Good anthologies of stories, poems and plays by various ethnic groups are

1. Call and Response the Riverside Anthology (of African American lit)

2. Herencia Nicolas Kanellas, editor (Latino/a)

3. Latino Boom John Christie and Jose Gonzalez, editors

4. Native American Literature Trout, editor

5. Novels and Short Story Collections:

6. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Native American

7. Black Elk Speaks Niehardt

8. Ceremony Silko

9. House Made of Dawn Momaday

10. Reservation Blues Alexie

11. Winter in the Blood Welch

African American

12. Bailey’s Café Gloria Naylor

13. Beloved Toni Morrison

14. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

15. Narrative of a Life Frederick Douglass

16. Native Son Richard Wright

Latino/a

17. House on Mango Street Cisneros

18. How the xx girls Lost Their Accents Alveraz

19. Woman Hollering Creek Cisneros

Asian American

20. Kathy DG

21. The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston

Bibliography of Critical Works on Latino-American Literature

1. Bilingual Review (journal)

2. Borderlands Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the

American Southwest. (Stoddard, Elwynn R. et al, eds. Norman: U of Okalahoma P, 1983)

3. Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings. (Horno-Delgado, Asuncion,

et al, eds. Amherst: U of Massechusetts P, 1989)

4. Chicana Critical Issues (Alarcon, Norma et al , eds.. Berkeley: Third Woman P, 1993)

5. Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender. (Cordova, Teresa, et al, eds.

Austin: U of Texax P, 1986)

6. Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology.

(Calderon, Hector, and Jose David Saldivar, eds. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991)

7. Latin American Theater Review (journal)

8. Latina (journal)

9. The Mexican American Experience: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. (de la Garza,

Rodolfo O., et al, eds. Austin: U of Texas P, 1985)

10. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color. (Moraga, Cherrie,

and Gloria Anzaldua, eds.Watertown, MA: Persephone P, 1981 )

Bibliography of Critical Works on Asian-American Literature

11. A Look Beyond the Model Minority Image: Critical Issues in Asian America. (Yun, Grace

(ed). New York: Minority Rights Group, 1989)

12. Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asain American Writers. (Chin, Frank, et al (eds).

Washington, DC: Howard UP, 1974)

13. Amerasia Journal

14. Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context.

(Kim, Elaine H. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1982)

15. Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian

Descent. (Trudeau, Lawrence J. (ed). Detroit: Gale, 1999)

16. Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue: New Cultural Identities. (Amirthanayagam, Guy

(ed). London: Macmillan, 1982)

17. Asian-American Literature: An Anthology. (Geok-lin Lim, Shirley (ed). Lincolnwood, IL:

NTC, 2000)

18. Asian-American Women Writers. Bloom, Harold (ed). (Philadelphia: Chelsea House,

1997)

19. Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry. (Ling, Amy. New York:

Pergamon, 1990)

20. Chinese Women of America: A Pictorial History. (Yung, Judy. Seattle: U of Washington

P, 1986)

21. Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America. (Gee, Emma (ed). Los Angeles: Asian

American Studies Center, 1976)

22. Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and About Asian American Women. (Asian

Women United (ed). Boston: Beacon, 1989)

23. Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals. (Duke, Michael S. (ed). Armonk,

NY: Sharpe, 1989)

24. Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, and Amy Ling (eds).

Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1992.

25. Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American

Literature for Teachers of American Literature. (Baker, Howard A., Jr (ed). New York:

MLA, 1982 )

Novels and Other Major Works by Asian Americans

Chinese:

26. American Moon by Cao Youfang 1986

27. China Boy by Gus Lee

28. China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

29. Donald Duk by Frank Chin

30. Eat a Bowl of Tea by Louis Chu 1961

31. Homebase by Shawn Wong

32. M. Butterfly by David Hwang 1988

33. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 1989

34. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan 1991

35. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

36. Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston

Japanese:

37. And the Soul Shall Dance by Wakako Yamauchi

38. In the Heart of the Valley of Love 1992

39. The Chauvinist and Other Stories

40. The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata 1989

41. Woman from Hiroshima by Toshio Mori 1979

42. Yokahama, California (stories)

Korean:

1. Finding My Voice by Marie G. Lee

2. If It Had't Been For Yoon Jun Saying Goodbye

Bibiliography of Native American LiteraryCriticism

1. Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory (Madsen, Deborah,

ed.

2. Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction. (Fleck, Richard, ed. New York: Three

Continents P, 1993)

3. Dictionary of Native American Literature. (in reference section of library)

4. Native American Literature. (Wiget, Andrew. Boston: Twayne, 1985)

5. New Voices in native American Literary Criticism. (Krupat, Arnold, Ed. Washington:

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993)

6. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. (Owens, Louis Norman: U

of Oklahoma P, 1994)

7. The Invention of Native American Literature (Parker, Robert Dale)

8. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. (Allen, Paula

Gunn. Boston: Beacon P, 1986)

Selected Bibliography of Books for the Study of

African-American Literature

9. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature. (Baker, Howard A. Jr. Chicago: U of

Chicago P, 1984)

10. Afro-American Literary Studies in the 1990s. (Baker, Howard A. Jr., and Patricia

Redmond, eds. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989)

11. The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. (Bell, Bernard W.Amherst: U of

Massachusetts P, 1987)

12. Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic. Dubey, Madhu. (Bloomington:

Indiana UP,1994)

13. Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Cricital Anthology. (Gates. Henry Louis, ed. New

York: Meridian, 1990)

14. The Signifiying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. ( New York:

Oxford, 1988)

15. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.

(Giddings, Paula. Toronto: Bantam, 1984)

16. "Reflections on Black Women Writers: Rivisting the Literary Canon." The Impact of

Feminist Research in the Academy. (McKay, Nellie. Ed. Christie Farnham.

Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. 174-89)

17. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. (Pryse, Marjorie and Hortense

J. Spillers. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985)