Non-Fiction Book Project

Freshman Program

Ethnicity

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

“Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. What is going on here?

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences.”

Media and MinoritiesBlack Noise

Hip Hop WarsThe New Jim CrowOur America: Life and Death on the South Side of ChicagoNat TurnerThe Chinese AmericansAsian American DreamsHome Bound: Filipino American LivesLatino in AmericaThe Latina Advantage

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

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Gender

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

“A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before.

But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present.”

Beauty QueensInk stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors Men and FeminismHalf the SkyThe Beauty MythRace, Class & GenderPretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boy’s Subculture

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Genocide & The Holocaust

Night

“Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. In the preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.”

GenocideA Long Way GoneLost Boy, Lost Girl

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our familiesUp for SaleHuman Trafficking: A Global PerspectiveSlavery Today5000 years of Slavery

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Pop Culture

Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism and the History of Comic Book Heroines

“Has Wonder Woman hit the comic book glass ceiling? Is that the one opposition that even her Amazonian strength can’t defeat? Entertaining and informative, The Supergirls explores iconic superheroines and what it means for the culture when they do everything the superhero does, only in thongs and high heels.

This much-needed alternative history of American comic book icons—from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond—delves into where these crime-fighting females fit in popular culture and why, and what their stories say about the role of women in society from their creation to now, and into the future.”

The Good, the Bad and the BarbieAlien Encounters: Pop Culture in Asian AmericaAsian American and the MediaAfrican American and the MediaMedia & MinoritiesLation Images in FilmGood Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature AnimationFrom Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender and CultureBlack Dance in AmericaRap Music and CultureSuper Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes From Girls to Grrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines

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Religion & Science

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science

“When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas.

Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways.”

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and ScienceThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

How I Killed Pluto and Why it had it coming Stiff

Medical Apartheid The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion The Origin of SatanAlmost ChristianNo God but God

Keep Your Head Up: America’s New Black Christian Leaders, Social Consciousness, & the Cosby Conversation

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Social Issues

The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir

“Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider’s perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn’t include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated if she “lived down” to others’ expectations?

In The Pregnancy Project, Gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy—hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend’s parents—and reveals all that she learned from the experience. But more than that, Gaby’s story is about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for herself.”

Pregnancy ProjectNickled and DimedNo Choir BoysShort History of Immigration Denied, Detained, DeportedRemix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers Food Inc.Sugar, Salt, FatWomen without ClassThe Price of Inequality Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great DepressionGay America: Struggle for EqualityGay Power! The Stonewall riots and the Gay Rights MovementQueer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century

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Sports

Far from Home: Latino Baseball Players in America

“The book captures all the flash and glory of being a major-league star at the top of his game...as well as the struggles faced by other hopefuls who have to take a longer, tougher road. For many of these men, the realities of the system—and the tension of illegal immigration—intrude on the dream. Discover what becomes of them, and explore the rich background of baseball and the Latin American world, in Far From Home.

With sports interest for the baseball fan...timely issues for the history buff...and great images for the photography enthusiast...it is perfectly positioned for Father’s Day and a must-read for all who love the national game.”

We are the ShipForty Million Dollar SlavesLeague of DenialFourth and LongNike is a GoddessLet Me PlayFriday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and A DreamOutcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town Negro League BaseballBlack College Football 1892-1992 The Unlevel Playing FieldTaboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It

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