Race and Ethnicity

A List of Books for the Book Report List of Books- Students may read other book with the instructor’s approval. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment – by James Jones, 1993 Ethnic Identity:  The transformations of White American by B. Richard Alba, 1990 The Coming Race War in America:  A Wake Up Call by Carl T. Rowan The Future of Our Race by Henry Louis Gates Affirmative Reaction by David Greenberg Race Matters by Cornel West, 1993 Two Nations by Andrew Hacker In Defense of La Raza by Francisco Balderrama Race and Class in the Southwest by Mario Barrera, 1979 Women of the Klan by Kathleen Blee, 1991 Asian Americans by Harry Kitano, 1988 Why We can’t Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, 1964 How the Jews became white folks:  and What that says about Race in America by Karen Brodkin 1998 White Like Me:  by Time Wise (September 2011) A Lynching in the Heartland:  Race and Memory in America by James Madison (Feb. 2003) Forbidden Love (The Hidden History of Mixed Race America)by Gary Nash (2010) Arab in America by Toufic El Rassie (2008) From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State:  Race and the Death Penalty in America.  Charles Ogletree (May 2006) Outline of the book report   Section I  Theme of the book                   What is the book about?                   Main idea or purpose                   Questions the book answers   Section II A summary of each chapter   Section III         Critical Analysis of the book   Section I  Your Evaluation   What is your evaluation of the contribution this book makes to sociology?                   What did it add to your knowledge?                   Can you apply anything from this book to your own life?                     Finally give your personal opinion                   Was it interesting, well organized, confusing, boring etc.?                   How did you like this book?