Book Listing
Here is a list of books that I used during my writing class - Women of Color: Writing Our Stories and few more.
Feel free to comment with books that you have found important to telling your story.
Skirt Full of Black - Sun Yung Shin
Just Plain Folks - Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
Bailey's Cafe - Gloria Naylor
Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Street - Ann Petry
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarrissa Pinkola Estes
Borderlands - Gloria Anzaldua
Of Orphans & Warriors - Gloria Heyung Chin
Cane - Jean Toomer
killing rage - bell hooks
Ladies Pages - Noliwe M. Rooks
black notebooks - Toi Derricotte
A Shining Thread of Hope - Darlene Clark Hine & Kathleen Thompson
Chicana Without Apology - Eden Torres
Afro-American Women Writers: 1740 - 1933 - Ann Allen Shockley
Bamboo Among Oaks - Mai Neng Moua, editor
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The Women of Brewsters Place - Gloria Naylor
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Huston
Who Set You Fowin'? Farah Griffin
River, Cross My Heart - Breena Clark
Slavery By Another Name - Douglas A. Blackmon
Picturing Us - Deborah Willis, editor
Chinese Blackbird - Sherry Quan Lee
The Woman Who Fell From The Sky - Joy Harjo
Writing Books
The Triggering Town - Richard Hugo
Free Within Ourselves and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction - both by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The 3AM Epiphany - Brian Kiteley
Movies
Rosewood
Amistad