Bibliography
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “Olikoye.” Matter, a Medium Corporation. Published January 19, 2015. Accessed July, 2017. https://medium.com/matter/olikoye-b027d7c0a680. A tender, engaging story of Nigerian experience, used as a counter-story to common American narratives.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED Talk, 2009. Accessed July, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story. The basis of the study of stories that expand the “single story” Americans are usually given.
Angelou, Maya. “Human Family.” All Poetry. Accessed July, 2017. https://allpoetry.com/Human-Family. Inspiring poem that reinforces the themes of this unit and celebrates our common humanity.
Campbell, Jill. “Violence, Visibility, and Voice.” Lecture at the Yale National Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools Intensive Session, New Haven, CT, July, 2017. Theoretical basis of this unit and explanation as to why reading the perspectives of others helps us grow our own identities.
Denby, David. Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2016. Interesting study of the power of reading and how the practice is executed in several regional schools in the American Northeast.
DiAngelo, Robin. “White Fragility.” International Journal of Critical Pedogogy 3, Vol. 3, (2011): pp. 54 - 70. Dense study of American racism.
Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. New York: Atria, 2014. Well-written memoir of American trans experience.
Nelson, Hilde Lindemann. Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Utilized mainly in this unit the concepts of “master narrative” versus “counter-stories.”
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014. Inspiration for much of the Teaching Strategies section; a hard-hitting multimedia poem and commentary on the American black experience.
Rocero, Geena. “Why I Must Come Out.” TED Talk, 2014. Accessed July, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/geena_rocero_why_i_must_come_out. Engaging account of a trans model’s journey to personal enlightenment.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Classical and unchallenged exploration of identity.
Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015. Tender, engaging story of an white orphan growing up with a black family in a racially divided town.
Wang, Jiahong. “Between Realism and Genre Fiction: American Born Chinese and Strange Fruit.” Midwest Quarterly, 58:2, (Winter 2017): pp. 220-241, 143. Analysis of one of the core sources of this unit.
Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese. New York: Square Fish, Re-print edition, 2008. Foundational source of this unit.
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