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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A darker wilderness : Black nature writing from soil to stars
Sharkey, Erin
Paper Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023 A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory. ...
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...
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...
Broken : The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
Alsultany, Evelyn
Ebook
PROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies Finalist How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims One of Donald Trump's first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a...
African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals
Fischer, David Hackett
Paper Book
In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. ...
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 ...
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...
: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
Lustig, Myron W.
Paper Book
For courses in Intercultural Communication   Fosters the proficiency in intercultural communication vital for students to thrive in private and public life Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives...

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