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Preview of Topics for June 2008 WPE

Reading Set A: Mulatto Nation: Biracial Experiences in the United States

• Senna, Danzy.  “The Mulatto Millennium.” Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural.  Ed. Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
• Walker, Rebecca.  Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.  New York: Riverhead Books, 2001.
• Reddy, Maureen T.  “One Drop of Black Blood.” Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture.  New Brunswick: Rutgers U.P., 1997.
• Alvarez, Julia. “A White Woman of Color.” Half + Half:  Writers on Growing Up Biracial + Bicultural. Ed. Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
• Dickerson, Debra J. “Don’t Be Black on My Account: A Black Mother’s Gift to Her Biracial Children.” http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/05/kids/print.html. Mar. 05, 2007.

Reading Set B: Soul Wound: The Legacy of Assimilation

• Smith, Andrea. “Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American Schools” Amnesty Now. Summer 2003.
• Crow Dog, Mary. “Civilize Them with a Stick.” Lakota Woman. New York: Harper, 1991.
• Alexie, Sherman. “Indian Education.” The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. 171-180.
• Tinker George E. “Tracing a Contour of Colonialism: American Indians and the Trajectory of Educational Imperialism.” Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools.
• Fredrickson, George M. “Models of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective.” Eds. D.A. Prentice & D.T. Miller. Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict. New York: Russell Sage 1999.

Reading Set C: Live Organ Transplantation

• Surman, Owen S., Fukunishi, Isao, Allen, Terre, Hertl, Martin. “Live Organ Donation: Social Context,  Clinical Encounter, and the Psychology of Communication.” Psychosomatics 46:1 (2005): 1-6.
• Hunsicker, Lawrence G. “Medical Considerations of Procurement.” In New Harvest: Transplanting Body Parts and Reaping Benefits, ed. C. Don Keyes. Humana Press, 1991.
• Lamb, David. “Living Donors, Non-Human Sources, and Cadaveric Donors.” Transplants and Ethics.  Routledge: London, 1990. 104-111.
• Abouna, G. M., M. M. Sabawi, M.S.A. Kumar, and M. Samhan, “The Negative Impact of Paid Organ Donation.” In Organ Re-Placement Therapy: Ethics Justice Commerce, ed. W. Land and J. B. Dossetor. Springer-Verlag, 1991. 164-171.
• Reese, Peter P., Caplan, Arthur L., Kesselheim, Aaron S., Bloom, Roy D. “Creating a Medical, Ethical, and Legal Framework for Complex Living Kidney Donors.” Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2006).

Portfolio Reading Set: The African Athena Controversy

• Lefkowitz, Mary R. “Ancient History, Modern Myths.” Black Athena Revisited. Eds. Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Bernal, Martin “Introduction” Black Athena Writes Back. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2001.
• Berlinerblau, Jacques. “The Aryan Models.” Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999.