Books (General Readership)

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The following are books that relate to stereotyping, prejudice, or discrimination. These can be used as supplementary readers or book report assignments. 

Feel free to comment with other titles.

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority

http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Challenging-Myth-Black-Inferiority/dp/1401925928/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268944530&sr=1-1

The History of White People

http://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393049345/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268944451&sr=8-1

Sidewalk

http://www.amazon.com/Sidewalk-Mitchell-Duneier/dp/0374527253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265317146&sr=8-1

Bright Shiny Morning

http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Shiny-Morning-James-Frey/dp/B002XULY0K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265317194&sr=1-1-spell

Hidden Brain

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Brain-Unconscious-Presidents-Control/dp/0385525214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264521099&sr=8-1

Nigger

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375421726/ref=cm_rdp_product

My Bondage and My Freedom

http://www.amazon.com/My-Bondage-Freedom-Frederick-Douglass/dp/1604244925/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263487078&sr=1-2

 

Them

http://www.amazon.com/Them-Novel-Nathan-McCall/dp/1416549161/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412572&sr=8-8

Black Like Me

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Like-Me-Complete-Unabridged/dp/B000J0JHIM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412611&sr=1-3

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

http://www.amazon.com/White-Like-Me-Reflections-Privileged/dp/1933368993/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412661&sr=1-1

Passing for normal.

http://www.amazon.com/Passing-Normal-Compulsion-Amy-Wilensky/dp/076790186X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412716&sr=1-1

Member of the club: Reflections on life in a racially polarized world.

http://www.amazon.com/Member-Club-Reflections-Racially-Polarized/dp/0060984309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412804&sr=1-1

 

Hate Crimes: America's War on those Who are Different

http://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crimes-Revisited-Americas-Different/dp/0813339227/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412847&sr=1-1

 

From Hate Crimes to Human Rights: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard.

http://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crimes-Human-Rights-Tribute/dp/1560232560/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412888&sr=1-1

 

Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood

http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Rights-Dilemmas-Difference-Personhood/dp/0814748139/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263412978&sr=1-1

 

Lives on the Boundary

http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Boundary-Achievements-Educationally-Underprepared/dp/0143035460/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263413006&sr=1-1

 

Passing

http://www.amazon.com/Passing-Norton-Critical-Editions-Larsen/dp/0393979164/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263413124&sr=8-1

 

The Souls of Black Folk

http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Black-Folk-W-E-B-Bois/dp/1420925857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263413171&sr=1-1

 

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

http://www.amazon.com/Come-Hell-High-Water-Hurricane/dp/046501772X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263841582&sr=8-1

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbird-Harper-Lee/dp/0060935464/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263841647&sr=1-1

 

19 Minutes

http://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Minutes-Jodi-Picoult/dp/0743496736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263841686&sr=1-1

 

The Human Stain

http://www.amazon.com/Human-Stain-Novel-Philip-Roth/dp/0375726349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264009317&sr=8-1

 

Frankenstein

 

http://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Penguin-Classics-Mary-Shelley/dp/0141439475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264009405&sr=1-1

 

Long Way to Go: Black and White in America

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Go-Black-America/dp/0871137232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716649&sr=8-1

 

Color Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race Obsessed World

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Blind-Seeing-Beyond-Race-Obsessed-World/dp/0060928875/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716693&sr=1-1

 

Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites

http://www.amazon.com/Racial-Healing-Confronting-Between-Blacks/dp/0385475179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716727&sr=1-1

 

Not all Black and White: Affirmative Action and American Values

http://www.amazon.com/Not-All-Black-White-Affirmative/dp/0374525412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716771&sr=1-1

 

Off White

http://www.amazon.com/Off-White-memoir-Laurie-Gunst/dp/1569474303/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716831&sr=1-2

 

Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity

http://www.amazon.com/Black-White-Other-Biracial-Americans/dp/0688143474/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716905&sr=1-1

 

Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America

http://www.amazon.com/Double-Exposure-Poverty-Race-America/dp/1563249626/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716950&sr=1-1

 

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

http://www.amazon.com/Uprooting-Racism-People-Racial-Justice/dp/0865714592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264716985&sr=1-1

 

Jews and Blacks

http://www.amazon.com/Jews-Blacks-Dialogue-Religion-Culture/dp/0452275911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264717089&sr=1-1

 

Lies My Teacher Told Me

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264717117&sr=1-1

 

A Chief and Her People

http://www.amazon.com/Mankiller-Chief-Her-People-Wilma/dp/0312206623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264717157&sr=1-1-spell

 

Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

http://www.amazon.com/Showing-My-Color-Impolite-Identity/dp/0060928018/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264717208&sr=1-1

 

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

http://www.amazon.com/Taste-Power-Black-Womans-Story/dp/0385471076/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264717294&sr=1-4

 

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264717370&sr=1-1

 

 

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