CRES Department Reading List
CRES Department Reading List
The CRES department has compiled a list of suggested or assigned titles to read for studies in their department. CRES is interdisciplinary by nature, and as such there is no one section of the library stacks that contains all of the titles used for CRES studies. This page compiles all CRES titles in one place with links to their library catalog record and any ebook editions that are available. Keep in mind that on the physical shelves, there may be books next to these titles that are related in topic but not explicitly mentioned here - stacks browsing is always a great way to find more information on a topic!
If you have any questions about this list, trouble locating anything, or suggestions for further titles, please contact aroselieb@holycross.edu
Foundational Texts for CRES
Borderlands / la Frontera by Call Number: PS3551.N95 B6 2012ISBN: 9781879960855Publication Date: 2012-06-12Currently on Course Reserve. Please see the Dinand Circulation desk for access.
Critical race theory : an introduction by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9781479818297Publication Date: 2023
In Defense of Asian American Studies by Call Number: E184.A75 C477 2005ISBN: 9780252030093Publication Date: 2005-06-28
Racial Formation in the United States by Call Number: 184.A1 O46 2015ISBN: 9780415520980Publication Date: 2014-07-03Ebook and physical copies available
Silencing the Past by Call Number: D16.9 .T85 1995ISBN: 9780807043103Publication Date: 1995-10-01Ebook and physical copies available
The Souls of Black Folk by Call Number: E185.5 .D8ISBN: 9780195325737Publication Date: 1903Ebook and physical copies available
Social Change and Transformation Readings
Dark Matters: on the surveillance of blackness by Call Number: E185.86 .B846 2015ISBN: 9780822359197Publication Date: 2015-10-02
Our History Is the Future by Call Number: E99.D1 E87 2019ISBN: 9781786636720Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Frontiers of Citizenship: a black and indigenous history of postcolonial Brazil by Call Number: F2659.N4 M555 2019ISBN: 9781108405409Publication Date: 2019-02-28
The Predicament of Blackness: postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race by Call Number: DT510.42 .P54 2013ISBN: 9780226923031Publication Date: 2012-11-27Ebook and physical copies available
Flashpoints for Asian American studies by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780823280629Publication Date: 2018
The Common Wind: Afro-American currents in the age of the Haitian Revolution by Call Number: F1923 .S37 2020ISBN: 9781788732482Publication Date: 2020-09-01
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9781608465620Publication Date: 2016-02-23
Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire by Call Number: HT1371 .P69 2012ISBN: 9780804782333Publication Date: 2012-11-14Ebook and physical copies availableImmigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change by
Call Number: BR1642.U5 W654 2018ISBN: 9781610448741Publication Date: 2018-06-05Ebook and physical copies available
Race and Intersectionality
We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming of Age Ceremonies by Call Number: E99.H8 R57 2018ISBN: 9780295743431Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Dispossessed Lives: enslaved women, violence, and the archive by Call Number: HT1105.B3 F84 2016ISBN: 9780812248227Publication Date: 2016-06-28
What is slavery to me? : postcolonial/slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9781868146925Publication Date: 2010
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Call Number: E185.86 .H379 2020ISBN: 9780393357622Publication Date: 2020-01-14
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Call Number: E184.O6 H64 2020ISBN: 9781984820365Publication Date: 2020-02-25
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780822375647Publication Date: 2015-06-27
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty by Call Number: HQ73.3.D65 L37 2020ISBN: 9781438481104Publication Date: 2021-01-02
Womanist Sass and Talk Back by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9781498288873Publication Date: 2018-01-25
Progressive Dystopia by Call Number: LC2803.S26 S536 2019ISBN: 9781478005766Publication Date: 2019-11-15
Transnational Approaches
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780674067578Publication Date: 2013-01-07
The Borders of Dominicanidad by Call Number: E184.D6 G36 2016ISBN: 9780822362470Publication Date: 2016-11-08
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale by Call Number: DT56.2 .G48 1994ISBN: 9780679727835Publication Date: 1994-03-29
Mandarin Brazil : race, representation, and memory by Call Number: F2659.C5 L44 2018ISBN: 9781503605046Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870 by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780804783361Publication Date: 2012-01-01
The Shadow King: A Novel by Call Number: PS3613.E488 S53 2020ISBN: 9780393358513Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780822376293Publication Date: 2014-09-03
Black Is the Journey, Africana the Name by Call Number: DC34.5.B55 S6813 2022ISBN: 9781509548323Publication Date: 2022-03-07
The Coolie Speaks by Call Number: HD4875.C9 Y86 2008ISBN: 9781592135813Publication Date: 2007-12-15Ebook and physical copies available
Representation and Cultural Forms
Khartoum at night : fashion and body politics in imperial Sudan by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9781503602687Publication Date: 2017
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Call Number: PN56.S5765 G55 2011ISBN: 9780691140667Publication Date: 2011-08-21Ebook and physical copies available
The Sense of Brown by Call Number: PN1590.H57 M866 2020ISBN: 9781478009979Publication Date: 2020-10-02
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780816673674Publication Date: 2010-05-10
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Call Number: E185.625 .S53 2016ISBN: 9780822362838Publication Date: 2016-11-14
Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America . by Call Number: Ebook OnlyISBN: 9780822389835Publication Date: 2007-04-17
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by Call Number: HQ77.95.U6 S66 2017ISBN: 9781517901738Publication Date: 2017-12-05Ebook and physical copies available.
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature by Call Number: PS153.N5 S9 1993ISBN: 9780674893313Publication Date: 1998-07-15Ebook and physical copies available
