Ideas for your Book Report

 

Outsiders in the Clubhouse: The World of Women's Professional Golf by Todd Crossett

Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It by Jon Entine

Hoop Dreams: A True Story of Hardship and Triumph by Ben Joravsky

Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity by Michael Messner

In Black and White: Race and Sports in America by Kenneth Shropshire

Mother's Taxi: Sport and Women's Labor by Shona Thompson

The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer

Enchanting a Disenchanted World by George Ritzer

Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents by Mike A. Males

The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare by Michael B. Katz

36 Children by Herbert Kohl (Recommended for prospective teachers)

We, the Jury: The Jury System and Ideal of Democracy by Jeffrey Abramson (Recommended for prospective law majors)

Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow

American Apartheid: Segregation and The Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol

All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol B. Stack

The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy by Herbert J. Gans

Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People by David A. Snow and Leon Anderson

Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising by Jean Kilbourne

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell, Martim De Avillez (Illustrator)

The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley

Serial Killers by Joel Norris

No Equal Justice: Race and Class in American Criminal Justice System by David Cole

The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry by Daniel Burton-Rose (Editor), et al

The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz (Introduction)

Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild, et al

The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families by Stepanie Coontz

The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy by Theda Skocpol, Richard C. Leone

Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work by Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Black Wealth/White Wealth by Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro

Slut: Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Murder, Culture, and Injustice by Walter L. Hixson

The West and the Third World: Trade, Colonialism, Dependence and Development by D.K. Fieldhouse

Youth Gangs in American Society by Shelden, Tracy, and Brown

Disposable Children by Renny Golden

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley

Eyewitness Testimony: With a new preface by the author by Elizabeth F. Loftus

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky

Newjack by Ted Conover