are getting out of control.
to read academic:
- Borderlands (La Frontera): The New Mestiza; Gloria Andaldúa
- Strangers to Ourselves; Julia Kristeva
- Of Hospitality; Jacques Derrida
- Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization; ed. Margerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos
- Just Advocacy?: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation; ed. Wendy S. Hesford, Wendy Kozol
- Out Of Egypt: A Memoir; Andre Aicman
- El fuego y la palabra: una historia del movimiento Zapatista; Gloria Muñoz Ramíre
- Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity; Ira Livingston
- A People's History of the United States; Howard Zinn (I've read excerpts, but the entirety deserves my attention)
- Democracy Matters; Cornel West
- Race Matters; Cornel West
- The American Evasion of Philosophy; Cornel West
- Where We Stand: Class Matters; Bell Hooks
- Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics; Bell Hooks
- The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology; Slavoj Zizek
- The History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays; Randolph Bourne
- War and the Intellectuals, essays 1915-1919; Randolph Bourne
- The Radical Will; Randolph Bourne (esp. the essay "The Undergraduate")
to read for fun (not that academic isn't fun; I actually put many texts on the academic list myself, for fun; but oh, you know-- this is still a different list)
- Breath Eyes Memory; Edwidge Danticat
- Krik? Krak!; Edwidge Danticat
- Crescent; Diana Abu-Jaber
- Arabian Jazz; Diana Abu-Jaber (I started but never finished)
- The Unaccustomed Earth; Jumpa Lahiri (ditto)
- Drown; Junot Díaz
- Negocios; Junot Díaz
- Marina; Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Gary- if you're reading; I promise to get it back to you soon!)
- ¡Ya Basta!; Subcomandante Marcos
- Off The Map
- The Spell of the Sensuous; David Abram
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World; Michael Pollan
- The Three Sisters; Anton Chekhov
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business; Neil Postman
- An Unnatural Order: The Roots of our Destruction of Nature; Jim Mason
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat; Oliver Sacks
- Awakenings; Oliver Sacks
- The Mind's Eye; Oliver Sacks
- The Color Purple; Alice Walker
- Picture of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde
- War and Peace; Leo Tolstoy
- Thoughts in Solitude; Thomas Merton
- The Seven Story Mountain; Thomas Merton
- Sula; Toni Morrison
(I'd still welcome all your suggestions).