{"id":10195,"date":"2017-04-10T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2017-04-08T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:20:37","slug":"on-display-multicultural-books-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2017\/04\/10\/on-display-multicultural-books-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"On Display: Multicultural Books & Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Please check out the new display on the first floor of the library. As part of this year\u2019s National Library Week theme, Libraries Transform<\/em>, there is a display of multicultural books that have been turned into films. Everything on display is owned by the library and will be available for circulation after April.<\/p>\n

For even more fun, Multicultural Affairs is hosting an evening of dinner and discussion on Monday, April 10 from 5:30-7:00 in the Multicultural Center in DeNaples, room 205G. The topic is multicultural authors, how they are represented in the curricula, and ways that more multicultural authors can be integrated into courses. Go and check out these amazing authors, then check them out from Weinberg Memorial Library!<\/p>\n

Multicultural Books & Movies on display:<\/p>\n

\u0081<\/strong>Walker, Alice. The Color Purple<\/em>. Easton Press, 2000.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3573.A425 C6 2000<\/a><\/p>\n

The Color Purple<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Performances by Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover. Warner Brothers, 2007.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997 .C64 2007 DVD<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally published in 1982, The Color Purple won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. The book is written as a series of letters and tells the highly emotional story of a black girl in rural Georgia in the 1930\u2019s. Separated from her sister and forced into marriage, Celie faces violence and neglect as she grows into adulthood. Multiple female characters face challenges that depict the bleak set of options available to black women at that time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Morrison, Toni. Beloved<\/em>. Random House, 1987.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3563.O8749 B4 1987<\/a><\/p>\n

Beloved<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Jonathon Demme. Performances by Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton. Harpo Productions, 1998.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997 .B45 DVD<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul D. and Sethe, two former slaves from the same plantation find each other again after 18 years. Their bond stirs up vivid, upsetting memories of their time at \u201cSweet Home.\u201d Paul D. moves in, creating a disturbance in the household and a strange girl arrives named Beloved. Beloved\u2019s presence forces Sethe to address past decisions, even while trying to build a future for herself and her children as a free black woman.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Dash, Julie. Daughters of the Dust<\/em>. Plume, 1997.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3554.A823 D3 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Daughters of the Dust<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Julie Dash. Performances by Cora Lee Day and Alva Rogers. Geechee Girls, 1991.\u00a0<\/strong>STREAMING MEDIA<\/a><\/p>\n

A black woman anthropologist from 1920s New York visits\u00a0the\u00a0Sea Islands off\u00a0the\u00a0coast\u00a0of the\u00a0Carolinas and discovers her roots. A look at\u00a0the\u00a0culture\u00a0of the\u00a0Gullah people, descendants\u00a0of\u00a0blacks who intermarried with Indians.<\/p>\n

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club<\/em>. Putnam, 1989.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3570.A48 J6 1991<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Joy Luck Club<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Wayne Wang. Performances by Kieu Chin, Ming-Na Wen, and Tamlyn Tomita. Hollywood Pictures, 1993.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997 .J69 2002 DVD<\/a><\/p>\n

Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories.\u00a0The Joy Luck Club\u00a0is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at\u00a0the\u00a0going away party. Born in China,\u00a0the Joy Luck Club\u00a0members came to America as young adults; their daughters are 100% American.\u00a0The\u00a0old days are seldom spoken about, and some things about those times have never been said aloud, but\u00a0the\u00a0experiences left behind color\u00a0the\u00a0hopes and expectations these women have for their daughters. If daughters become their mothers–no matter how much both parties desire that it not happen–daughters also become different from their mothers–despite all attempts to perpetuate\u00a0the\u00a0status quo.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. <\/em>Houghton Mifflin, 2003.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3562.A316 N36 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Namesake. <\/em><\/strong>Directed by Mira Nair. Performances by Kal Penn, Irffan Khan, and Tabu. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2006.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997 .N25\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0American-born son of Indian immigrants feels pulled between his ethnic heritage and his desire to assimilate, especially after becoming involved with two very different women.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven<\/em>. Grove Press, 1993.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3551.L35774 L66 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Smoke Signals<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Chris Eyre. Performances by Adam Beach and Irene Bedard. Miramax Films, 1998.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997 .S568\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Book: A collection of short stories with the same two characters Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire who live on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The title refers to the 1930\u2019s radio show and 1950\u2019s television show with the white cowboy hero \u201cThe Lone Ranger\u201d and his Native American sidekick \u201cTonto.\u201d A recurring issue in the book is the way Native Americans view themselves, as well as the way others understand them from depictions in popular culture.<\/p>\n

Movie: Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who are opposites. Thomas is a nerd, while Victor is strong and sometimes confrontational. When Thomas is an infant he is saved from a fire that takes the lives of his parents. Victor\u2019s father saves Thomas, but leaves his own family when Victor is just a baby. When his father dies, Victor needs Thomas\u2019s help to retrieve the remains of his father. The two set off on a journey of personal growth and reliance on each other.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.<\/em> David Fickling Books, 2006.\u00a0PZ7.B69677<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Mark Herman. Performances by Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, and Rupert Friend. Miramax Films, 2008.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997.2 .B697 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called “Out-With”\u00a0in\u00a01942, Bruno,\u00a0the\u00a0son of a Nazi officer, befriends a\u00a0boy in striped pajamas\u00a0who lives behind a wire fence.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner<\/em>.\u00a0Riverhead Books, 2003.\u00a0<\/strong>PS3608.O832 K58 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Kite Runner<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Directed by Marc Forster. Performances by Khalid Abdalla, Zekeria Ebrahimi, and Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada. Dreamworks Pictures, 2008.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997 .K589<\/a><\/p>\n

In a divided country on\u00a0the\u00a0verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It’s a glorious afternoon in Kabul and\u00a0the\u00a0skies are bursting with\u00a0the\u00a0exhilarating joy of a\u00a0kite-fighting tournament. But in\u00a0the\u00a0aftermath of\u00a0the\u00a0day’s victory, one boy’s fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under\u00a0the\u00a0Taliban’s iron-fisted rule to face\u00a0the\u00a0secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief<\/em>. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.\u00a0<\/strong>PZ7.Z837 Boo 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

The Book Thief<\/em><\/strong>. Directed by Brian Percival. Performances by Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, and Emily Watson. Fox 2000 Pictures, 2013.\u00a0<\/strong>PN1997.2 .B66 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

Death narrates this highly emotional story of a girl who transforms\u00a0the\u00a0lives of those around her during World War II, on the German homefront. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately,\u00a0the\u00a0power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in\u00a0the\u00a0family’s home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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