International Blog Against Racism Week: Book Recommendations

Rather than writing a post about my feelings and this issue, I'm going to do something fairly educational. I'm going to recommend some books which I have taught over the years that are from authors whose background is not mine. Sometimes the authors handle the issues of racism seriously, and sometimes humorously. Occasionally they do both at the same time. All of the books I'm recommending are by authors from the ethnicity written about in the book.

Let's start with Reservation Blues, one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors. Reservation Blues focuses on the brief rise and fall of the rock band Coyote Springs, and features famous guitarist Robert Johnson, two dead US army generals, and life on the reservation. It's a funny book and it's a serious book, which is Alexie's way. The book is a great study for fantacists as well as lit students.

More book recommendations follow.

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