Ethnic Studies Texts

Edgar Allan Poe's novel is an adventure tale filled with shipwreck and mutiny. Arthur Gordon Pym, the hero of the novel, suffers through a lot. This is a novel by a white author, but ethnic identit...

Sorry to disappoint you sci-fi fans, but no, the narrator of this novel isn't actually invisible. White people just don't see him, because he's black. What does the metaphor of invisibility tell us...

This novel is written as a series of short chapters, which tell the story of funny, cool, sassy Esperanza, a Chicana girl growing up in Chicago.What are the various types of borders that Esperanza...

Here's a multi-generational family saga that moves back and forth between China and the U.S., telling the stories of four women and their daughters. What narrative devices does the novel use? What'...

Hey, let's not leave out the poetry, right? In this book, Adrian C. Louis gives us a ton of powerful imagery and reflection about the Native American experience.How does Louis relate to Native Amer...

Du Bois was way ahead of the game when he wrote this book in 1903. It's one of the first texts by an ethnic minority theorist explaining the experience African Americans.Is Du Bois's notion of "dou...

In this article, Blauner explains how and why the concept of colonialism is so central to American history and society.What are the links between racism and colonialism, according to Blauner?How do...

One of the founding texts of Native American Studies, Deloria's book corrects all kinds of misconceptions about Native Americans. Deloria's also got a sense of humor, which is not something we can...

Anzaldua mixes Spanish and English, poetry and theory, autobiography and history in this text, which challenges all kinds of borders.This book does not fit easily into any genre. It's a theoretical...

Takaki's classic history tells the story of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and other Asian Americans' struggle in the U.S. It's a chill intro to Asian American history. How does the experience of i...

In this book, Toni Morrison looks at writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Ernest Hemingway to show how important race is in the work of white American authors. According to her, race and ethnicity are j...

In this book, anthropologist Renato Rosaldo questions the whole idea of "objective" truth in humanities and social sciences and argues that truth is always relative. Whoa.Why, according to Rosaldo,...

Here's a nifty overview of the history of Ethnic Studies, issues in the field. If you think Ethnic Studies might float your boat, dive on in here first. Ethnic Studies, as Yang states in the book,...

In this article, Yosso's all about showing how ethnic minority groups have tons of ways of staying strong and making it in the U.S. despite the obstacles they have to face.How does the idea of "com...

What's up in Native American Studies these days? Take a look right here for an overview.According to Kidwell, how have "political forces" shaped the field of Native American Studies?Which "key term...