From the Bookshelves: What Incoming Freshman Are Reading

Photo by Sam Greenhalgh

Universities around the country have assigned summer reading to their incoming freshman class. And, as Inside Higher Ed reports, many of the books chosen relate to immigration.

• Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream (Miami University of Ohio)

• Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (Tufts)

• Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant (Cal. State U. East Bay)

• Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Lehigh)

• Americanah (Rowan U.)

That’s a great list for any immprof to tackle over the last weeks of summer.

-KitJ