Faculty Committee: Stephanie Batiste, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Candace Waid

Selections marked with an asterisk (*) are available from the Staff Graduate Adviser in a reader that can be purchased or photocopied. A supplemental bibliography of relevant theoretical and critical selections is also available from the Staff Graduate Adviser.  This supplemental bibliography is RECOMMENDED, not required reading.

Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven or  Indian Killer

Gloria Anzaldúa, “To Live in the Borderlands Means You”*

Jimmy Santiago Baca, “For A Chicano Brother Of Mine”*

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son

Amiri Baraka, poetry collected in Norton Anthology of American Literature (6th ed)

Gwendolyn Brooks, poetry collected in Norton Anthology of American Literature (6th ed)

Ana Castillo, "In My Country," "Ixtacihuatl Died in Vain," Mixquiahuala Letters or So Far From God

Marilyn Chin, "We are Americans now, we live in the Tundra"*

Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek

Theresa Cha,  Dictee

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine or Tracks

Jessica Hagedorn, The Dogeaters

Garrett Hongo, "Yellow Light"*

Langston Hughes, poetry collected in Norton Anthology of American Literature (6th ed)

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Rodolofo Gonzales, Yo Soy Joaquín/I am Joaquín

Philip Gotanda, Yankee Dawg You Die

Joy Harjo,  “I Give You Back,”* “The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor Window,” “Transformations,”* “Resurrection”

David Hwang, M. Butterfly

Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Charles Johnson, Middle Passage

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Tripmaster Monkey

Li Young Lee, "The Cleaving"*

Adrian C. Louis, Wild Indians and Other Creatures

Audre Lorde, poetry collected in Norton Anthology of American Literature (6th ed)

 D’Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded

N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn and Way to Rainy Mountain

Alejandro Morales, The Brick People or Rag Doll Plagues

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Milton Murayama, All I Asking for is My Body

John Okada, No-No Boy

Simon Ortiz, “A Story of How A Wall Stands”*

Americo Paredes, George Washington Gómez

Wang Ping, "No Sense of Direction"*

John Rechy, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez or Sexual Outlaw

Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

Tomas Rivera, Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And The Earth Did Not Part

Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf or
August Wilson, Piano Lesson

Leslie M. Silko, Ceremony or Storyteller

Cathy Song, "The Youngest Daughter"*

Toomer, Jean,  Cane

Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit, or Cherrie Moraga, Giving Up The Ghost

Helena Maria Viramontes, The Moths

James Welch, “The Man From Washington,”* and Fools Crow

John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire

Ray Young Bear, Black Eagle Child

Revised 09/2000