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These are books and films that my classes are reading, have read, or will be reading. You can also visit my virtual library to see what else is on my bookshelves…

 

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  • Becoming Abigail: Chris Abani
  • Maus
  • Don Quixote
  • The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
  • Reading to write
  • Drown- Junot Diaz
  • for-colored-girl-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-was-enuf
  • Open City-Teju Cole
  • Precious (Film)
  • Anthology of American Literature
  • Ain't I A Woman: bell hooks
  • City of God (Film)
  • Drown: Junot Diaz
  • Fanon:  John Edgar Wideman
  • The Coldest Winter Ever- Sister Souljah
  • Robert Lyons - Another Africa: Photographs by Robert Lyons
  • Longing to Tell- Tricia Rose
  • Open City- Teju Cole
  • The Prentice Hall Anthology of African-American Women's Literature
  • Texaco:  Patrick Chamoiseau
  • The Fortunes of Wangrin
  • Wicked
  • Words of Fire
  • Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
  • Jasper Fforde - The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime
  • Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad (Discworld Novels)
  • J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Ben Okri - The Famished Road
  • James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time
  • James Baldwin - James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)
  • Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
  • Zadie Smith - White Teeth: A Novel
  • Edwidge Danticat - Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir)
  • Mike Davis - Planet of Slums
  • Roland Barthes - Image-Music-Text
  • Chinua Achebe - Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories
  • Darlene Clark Hine - African-American Odyssey, The, Combined Volume (5th Edition)
  • Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Manning Marable - Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
  • Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)
  • J.P. Stassen - Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda
  • Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
  • Boubacar Boris Diop - Murambi, The Book of Bones
  • Ngugi wa'Thiong'o - Wizard of the Crow: A novel
  • Langston Hughes - The Best of Simple (American Century)
  • Langston Hughes - The Return of Simple
  • Langston Hughes - Simple's Uncle Sam: With a New Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper
  • George Orwell - Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
  • Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition)
  • James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
  • Moses Isegawa - Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel
  • Edward W. Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
  • Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space
  • Chris Abani - GraceLand: A Novel
  • Chris Abani - Sanctificum
  • Chris Abani - Hands Washing Water
  • Roland Barthes - Image, Music,Text
  • Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
  • Henri Lefebvre - The Production of Space
  • Henri Lefebvre - The Urban Revolution
  • M. M. Bakhtin - The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series)
  • Patrick Chamoiseau - Texaco (French Edition)
  • Claude Levi-Strauss - Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
  • Claude Levi-strauss - Structural Anthropology
  • Madhu Dubey - Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism
  • Jean-Philippe(Author) ;  Stassen, Jean-Philippe(Illustrator);  Siegel, Alexis(Translator) Stassen - Deogratias, a Tale of Rwanda [DEOGRATIAS A TALE OF RWAND -OS]
  • Scott McCloud - Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
  • Robert Lyons - Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide
  • Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
  • Camara Laye - The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
  • Alfredo Vea - The Silver Cloud Cafe
  • W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk and Other Writings by W.E.B. Du Bois (Halcyon Classics)
  • Percival Everett - A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel) (Akashic Urban Surreal)
  • Percival Everett - Erasure: A Novel
  • Art Spiegelman - Big Fat Little Lit
  • Michael Hoerger - Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified US History
  • Shaun Tan - The Arrival
  • Shaun Tan - Tales From Outer Suburbia
  • John Szarkowski - The Photographer's Eye