Books

Although we have provided some general categories for guidance, the lists below include many resources that have intersectional frameworks, focusing on multiple aspects of identity.

Our resource lists are working documents, as we will be adding new resources.

If you have any suggestions for the resource list, please email edemirli1@pride.hofstra.edu.

Anti-racism Resources

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson

• Nobody Knows My Name - James Baldwin

• What Does It Mean To Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy - Robin DiAngelo

• When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Collors and Asha Bandele

• The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

• Women, Race & Class- Angela Y. Davis

• Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson

• Medical Apartheid - Harriet A. Washington

• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (memoir)

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (memoir)

• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (memoir)

• Feminist Theory, From Margin to Center - Bell Hooks

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein

• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga - Yamahtta Taylor

• Killing Rage: Ending Racism - Bell Hooks

• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement – Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (fiction)

• The Color Purple - Alice Walker (fiction)

• Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) - Brittney C. Cooper

• Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown

• Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration -Isabel Wilkerson

• Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race- Margot Lee Shetterly

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower- Brittney Cooper

• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol

• The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) - Colson Whitehead

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) - Paul Ortiz

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

• Dear Martin - Nic Stone

• Chokehold: Policing Black Men - Paul Butler

• Blackballed: The Black + White politics of race on America’s campuses - Lawrence Ross

• Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy - Darryl Pinckney

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein

• Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

• The Black Friend - Frederick Joseph

• Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People - Helen Zia

• We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation - Jeff Chang

• The Karma of Brown Folk - Vijay Prashad

• No-No Boy - John Okada

LGBTQIA+ Resources

• We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation - Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown

• The Color Purple – Alice Walker

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel - Ocean Vuong (fiction)

• Fairest - Meredith Talusan (memoir)

• Boy Erased - Garrard Conley (fiction)

• The Stonewall Reader – edited by the New York Public Library

• Stonewall - Martin Duberman

• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us – Kate Bornstein

• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity – Julia Serano

• Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution – Susan Stryker

• The Tradition – Jericho Brown (Winner of Pulitzer Prize) – (poetry)

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz (fiction) (Pen/Faulkner Award Winner)

• Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta (fiction) (2016 Lambda Award Winner)

• Rubyfruit Jungle: A Novel – Rita Mae Brown (fiction)

• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality – Sarah McBride

• Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times – Carolina De Robertis

• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton

• Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States – Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock

• Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial – Kenji Yoshino (Winner of Stonewall Book Award)

• Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality – Jo Becker

• Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity – Arlene Stein

• Violence Against Queer People - Doug Meyer

Accessibility and Disability Resources

• Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment – James I. Charlton

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century – Alice Wong

• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist – Judith Heumann

• Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harward Law – Haben Girma

• Laughing at My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Feminist, Queer, Crip – Alison Kafer (Illustrated Edition)

• It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability – Kelly Davio

• Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People – Alice Wong

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) – Jay T. Dolmage

• DisCrit- Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series) – David J. Connor

• Tonguebreaker – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability – Paul K. Longmore

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon (fiction)

• Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation – Eli Clare

• A Disability History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) – Kim E. Nielsen

• Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability – Sheila Black

• The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) – Elizabeth Barnes

Feminism, Sex, and Gender Resources

• Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks

• Bad Feminist - Roxanne Gay

• Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit

• Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde

• This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color – Edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center – Bell Hooks

• We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – Morgan Jerkins

• Women, Culture & Politics – Angela Davis

• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics) – Judith Butler

• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks

• Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - Roxane Gay

• The Sacred Hoop: Recovering The Feminine In American Indian Traditions – Paula Gunn Allen

• The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both – Juno Dawson

• Can We All Be Feminists? Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism – June Eric-Udorie

• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny – Kate Manne

• Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive – Julia Serano

• Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition – Shirley Chisholm

• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban – Malala Yousafzai

• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity – Chandra Talpade Mohanty

• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts – Maxine Hong Kingston

• Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir – Rebecca Solnit

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning – Cathy Park Hong

• Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The Power – Naomi Alderman (Winner of the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction)

• The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (Latin America Otherwise) – Gloria Anzaldua

Immigration and Country of Origin Resources

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures - Anne Fadiman

• The Distance Between Us - Reyna Grande (memoir)

• Citizen Illegal - José Olivarez (poetry)

• The Undressing: Poems – Li-Young Lee

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen – Jose Antonio Vargas

• Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity – Porochista Khakpour

• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity – Chandra Talpade Mohanty

• If They Come for Us: Poems – Fatimah Asghar (poetry)

• Children of the Land – Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

• The Undocumented Americans – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America – Edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman

• Night Sky with exit Wounds – Ocean Vuong (poetry)

• The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You – Dina Nayeri

• Refuge: A Novel – Dina Nayeri (fiction)

• City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp – Ben Rawlence

• The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya (memoir)

• Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream – Eileen Truax

• The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis – Patrick Kingsley

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity – Katherine Boo

• Unaccompanied – Javier Zamora

• The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives – edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as) – Rigoberto Gonzalez

• American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang

• No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria - Rania Abouzeid

Ageism related Resources (In Progress...)

• Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Global Perspectives on Aging) – Margaret Morganroth Gullette

• This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism – Ashton Applewhite

• Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America - Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Sizeism and Fat-phobia Related Resources (In Progress...)

• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - Aubrey Gordon

Faith, Religious Identity, and Religious Discrimination Resources (In Progress...)

• We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance - Linda Sarsour

• The Choice: Embrace the Possible - Edith Eger

• The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life - Edith Eger

• A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir - Lev Golinkin

Socioeconomic status and Classism Resources (In Progress...)

• Where We Stand: Class Matters - Bell Hooks