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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This guide has a variety of resources to explore racial inequity, social justice and marginalized groups.

Books to Read

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

I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing. Maya Angelou

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Ward Jesmyn

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Charlene A. Carruthers.

Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Women, Race, & Class. Angela Y. Davis

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond

White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Race. Robin DiAngelo

Bad Feminist. Roxane Gay

Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Bell Hooks.

Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Bell Hook

Stamped from the Beginning. Ibram X Kendi.

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. Marc Lamont Hill

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong. James Loewen.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. Jonathan Metzel.

Becoming. Michelle Obama.

Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses. Lawrence Ross.

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki.

The Hate U Give. Angie Thomas.

The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel Wilkerson

Harbor Me. Jacqueline Woodson

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Carol Weatherford

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. Rebekah Taussig

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist. Judith E. Heumann

 

 

LGBTQ Fiction

Also look at LGBTQ+ Resources LibGuide for booklists of recommended fiction.

Summon Search

Searching Tips

Use the Summon Search to find information from the library databases and the catalog. You can refine your search after typing in the topic and getting your results. 

A TIP TO KNOW! After clicking on a book title look for the subjects attached to the book. Those are links you can click on to find more books on those subjects. For example;

"Between the World and Me" has these subjects attached to it.

African Americans--Social conditions

Black Americans

United States--Race relations

Race discrimination--United States

Whites--United States--Attitudes