BOOK LIST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEPARTMENTAL BOOK CLUB
| Title |
Author |
Type & Theme |
Subject |
| Nickle & Dimed |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
Non-fiction |
Ehrenreich gives up her house, bank account and job to experience life by trying to survive on minimum wage jobs. |
| Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word |
Randall Kennedy Arthur Kempton |
Non-fiction |
History of the word and its impact on society |
| Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood |
William S Pollack |
Non-fiction |
The socialization of males and how to balance gender roles. Author also published a workbook. |
| Honky |
Dalton Conley |
Memoir |
White kid grew up in the projects. His reflections on race and class. |
| Why are all the black kids sitting in the cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race |
Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Nonfiction Black studies/Education |
Identity development & how to start dialogues on race and culture |
| Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale & Improve Results |
Steven Lundin |
Nonfiction Business/leadership |
Many businesses and Res Lifers are adopting this "attitude" plan to make work a fun place to be. |
| Almost Americans: A Quest for Dignity |
Patricia Justiniani McReynolds |
Memoir/Culture |
The child of a Filipino father and a Norwegian mother searches for integration. |
| Good Practice in Student Affairs : Principles to Foster Student Learning |
Gregory Blimling & Elizabeth Whitt |
Nonfiction Education |
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| Creating Learning Communities |
Nancy Shapiro |
Nonfiction Education |
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| Civic Responsibility and Higher Education |
Thomas Ehrlich |
Nonfiction Education |
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| Sustaining Learning Communities |
Levine & Shapiro |
Nonfiction Education |
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| Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder |
Melanie Thurnstrom |
Nonfiction |
Account of a murder-suicide at Harvard. Addresses sociological, cultural, mental health and student support issues |
| Immigrant Voices: In Search of Educational Equity. |
Trueba, Enrique, et al., (Ed.) |
Nonfiction |
Essays by internationally-known scholars on ethnicity write about immigration |
| Making and Molding Identity in Schools: Student Narratives on Race, Gender, and Academic Engagement. |
Ann Davidson |
Nonfiction Essays |
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Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black. |
Andrew Garrod |
Nonfiction Essays |
16 black, or biracial students write about influence of home and church and when they first became aware of racial difference and identify |
| In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up as a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and Multiracial American. |
Teja Arboleda |
Nonfiction Memoir |
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| By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. |
Lawrence Erlbaum. Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown |
Nonfiction |
Analytical look at race relations and the difference between "integration mythology and racial reality" |
| The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle Class Blacks Angry and Why Should America Care? |
Ellis Cose |
Nonfiction |
Race relations/sociology |
| The Sweet Hereafter |
Russell Banks |
Fiction |
Grief, Responsibility, Community. Uses four different narrators to address the community's grief process after a tragic bus accident |
| I Know This Much is True |
Wally Lamb |
Fiction (long!) |
Family saga of one man's feelings towards his schizophrenic twin |
| First They Killed My Father |
Luong Ung |
Memoir |
War, political oppression |
| The Activist's Daughter |
Ellyn Bache |
Fiction |
Coming of Age, civil rights |
| The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother |
James McBride |
Memoir |
Family, race & identity |
| SPLIT: A Counterculture Childhood |
Lisa Michaels |
Memoir |
Story of a woman who was raised by hippie parents in the 60s and 70s. |
| White is a State of Mind |
Melba Pattillo Beals |
Memoir |
Written by one of the "Little Rock Nine" |
| A House Divided |
Mark Gerzon |
Non-fiction |
Politics/current events Civility & citizenship |
| Life Is Not Work, Work is Not Life |
Robert K Johnston & J. Walker Smith |
Nonfiction |
Personal discovery, balance of work and life |
| Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books |
Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
Memoir |
Finding and defining oneself through reading & the power of imagination |