1) Issues facing contemporary adolescent boys

Boys Into Men
Nancy Boyd-Franklin and A.J. Franklin

"Today's Hope for Tomorrow Teens"
An Interview with Mike A. Males. Science of Mind, May, 2000.

"The War Against Boys"
Atlantic Monthly, May, 2000.
Christina Hoff Sommers

"The National Conversation in the wake of Littleton is Missing the Mark,"
Jackson Katz and Sut Jhally, Sunday Boston Globe, May 2, 1999.
"What these school shootings reveal is not a crisis in youth culture but a crisis in masculinity."

“The Troubled Life of Boys”
Stephen S. Hall, NY Times Magazine, Aug. 15, 1999.

The Hummingbird (Newsletter)
David Blumenkrantz.
Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family and Community Services, Inc.,
Box 816, Glastonbury, CT 06033-0816.
Promotes positive youth development, assists children in their transition through adolescence, facilitates research into complex issues facing communities, families and their children, and disseminates educational information.

Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinty and Violence
Myriam Miedzian

Framing Youth
Mike A. Males

Code of the Street
Elijah Anderson

Bodega Dreams
Ernesto Quinonez

The Decline of Males
Lionel Tiger

Yo Mama's Dysfunctional
Robin D.J. Kelley

On the Edge
Carl Husemoller Nightingale

Repairing the Breach
Report of the National Task Force on African-American Men and Boys
Andrew Young, Bobby Austin

What is Cool?
Marlene Kim Connor

Cool Pose: The Dilemnas of Black Manhood in America
Richard Majors, Janet Mancini Billson

Boys Will Be Boys
Myrian Miedzian

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood
William Pollack

The Wonder of Boys and A Fine Young Man
Michael Gurion

When Good Kids Kill
Michael D. Kelleher

Talking Back to Ritalin
Peter R. Breggin

Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
James Garbarino

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Daniel J. Kindlon, Michael Thompson

Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children
Jonathan Kellerman

Running on Ritalin
Lawrence Diller

The Psychopathology of Crime
Adrian Raine

Angry Young Men
Aaron Kipnis

Reclaiming Youth at Risk
Brendtro, Broken Leg, Bockern

Stiffed: Betrayal of the American Male
Susan Faludi

2) Initiation, ritual and mentoring

Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventure
John Eldredge

Manliness and Civilization
Gail Bederman

Of Water and the Spirit
Malidoma Some

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette

Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell (Bollingen, 1970).
A classic examination of the mythical underpinnings of pan cultural rites of passage.

Betwixt and Between: Patterns on Masculine and Feminine Initiation
Edited by Mahdi, Foster, Little
Open Court Publications, 1987
Collection of essays: New insights into the basic elements of initiations and passage rites in a culture bereft of their power. (Includes a compendium of rites of passage films.)

Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage
Mahdi, Louise, Christopher and Meade, Editors. (Open Court, 1997)
A multidisciplinary collection of contemporary thought on adolescent passage rites by psychologists, anthropologists, social and religious leaders, doctors, educators, and parents.

Man and His Symbols
C.G. Jung

Iron John
Robert Bly

The Sibling Society
Robert Bly (Addison-Wesley, 1996)
Analyzes a modern culture without adequate rites of passage where adults remain children and where children have no desire to become adults.

The Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk

The Box: Remembering the Gift
(Terma Co., Santa Fe, 1992).
The three gracefully written books in this collection (The Book of Sorrows, The Book of Grace, The Book of Reconciliation) are filled with reflections, activities, and pertinent information for anyone researching the subject of wilderness passage rites.

Rites and Symbols of Initiation
Eliade, Mercia. (Harper and Row, 1958)
The mythical and spiritual anatomy of the initiatory process.

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola (Ballantine, 1992)
Rites of passage and initiatory experiences of women. Delightful, profound and life-changing story-telling from a Jungian perspective.

The Book of the Vision Quest
Foster, Steven and Little, Meredith. Revised Edition (Prentice Hall, 1981)
The re-creation of an ancient rite of passage in modern times, and the experiences of those who undertook this intensely personal journey.

Lost Borders: Coming of Age in the Wilderness
(Lost Borders Press, 1998)
A useful and evocative handbook for youth preparing to participate in the coming of age ceremony depicted in the film.

The Roaring of the Sacred River
(Lost Borders Press, 1998)
A comprehensive training book, based on the famous American Indian vision quest story of Jumping Mouse, for those who wish to lead rites of passage in the wilderness.

Circles on the Mountain: A Journal for Rites of Passage Guides
Johnson, Scott, Ed. Issue no. 9 (Focus on Adolescence), Web page: www.jps.net/circles.
A journal dedicated to the personal, societal, and ecological need for meaningful rites of passage. Contains helpful information and resources.

Voices of the First Day
Lawlor, Robert (Inner Traditions, 1991)
Contrasting modern values and rites of passage with those of the Australian aborigine, this beautifully illustrated book opens new possibilities for the future of humanity and the planet.

Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men
Meade, Michael (Harper San Francisco,1993)
A mythic tapestry of multicultural stories that encourages both young men and women to find the seeds of initiatory experiences in their lives and community.

Child of Fortune
Spinrad, Norman. (Bantam, 1985)
A thinly disguised science fiction allegory of a modern culture in which there are universal rites of passage for youth. A young heroine finds her way through drugs and illusory thrills to womanhood.

The Practice of the Wild
Snyder, Gary. (North Point Press, 1990)
An exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what can be possible between human and wild nature.

A Story Like the Wind (Hogarth, 1972). A Far-Off Place (Hogarth, 1974).
Van der Post, Laurens.
A classic novel in two parts of the coming of age of a young man and woman in the wilds of South Africa.

The Rites of Passage
Van Gennep, Arnold. (U. Of Chicago Press, 1960)
The classic anthropological examination of rites of passage of indigenous cultures throughout the world.

The Way of Council
Zimmerman, Jack with Coyle, Virginia. (Bramble, 1996)
Exploration of the dynamics of the council tradition as practiced in modern settings. A training method in basic communication skills among modern teenagers.

The Enemy Within
Keen, Sam.

3) Newark Sociology and History; Urban Issues

American Pastoral
Phillip Roth

Patrimony
Phillip Roth

The Crabgrass Frontier
Ken Jackson

The Debt: What White America Owes Black America
Randall Robinson

The Cathedral Within
Bill Shore

Ghetto Schooling
Jean Anyou

No Easy Walk
Helen Stummer

War on Poverty
Episode on Newark
PBS-TV Series, 1995
Henry Hampton, Exec. Producer