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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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...
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...
How to think like a woman : four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
Penaluna, Regan
Paper Book
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in...
Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon
Freeman Marshall, Jennifer L.
Paper Book
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...
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
Blackhawk, Ned
Paper Book
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 ...
A brutal reckoning : Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the epic war for the American South
Cozzens, Peter
Paper Book
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
Paper Book
A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority   "An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial contribution to our knowledge of women in the so-called 'forgotten centuries' of European colonialism in the...
On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe
Dodds Pennock, Caroline
Paper Book
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...
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo
Paper Book
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind racism is as insidious now as ever. The sixth edition of this provocative book includes new material on...
The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall
Woolner, Cookie
Paper Book
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...
Strangers in the house : coming of age in occupied Palestine
Shehadeh, Raja
Paper Book
"This is not a political book," Anthony Lewis asserts in his foreword to this revealing memoir of a father-son relationship set against the backdrop of more than thirty years of life under military occupation. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is political. . . . Shehadeh shatters the stereotype...
Medical Legal Violence: Health Care and Immigration Enforcement Against Latinx Noncitizens
Van Natta, Meredith
Paper Book
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 An urgent study on how punitive immigration policies undermine the health of Latinx immigrants Of the approximately 20 million noncitizens currently living in the United States, nearly half are "undocumented,"...
Mischievous creatures : the forgotten sisters who transformed early American science
McNeur, Catherine
Paper Book
The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining "meticulous research and sensitive storytelling" (Janice P. Nimura, New York Times-bestselling author of The Doctors Blackwell) ...
Not just for the boys : why we need more women in science
Donald, A. M.
Paper Book
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific workforce?Not Just For the Boys looks back at how society has historically excluded women from the scientific sphere and discourse, what...
Period : the real story of menstruation
Clancy, Kathryn B. H.
Paper Book
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...
Saved and the damned : a history of the reformation
Kaufmann, Thomas
Paper Book
Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself.The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil....
Remapping sovereignty : decolonization and self-determination in North American indigenous political thought
Temin, David Myer
Paper Book
An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet Native communities have made unique contributions to anticolonial thought and activism. Remapping Sovereignty examines...
The missing peace : the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace
Ross, Dennis.
Paper Book
The respected ambassador and chief Middle East negotiator in both the Clinton and Bush administrations offers an assessment of the peace process from 1988 to the present.
Undaunted : how women changed American journalism
Kroeger, Brooke
Paper Book
An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret...
Glass walls : shattering the six gender bias barriers still holding women back at work
Diehl, Amy
Paper Book
"The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries." - Booklist, Starred Review A new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders,...
Pregnant while Black : advancing justice for maternal health in America
Rainford, Monique
Paper Book
A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. But Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them. Pregnant While Black...
Encyclopedia of queer studies in education
Strunk, Kamden K.
Paper Book
Choice Award 2022: Outstanding Academic Title Queer studies is an extensive field that spans a range of disciplines. This volume focuses on education and educational research and examines and expounds upon queer studies particular to education fields. It works to examine concepts,...
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...
Unbroken chains : the hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy
Ditmore, Melissa Hope
Paper Book
An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy-from the stories of its survivors The years of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light the exploitation of workers. In this moment of heightened visibility,...
Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology
Hawk, Shane
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY . BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY . LOCUS AWARD FINALIST A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question- "Are you ready to be un...

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