Common Read 2008

Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
New York: Riverhead Books, 1998

2008 Mt. Holyoke College Common Read Press Release

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ABOUT DANZY SENNA

Entry from Contemporary Authors Online
in Biography Resource Center

Entry from Blue Flower Arts
web site for writers' representative

Interview with Danzy Senna,
in Project MUSE

FURTHER READING

Nonfiction about Race:

The color of water : a Black man’s tribute to his white mother (by James McBride)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: F130.N4 M38 1997

The black notebooks : an interior journey (by Toi Derricotte)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: PS3554.E73 Z464 1997

Mixed : an anthology of short fiction on the multiracial experience (edited by Chandra Prasad)
Mt. Holoyke College Library call number: PS647 .E85 M59 2006

Black cultural traffic : crossroads in global performance and popular culture (edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Kennell Jackson)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: E185.625 .B555 2005

Half and half : writers on growing up biracial and bicultural (edited and with an introduction by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: HQ777.9 .H34 1998

Black, white or mixed race? : race and racism in the lives of young people of mixed parentage (by Barbara Tizard and Ann Phoenix)
Smith College Library call number: HQ777.9 .T59 2002

What are you? : voices of mixed-race young people (edited by Pearl Fuyo Gaskins)
UMass Du Bois Library call number:  E184.A1 W385 1999

Incidents in the life of a slave girl (by Harriet Jacobs)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: E444.J17 A3 1988

Nonfiction about Identity:

Identity development : adolescence through adulthood (by Jane Kroger)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: BF697  .K76 2007

After identity : rethinking race, sex, and gender (by Georgia Warnke)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: BF697  .W324 2007

Sibling identity and relationships : sisters and brothers (by Rosalind Edwards [et al.])
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: HQ759.96  .S52 2006

Scattered belongings : cultural paradoxes of "race," nation and gender (by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: HT1523 .I36 1999

I am because we are : readings in Black philosophy (edited with an introduction by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: DT15  .I15 1995

Coming to terms : feminism, theory, politics (edited by Elizabeth Weed)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: HQ1154  .C644 1989

Boston against busing : race, class, and ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (by Ronald P. Formisano)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: LC214.523.B67  F67 2004

Boston riots : three centuries of social violence (by Jack Tager)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: HV6483.B6  T34 2001

Waiting 'til the midnight hour : a narrative history of Black power in America (by Peniel E. Joseph)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: E185.615  .J68 2006

The Black power movement : rethinking the civil rights-Black power era (edited by Peniel E. Joseph)
Mount Holyoke College Library call number: E185.61  .B6 2006

Fiction:

Invisible Man (by Ralph Ellison)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: PS3555.L625 I5 1989

Passing (by Nella Larsen)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: PS3523.A7225 P37 2000

Who does she think she is : a novel (by Benilde Little)
Smith College Library call number:  PS3562.I78276 W47 2005

The professor’s daughter : a novel (by Emily Raboteau)
Amherst College, Smith College, and UMass DuBois Libraries call number:  PS3618.A326 P76 2005

What answer? (by Anna E. Dickinson)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number:  PS1538 .W48 2003

Dark secret (by Elizabeth Atkins Bowman)
Amherst College Library call number: PS3552.O8757114 D37 2001

On beauty : a novel (by Zadie Smith)
Mt. Holyoke College Library call number: PR6069 .M59 O58 2005

Books by Alice Walker

Books by Zora Neale Hurston

Reference Sources at Mount Holyoke College Library:
(may also be available at your local public library)

The Greenwood encyclopedia of multiethnic American literature
MHC Reference: PS153.M56 G74 2005

African American writers
MHC Reference: PS153.N5 A344 2001

African-American writers : a dictionary
MHC Reference: PS153.N5 A3444 2000

Encyclopedia of American social movements
MHC Reference: HN57 .E594 2004

Dictionary of American history
MHC Reference: E174 .D52 2003

The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights : from emancipation to the twenty-first century
MHC Reference: E185.61 .E54 2003

Subject Headings:
Or try searching the library catalog on the following Library of Congress Subject Headings

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- fiction
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
African Americans -- Race identity
African American women -- fiction
Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Blacks -- Race identity
Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Difference (Psychology) -- fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identity (Psychology)
Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
Identity (Psychology) -- fiction
Interracial marriage -- fiction
Mothers and daughters -- fiction
Multiculturalism -- United States
Passing (Identity) -- fiction
Race -- fiction
Race awareness -- United States
Race relations -- fiction
Race relations -- United States
Racially mixed children
Racially mixed people -- fiction
Racially mixed people -- Race identity
Racially mixed people -- United States
Racism -- fiction
Sisters -- fiction