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2004

• “Black Mayflower, The” by Prince Massala Reffell
• “Call It Sleep” by Henry Roth
• “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison
• “Known World, The” by Edward P. Jones
• “Lifting the White Veil: An Exploration of White American Culture in a
• Multiracial Context” by Jeff Hitchcock
• “our stories remember: American Indian History, Culture, and Values through by Storytelling” by Joseph Bruchac 
• “Race Matters” by Cornel West
• “Silent Convenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform” by Derrick Bell
• “Torn Between Two Cultures: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out” by Maryam Qudrat Aseel
• “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace” by Walter Mosley
• “Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American” by Vickie Nam

2003

• “Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self’” by Rebecca Walker
• “The Bondwoman’s Narrative” by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates Jr. editor
• “Killing the White Man’s Indian: The Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century” by Fergus M. Bordewich
• “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler
• “Learning to be White: Money, Race and God in America” by Thandeka
• “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” By Frederick Douglass
• “Privilege, Power and Difference” by Allan G. Johnson
• “Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists” by Sally Roesch Wagner
• “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation” by Michael Moore
• “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
• “Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White” by Frank H. Wu

2002

• “Brown: the Last Discovery of America” by Richard Rodriguez
• “Dismantling Racism” by Joseph Barndt
• “Growing Up Chicana/o” edited by Tiffny Anna Lopez
• “I Have Spoken” edited by V. Armstrong
• “The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism and the Cant of Conquest” by Francis Jennings
• “Snow Falling on the Cedars” by David Guterson
• “White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness” by Maurice Berger
• “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and Their Paths to Action” by Eileen O’Brien

2001

• “Afraid of the Dark” by Jim Myers 
• “The Debt” by Randall Robinson
• “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. 
• “How Race is Lived in America” by Correspondents of the New York Times 
• “Lies my Teacher Told Me” by James W. Loewen 
• “One Blood: the Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew” by Spencie Love