North Hall Library

 

Biographies of Ethnical Diverse People

Biographies/Stories of Individuals from Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds

Prepared by Frances Garrison – Rev. Oct. 2, 2007

 

Title
Author
Call Number
Almost family (a deep south book) Hoffman PS3558.O34634 A78 2000  
Bluest Eye Toni Morrison PS3563.O8749 B55 1998  
Bone  Ng PS3564.G25 B6 1994  
Children of the dream: our own stories of growing up black in America Holliday E185.86 .C47 2000
Color of Water : A black man’s tribute to his white mother McBride F130.N4 M38 1997
Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir Peter Jan Honigsberg F376 .H66 2000
A fire you can't put out: the civil rights life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth Andrew M. Manis F334.B69 N448 1999
Funny in Farsi: A memoir of growing up Iranian in America Firoozeh Dumas E184.15 D86 2004
Growing up Ethnic in America: contemporary fiction about learning to be American Gillan PS647.E85 G76 1999  
Growing up Jewish in America: an oral history Frommer E184.37 .A14 1999
A hope in the unseen: an American odyssey from the inner city to the ivy league Suskind LC2803.W3 S87 1999  
How the Garcia Girls lost their accents Alvarez PS3551.L845 H66 1992
I know why the caged bird sings Angelou, Maya E185.97.A56 A3 1970
I’m glad I look like a terrorist: growing up Arab in America Hanania PN4874 .H2216 A3 1996
Joy luck club Amy Tan PS3570.A48 J6 1989
Nappy: Growing up black and female in America Givson E185.97 .G46 A3 1995
Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee PS3562 .E3347 N38 1996
Nice Jewish Girls: growing up in America Marks PS508 .J4 N53 1996
On her own ground: the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker / A'Lelia Bundles HD9970.5 .C672 W3533 2001
Ono Ono girl's hula Carolyn Lei-lanilau E184.C5 L55 1997
Out of the frying pan: reflections of a Japanese American Bill Hosokawa E-book 
Paper Daughter Mar E184 .C5 M17 2000
Rain of Gold Villasenor PS3572 .L384 R35 1991
Red ribbon on a white horse Yezierska PS3547 .E95 R43 1987
Soon we will not cry: the liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Cynthia Griggs Fleming E185.97 .R676 F58 2000
There are no children here Kotlowitz HQ792.U5 K68 1991
Tongue-tied : the lives of multilingual children in public education edited by Otto Santa Ana LC3731 .T65 2004
When I was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago F128.9.P85 S27 1994
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?: and other conversations about race Tatum E185.625 .T38 1999
Woman Warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts Kingston CT275.K5764 A33 1989