Books:
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Little, Brown, 2009)
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (Vintage, 1992)
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Vintage, 1999)
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Dover, 1994)
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Holt, 2008)
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage, 2004)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches (Theatre Communications Group, 1993)
Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Part I (My Father Bleeds History) (Pantheon, 1991)
Richard Wright, Uncle Tom’s Children (Harper Perennial, 2004)
Anzia Yezierska, Arrogant Beggar (Duke University Press, 1996)
