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How about Richard Wright's _Native Son_ or _12 Million Black Voices_ (great historical context and documentary images)? ============ FROM: Mullen, Bill V <bvmullen@purdue.edu> DATE: Nov 3, 2009 at 10:36 AM "An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots" (Ed. Lorraine M. Lopez) includes personal essays and memoirs by Dorothy Allison, Angela Threatt, Bich Minh Nguyen, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer among others. Bill Mullen bvmullen@purdue.edu ============ FROM: Robert Zecker [mailto:rzecker@stfx.ca] DATE: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:04 AM Two novels from the '30s that are very moving depictions of different kinds of poverty: "Christ in Concrete" by Pietro DiDonato and "Daughter of the Hills" by Myra Page. And for East Harlem Puerto Rican experience, the memoir "Down These Mean Streets" by Piri Thomas. Bob Zecker Dept. of History Saint Francis Xavier University ===================== FROM: Sarah E. Chinn <sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu> DATE: Nov 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM If no-one's suggested this: Mike Gold's classic "Jews without Money." Sarah E. Chinn English Department Hunter College, CUNY sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu
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