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
No detailed description available for "Broken".
Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo
Paper Book
The fifth edition of Racism without Racists is available in June 2017. The paperback ISBN for the fifth edition is 9781442276239. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases,...
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...
Strangers in the house : coming of age in occupied Palestine
Shehadeh, Raja
Paper Book
In 1948, Raja Shehadehs Palestinian family was one of many driven from their homes when Israel defeated the Arab armies arrayed against it. Shehadehs early childhood in the rural hills of the West Bank was marked by his familys sense of loss and impermanence, vividly evoked by the distant glittering...
Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy: Black Abolitionism since Emancipation
Griffler, Keith P.
Paper Book
In the century after emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. While sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the South, European colonialism had bred a new slavery that menaced the liberty of even more Africans. 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 ...
The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science
Zernike, Kate
Ebook
A New York Times Notable Book As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called "exceptional" as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the...
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".
The lemon tree : an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East
Tolan, Sandy.
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST "Extraordinary ... A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum ... Highly readable and evocative." - The Washington Post The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one...
Undaunted : how women changed American journalism
Kroeger, Brooke
Ebook
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...
A fever in the heartland : the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
Egan, Timothy
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year *  A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year * A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * A Goodreads...
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...
Getting me cheap : how low-wage work traps women and girls in poverty
Freeman, Amanda
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...
Encyclopedia of queer studies in education
Shelton, Stephanie Anne
Ebook
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...
The men with the pink triangle
Heger, Heinz.
Paper Book
The true life and death story of a gay man in the Nazi concentration camps.
: 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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