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In this section you will find a collection of readings that connect to both historical and contemporary perspectives on various diversity, equity and inclusion themes. Many of these books can be accessed through the J. Murrey Atkins Library. 

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CLASS

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

Educated

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Nickel and Dimed

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostaligia Trap

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

White Trash: the 400-year Untold History of Class in America

DISABILITY & ACCESS

A Disability History of the United States

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment

GENDER

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Borderlands

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Feminism is for Everybody

Author: Bell Hooks

Gender Trouble

Men Explain Things to Me

Sister Outsider

The Beauty Myth

The History of Sexuality: Volume 1

Thick

LGBTQ+

All Boys Aren't Blue

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies

Epistemology of the Closet

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power

Queer Times, Black Futures

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Undoing Gender

RACE/ETHNICITY

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

American Racial Contract is Killing Us

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Anti-Asian Xenophobia and Asian American COVID-19 Disparities

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of An American People

Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction

Asian Americans: An Interpretive History

Borderlands/Frontera: The New Mestiza

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction

Custor Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. Constitution

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

Finding Latinx

Good White People: The Problem with Middle Class white Anti-Racism

Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic

How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

How To Be an Antiracist

Immigrant Acts: On Asian american Cultural Politics

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Just Mercy

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Privilege, Power, and Difference

So You Want to Talk About Race

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

Sue, D.W. (2010). Microaggressions, marginality, and oppression: An introduction. In D. W. Sue (Ed.), Microaggressions and marginality: Manifestation, dynamics, and impact (pp. 3-22). John Wiley & Sons Inc. 

The 1619 Project

The Case for Reparations

The Color of Law

The Fire Next Time

The History of White People

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Making of Asian American A History

The Myth of the Model Minority

The New Force in American Politics and Culture

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The People's History of the United States

The Souls of Black Folks

The Undocumented Americans

The Warmth of Other Suns

Whistling Vivaldi. How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Race

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race

Why We Can't Wait

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White

Yellow Peril!