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Books about race, identity, anti-racism work and activism are available in the Science Center for all students, faculty and staff to pick up, borrow, explore their curiosity and learn.
Story: During #ShutDownSTEM conversations in June of 2020, a group of students who spend time in the Biochemistry Lounge at Mount Holyoke were discussing ways to lower the activation barrier for community members to learn more about the history of race in America, what it means to become more anti-racist, and to engage with each other on these topics. They chose to create a "Biochemistry Equity Library" of books that would be available for members of the community (Students, Faculty, Staff) who work or learn in the Mount Holyoke Science Center to pick up, read, borrow and return. These books now live in the Lounge Area outside of Carr 104. Funds for these books have been donated by Biochemistry faculty.
Current Book List:
Managing your mental health during your Ph.D.: A Survival Guide. Zoe J Ayres. 2022.
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez. 2021.
Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2013.
Lessons from Plants. Beronda L. Montgomery. 2021.
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Gabriella Gutiérrez Y. Muhs, Carmen G. González, and Yolanda Flores Niemann, 2012.
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown, 2018
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 2015
How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide. Crystal Marie Fleming, 2019.
Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini, 2020
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O'Neil, 2017
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble, 2018
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen, 2018
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin Diangelo and Michael Eric Dyson , 2018
So You Want to Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo, 2019
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum, 2017
UnCommon Bonds; Women Reflect on Race and Friendship, Kersha Smith and Marcella Runell Hall, 2018
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century, Dorothy Roberts, 2012
Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories, Eddie Moore, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Ali Michael, and Paul C. Gorski , 2015
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, Derald Wing Sue, 2016
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance, Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin, 2019
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