Reading Hmong

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Novel: Dead Promise by Patch Xiong
Memoir: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadima
Oral history: I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience collected by Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong
Collection: Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans edited by Mai Neng Moua
Memoir: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Article: "My big, fat Hmong wedding: Exploring the culture and traditions of matrimony for the Hmong people" by Monica Ly
Wikipedia: Hmong customs and culture

Take a Long Walk in America

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Nonfiction: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Documentary: Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)
Nonfiction: "Under the Command of the Devil" (chapter theee of Army Of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives edited by David Bigler and Will Bagley)
Video game: The Oregon Trail (1985)
Nonfiction: The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon by Colin Fletcher
Article: "The Lure of a Long Trail: Planning a Thru-Hike" by Barbara Egbert
Wikipedia: Long-distance trail

Gonna Be a Writer Someday

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Website: www.writersdigest.com
Website: www.wga.org
Novel: Old School by Tobias Wolff
Novel: Utterly Yours, Booker Jones by Betsy Duffey
Magazine: The most recent issue of Poets & Writers
Advice Book: Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It by Sark
Film Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Film: Freedom Writers (2007)
Article: "Confessions of a Writer: The Ugly Truth About Being a Writer" by Michelle Devon
Nonfiction: Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schulz
Essays: The Faith of a Writer : Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates
Wikipedia: Writer

The Minstrel Show

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Radio show: "The Legacy of Blackface: Artists Take On Roots of Racist Performance Tradition" The Tavis Smiley Show June 2, 2004
Radio show: Any three episodes of Amos 'n' Andy (http://www.archive.org/details/amosandy1)
Play: The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet
Film: Bamboozled (2000)
Album: The Minstrel Show by Little Brother
Poem: "The Corner-Man" by Banjo Paterson
Nonfiction: Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy edited by Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara
Novel: Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
Nonfiction: "A Pestilence of Ignunce: Blackface in the Twenty-first Century" (chapter one of Black like you : blackface, whiteface, insult & imitation in American popular culture)
Wikipedia: Minstrel show