What Have You Been Reading Lately, Professor?
Who: Dr. Walter C. Fleming: Department Head and Professor of Native American Studies, Montana State University
Book: Four Souls, by Louise Erdrich. The story of a NorthDakota Ojibwe woman, Fleur Pillager, who journeysfrom the reservation to Minneapolis to confront the man who stole her land.
Why: “Edrich is unsurpassed as a storyteller who createsthese believable Native and Euro-Americancharacters and settings.”
Who: Dr. Peniel E. Joseph: Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook
Book: In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, an anthology compiled by Jama Lazarow and Yohuru Williams.
Why: “This book attempts to historicize one of the mostcontroversial groups of the 1960s. It tries to be even-handed and scholarly and resist the notion of demonizing the Panthers or turning them into one-dimensional heroes.”
