN2270.A35 S67 2006.

Southgate, Martha. Third Girl from the Left
PS3569.O82 T47 2005.

 

Straight, Susan. A Million Nightingales
PS3569.T6795 M55 2006.

Sundquist, Eric J. Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
E184.36.A34 S86 2005.

 

T

Tan, Amy. Saving Fish from Drowning
PS3570.A48 S23 2005.

 

V

Vila, Pablo. Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border
HN120.C48 C538 2005.

 

Vernon, Olympia. A Killing in This Town
PS3622.E75 K55 2006.

 

W

Wallinger, Hanna. Pauline E. Hopkins : A Literary Biography
PS1999.H4226 Z94 2005.

 

Werner, Craig. A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & The Soul of America
ML3479 .W47 2006.

 

West, Dorothy. Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950
PS3545.E82794 W48 2005.

 

Z

Zhou, Xiaojing. The Ethics & Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry
PS153.A84 Z98 2006.










 
 
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