Book Acquisitions Supporting DEI Efforts

This list highlights print monographs purchased during the 23-24 fiscal year that help diversify our collections. We work to curate the range of topics covered in the print collection, with a focus on diverse authorship, topics, stories, and characters.

Updated June 7, 2024
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Anarcho-Indigenism : Conversations on Land and Freedom
Dupuis-Déri, Francis
Ebook
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
Paper Book
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Empire of Normality : Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Chapman, Robert.
Ebook
Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo
Paper Book
In this book, Bonilla-Silva explores with systematic interview data, the nature and components of post-civil rights racial ideology. Specifically, he documents the existence of a new suave and apparently non-racial racial ideology he labels color-blind racism. He suggests that this ideology,...
Ain't I an anthropologist : Zora Neale Hurston beyond the literary icon
Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L.
Ebook
Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different...
Pageboy : a memoir
Page, Elliot
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2023" A TIME Magazine "100 Must-Read Books of 2023" A Washington Post "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction" An Autostraddle "Best Queer Books of 2023" "Vivid...Moving...
King : a life
Eig, Jonathan
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time A New York Times...
Ordinary notes
Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth
Paper Book
A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and Noble ...
Not just for the boys : why we need more women in science
Donald, A. M.
Paper Book
Period : the real story of menstruation
Clancy, Kathryn B. H.
Ebook
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as...
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Blackhawk, Ned
Ebook
National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History * Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize ...
Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom
Woo, Ilyon
Paper Book
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and...
Who's afraid of gender?
Butler, Judith
Paper Book
National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 (so far) by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, Elle, Cosmopolitan,...
The men with the pink triangle : the true, life- and death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps
Heger, Heinz.
Paper Book
The first, and still the best known, testimony by a gay survivor of the Nazi concentration camps translated into English, this harrowing autobiography opened new doors onto the understanding of homosexuality and the Holocaust when it was first published in 1980 by Gay Men's Press.The Men with the...
When we see us : a century of Black figuration in painting
Kouoh, Koyo
Paper Book
A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: a major study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early 20th century to now. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, this book presents a...
Unsettling the university : confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education
Stein, Sharon
Paper Book
Shifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past. Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast...
Fusion of the worlds : an ethnography of possession among the Songhay of Niger
Stoller, Paul.
Paper Book
"This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."--Choice "Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become...
Mukiwa : a white boy in Africa
Godwin, Peter
Paper Book
Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the...

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