What do I assign in my Literature Courses?

African American Literature

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide: When the Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange (1976)

Kindred, Octavia Butler (1979)

Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)

White Rage, Carol Anderson (2016)

Course Reader (compiled by me)

Ethnic Literature

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen

Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Interpreter of Maladies by Jumpa Lahiri

The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacobs

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcala

So Far From God by Ana Castillo

Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua