Required texts

Blanche on the Lam, by BarbaraNeely, Penguin Books, 1993, ISBN: 0140174397
Ghost Singer, by Anna Lee Walters, U of Mexico P, 1994, ISBN: 0826315453
(NB) New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, by Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, and Keith D. Miller, Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN: 0130141275
Patternmaster, by Octavia Butler, Aspect, 1995, ISBN: 0446362816
(PD) Playing In The Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, by Toni Morrison, Vintage, 1993, ISBN: 0679745424
(RB) Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism, by Michael Eric Dyson, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, ISBN: 0816621438

Recommended texts:

A Handbook to Literature, by William Harmon, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN: 0130979988
Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, by BarbaraNeely
Lost in the City, by Edward P. Jones

Other resources:

Student Technology Center, 2nd Floor, Zahnow Library http://www.svsu.edu/library/stc/
The Writing Center, Science East 123 http://www.svsu.edu/writingcenter/