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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Empire of normality
Chapman, Robert
Ebook
The neurodiversity movement suggests that it takes all kinds of minds for society to function. Instead of accepting their place as inferior, the divergent are reforging their position as 'neurominorities', and are organizing in ever greater numbers to change how they are perceived and treated.<...
HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN four women philosophers who taught me how to live a life of the mind
Penaluna, Regan.
Ebook
A timely critique investigating how four women philosophers persevered in a field that often suppressed and disregarded the insights of female thinkers.
When the hood comes off : racism and resistance in the digital age
Eschmann, Rob
Paper Book
This timely, comprehensive study examines how racism manifests online and highlights the antiracist tactics rising to oppose it   From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family...
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
Ebook
The rediscovery of America native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Blackhawk, Ned
Ebook
No detailed description available for "The Rediscovery of America".
'Race is everything' : art and human difference
Bindman, David
Paper Book
A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism.   'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how...
Boardinghouse women : how southern keepers, cooks, nurses, widows, and runaways shaped modern America
Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.
Ebook
In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran...
A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South
Cozzens, Peter
Ebook
The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South--from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth is Weeping The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American...
Talking Back Native Women and the Making of the Early South
Dubcovsky, Alejandra
Ebook
No detailed description available for "Talking Back".
Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories
Baker, Joe
Paper Book
Through a focus on Lenape art, culture, and history and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history. This richly illustrated volume features...
On the turtle's back stories the Lenape told their grandchildren
Townsend, Camilla
Ebook
The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma....
A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
Egan, Timothy
Ebook
The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in...
On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe
Dodds Pennock, Caroline
Ebook
AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after...
Getting Me Cheap How Low Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
Freeman, Amanda (Professor)
Ebook
Two groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a...
Liberal White supremacy : how progressives silence racial and class oppression
Beeman, Angie
Paper Book
In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class...
Washington's gay general : the legends and loves of Baron von Steuben
Trujillo, Josh
Ebook
A graphic novel biography of Baron von Steuben, the soldier, immigrant, and flamboyant homosexual who influenced the course of US history during the Revolutionary War despite being omitted from our textbooks. Author Josh Trujillo and illustrator Levi Hastings tell...
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...
Portraits of resistance : activating art during slavery
Van Horn, Jennifer
Paper Book
A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center   "An argument for a new kind of American art history . . . a textbook for the future of the field."--Mia L. Bagneris, caa.reviews ...
The famous lady lovers Black women and queer desire before Stonewall
Woolner, Cookie
Ebook
Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"--as women who loved women were then called--crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary...

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