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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.
CLASS
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Educated
Author: Tara Westover
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author: Matthew Desmond
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Author: Andrea Elliot
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Author: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Author: Stephanie Land
Nickel and Dimed
Author: Barbara Erhenreich
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostaligia Trap
Author: Stephanie Coontz
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Author: Annette Lareau
White Trash: the 400-year Untold History of Class in America
Author: Nancy Isenberg
DISABILITY & ACCESS
A Disability History of the United States
Author: Kim E. Nielsen
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
Author: Aimi Hamraie
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Author: Robert McRuer, Michael Berube
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Author: Alice Wong
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
Author: James I. Charlton
GENDER
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Author: Rebecca Traister
Borderlands
Author: Gloria Anzaldua
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Author: Brittany Cooper
Feminism is for Everybody
Author: Bell Hooks
Gender Trouble
Author: Judith Butler
Men Explain Things to Me
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde
The Beauty Myth
Author: Naomi Wolf
The History of Sexuality: Volume 1
Author: Michel Foucault
Thick
Author: Tressie McMillan Cottom
LGBTQ+
All Boys Aren't Blue
Author: George Johnson
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Author: Joanne Barker
Epistemology of the Closet
Author: Eve Kosofky Sedgwick
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Author: Kate Bornstein
Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power
Author: Kath Browne and Eduarda Ferreira
Queer Times, Black Futures
Author: Kara Keeling
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Author: Jennifer Boylan
Undoing Gender
Author: Judith Butler
RACE/ETHNICITY
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Author: Erika Lee
American Racial Contract is Killing Us
Author: Adam Sewer
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Author: Paul Ortiz
An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Anti-Asian Xenophobia and Asian American COVID-19 Disparities
Author: Thomas K. Le, Leah Cha, Hae-Ra Han and Wins
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of An American People
Author: Helen Zia
Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Madeline Y. Hsu
Asian Americans: An Interpretive History
Author: Sucheng Chan
Borderlands/Frontera: The New Mestiza
Author: Gloria Anzaldúa
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Author: Dee Brown
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
Author: R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Custor Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Author: Vine Deloria
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland
Author: Jonathan Metzl
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
Author: Anton Treuer
Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. Constitution
Author: Oren Lyons, Donald A. Grinde, Curtis Berkey
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Author: Derek Bell
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Finding Latinx
Author: Paola Ramos
Good White People: The Problem with Middle Class white Anti-Racism
Author: Shannon Sullivan
Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
Author: Erika Denise Edwards
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
Author: Eileen Truax
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Author: Clint Smith
How To Be an Antiracist
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Immigrant Acts: On Asian american Cultural Politics
Author: Lisa Lowe
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
Author: Laura Gómez
Just Mercy
Author: Bryan Stevenson
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Author: Cathy Park Hong
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
Author: Rodolfo F. Acuna
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States
Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Author: Nick Estes
Privilege, Power, and Difference
Author: Allan G. Johnson
So You Want to Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Author: Ronald Takaki
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.
Author: Derald Wing Sue
The 1619 Project
Author: Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Case for Reparations
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color of Law
Author: Richard Rothstein
The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin
The History of White People
Author: Nell Irvin Painter
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Rebecca Skloot
The Making of Asian American A History
Author: Erika Lee
The Myth of the Model Minority
Author: Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Author: Ed Morales
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Author: Michelle Alexander
The People's History of the United States
Author: Howard Zinn
The Souls of Black Folks
Author: W.E.B DuBois
The Undocumented Americans
Author: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Warmth of Other Suns
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Whistling Vivaldi. How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Author: Claude Steele
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Race
Author: Robin DiAngelo
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Author: Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race
Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why We Can't Wait
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White
Author: David R. Roediger
Yellow Peril!
Author: John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats