Books are the capstone to success! And they’re just darn plain fun. I’ve separated books into fiction and non-ficton for easy browsing. As the list grows, I’ll feature more complete reviews and annotations.
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Books (fiction)
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Kafka, Franz, and Stanley Corngold. The Metamorphosis. Bantam classic ed. Toronto ; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1981.
- Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Vintage International, 2007.
- Petry, Ann. The Street. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1946.
- Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper, 1940.
Books (non-fiction)
- Beam, C. (2013). To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care. New York:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Coontz, S. (1992). The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York:Basic Books.
- Gill, O., & Jackson, B. (1983). Adoption & Race: Black, Asian, and Mixed Race Children in White Families (Child Care Policy and Practice). New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
- Griffin, J H. (1961). Black Like Me. Houghton Mifflin.
- Joyce, K. (2013). The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption. New York:Public Affairs.
- Kim, E. J. (2010). Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Durham, NC:Duke University Press.
- Oh, A. H. (2015). To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption. Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press.
- Mintz, S. and Kellog, S. (1988). Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York, NY: The Free Press.
- Nelson, K. P. (2016). Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism. New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers University Press.
- Tharps, L. L. (2016). Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families. Boston:Beacon Press.
a critical discourse. 