SYE 404
A Social Issues Bibliography
| Age of Iron | J.M. Coetzee | PZ4.C6379 Ag 1990 |
| Among Schoolchildren | Tracy Kidder | LB1776 .K48 1989 |
| Animal Dreams | Barbara Kingsolver | PZ4.K56392 An 1990 |
| The Architecture of all Abundance: Creating a Successful Life in the Material World | Lenedra J. Carroll | BL624 .C348 2001 |
| Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | PZ4.A4447 Ba 1993 |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | PZ4.M6776 Bl 2000 |
| The Book of Lamentations | Rosario Castellanos | PQ7297.C2596 O313 1998 |
| The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism | Robert Coles | HV 91 .C62 1993 C.2 |
| Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear | Robert Coles | HC 110 .P6 C56 v.1 |
| Darfur Daries: Stories of Survival | Jen Marlowe with Aisha Bain & Adam Shapiro | DT159.6.D27 M37 2006 |
| Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States | Helen Prejean | HV8699.U5 P74 1994 |
| The Devil's Highway: A True Story | Luis Alberto Urrea | JV6475 .U77 20 |
| Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee | PZ4.C6379 Di 1999 |
| Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of our Environmental Future | Mark Hertsgaard | GE149 .H47 1999 |
| The Farming of Bones: A Novel | Edwidge Danticat | PZ4.D3674 Fa 1998 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | PZ3.S8195 Gr |
| Grassroots Rising: Fed up With Toxins in your Food, Air, and Water? | Ed Begley, Rick McLean, David Suzuki | GE195 .B434 2006 |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday | PZ4.M6522 Ho 1968 |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | PZ4.C5763 Ho 1989 |
| Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope | Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni |
KMH110.I23 A3 2006 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | PZ3.S616 Ju25 1965z |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines | PZ4.G3463 Le 1993 |
| Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation | Parker J Palmer | BV4740 .035 2000 |
| Life in the Iron Mills; or, The Korl Woman | Rebecca Harding Davis | PZ3.D297 Li 6 |
| Living Like Ed | Ed Begley, Jr | GE195.7 .B44 2008 |
| The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours | Marian Wright Edelman | HQ 769 .E355 1992 |
| The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town | Mary Pipher |
JV6601 .P56 2002 |
| The Missing Class : Portraits of the Near Poor in America | Katherine S. Newman & Victor Tan Chen | HD8072.5 .N487 2007 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | PZ3.W9352 Nat 23 |
| Nickel and Dimed : On (not) Getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | HD4918 .E375 2001 |
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of 4 Meals |
Michael Pollan |
GT2850 .P65 2006 |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | R154.F36 K53 2003 |
| Ordinary Grace: An Examination of the Roots of Compassion, Altruism, and Empathy, and the Ordinary Individuals Who Help Others in Extraordinary Ways | Kathleen A. Brehony | BF637 .H4 B74 1999 |
| An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography | Paul Rusesabagina | DT450.443.R87 A3 2006 |
| The Other America: Poverty in the United States | Michael Harrington | HV91 .H3 1981 |
| The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival & Hope | Zainab Salbi | HV6250.4.W65 S245 2006 |
| The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? | Richard Warren | BV4501.3 .W37 2002 |
| Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans | David Stoll | F1465.2.Q5 M3885 1999 |
| The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind | Terry Glavin | QH75 .G58 2007 |
| Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time | Paul Loeb | HN65 .L58 1999 |
| Strange Fruit: A Novel | Lillian Smith | PZ3.S6536 St 1944z |
| There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America | Alex Kotlowitz | HQ792.U5 K68 1991 |
| Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations-- One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin | LC2330 .M67 2006 |
| Trini | Estela Portillo Trambley | PZ4.T6873 Tr 2005 |
| The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution | Mariano Azuela | PQ7297.A9 L614 2002 |
| A White Preacher's Memoir: The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Robert S. Graetz | F334.M79 N49 1998 |
| White Teeth: A Novel | Zadie Smith | PZ4.S6475 Wh 2001 |
| The Women of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor | PZ4.N3422 Wo 1983 |
| Yonnondio: From the Thirties | Tillie Olsen | PZ4.O3736 Yo 2004 |
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