UW Institute on Race and Ethnicity- Reading Seminars
UW Institute on Race and Ethnicity- 05-06 Recipients
Renee Gralewicz, UW-Barron County
Deborah Pattee, UW-Eau Claire
Jeff Kuepper, UW-Fox Valley
Renee Ettinger, Green Bay
Scott Dickmeyer, UW-La Crosse
Cecilia Manrique, UW-La Crosse
Ned Blackhawk, UW-Madison
Ann Dingman, UW-Madison
Dave Gilbert, UW-Madison
Catherine Leone, UW-Manitowoc
Dail Murray, UW-Marinette
Floyd Beachum and Tina Boyle, UW-Milwaukee
Nancy Frank, UW-Milwaukee
Ann Hains, UW-Milwaukee
Erin Montagne, UW-Milwaukee
Desmond Overstreet, UW-Milwaukee
Debora Wisneski, UW-Milwaukee
Norlisha Crawford, UW-Oshkosh
Peter Meyerson, UW-Oshkosh
Roseann Mason, UW-Parkside
Carmon Faymonville, UW-Platteville
Tom Lo Guidice, UW-Platteville
Blake Fry, UW-River Falls
Michael Miller, UW-River Falls
Mary Lee Vance, UW-Superior
Seth Meisel, UW-Whitewater
Davie Williams, UW-Whitewater

UW-Barron County
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Renee Gralewicz (Anthropology/Sociology Department)
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea by Elof Axel Carlson
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black
UW-Eau Claire
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Deborah Pattee (Department of Curriculum and Instruction)
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Teaching Diversity: Challenges and Complexities, Identities and Integrity edited by William M. Timpson, Silvia Sara Canetto, Evelinn Borrayo, and Raymond Yang
UW-Fox Valley
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Jeff Kuepper (Student Activities)
Hmong Means Free: Life Laos and America edited by Sucheng Chan
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself
UW-Green Bay
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Renee Ettinger (Cofrin Library)
Hottentot Venus: A Novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

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UW-La Crosse
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Scott Dickmeyer (Department of Communication Studies)
A Long Way to Go: Conversations About Race by African American Faculty and Graduate Students edited by Darrell Cleveland
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Cecilia Manrique (Political Science/Public Administration Department)
Filipinos: Forgotten Asian-Americans by Fred Cordova
Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs by the Filipino American Historical Society
UW-Madison
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Ned Blackhawk (Department of History)
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Ann Dingman (Mogridge Center for Public Service)
White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Dave Gilbert (Department of History)
The Rise of Democracy by Sean Wilentz
Slave Country by Adam Rothman
UW-Manitowoc
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Catherine Leone (Anthropology and Sociology Department)
Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America by Kerry Trask
The Painted Drum: A Novel by Louise Erdich

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UW-Marinette
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Dail Murray (Anthropology and Sociology Department)
When the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the
Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
UW-Milwaukee
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Floyd Beachum and Tina Boyle (Department of Administrative Leadership)
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West
Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line by Michael Eric Dyson
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Nancy Frank (Department of Urban Planning)
Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
Talking Race in the Classroom by Jane Bolgatz
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Ann Hains (Department of Exceptional Education)
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Sixth Edition: An Integrated Study by Paula S. Rothenberg
Empowering Latinas: Breaking Boundaries, Freeing Lives by Yasmin Davids-Garrido
Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Erin Montagne (GEAR UP Program)
Native Son by Richard Wright
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Desmond Overstreet (Department of English, graduate student)
Tulia: Race, Corruption, and the Search for Justice in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Debora Wisneski (Department of Curriculum and Instruction)
Children of Immigration by Carola Suarez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suarex-Orozco
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

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UW-Oshkosh
Submitter(s):

Book(s):
Norlisha Crawford (Department of English/African American Studies Program) and Ron Rindo (Department of English)
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representation by African American Women edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Peter Meyerson (College of Education and Human Services)
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
UW-Parkside
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Roseann Mason (Diversity Circles Office)
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
UW-Platteville
Submitter(s):

Book(s):
Carmon Faymonville (Humanities Department/English Program) and Kevin Concannon
(Humanities Department/English Program and Women's Studies)
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Tom Lo Guidice (Teaching Excellence Center)
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano

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UW-River Falls
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Blake Fry (Student Development and Campus Diversity)
The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity and Class in America by Stephen Steinberg
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Michael Miller (Department of Teacher Education)
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
UW-Superior
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Mary Lee Vance (Center for Academic and Career Advising)
Threads: Gender, Work, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry by Jane Lou Collins
Debating Diversity by Ronald Takaki
UW-Whitewater
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Seth Meisel (Department of History)
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez
Submitter(s):
Book(s):
Davie Williams (Multicultural Center)
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang

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