Dance for the Ivory Madonna
by Don Sakers

Bibliography

Here are some of the many nonfiction books that I read while writing Dance for the Ivory Madonna.

Please don't construe this list as approval for all the titles listed; I agreed with some, violently disagreed with others, and had mixed feelings about most.

Clicking on a title will take you to the book's page at amazon.com, where you can learn more about the book or even purchase it.

• Albyn, Carole Lisa -- The Multicultural Cookbook for Students
  
• Chilson, Peter -- Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa
  
• Chu, Daniel -- The Glorious Age in Africa
  
• Faulkner, Benjamin -- What to Name Your African-American Baby
  
• Harris, Eddy L. -- Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa
  
• Jefferson, Margo & Skinner, Elliott P. -- Roots of Time: A Portrait of African Life and Culture
  
• Jenkins, Mark -- To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
  
• Murphy, Joseph M. -- Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora
  
• Perrott, D.V. -- Concise Swahili and English Dictionary
  
• Stevens, Stuart -- Malaria Dreams
  
• Stewart, Julia -- 1001 African Names
  
• Winternitz, Helen -- East Along the Equator
  

Diseases, Epidemics, & Epidemiology

• Garrett, Laurie -- The Coming Plague
  
• Karlen, Arno -- Man and Microbes
  
• McNeill, William Hardy -- Plagues and Peoples
  
• Preston, Richard -- The Hot Zone
  
• Watts, S.J. -- Epidemics and History: Disease, Power, and Imperialism
  
• Wills, Christopher -- Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues
  

Sociology, Anthropology, History, & Geopolitics

• Chideya, Farai -- The Color of Our Future
  
• Cose, Ellis -- Color-blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World
  
• Diamond, Jared M. -- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  
• Dyson, Michael Eric -- Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line
  
• Garreau, Joel -- The Nine Nations of North America
  
• Hacker, Andrew -- Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
  
• Harris, Marvin -- Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
  
• Jones, Landon Y. -- Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
  
• Lind, Michael -- The Next American Nation
  
• Savage, Marshall -- The Millennial Project
  
• Sowell, Thomas -- Race and Culture: A World View
  
• Terkel, Studs -- Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
  
• Wachtel, Paul L. -- Race in the Mind of America
  
• Wolpoff, Milford H. -- Race and Human Evolution
  
• Young, Bonnie -- Colors of the Vanishing Tribes
  

Internet, Virtual Reality, Cyberspace, & Artificial Intelligence

• Bailey, James -- After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
  
• Benedikt, Michael -- Cyberspace
  
• Dyson, George -- Darwin Among the Machines
  
• Gelernter, David Hillel -- Mirror Worlds
  
• Gershenfeld, Neil A. -- When Things Begin to Think
  
• Levy, Steven -- Artificial Life
  
• Murray, Janet Horowitz -- Hamlet on the Holodeck
  
• Pimentel, Ken -- Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass
  
• Rheingold, Howard -- The Virtual Community
  
• Rheingold, Howard -- Virtual Reality
  
• Stock, Gregory -- Metaman
  
• Wallace, Patricia M. -- The Psychology of the Internet
  
• Wertheim, Margaret -- The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet