Items at the American River College Community and Diversity Center
Explore the American River College Community & Diversity Center's curated book list, featuring Lies My Teacher Told Me, Caucasia, and Iran Awakening—essential reads on education, identity, and global perspectives.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
by James W. Loewen
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
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Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career “Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they speak their own language, yet Birdie, with her light skin and straight hair, is often mistaken for white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at school. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie’s confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. Then their parents’ marriage collapses. One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole. Soon Birdie and her mother are on the road as well, drifting across the country in search of a new home. But for Birdie, home will always be Cole. Haunted by the loss of her sister, she sets out a desperate search for the family that left her behind. A modern classic, Caucasia is at once a powerful coming of age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America.
