Fútbol

.

Novel: Exposure by Mal Peet
Novel: Renaldo by James McCreath
Film: El portero (2000)
Film: Atlético San Pancho (2001)
Film: Goal! (2005)
Nonfiction: The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt, Chapters 8, 10, 13, 15, 18
Poetry: Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
Wikipedia: History of association football

What the creature read

.

Novel: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Epic Poem: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Novel: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Biographies: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (aka Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives) by Plutarch
Novel: Confessions of the Creature by Gary Inbinder
Nonfiction: The Romantic Frankenstein by Anneli Elsäßer, Chapter 4: "Knowledge"
Wikipedia: Frankenstein's monster

What Precious Read

.

Novel: Push by Sapphire
Film: Precious (2009)
Poem: "The Tyger" by William Blake
Fiction: "The Life of Lucy Fern" by Moira Crane
Novel: Pat King's Family by Karen McFall
Biography: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Picture book: Wanted Dead Or Alive: The True Story Of Harriet Tubman by Ann Mcgovern
Biography: Malcolm X by Arnold Adoff
Short story collection: A Piece of Mine by J. California Cooper
Novel: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Poetry: Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Picture book: The Black BC's by Lucille Clifton
Picture book: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Picture book: The Story of a Little Mouse Trapped in a Book by Monique Felix
Picture book: The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille Clifton
Picture book: Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats
Wikipedia: Literacy in the United States

Male, Colored and Gay

.

Novel: God Says No by James Hannaham
Short story: "Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes
Film: Brother to Brother (2004)
Collection: Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent edited by Thomas H.Wirth
DVD: The Closet: Platinum Edition, Vol. 1 (2008)
Article: "Revelations" by Kelefa Sanneh
Article: "Caushun: Say it loud: I'm gay...and I'm proud" by Jane Czyzselska
Website: http://thecolorofcourage.com/
Website: http://www.gmad.org/
Wikipedia: LGBT topics and Afro-Americans in the Americas

Searching for Heaven

.

Novel: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Novel: The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album
Novel: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Film: What Dreams May Come (1998)
Film: Defending Your Life (1991)
Film: After Life (ワンダフルライフ) (1998)
Play: Everyman
Short story:"Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel
Poetry: Paradiso Sphere Nine by Dante degli Alighieri
Wikipedia: Kingdom of God

The Byronic Hero

.

Epic poem: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Novel in verse: Eugene Onegin (Евге́ний Оне́гин) by Alexander Pushkin
Novel: Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
Film: Interview with a Vampire (1994)
Miniseries: Jane Eyre (2006)
Comics: Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
Wikipedia: Byronic hero

Dangerous children

.

Novel: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Novel: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Novel: Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates
Short story: "Change of Plans" by Bev Vincent
Film: The Bad Seed (1956)
Film: Children of the Corn (1984)
Film: The Good Son (1993)
Article: "Wrestling Death Mom Sounds Off: Victim's Mother Reprimands, Forgives 16-Year-Old During Fla. Hearing" by Lloyd de Vries
Article: "Derrion Albert's death 'a call to action'" by Judy Keen
Wikipedia: Murder of James Bulger

Achebe v Conrad

.

Article: "Chinua Achebe: 'Heart Of Darkness' Is Inappropriate" from NPR
Novel: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Novella: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Article: "The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart" by F. Abiola Irele
Article: "Joseph Conrad’s Treatment of the ‘Other’ in Heart of Darkness" by Mohit K. Ray
Poem: "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
Poem: "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot
Essay: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" by Chinua Achebe
Essay: "'A Bloody Racist': About Achebe's View of Conrad by Cedric Watts
Wikipedia: Colonisation of Africa

Mr Shakur

Biography: Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson
Poetry: The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Autobiography: Tupac: Resurrection edited by Jacob Hoye and Karolyn Ali
Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. by Tupac Shakur
Album: Me Against the World by Tupac Shakur
Documentary: Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Film: Above the Rim (1994)
Television: In Living Color, "Ike Turner and Hooch"
Novel: After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Article: "Bury Me Like a G" by Kevin Powell
Wikipedia: Tupac Shakur

Maya Angelou, according to herself

.

Autobiography: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Autobiography: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
Autobiography: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
Autobiography: The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Autobiography: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
Autobiography: A Song Flung Up To Heaven by Maya Angelou
Interview: Academy of Achievement interview of January 22, 1997
Interview: "Audio Interview with Maya Angelou" by Don Swaim
Videos: As found at biography.com
Wikipedia: Maya Angelou

Quinceañera

.

Film: Quinceañera (2006)
Nonfiction: Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez
Musical tale: Little Elena's Quinceanera by Elena Duran and Natalie Toro
Picture book: Fiesta Dress: A Quinceanera Tale by Caren Mcnelly Mccormack and Martha Aviles
Novel: Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz: A Quinceañera Club Novel by Belinda Acosta
Nonfiction: Quinceañera: celebrating fifteen by Elizabeth King
Nonfiction: Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceanera Stories edited by Adriana Lopez
Wikipedia: Quinceañera

Too Young for This

.

Novel: Push by Sapphire
Film: Precious (2009)
Interview: "Sapphire's big push" by Mark Marvel
Blank-verse novel: Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Interview: "Q & A with Virginia Euwer Wolff" by Lynda Brill Comerford
Article: "Sources of Stress and Support and Maternal Resources of Homeless Teenage Mothers" by Mikki Meadows-Oliver, Lois S. Sadler, Martha K. Swartz, Patricia Ryan-Krause
Song: "Brenda's Got a Baby" by Tupac Shakur
Song: "Baby Mama" by Fantasia Barrino
Wikipedia: Teenage pregnancy

Sneaking inside the NFL

.

Nonfiction: A few seconds of panic: a 5-foot-8, 170-pound, 43-year-old sportswriter plays in the NFL by Stefan Fatsis
Nonfiction: Tanked! by William H. "Tank" Black
Film: Gus (1976)
Novel: Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
Novel: Football genius by Tim Green
Website: www.fantasyfootball.com/
Film: Invincible (2006)
Article: "Blagojevich's Poetry Obsession Explained: A Football Game in 1980 First Turned the Embattled Governor on to Kipling" by Russell Goldman
Poem: "If" by Rudyard Kipling
Wikipedia: NFL Draft

Hunting

.

Nonfiction: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist by Theodore Roosevelt
Nonfiction: Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Nonfiction: Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting by Jim Posewitz
Video game: Duck Hunt (1984)
Short story: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
Film: Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Film: Bambi (1942)
Wikipedia: Hunting

Neurosurgery

.

Nonfiction: Brain Surgeon by Keith Black MD
Documentary film: The English Surgeon (2007)
Novel: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Film: The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Website: Neuroscience for Kids (http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cart.html)
Short film: "Runaway Brain" (1995)
Radio show: Suspense, "Donovan's Brain"
Chapter: "Fact and Fiction of Emergency Surgical Care in America: A Neurosurgical Perspective" by Alex B. Valadka, M.D.
Wikipedia: Neurosurgery

The Ethos of Beauty

.

Nonfiction: On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
Nonfiction: Beauty by Roger Scruton
Novel: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Poem: "Beauty" by Carlton Sprague
Poem: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
Radio: "Andrew Bird: Poetry Of Beauty And Biology"
Article: "Introduction to Poetry and the Problem of Beauty" by Lisa Samuels
Wikipedia: Beauty

Wanting to Be Beautiful

.

Song: "Paper Dolls" by Tuscadero
Song: "The Fear" by Lily Allen
Nonfiction: Deadly Persuasion: Why Women And Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power Of Advertising by Jean Kilbourne (also available under another title)
Novel: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Novel: Gossip Girl #1: A Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Article: "How to be Beautiful & Pure in Hollywood" (no credited author, published in Time)
Article: "Dying woman spends £40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore" by Kelly Jenkins
Film: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Film: Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Wikipedia: Physical attractiveness

Satire

.

Novel: Candide by Voltaire
Essay: "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
Film: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Television: Any three episodes of The Colbert Report
Website: http://www.theonion.com/
Film: The Great Dictator (1940)
Novel: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Film: Fear of a Black Hat (1994)
Wikipedia: Satire

Stagger Lee

.

Comics: Stagger Lee by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix
Nonfiction: Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown
Song: "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price
Song: "Wrong 'Em Boyo" by The Clash
Song: "Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee" by Furry Lewis
Song: "Stack-O-Lee" by Woody Guthrie
Song: "Stack O'Lee Blues" by Duke Ellington
Song: "Stagger Lee" by The Grateful Dead
Song: "Stackalee" by Bama
Song: "Stack A Lee" by Bob Dylan
Song: "Stagger Lee" by Nick Cave
Song: "Stagger Lee" by Mississippi John Hurt
Story: "Stagolee" by Julius Lester
Article: "Stagger Lee: A Historical Look at the Urban Legend" by Tony Kullen
Website: staggerlee.com
Wikipedia: Stagger Lee

Unorthodoxly Orthodox

.

Novel: "My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok
Autobiography: Surfing Rabbi by Nachum Shifren
Nonfiction: Cool Jew by Lisa Alcalay Klug
Article: "Putting the 'fun' in fundamentalism" by Mark I. Pinsky
Album: This Is Babylon by Y-Love
Album: Youth by Matisyahu
Album: Heavenly Jams Band by Piamenta
Website: http://www.rivkahk.com/
Blog: Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible
Blog: Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy
Blog: The Jew & The Carrot
Blog: cool yiddishe mama
Blog: Anarcho-Judaism
Blog: Hasidic Rebel
Blog: One Frum Skeptic
Blog: frum female
Blog: A Frum Punk
Website: http://rabbisimcha.com/
Wikipedia: Jewish religious movements