Texts

Dulani, Jai “Jackson Heights: Unearthing the People’s Struggle” (AAWW, 2016) 

Gregory, Stephen. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community (1998)  

Hanson, R. Scott.  City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens (2016)

Hum, Tarry. “Black Dispossession and the Making of Downtown Flushing.” Progressive City (2021) 

Hum, Tarry et al. Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Place-Making in Queens, New York  

Jackson, Kenneth. “Introduction,” The Neighborhoods of Queens (2007)

Khandelwal, Madhulika. Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City (2002) 

Kroessler, Jeffrey A.  Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens (2025)

Manalansan, Martin. “Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City” (2005) 

Munoz, Carolina Bank, Penny Lewis and Emily Molina. The People’s Guide to New York City (2022); Chapter 3, “Queens” 

Pritchard, Richard. Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York (2007) 

Samuel, Lawrence R. Queens: A History of the Most Diverse Place on Earth (2025), and excerpt “African Americans and Real Estate in Queens in the 1920s” 

Shrestha, Tina. Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York (2023)   

Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York (2003) 

Yap, Christine Wong and Brian Droitcour, The People’s Guide to the Queens International (2018) 

Novels

Andreades, Daphne Palasi. Brown Girls (2022) 

La Valle, Victor. The Ecstatic (2003)  

Lee, Chang-Rae Native Speaker (1996) 

Lee, Min Jin. Free Food for Millionaires (2007)  

Lethem, Jonathan. Dissident Gardens (2014)  

Rehman, Bushra. Roses in the Mouth of a Lion (2022)  

Park, Ishle Yi. Angel and Hannah: A Novel in Verse (2021) 

Park, Patricia. Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

Torres, Christine Kandic. The Girls in Queens (2023)  

Woodson, Jacqueline. After Tupac and D Foster

Memoirs and Creative Non-Fiction

Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl. Mama Phife Represents (2021)  

Mohabir, Rajiv. Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir (2021) 

Tran, Ly. House of sticks (2022). 

Films and other Digital Resources 

Murphy, Laura, et. al. Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020)

Katze, Prudence and William Lehman (directors), The Iron Triangle: Willets Point and the Remaking of New York (documentary) (on YouTube) (2017) 

Landis, John. Coming to America (1988)

Languages of New York City- Map 

Marston, Joshua. Maria Full of Grace (2004), partially set in Jackson Heights. Available at the Rosenthal Library Reserve Desk

NYS Education Department: Indigenous Education 

Persichetti, Bob, Ramsey, Peter, & Rothman, Rodney. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Queens Historical Society, including the Flushing Freedom Mile Walking Tour 

Queens Memory Project

Queens Memory, Queens Street Name Stories   

Weisman, Frederick. In Jackson Heights (documentary) (2015)  

Wu, Alice. Saving Face (2004)

Zawahry, Iman. Americanish (2021)