Collaborative Bibliographies:

Interracial Interactions (Bibliography)

Original Query

Valerie Smith, King-Kok Cheung, and I are in the midst of putting together a new course on interracial interactions in American fiction. Not surprisingly, most of the texts that we've located thus far focus on contacts between white Americans and people of color. We've also found a few works by Asian-American authors that deal with contact with blacks. To this point, that's about it. We would greatly appreciate any suggestions of other texts that we might consider for our reading list. Thanks.

Richard Yarborough

Bibliography:

1. Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima. Berkeley, Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol, 1975.

2. Castillo, Ana. Mixquiahuala Letters. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

3. Castillo, Ana. So Far from God. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.

4. Castillo, Ana. Sapagonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

5. Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. New York: Random House, 1975.

6. Dorris, Michael. Yellow Raft on Blue Water. New York: H. Holt, 1987.

7. Faulkner, William. "Red Leaves."

8. Griggs, Sutton. Imperium in Imperio. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

9. Heath Anthology of American Literature. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1990.

10. Hopkins, Paulina. The Magazine Novels on Paulina Hopkins. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.

11. Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. New York: Persea Books, 1991.

12. Islas, Arturo. Migrant Souls. New York: Marrow, 1990.

13. Islas, Arturo. The Rain God: A Desert Tale. Palo Alto: Alexandrian Press, 1984.

14. Jen, Gish. Typical American. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

15. Katz, William Loren. Black Indians: A Hidden Treasure. New York: Atheneum, 1986.

16. Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1991.

17. Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in Heaven. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.

18. Kingston, Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey. New York: Knopf, 1989.

19. Kinney, James. Amalgamation!: Race, Sex, and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century American Novel. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1985.

20. Malamud, Bernard. The Tenants. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971.

21. Malamud, Bernard. A Malanud Reader. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1967.

22. Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.

23. Norton. New Worlds of Literature. New York: Norton, 1989.

24. Reed, Ishmael. Airing Dirty Laundry. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993.

25. Reed, Ishmael. Reckless Eyeballing. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

26. Rivera, Edward. Family Installments: Memories if Growing up Hispanic. New York: Morrow, 1982.

27. Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo. The Squatter and the Don. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992.

28. Silko, Leslie. Almanac of the Dead. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

29. Silko, Leslie. Ceremony. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

30. Smith, Anna Deavere. Fires in the Mirror. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

31. Spider Woman's Granddaughters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

32. Utley, Francis Lee. Bear, Man, and God: Eight Approaches to William Faulkner's The Bear. New York: Random House, 1971.

33. Villanueva, Alma Luz. Naked Ladies. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, 1994.

34. Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land. New York: Persea Press, 1993.

35. Welch, James. Fools Crow. New York: Viking, 1986.

36. Whisnant, Luke. Watching TV with the Red Chinese. New York: Warner Books, 1992.

37. Williams, Anne. Dessa Rose. New York: W. Morrow, 1986.

38. Zangwill, Israel. The Melting Pot: Drama in Four Acts. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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