ACAD Literature

ACAD believes in the power of literature and how it has contributed to diversity and multiculturalism. ACAD will regularly feature a summary on powerful books and articles on these aforementioned topics. Currently we have the following critiques available for review in a collective PDF format and individually as well:

http://www.alliedcultures.org/?attachment_id=281

How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents

Cultural Diversity in the United States

The Face of my Childhood

Leola and the Honeybears

A Task

War and Truth

Waiting for the Barbarians

A Long Way Gone

Outcasts United

The Shame of the Nation

We Are All the Same

Shooting an Elephant

Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire

The Bluest Eye

Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men

An Inconvenient Genocide

A Passage to India

Privilege, Power and Difference

Passing

Progressive Community Organizing

Identity Before Identity Politics

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Thank you to our volunteers for wholeheartedly reading these texts and writing wonderful critiques!