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Studying Cultural Diversity in the United States:

Selected Library Print and Video Resources on Diversity and Racial Issues; Multicultural Education; African Americans; Native Americans; Hispanic, East Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Female, Aged, Disabled, and Gay/Lesbian Americans; and Persons with AIDS.

Note: This bibliography is created to provide a sampling of works available in Geisler Library.
It is not intended to be comprehensive, nor to promote a particular worldview.

REFERENCE  BOOKS

Encyclopedia of African American Religion
Encyclopedia of American Religion

Encyclopedia of Native American Religions
Encyclopedia of American Social History
Violence in America
United States Immigration: a Reference
      Handbook
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide
Almanac of Women & Minorities in American Politics
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Dictionary of Race & Ethnic Relations, 3rd ed.
Statistical Handbook on Racial Groups 
     in the U.S.
Official Guide to Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Statistical Record of Black America
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality
Gay Histories and Cultures
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America
Lesbian Histories and Cultures
Bridging the Gap: Examining Polarity in
      America
Statistical Handbook on the American Family
Statistical Record of Asian Americans
Statistical Record of Hispanic Americans
Statistical Record of Native North Americans
Civil Rights in the United States
Minority Rights in America
Education Statistics of the United States
American Folklore: an Encyclopedia
Notable Native Americans
Notable Hispanic American Women
Notable Black American Men
Notable Black American Women
Jewish Women in America
Dictionary of American History
Encyclopedia of the U.S. in the Nineteenth Century
Encyclopedia of the U.S. in the Twentieth Century
American Immigrant Cultures
The Ethnic Almanac
European Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada
The Ethnic Cultures of America
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic
      Groups
Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the U.S.
Dictionary of Mexican American History
Mexican American Experience
American Jewish Desk Reference
Romanians in the U.S. and Canada
Asian American Almanac
Asian American Encyclopedia
Dictionary of Asian American History
Who's Who Among Asian Americans
Japanese American History
Historical and Cultural Atlas of African
      Americans
Black Saga
Encyclopedia of African American Culture
      and History
Encyclopedia of Black America
Voices of the Spirit: Sources for Interpreting
      the African-American Experience
Timetables of African-American History
Distinguished African American Political & Governmental Leaders
Historical Statistics of Black Americans
Chronology of African-American History
African American Encyclopedia
Native American Almanac
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General Non-Fiction and Fiction

DIVERSITY,  RACIAL Issues

American Families: A Multicultural Reader

Stephanie Coontz, ed.

306.850973/Am 3/fm 

American Skin:  Pop Culture, Bib Business & the End of White America Leon E. Wynter 305.8034073/Wy 5/a
Becoming and Unbecoming White:  Owning and disowning a racial identity Christine Clark, James O'Donnell, eds. 305.800973/Be 2/w

Black, White, Other:  Biracial Americans talk about race and identity

Lisa Funderburg

306.846/Fu 5/b

Building a House for Diversity R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. 658.3008/Th 6/b

Career success is color-blind:  overcoming prejudice and eliminating barriers in the workplace

Ollie Stevenson

650.14/St 3/c/2nd ed.

The children are watching: how the media teach about diversity

Carlos E. Cortes

370.117/Co 7/c

Citizenship in Diverse Societies

Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman, eds.

305.8/Ci 7/i

Coat of Many Colors: Reflections on Diversity by a Minority of One

Eugene Eoyang

305.8/Eo9/c

Counseling for diversity: a guide for school counselors and            related professionals

Courtland C. Lee, ed.

371.4/Co 8/d

Critical White Studies: Looking
            Behind the Mirror
Richard Delgado and Jean Stafancic, eds. 305.800973/Cr 3/w
Cultural Diversity in the United States Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson, eds. 305.800973/Su 7/c

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Issues and Strategies

George Henderson

658.3041/He 5/c

Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict

Deborah A. Prentice and Dale T. Miller, eds.

305.8/Cu 5/d

Daily Fare: Essays from the Multi-Cultural Experience

Kathleen Aguero, ed.

305. 800973/Da 4/f

Debating P.C.: The Controversy Over Political Correctness on College Campuses

Paul Berman, ed.

371.8/De 2/p

A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America

Ronald Takaki

973.04/Ta 4/d

Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Virginia Cyrus, ed.

305.0973/Cy 7/e

From the outside in:  seven strategies for success when you're not a member of the dominant group in your workplace

Renee Bland and Sandra Slipp with Vincent Ford

650.1/BL 2/f

Guarding the Golden Door:  American immigration policy and immigrants since 1882 Roger Daniels 325.73/Da 56/g

How Race Is Lived in America:  pulling together, pulling apart

Correspondents of the New York Times

305.800973/Ho 8/r

Images of Color, Images of Crime Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz, eds. 364.973/Im 2/c/2nd ed.
The Imperial Middle:  Why Americans can't think straight about class Benjamin DeMott 305.50973/De 5/i

Intercultural Communication: a Reader

Larry A. Samovar, ed.

303.482/Sa 5/I/7th ed.

Lifting the White Veil:  An exploration of white American culture in a multiracial context Jeff Hitchcock 305.800973/Hi 77/L
The Middle of Everywhere:  The World's Refugees Come to Our Town Mary Pipher 305.90691/Pi 6/m

MultiAmerica: essays on cultural wars and cultural peace

Ishmael Reed, ed.

305.800973/Mu 36/e

Multiculturalism in the college curriculum : a handbook of strategies and resources for faculty

Marilyn Lutzker

378.1990973/Lu 7/m

Multiculturalism in the United States : a comparative guide to acculturation and ethnicity

John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner, ed.

305.800973/Mu 5/u

Lifting the White Veil:  An exploration of white American culture in a multiracial context Jeff Hitchcock 305.800973/Hi 77/L
The New Class Society Robert Perucci and Earl Wysong 305.50973/Pe 7/n

A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

Barbara “BJ” Hateley and Warren H. Schmidt

813/Ha 775/pe

Political tolerance: balancing community and diversity

Robert Weissberg

323/We 4/p

A Promise and a Way of Life:  White antiracist activism Becky W. Thompson 305.800973/Th 6/p 

Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology

Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins

305/Ra 2/c 2nded.

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class:  the sociology of group conflict and change Joseph F. Healey 305.800973/He 2/r
The Race Myth:  Why we pretend race exists in America Joseph L. Graves, Jr. 305.800973/Gr 23/r

Reflections on Multiculturalism

Robert Eddy, ed.

305.800973/Re 3/o PLACES

Shades of White:  White kids and racial identities in high school Pamela Perry 305.23509794/Pe 7/s
Understanding prejudice, Racism & Social Conflice Martha Augoustinos and Katherine J. Reynolds 305.8/Un 2/p

Voices of Diversity : real people talk about problems and  solutions in a workplace where everyone is not alike

Renee Blank

331.6/BL 2/v

White Like Me:  Reflections on race from a privileged son Tim Wise 305.800973/Wi 7/w
Whitewashing Race:  The myth of a color-blind society Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, et. al. 305.896073/Wh 42/r
Yellow:  Race in America beyond black and white Frank H. Wu 305.895073/Wu/y

 
MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION

American pluralism and the college curriculum: higher education in a diverse democracy

Association of American Colleges and Universities

378.1982/Am 3/p

Beyond heroes and holidays:  a practical guide to K-12 anti-racist, multicultural education and staff development Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart, Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds. 370.117/Be 9/h/2nd ed.
Brothers of the academy:  up and coming black scholars earning our way in higher education Lee Jones, ed. 378.19829/Br 6/ a

Building bridges with multicultural picture books: for children 3-5

Janice J. Beaty

370.117/Be 2/b

Creating the nonsexist classroom: a multicultural approach

Theresa Mickey McCormick

370.19345/Mc 2/c

Cultural diversity and the schools

James Lynch, Celia Modgil, and Sohan Modgil, eds.

370.19341/Cu 5/d

Diversity works: the emerging picture of how students benefit

Daryl G. Smith

370.117/Sm 4/d
PLACES

Multicultural Education as Social Activism Christine E. Sleeter 370.196/SL 3/m

Multiculturalism in the college curriculum : a handbook of strategies and resources for faculty

Marilyn Lutzker

378.1990973/Lu 7/m

Retaining African Americans in higher education:  challenging
paradigms for retaining students, faculty, and administrators 
Lee Jones, ed. 378.1982996/Re 76/ a
The Sneetches Dr. Seuss Juvenile Se 8/sn

Teaching strategies for ethnic studies

James A. Banks

305.80071/Ba 5/ t/6th ed.

Turning on Learning Carl A. Grant 370.117/Gr 2/t/3rd ed.

Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender College Students

Ronni L. Sanlo

378.198086/Wo 7/s


AFRICAN
-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Non-Fiction

Anatomy of Racism

David Theo Goldberg, ed.

305.8/An 2/r

Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it

Herb Boyd, ed.

973.0496/Au 7/p

Colored People: a Memoir

Henry Louis Gates

973.0496/Ga 6/c

Don't Believe the Hype:  Fighting cultural mis-information about African Americans Fari Chideya 305.896073/Ch 4/d

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

301.451/Ba 5/f

Interracial Intimacies:  Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Randall Kennedy 346.73016/Ke 56/i

Makes Me Wanna Holler: a Young Black Man In America

Nathan McCall

305.38896/Mc 2/m

Remembering Jim Crow : 
African Americans tell about life in the segregated South
William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, eds. 305.896073/Re 5/ j

Showing My Color: impolite essays on race and identity

Clarence Page

305.896073/Pa 3/s

Upon These Shores: themes in
           the African-American
           experience
William R. Scott 973.0496/Sc 6/u

"Why Are All the Black kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?" and other conversations about race

Beverly Daniel Tatum

305.800973/Ta 7/w

Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: fighting the culture wars in urban America

Robin D. G. Kelley

305.896073/Ke 5/y

 Fiction and Literature

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

813/Mo 774/bLl

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of  African-American Fiction

Terry McMillan

813.01/Br 3/I

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

811.52 Hu 3/co

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

813/Wa 43/c

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Flannery O'Connor

813/Oc 5/e

Half a Heart

Rosellen Brown

813/Br 796/haL

Intruder in the Dust

William Faulkner

813/Fa 8/I

My Soul Has Grown Deep:  classics of early African-American literature

Collected by John Edgar Wideman

810.80896/My/so

Native Son

Richard Wright

813/Wr 4/n

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

813/Mo 774/s

The Temple of My Familiar

Alice Walker

813/Wa 43/te

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

813/Le 33

NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Non-Fiction

American Indian ethnic renewal :Red power and the resurgence of identity and culture

Joane Nagel

305.897/Na 3/a

Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

813/Mo 5/an

Black Elk speaks

John G. Neihardt