Aaron Henry.
I Had a Hammer
. Harper Collins, New York, New York, 1991.
An autobiography and also a sociopolitical commentary on racism in baseball and in the American Society. The book concentrates on his baseball career.
Bar-Lev, Geoffrey and Sakkal, Joyce.
Jewish Americans Struggle for Equality
. Rourke Corporation, Inc., Vero Beach Florida, 1992.
Discusses the struggle of Jews to secure equal rights in the United States.
Dear, Ray.
Young. Black Eagle Child
. Crown Publishers, 1990. Native American poet tells extraordinary, tragic, ad comic story stories that show his development as an artist.
Garvey, J. “Alone With Our Rights.”
Commonwealth
, October 25, 1991, Volume 118, Issue 18, p. 599.
Compares American and European culture by the way racism is handled.
Gonzalez, D. “Racism”,
New York Times
, January 11, 1992, Volume 144, Issue 48845, p. 1.
Tells of a 12 year old Hispanic boy being attacked by three white teenagers on his way to school in the Bronx.
Herda, D.J.
Ethnic America
. The Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Connecticut, 1991.
Presents an overview of the history and contributions of major ethnic groups that shaped America yesterday and continue to change the American scene today. Discusses the social, economic, and political problems faced by immigrant groups as they settled in the United States.
Ingalls, Robert P. Hoods,
The Story of the Ku Klux Klan
. Longman Canada Limited, Toronto, Canada, 1979.
A history of the mysterious hooded organization from its beginnings during Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Jensen, Jeffrey.
Hispanic Americans Struggle for Equality
. Rourke Corporation, Inc., Vero Beach, Florida, 1992.
Identifies discrimination and discusses how Hispanic Americans have struggled for their civil rights.
Jones, Claire,
The Chinese in America
. Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1972.
Discusses reasons for immigration of the Chinese to the United States, their problems here, and their contributions to American life.
Larsen, Ronald J.,
The Puerto Ricans in America
. Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973.
A brief history of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Immigration to the mainland, and the individual contributions of Puerto Ricans to American life and culture.
Marshall, Paula.
Daughters
.
A powerful and evocative story of a young woman confronting the barriers to freedom that a Brooklyn born American with West Indian roots face in the United States.
Mizzell, Linda.
Think About Racism
.
Discusses racism in the United States and problems faced by minorities.
Monroe, S., and Gibbs, N. “Shades of Differences”.
Time
, November 18, 1991, Volume 138, Issue 20, p. 66.
Summarized the impact ethnic diversity is having on California, where already there is no racial majority in either Los Angeles city or county.
Newman, M. “Victim of Bias Attack.”
New York Times
, January 9, 1992, Volume 141. Issue 48840, p. 1.
Comments on the attack made on 14 year old Black youth and his sister by four young White men who sprayed them with white shoe polish and yelled racial epithets.
Parker, B., and Lida, D. “Pride From Prejudice.”
Metropolitan Home
, February, 1992, volume 24, Issue 2, p. 38.
Studies the Black memorabilia collection of Lowery Sims, associate curator of 20th Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, why she collects the seemingly negative images of African-Americans.
Pinchot, Jane.
The Mexicans in America
. Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1973.
A brief history of the Mexicans in the United States—their life in the American southwest before statehood, the United States acquisition of their land, and the individual contributions of Mexicans to American life.
Stark, E. “The Myth of Black Violence.”
USA Today
. January, 1992, volume 120. Issue 2560, p. 32.
Investigates the media stereotypes of Blacks as violence prone; how the police and the court system perpetuate the false view; why the image of a violent Black underclass is based on flawed statistics; negative and tragic consequences for Blacks.
Wilson, Anna.
African Americans Struggle for Equality
. Rourke Corporation, Inc., Vero Beach, Florida, 1992.
Identifies discrimination and discusses the struggle of African Americans for equality in education, employment, and other areas of life.
Zuckerman, M.B. “Black and White in America”.
US News & World Report
, October 28, 1991, Volume III, Issue 18, p. 92.
An editorial that contends how charges of racism have vastly diminished force in America; most Whites and a growing number of Blacks no longer maintain that racism is the main reason for the lack of Black progress; why a majority of the American public feel that high cost programs designed to benefit minorities have not worked; what is being blamed for the nations crime wave.
