Library: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Guide: Library resources

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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage

Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali
Publication Date: 2022
A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where exactly? His hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he can't afford rent?
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
Publication Date: 2022
When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles.
Brown and Gay in L.A.: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo
Publication Date: 2022
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in L.A. could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced. For these men, the path to sexual freedom often involves chasing the dreams while resisting the expectations of their immigrant parents.
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
Publication Date: 2021
Spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor-sharp and deeply funny prose, Sanjena Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy.
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Publication Date: 2021
When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.
A House Is a Body: Stories by Shruti Swamy
Publication Date: 2021
In this collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity; women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. The stories travel from India to America and back again to reveal the small moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world.
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
Publication Date: 2020
A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality. Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues that her mathematical specialty - category theory - reveals why. Category theory deals more with context, relationships, and nuanced versions of equality than with intrinsic characteristics.
If You See Me, Don't Say Hi: Stories by Neel Patel
Publication Date: 2018
In eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of whom are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by. We meet two brothers caught in an elaborate web of envy and loathing; a young gay man who becomes involved with an older man whose secret he could never guess; and a young couple struggling against the devastating force of community gossip.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
Publication Date: 2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam—and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
Publication Date: 2018
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should.
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publication Date: 2013
Two brothers bound by tragedy. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. A country torn by revolution. A love that lasts long past death. An extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: the best-selling author of The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up.
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu
Publication Date: 2013
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities" in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership.
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publication Date: 2008
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond.
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu
Publication Date: 2001
Writing in the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the “color line” of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues through the lens of the Asian-American experience.
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publication Date: 1999
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout.
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe
Publication Date: 1996
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Publication Date: 1976
As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own.
No-No Boy by John Okada
Publication Date: 2014
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Publication Date: 1931
Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings.

Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal
Publication Date: 2022
Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women. With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating beauty standards South Asian women are expected to adhere to, Sharan Dhaliwal speaks openly about her journey towards loving herself, offering advice, support and comfort to people that are encountering the same issues.
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publication Date: 2022
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives by Eleanor Ty (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022
While most US-based comics studies anthologies tend to neglect race, Beyond the Icon brings it to the foreground through an analysis of the vibrant and growing body of graphic narratives by Asian North American creators in the twenty-first century. By demonstrating how the forms and styles of the comics genre help depict Asian Americans as nuanced individuals in ways that words alone may not, Beyond the Icon makes the case for comics as a crucial artistic form in Asian American cultural production.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Publication Date: 2022
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us.
Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 by Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Publication Date: 2020
The Philippine Revolution of 1896-1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the twentieth century in Asia more broadly has largely approached this pivotal moment in terms of relations with the West, at the expense of understanding the East-East and Global South connections that knit together the region's experience.
Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule by René Alexander D. Orquiza
Publication Date: 2020
Filipino cuisine is a delicious fusion of foreign influences, adopted and transformed into its own unique flavor. But to the Americans who came to colonize the islands in the 1890s, it was considered inferior and lacking in nutrition. Changing the food of the Philippines was part of a war on culture led by Americans as they attempted to shape the islands into a reflection of their home country.
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by Gina K. Velasco
Publication Date: 2020
Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
Publication Date: 2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam—and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy by Frank Abe, et al.
Publication Date: 2018
No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy.
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
Publication Date: 2018
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should.
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan (Editors)
Publication Date: 2018
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays by both senior and rising scholars. This collection considers topics including the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations, accountability for Asian American "settler complicities" and cross-racial solidarities, and Asian American community-based strategies against state violence as shaped by and tied to women of color feminisms.
K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance by Suk-Young Kim
Publication Date: 2018
Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of "liveness" in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age.
A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South by Stephanie Hinnershitz
Publication Date: 2017
In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Although they were not black, Asian Americans were not considered white and were subject to school segregation, antimiscegenation laws, and discriminatory business practices. As Asian Americans attempted to establish themselves in the South, they found institutionalized racism thwarted their efforts time and again.
Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs
Publication Date: 2016
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs's fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Publication Date: 2016
A history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life.
Killing the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian American Counterstories and Complicity by Brad J. Porfilio and Nicholas Daniel Hartlep (Editors)
Publication Date: 2015
Killing the Model Minority Stereotype explores the complex permutations of the Asian model minority myth, exposing the ways stereotypes of Asian/Americans operate in the service of racism. Chapters include critical analyses and connect to overarching projects of decolonization, which social justice educators and practitioners will find useful for understanding how the model minority myth functions to uphold white supremacy and how complicity has a damaging impact in its perpetuation.
Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture by Gary Y. Okihiro
Publication Date: 1994
In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture. While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social history, Okihiro argues that the core values and ideals of the nation emanate today not from the so-called mainstream but from the margins, from among Asian and African Americans, Latinos and American Indians, women, and the gay and lesbian community.
No-No Boy by John Okada
Publication Date: 2014
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.

My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Sandeep Jauhar
Publication Date: 2023
In My Father's Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar sets his father's descent into Alzheimer's alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured. In an intimate memoir rich with humor and heartbreak, Jauhar relates how his immigrant father and extended family felt, quarreled, and found their way through the dissolution of a cherished life.
Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang
Publication Date: 2020
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr. Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own.

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
Publication Date: 2023
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personalized matters.
Making Black Girls Count in Math Education: A Black Feminist Vision for Transformative Teaching by Nicole M. Joseph
Publication Date: 2022
Making Black Girls Count in Math Education explores the experiences of Black girls and women in mathematics from preschool to graduate school, probing race and gender inequity in STEM fields. Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in the mathematics pipeline. Joseph’s account calls attention to educational structures and practices that contribute to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
Publication Date: 2022
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement.
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey
Publication Date: 2021
When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural nerve and quickly entering into the lexicon. Misogynoir now has its own Wikipedia page and hashtag.
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
Publication Date: 2021
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words --me too -- and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall (with illustrations by Hugo Martínez)
Publication Date: 2021
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson (with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore)
Publication Date: 2021
In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement, she served as a beacon of light for her family and community alike. Her story is centered around the basic tenets of her life - no one is better than you, education is paramount, and asking questions can break barriers
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
Publication Date: 2021
Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps us in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities.
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Publication Date: 2021
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, she shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter -- all with a new spin and rhythm informed by pop culture, hip hop, politics, and Star Trek.
Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock
Publication Date: 2019
From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places Blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
Publication Date: 2020
An exploration of the lives of young Black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of Black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs.
Holding The Knife's Edge: Journeys of Black Female Scientists by Thato Motlhalamme and Evodia Setati
Publication Date: 2020
To be born a female in a developing country is like competing in a race with your arms tied behind your back and blindfolded. Authors Thato Motlhalamme and Evodia Setati follow the journeys of 14 award-winning and pioneering black women in Science, from their childhoods and education to their arrival in the upper echelons of various organisations, achieved through innovation, academic excellence, social intelligence, authentic leadership and tenacity.
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
Publication Date: 2019
Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. Haben takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman’s determination to find the keys to connection.
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling
Publication Date: 2019
Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through whiteness. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.
Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain
Publication Date: 2020
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, journalists, and activists.
W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert (Editors)
Publication Date: 2018
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois offered a look behind the veil into the lives of Black Americans to convey a literal and figurative representation of what Du Bois famously termed "the color line," and became the talk of the Expo. From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics make visible a wide spectrum of black experience.
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Publication Date: 2018
All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Publication Date: 2017
More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years - during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges.
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert
Publication Date: 2017
Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims.
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publication Date: 2016
Basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores how the America of today is a fractured society, sharply divided along the lines of race, gender, religion, political party and economic class. In his celebrated second career as a writer and social critic, Abdul-Jabbar examines these issues with insight and passion as he draws from his own experiences as a superstar athlete, an inquisitive scholar, a celebrity, a father, an African American and a Muslim.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publication Date: 2015
For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings.
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Publication Date: 2014
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue."
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
Publication Date: 2013
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery - setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
Publication Date: 2011
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. This book recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization’s broader struggle for social justice: health care.
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History by Stephanie Y. Evans
Publication Date: 2008
This book chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented national growth in American education.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Publication Date: 2007
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
A Season on the Reservation: My Sojourn with the White Mountain Apache by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publication Date: 2000
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has always been fascinated by history -- nineteenth-century American history in particular. Tired of L.A., restless and looking for new adventure, challenge, and discovery, he decides to go live among the Apaches he's read about. He encounters a complex reality. The kids on the Alchesay Falcons team don't easily embrace what he's trying to teach them on the court. Gradually they begin to learn from him as he begins to learn from them.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Publication Date: 1963
At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.
Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement by Mary Benson (foreword by Desmond Tutu)
Publication Date: 1986
Nelson Mandela has become a legend in his own lifetime; the embodiment of the struggle for liberation in South Africa and the symbol of its triumph. In this biography, the author describes Mandela's life, work and ideas from his childhood in the royal family of the Thembu people to his membership of the African National Congress, including the many years in captivity on Robben Island and the birth of the hope that came with his release.
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning
Publication Date: 1983
This biography about the life of pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer Ernest Everett Just illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of science.

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
Publication Date: 2023
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. Christian Cooper is a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park.
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Publication Date: 2023
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself?
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
Publication Date: 2021
Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps us in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities.
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
Publication Date: 2019
Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education by Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball (Editors)
Publication Date: 2019
Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color - including African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populations - in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories.
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling
Publication Date: 2019
Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through whiteness. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.
Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard (Editors)
Publication Date: 2018
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in the dehumanizing representations found within game spaces, many video games perpetuate injustice and mirror inequities and violence that permeate society as a whole.
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Publication Date: 2018
Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic by Samantha Pinto
Publication Date: 2013
Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship the book argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. Locating correspondences between seemingly disparate times and places, and across genres, the book fully engages the unique possibilities of literature and culture to redefine race and gender studies.
Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America by Manfred Berg
Publication Date: 2011
Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, "Judge Lynch" holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory. In Popular Justice, Manfred Berg explores the history of lynching from the colonial era to the present. American lynch law, he argues, has rested on three pillars: the frontier experience, racism, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of grassroots democracy.
Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow by J. Michael Martinez
Publication Date: 2011
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans in Congress were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution.
Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage by Richard Stengel (preface by Nelson Mandela)
Publication Date: 2010
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before. Now Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons.
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity by Ann Arnett Ferguson
Publication Date: 2000
Statistics show that Black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students to understand this serious problem. Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males are identified by school personnel as "bound for jail" and how the youth construct a sense of self under such adverse circumstances.
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Publication Date: 2014
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks -- writer, teacher, and insurgent Black intellectual -- writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal. bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism?
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Publication Date: 1937
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years--due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist - Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

Disability Pride & Neurodiversity Celebration

Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! by Sasha Hamdani
Publication Date: 2023
Destress, find your community, and practice self-love with these 100+ exercises to reinforce ADHD as a strength. When you have ADHD, it can be hard to stay on top of your wellness. Self-Care for People with ADHD is here to help! This book can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care—without pretending to be neurotypical.
The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach by Davida Hartman, et al.
Publication Date: 2023
Adult autism assessment is a new clinical area, for which professionals feel ill-equipped. Autistic adults are often misdiagnosed which has implications for mental health. This comprehensive adult autism assessment handbook covers the most up to date research and best practice around adult autism. It centers the person's internal experiences and sense-making in clinical assessment, rather than subjective observation, thus providing the clinician with a truly paradigm shifting Neuro-Affirmative approach to autism assessment.
Disability Services in Higher Education: An Insider's Guide by Kirsten T. Behling, et al.
Publication Date: 2023
Disability Services in Higher Education is the first comprehensive guide for people working in the field of ADA compliance in higher education. The authors examine how disabilities are supported to ensure students receive appropriate accommodations throughout their collegiate experience as well as provide guidance on overall campus accessibility. This volume provides an overview of the responsibilities of a Disabilities Service professional through an examination of relevant literature, laws and regulatory language, case law, and narrative on established practices.
Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help by Richard Pink and Roxanne Emery
Publication Date: 2023
What if you stopped feeling ashamed of constantly being late or of getting so hyperfocused on a task that you drop everything else you had to do? How can you as a partner, parent, or friend better understand your neurodivergent loved one's way of moving through the world? In Dirty Laundry, life partners Rich Pink and Rox Emery unapologetically guide you through the ups and downs of life with ADHD.
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum by Annie Kotowicz
Publication Date: 2022
In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the mind of an autistic woman, sharing the trials and triumphs of a life before and after diagnosis. How might it feel to be autistic? Why are autistic and non-autistic people so puzzling to one another? How does neuroscience explain the spectrum of autistic traits? And what could you discover about your own mind—neurotypical or neurodivergent—through learning about another?
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin
Publication Date: 2022
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future.
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by DeVon Price
Publication Date: 2022
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity. For every visibly Autistic person you meet, there are countless “masked” Autistic people who pass as neurotypical. Masking is a common coping mechanism in which Autistic people hide their identifiably Autistic traits in order to fit in with societal norms, adopting a superficial personality at the expense of their mental health.
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
Publication Date: 2022
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement.
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
Publication Date: 2022
Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future.
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships by Russell A. Barkley
Publication Date: 2021
If you're among the millions of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you need the latest facts about the disorder and its treatment. You need practical strategies to help develop your strengths and achieve your goals, whether on the job, in family relationships, or in personal pursuits. From renowned ADHD researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this is the book for you.
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
Publication Date: 2021
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau
Publication Date: 2021
People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. What are the appropriate ways to think, talk, and ask about disability? Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about.
Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD by Tamara Rosier
Publication Date: 2021
If you have ADHD, your brain doesn't work in the same way as a "normal" or neurotypical brain does because it's wired differently. You and others may see this difference in circuitry as somehow wrong or incomplete. It isn't. It does present you with significant challenges like time management, organization skills, forgetfulness, trouble completing tasks, mood swings, and relationship problems. In Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life.
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care The Care Collective
Publication Date: 2020
A radical vision demanding we put care at the very heart of our lives and politics. In the wake of Covid-19, the need to acknowledge our mutual interdependence and vulnerabilities is more urgent than ever. Care must be valued and shared, no longer tolerated as an exploited form of labour, shouldered mainly by women and the poor. Rejecting the extensive carelessness so evident today, the authors' model of 'universal care' calls for inventive forms of collective care at every scale of life.
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
Publication Date: 2020
Challenges the ableism of fairy tales and offers new ways to celebrate the magic of all bodies. In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she'll have a happy ending? By examining the ways that fairy tales have shaped our expectations of disability, Disfigured will point the way toward a new world.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art ... an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture.
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
Publication Date: 2019
Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. Haben takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman’s determination to find the keys to connection.
Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning by Phil Boissiere
Publication Date: 2018
Executive functioning skills—including focus, organization, stress management, and more—are critical to succeeding in all aspects of your life. Whether you've just been diagnosed with ADHD or you've lived with it your entire life, you know that developing these skills can be a challenge. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build a mental skill set and take control of your ADHD.
Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Publication Date: 2017
While calls for improved accessibility and inclusion in the workplace have gained momentum in recent years, for millions of people who are neurodivergent or struggle with their mental health, the quest for acceptance often happens in the shadows—if at all. In this collection of deeply personal yet relatable essays, Dr. Katie Rose Pryal, a bipolar-autistic lawyer, professor, and speaker traces her own journey alongside that of other neurodivergent people in in higher education.
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara (Editors)
Publication Date: 2017
Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Publication Date: 2016
A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it.
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Publication Date: 2012
Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of disabled people at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it’s a familiar telling. In other ways, it is a radical repositioning of US history.
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized by Susan Pinsky
Publication Date: 2012
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are prevalent in society today, afflicting about 4.4% of the adult population—over 13 million Americans. Four out of every five adults do not even know they have ADD. The chapters, organized by the type of room or task, consist of practical organizing solutions for people living with ADD
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment by James I. Charlton
Publication Date: 2000
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism.

More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Publication Date: 2023
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself?
The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach by Davida Hartman, et al.
Publication Date: 2023
Adult autism assessment is a new clinical area, for which professionals feel ill-equipped. Autistic adults are often misdiagnosed which has implications for mental health. This comprehensive adult autism assessment handbook covers the most up to date research and best practice around adult autism. It centers the person's internal experiences and sense-making in clinical assessment, rather than subjective observation, thus providing the clinician with a truly paradigm shifting Neuro-Affirmative approach to autism assessment.
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum by Annie Kotowicz
Publication Date: 2022
In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the mind of an autistic woman, sharing the trials and triumphs of a life before and after diagnosis. How might it feel to be autistic? Why are autistic and non-autistic people so puzzling to one another? How does neuroscience explain the spectrum of autistic traits? And what could you discover about your own mind—neurotypical or neurodivergent—through learning about another?
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publication Date: 2022
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
Publication Date: 2022
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement.
Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline by Steven K. Kapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement.
Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality by Meryl Alper
Publication Date: 2017
How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to "give voice to the voiceless." Behind the praise, though, are beliefs about technology as a gateway to opportunity and voice as a metaphor for agency and self-representation. In Giving Voice, Meryl Alper explores these assumptions by looking closely at one such case.
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage
Publication Date: 2017
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved.
Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach by Nancy J. Evans and Ellen M. Broido
Publication Date: 2017
Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach examines how disability is conceptualized in higher education and ways in which students, faculty, and staff with disabilities are viewed and served on college campuses. Drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks, research, and experience creating inclusive campuses, this text offers a new framework for understanding disability using a social justice lens.
Supporting College and University Students with Invisible Disabilities: A Guide for Faculty and Staff Working with Students with Autism, ADHD, Language Processing Disorders, Anxiety, and Mental Illness by Christy Oslund
Publication Date: 2013
With increasing numbers of students with invisible disabilities attending college and university, faculty and staff find themselves faced with new challenges. This practical handbook provides lecturers, tutors, disability services, and administrative staff with an overview of the invisible disabilities they may encounter, dispelling common myths and offering practical advice to support the needs of these students.

Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! by Sasha Hamdani
Publication Date: 2023
Destress, find your community, and practice self-love with 100+ exercises to reinforce ADHD as a strength. When you have ADHD, it can be hard to stay on top of wellness. This book can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care—without pretending to be neurotypical.
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
Publication Date: 2022
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity. For every visibly Autistic person you meet, there are countless “masked” Autistic people who pass as neurotypical.
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain by Thomas Armstrong
Publication Date: 2021
Develop a new understanding of neurodivergence with this exploration of the human mind. From ADHD and dyslexia to autism, the number of diagnosis categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last 50 years.
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships by Russell A. Barkley
Publication Date: 2022
If you're among the millions of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you need practical strategies to help develop your strengths and achieve your goals, whether on the job, in family relationships, or in personal pursuits.
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized by Susan C. Pinsky
Publication Date: 2021
ADD/ADHD is prevalent in society today, afflicting about 4.4% of the adult population—over 13 million Americans. The chapters, organized by the type of room or task, consist of practical organizing solutions for people living with ADD/ADHD.
Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD by Tamara Rosier
Publication Date: 2021
If you have ADHD, your brain doesn't work in the same way as a "normal" or neurotypical brain does because it's wired differently. You and others may see this difference in circuitry as somehow wrong or incomplete. It isn't.
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers by Sari Solden and Michelle Frank
Publication Date: 2021
If you're a woman with ADHD, you've probably known all your life that you're different. As girls, we learn which behaviors, thinking, learning, and working styles are preferred, which are accepted and tolerated, and which are frowned upon.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Publication Date: 2015
A groundbreaking book that upends thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius?

Hispanic Heritage

Books
eBooks

Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking by Tatiana Reinoza and Karen Mary Davalos (Editors)
Publication Date: 2023
Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution which had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States.
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Publication Date: 2020
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
Publication Date: 2020
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many - Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns - are voices who have been chronically overlooked.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Publication Date: 2019
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and sometimes with their lives.
Voces de Hispanoamérica: Antología Literaria by Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel and Malva E. Filer
Publication Date: 2017
Voces de Hispanoamérica, the market-leading anthology, features the most distinguished authors of Spanish-American literature from the pre-colonial period to the present. Introductory essays and literary selections, combined with many historical and literary references, make this text an invaluable resource.
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publication Date: 2014
Maps the influence of America's Hispanic past, from the explorers and conquistadors who helped colonize Puerto Rico and Florida, to the missionaries and rancheros who settled in California and the 20th-century resurgence in major cities like Chicago and Miami.
Aproximaciones al Estudio de la Literatura Hispánica by Carmelo Virgillo, Edward Friedman and Teresa Valdivieso
Publication Date: 2011
Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispánica is an introduction to literary analysis from Spanish and Spanish-American literature. Organized by the four genres of prose, poetry, drama, and the essay, the text provides a rich and diverse array of reading selections.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Publication Date: 2007
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who - from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister - dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love.
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez
Publication Date: 2002
In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye.
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel by Isabel Allende (translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Publication Date: 2000
Raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. Chileans, including Joaquín, head north to seek their fortune.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano (translated from Spanish by Cedric Belfrage)
Publication Date: 1997
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Publication Date: 1986
The magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa)
Publication Date: 2006
One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez
Publication Date: 2022
The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries - from the European colonization of the Americas to through the 2020 election.
Testimonios: Stories of Latinx and Hispanic Mathematicians by Pamela E. Harris, Alicia Prieto-Langarica, and Vanessa Rivera Quiñones (Editors)
Publication Date: 2022
Testimonios brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own individual stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths.
Belonging Beyond Borders: Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literature by Annik Bilodeau
Publication Date: 2021
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens.
Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O'Dwyer (Editors)
Publication Date: 2020
This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation.
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Publication Date: 2020
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship by Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda
Publication Date: 2020
Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders. As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change.
Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in and from Latin America by Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, and Lina Berrío (Editors)
Publication Date: 2020
Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA).
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
Publication Date: 2020
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many - Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns - are voices who have been chronically overlooked.
The Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American Philosophy of Education by Enrique Dussel (translated from Spanish by David I. Backer and Cecilia Diego)
Publication Date: 2019
Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation - and none of these focus specifically on education.
LatinX by Claudia Milian
Publication Date: 2019
Nationality is not enough to understand "Latin"-descended populations in the United States. LatinX has neither country nor fixed geography. LatinX, according to Claudia Milian, is the most powerful conceptual tool of the Latino/a present, an itinerary whose analytic routes incorporate the Global South and ecological devastation.
Constituting Central American-Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation by Maritza E. Cárdenas
Publication Date: 2018
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group.
The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat by Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant
Publication Date: 2018
The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932).
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Publication Date: 2018
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it.
The Translational Turn: Latinx Literature into the Mainstream by Marta E. Sanchez
Publication Date: 2019
No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language América today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among others, has made clear what has always been true, that the United States is part of Spanish-language América.
The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics by Enrique García
Publication Date: 2017
This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series quickly gained prominence.
Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East L.A. Murals by Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Tim Drescher
Publication Date: 2016
Chicanismo—what it means to be Chicano—was born when activists, academics, and artists joined the civil rights movimiento with new ideas about Mexican American history and identity.
Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism by William Orchard and Yolanda Padilla (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016
This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies.
Reading Junot Díaz by Christopher Gonzalez
Publication Date: 2015
Dominican American author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz has gained international fame for his blended, cross-cultural fiction. Reading Junot Díaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works.
The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje by Pancho McFarland
Publication Date: 2013
The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age, class, gender, sexuality, and religion. Far from antiquated concepts ofmestizaje, recent scholarship has shown that Mexican@/Chican@ culture is a mixture of Indigenous, African, and Spanish and other European peoples and cultures.
Geological Field Experiences in Mexico: An Effective and Efficient Model for Enabling Middle and High School Science Teachers to Connect with their Burgeoning Hispanic Populations by K. Kitts, Eugene Perry, Jr., Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista, and Guadalupe Velazquez-Oliman
Publication Date: 2009
[Book chapter] To encourage Hispanic participation and enrollment in the geosciences and ultimately enhance diversity within the discipline, we recruited ten middle and high school science teachers for a three-week field experience to the Central Mexico volcanic belt.
Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon by Regina M. Marchi
Publication Date: 2009
Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been an honored tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "el Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latino activists and artists in the United States began expanding "Day of the Dead."

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Sounds Fake but Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca
Publication Date: 2023
Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all. True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was normal? Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses—and rethink everything you thought you knew about society, friendship, sex, romance and more.
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
Publication Date: 2023
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personalized matters.
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Publication Date: 2022
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: It is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Brown and Gay in L.A.: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo
Publication Date: 2022
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in L.A. could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced. For these men, the path to sexual freedom often involves chasing the dreams while resisting the expectations of their immigrant parents.
How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder
Publication Date: 2022
Sandra Eder reveals that there was—without a doubt—something new, transformative, and enduring about the concept of gender that developed through clinical practices at pediatric endocrinology clinics. The history of gender laid out in this book shows that these ideas held no single, unified meaning—neither within the clinic nor outside it—and that 'gender' was shaped by the behaviors and needs of those who used and adapted it.
Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism by Marc Stein
Publication Date: 2022
Over the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society.
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
Publication Date: 2022
A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex—and that we all have to have it—is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us.
The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi
Publication Date: 2020
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings.
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon and Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2020
In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary, and challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Publication Date: 2019
There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house.
Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Alex Iantaffi and Meg John Barker
Publication Date: 2019
Much of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure, and so on. Challenging this limited way of thinking, this ground-breaking book looks at how non-binary methods of thought can be applied to all aspects of life, and offer new and greater ways of understanding ourselves and how we relate to others.
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling
Publication Date: 2019
Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through whiteness. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
Publication Date: 2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam—and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Publication Date: 2018
All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
There is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts and have we learned that sex is as variable as gender. While trans people share many common experiences, there is immense diversity within trans communities.
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More by Janet Mock
Publication Date: 2014
In her profound and courageous New York Times bestseller, Janet Mock establishes herself as a resounding and inspirational voice for the transgender community—and anyone fighting to define themselves on their own terms. With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Publication Date: 2014
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue."
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas by Dale A. Carpenter
Publication Date: 2013
Dale Carpenter’s "gripping and brilliantly researched" Flagrant Conduct, a work nine years in the making, transforms our understanding of what we thought we knew about Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark Supreme Court decision of 2003 that invalidated America’s sodomy laws.
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard
Publication Date: 2001
We don't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's unparalleled history of queer life in the South persuasively debunks the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. In fact, this book shows that the nominally conservative institutions of small-town life—home, church, school, and workplace—were the very sites where queer sexuality flourished.
Sexual Identities, Queer Politics by Mark Blasius (Editor)
Publication Date: 2001
In this collection, political and public policy analysts explore the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered—what has come to be known as “LGBT” or “queer” politics. This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of the study of LGBT politics in political science across the discipline’s main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights LGBT movements in several regions around the world.
Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay
Publication Date: 1996
What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual? And who cares? Written by one of the leading scientists in the research of sexual orientation, Queer Science looks at how scientific discoveries about homosexuality influence society's attitude toward gays and lesbians, beginning with the theories of the German sexologist and gay-rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and culminating with the latest discoveries in brain science, genetics, endocrinology, and cognitive psychology.
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus
Publication Date: 1993
Through his engaging oral histories, Eric Marcus traces the unfolding of LGBTQ civil rights effort from a group of small, independent underground organizations and publications into a national movement, covering the years from 1945 to 1990. Here are the stories of its remarkable pioneers: a diverse group of nearly fifty Americans, who hail from all corners of the nation.
The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement by Margaret Cruikshank
Publication Date: 1992
Concise, balanced, and highly readable, The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement examines gay and lesbian liberation from three different perspectives: as a sexual freedom movement, as a political movement, and as a movement of ideas. Separate chapters treat gay culture, lesbian feminism, and conflicts and debates within the movement. Cruikshank describes the historical roots of contemporary gay and lesbian liberation, its link to other progressive movements, and the impact of AIDS.
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. by Jonathan Ned Katz
Publication Date: 1992
This ground-breaking work is the primary sourcebook for an accurate, fascinating, historical account of American lesbians and gay men. Now with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the collection remains the most complete and authoritative reference work of the homosexual experience in the United States. Here are reprints of rare and hard-to-find documents that represent over four hundred years of oppression, conflict, and struggle in the New World.
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian past by Martin Bauml Duberman, et al.
Publication Date: 1990
This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Jeffrey Weeks and John D’Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, Jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, and post-World War II San Francisco.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Publication Date: 1969
A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters…

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Publication Date: 2024
Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Publication Date: 2023
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself?
Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf
Publication Date: 2023
Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. In Transitional, activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf draws on her own experience and theory from key experts, change-makers and activists to reveal just how deeply ingrained transitioning is in human experience.
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
Publication Date: 2023
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. Christian Cooper is a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park.
Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal
Publication Date: 2022
Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women. With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating beauty standards South Asian women are expected to adhere to, Sharan Dhaliwal speaks openly about her journey towards loving herself, offering advice, support and comfort to people that are encountering the same issues.
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publication Date: 2022
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw
Publication Date: 2022
A provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologist. Significant strides have been made in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. For psychological scientist and bestselling author Dr. Julia Shaw, the dearth of information on bisexuality was crushing, so she dug deep and found a colorful and fascinating world that she could help bring out of the shadows.
Gender Euphoria: Stories Of Joy From Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Writers by Laura Kate Dale
Publication Date: 2021
Gender euphoria is a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called 'Daddy', an Arab trans man getting his first tattoos, a trans woman embracing her inner fighter.
Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan
Publication Date: 2020
A love story with the heart of Austen classics and a reflective journey of becoming that shift our own perceptions of romance, identity, gender, and the fairness of life. Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America.
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by Gina K. Velasco
Publication Date: 2020
Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies by Sam See, et al.
Publication Date: 2020
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. Includes contributions from leading queer literary scholars, addressing the lasting significance of the author's work. Reinterprets the key term nature, central to so many discussions of literature and sexuality. Collects work, published and unpublished, of a promising young scholar who died prematurely.
The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex by Hida Viloria and Maria Nieto (with illustrations by Alex Law)
Publication Date: 2020
This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity. Introducing readers to seven variations of human sex, commonly considered intersex, the book challenges the myth that sex and gender are exclusively binary and explores the inherent diversity of biological sex and its relationship to gender identity and expression, and the impact this has on society.
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling
Publication Date: 2019
Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through whiteness. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Publication Date: 2019
As a young child in North Carolina, Jacob Tobia wasn't the wrong gender, they just had too much of the stuff. Barbies? Yes. Playing with bugs? Absolutely. Getting muddy? Please. Princess dresses? You betcha. Jacob wanted it all, but because they were "a boy," they were told they could only have the masculine half. Acting feminine labelled them "a sissy" and brought social isolation. It took Jacob years to discover that being "a sissy" isn't something to be ashamed of. It's a source of pride.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
Publication Date: 2019
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam—and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Publication Date: 2018
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living.
Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith by Mihee Kim-Kort
Publication Date: 2018
God's love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for each other. Mihee Kim-Kort is a wife, a mom, and a Presbyterian minister. And she's queer. As she became aware of her queer sexuality, Mihee wondered what that meant for her spirituality. But instead of pushing her away from God, her queerness has brought her closer to Jesus and taught her how to love better. In Outside the Lines, Mihee shows us how God, in Jesus, is oriented toward us in a queer and radical way.
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres
Publication Date: 2018
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and advocacy for gender equality in science. In this autobiography, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments - from his childhood as a precocious math and science whiz to his experiences as a female student at MIT in the 1970s to his gender confusion and later transition in his 40s, to his scientific work and role as teacher and mentor at Stanford.
Spoiler Alert: the Hero Dies, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words by Michael Ausiello
Publication Date: 2017
For over a decade, TV fans have counted upon Michael Ausiello's insider knowledge to get the scoop on their favorite shows and stars. What many of his fans don't know, however, is that while his professional life was in full swing, Michael had to endure the greatest of personal tragedies: his longtime boyfriend, Kit Cowan, was diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer.
So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein by Jeff Solomon
Publication Date: 2017
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations on works that directly featured homosexuality and a queer aesthetic.
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
Publication Date: 2017
Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events including informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.
LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History by Megan E. Springate (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016
LGBTQ America explores different aspects of LGBTQ history and heritage, tying them to specific places across the country. They include examinations of LGBTQ community, civil rights, the law, health, art and artists, commerce, the military, sports and leisure, and sex, love, and relationships
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publication Date: 2012
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime.
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
Publication Date: 2006
The exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a stronghold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home—which, in turn, gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world.
Buller Men and Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities by Wesley Crichlow
Publication Date: 2004
In Buller Men and Batty Bwoys, Wesley Crichlow focuses primarily on the lives of nineteen Black gay and bisexual men in Toronto and Halifax, seeks to give voice to those who have been displaced, and explores the process of self-definition in the context of racial, ethnic, and sexual conformity. Crichlow's perceptive study brings to the foreground several concepts, including the role of homophobia in Black identity, and the problematics of Black 'heteronormativity,' in relation to Black men who engage in same-sex practices.
Lover by Bertha Harris
Publication Date: 1993
A landmark work of lesbian literature with a reflective introduction written by the author twenty years later. Lover was first published in 1972 to tremendous critical acclaim. Emerging out of the women's and gay liberation movement alongside the early work of writers such as Rita Mae Brown and Jill Johnston, the novel features fictional and historical characters who run the gamut from saint to white trash, and who are by turn vulnerable and strong.

Native American Heritage

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene with illustrations by Ciara Sana
Publication Date: 2021
Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this beautifully illustrated collection. From luminaries of the past, like nineteenth-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis - the first Black and Native American female artist to achieve international fame - to contemporary figures like linguist jessie little doe baird, who revived the Wampanoag language.
We Are Not a Vanishing People: The Society of American Indians, 1911–1923 by Thomas Constantine Maroukis
Publication Date: 2021
In 1911, a group of Native American intellectuals and activists joined together to establish the Society of American Indians (SAI), an organization by Indians for Indians. It was the first such nationwide organization dedicated to reform. They used a strategy of protest and activism that carried into the rest of the twentieth century.
We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr.
Publication Date: 2021
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California.
Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science by Enrique Salmón
Publication Date: 2020
The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath - known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara - has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and highlights 80 plants revered by North America’s indigenous peoples.
Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors by Denise Lajimodiere
Publication Date: 2019
Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. Her research helped her to gain insight, a deeper understanding of her parents, and how and why she and her siblings were parented in the way they were.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability by Melissa K. Nelson and Daniel Shilling (Editors)
Publication Date: 2018
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond.
There There: A Novel by Tommy Orange
Publication Date: 2018
Not since Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. There There is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.
California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History by William J. Bauer, Jr.
Publication Date: 2016
Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer seeks to correct that oversight through an approach that tells California history strictly through Native perspectives.
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
Publication Date: 2016
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publication Date: 2014
Acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology by Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen
Publication Date: 2013
In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers.
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson
Publication Date: 2005
M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended.
Native Universe: Voices of Indian America by Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer (Editors)
Publication Date: 2004
This gorgeous volume draws from the vast archives of the National Museum of the American Indian and the voices of some of the most prominent Native American scholars, writers, activists and tribal leaders. With its insightful, firsthand prose, the book is a reminder that the ancient philosophies and folkways are just as valuable and relevant in today’s world as they were generations ago.

We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer
Publication Date: 2021
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California.
Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives by Adrianna Link, Abigail Shelton, and Patrick Spero (Editors)
Publication Date: 2021
Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives captures the energy and optimism that many feel about the future of community-based scholarship, which involves the collaboration of archives, scholars, and Native American communities. The American Philosophical Society is exploring new applications of materials in its library to partner on collaborative projects that assist the cultural and linguistic revitalization movements within Native communities.
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers
Publication Date: 2021
Science fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Demonstrating how Indigenous science fiction expands the boundaries of the genre while reinforcing the relevance of Indigenous knowledge, Brown Spiers illustrates the use of science fiction as a critical compass for navigating and surviving the distinct challenges of the twenty-first century.
Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language, and the Logics of Decolonization by Mark D. Freeland
Publication Date: 2020
Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous knowledge and praxis. In this text, author Mark D. Freeland develops a theory of worldview that provides an interrelated logical mooring to shed light on the issues around translating Indigenous languages in and out of colonial languages.
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action by Kari Marie Norgaard
Publication Date: 2019
Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of intense political struggle.
Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement by David Martínez
Publication Date: 2019
In Life of the Indigenous Mind, David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most influential indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement. An experienced activist, administrator, and political analyst, Deloria was motivated to activism and writing by his work as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians.
Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868 by Adam R. Hodge
Publication Date: 2019
In Ecology and Ethnogenesis Adam R. Hodge argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and existence. He explores the intersection of environmental, Indigenous, and gender history to illuminate the historic roots of the Eastern Shoshone bands that inhabited the intermountain West during the nineteenth century.
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Publication Date: 2018
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living.
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Publication Date: 2018
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them.
Standing up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud by Renya K. Ramirez
Publication Date: 2018
Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty rights, and tribal identities.
Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet by Rosalyn R. LaPier
Publication Date: 2017
In Invisible Reality Rosalyn LaPier presents an unconventional, creative, and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family stories, and traditional knowledge learned from elders along with personal reflections on her own journey learning Blackfeet stories. The result is a nuanced look at the history of the Blackfeet and their relationship with the natural world.
Stories for a Lost Child by Carter Meland
Publication Date: 2017
The summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. Fiona's desire to know more and her mother's reluctance to share stir up bitter feelings of anger and disappointment that slowly transform as she reads the stories into a warmer understanding of the difficulties of family, love, and the weight of the past.
Indian Country: Telling a Story in a Digital Age by Victoria L. LaPoe and Benjamin Rex LaPoe
Publication Date: 2017
Storytelling has always been an important part of Native culture. Stories play a part in everyday Native life-they are often oral and rich in detail and language and serve as a form of recording history. Digital media now allow for the extension of this storytelling. This necessary text evaluates how digital media are changing the rich cultural act of storytelling within Native communities.
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke
Publication Date: 2016
Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publication Date: 2015
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together.
Ottawa Stories from the Springs: Anishinaabe dibaadjimowinan wodi gaa binjibaamigak wodi mookodjiwong e zhinikaadek by Howard Webkamigad (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Sometimes things come to people out of the blue and seemingly for a reason. The Anishinaabe word for this isnigika. The stories contained in this collection reached Howard Webkamigad nearly eighty years after they were recorded. These rich tales, recorded by Anishinaabe people in the Harbor Springs area of Michigan, draw on the legends, fables, trickster stories, parables, and humor of Anishinaabe culture.
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by Nancy J. Turner
Publication Date: 2014
In Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, Nancy Turner integrates her research into an ethnobotanical tour-de-force. Drawing on information shared by Indigenous botanical experts and collaborators, the ethnographic and historical record, and from linguistics, palaeobotany, archaeology, phytogeography, and other fields, she weaves together a complex understanding of the traditions of use and management of plant resources in this vast region.
Follow the Blackbirds by Gwen Nell Westerman
Publication Date: 2013
In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the affection and appreciation a contemporary poet feels for her family, community, and environment.
Document of Expectations by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Publication Date: 2011
When Hopi/White Mountain Apache anthropologist Tony M. Smokerise is found murdered in his office at Central Highlands University, the task of solving the crime falls to jaded Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Charles T. Clarke. This virtuosic mystery novel explores, in engrossing detail, the complex motives for a killing within the sometimes furtive and hermetic setting of academia.
Plain of Jars: and Other Stories by Geary Hobson
Publication Date: 2011
It's an acute understanding of conflict that characterizes Plain of Jars, a book populated by bullies, men in combat, abusive spouses, and Native Americans seeking a sense of personal identity in an environment where conformity is law. The U.S. Marine Corps sets the stage for a number of these stories, whose protagonists combat racism, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and the looming reality of the Vietnam War.
Dragonfly Dance by Denise K. Lajimodiere
Publication Date: 2010
Dragonfly Dance is a collection of poems remarkable for their candor and sense of catharsis. Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian women, Denise Lajimodiere opens a door into the lives of Native girls and women. Her poems often reflect the deep tensions between Native culture and white culture. Reflected in Lajimodiere's poems, life is sometimes beautiful but rarely easy.
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures by Helaine Selin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2003
In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on environmentalism and images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, worldviews and ecology, rethinking the Western/non-Western divide, and landscape, nature, and culture.

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. -HarperCollins Publishers

Books by Louise Erdrich

The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 2012
From one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 2008
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation. Bestselling author Louise Erdrich delves into the fraught waters of historical injustice and the impact of secrets kept too long.
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 2006
While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 2002
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation.
Tracks: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 1988
Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance—yet their pride and humor prohibit surrender.
The Beet Queen: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 1986
On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete. Ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle, and seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival, embark upon an exhilarating life-journey.
Love Medicine: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Publication Date: 1984
Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, Love Medicine is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

Books about Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich by David Stirrup
Publication Date: 2013
Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich’s writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich’s work and Native American literature, Stirrup explores the full depth and range of her authorship.
Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook by Hertha D. Sweet Wong (Editor)
Publication Date: 1999
Louise Erdrich’s first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award. In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, Love Medicine is an uncompromising and irresistible portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms. Hertha Wong has established herself as the leading commentator on Erdrich.

Women's History

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li
Publication Date: 2023
The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling to care for an ailing mother at every step.
How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder
Publication Date: 2022
Sandra Eder reveals that there was—without a doubt—something new, transformative, and enduring about the concept of gender that developed through clinical practices at pediatric endocrinology clinics. The history of gender laid out in this book shows that these ideas held no single, unified meaning—neither within the clinic nor outside it—and that 'gender' was shaped by the behaviors and needs of those who used and adapted it.
Making Black Girls Count in Math Education: A Black Feminist Vision for Transformative Teaching by Nicole M. Joseph
Publication Date: 2022
Making Black Girls Count in Math Education explores the experiences of Black girls and women in mathematics from preschool to graduate school, probing race and gender inequity in STEM fields. Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in the mathematics pipeline. Joseph’s account calls attention to educational structures and practices that contribute to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall (with illustrations by Hugo Martínez)
Publication Date: 2021
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (Editors)
Publication Date: 2021
In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies.
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
Publication Date: 2021
Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps us in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities.
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Publication Date: 2021
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, she shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter -- all with a new spin and rhythm informed by pop culture, hip hop, politics, and Star Trek.
Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction by Douglas A. Vakoch (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021
Caught as we are in a grave climate crisis that seems more irreversible with every passing year, our literary portrayals of the future often feature the dystopian collapse of the world as we know it. Science fiction explores how we got here, while pointing toward a more hopeful path forward. From an ecofeminist perspective, a core cause of our current ecological catastrophe is the patriarchal domination of nature, playing out in parallel with the oppression of women.
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
Publication Date: 2020
A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality. Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues that her mathematical specialty - category theory - reveals why. Category theory deals more with context, relationships, and nuanced versions of equality than with intrinsic characteristics.
Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS by Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho (Editors)
Publication Date: 2018
Using intersectionality as a framework, this edited collection explores the experiences of women of color in library and information science (LIS). With roots in black feminism and critical race theory, intersectionality studies the ways in which multiple social and cultural identities impact individual experience. Libraries and archives idealistically portray themselves as egalitarian and neutral entities that provide information equally to everyone, yet these institutions often reflect and perpetuate societal racism, sexism, and additional forms of oppression.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Publication Date: 2019
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and sometimes with their lives.
Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories by Esri Press
Publication Date: 2019
Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories tells the tales of how 23 women applied themselves and overcame obstacles, using maps, analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS) to contribute to their professions and the world. Sharing the experiences of their childhoods, the misstarts and challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned, each story is a celebration of a woman's unique path and of the perseverance and hard work it takes to achieve success.
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
Publication Date: 2019
Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. Haben takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman’s determination to find the keys to connection.
After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York by Elisabeth Israels Perry
Publication Date: 2019
Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission members and as secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable.
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
Publication Date: 2018
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should.
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
Publication Date: 2016
During World War Il, when the brand-new minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women—known as "computers"—who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America’s first ballistic missiles. But they were never interested in developing weapons—their hearts lay in the dream of space exploration.
Lab Girl: A Memoir by Hope Jahren
Publication Date: 2016
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs.
Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women by Amy Sue Bix
Publication Date: 2014
Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher education.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (with Christina Lamb)
Publication Date: 2013
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey.

The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life by Nathalie A. Cabrol
Publication Date: 2024
We are in a golden age in astronomy, living on the cusp of breakthroughs that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in the cosmos in. Yet a profound question remains: Are we alone in the universe? We have never been closer to answering this question. In The Secret Life of the Universe, astrobiologist and the director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute Nathalie A. Cabrol takes us to the frontiers of the search for life.
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah J. Hardt
Publication Date: 2024
Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex parties of groupers and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s, while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops.
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox
Publication Date: 2024
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature's masters of biochemistry. From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the natural world. Now, in Venomous, the biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity.
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Publication Date: 2023
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself?
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
Publication Date: 2023
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question: What's down there? Unable to answer this for centuries, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril.
Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey, and Rebecca Martin (Editors)
Publication Date: 2023
While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. By questioning our understanding of what science is, where it happens, and who produces scientific knowledge, this book is an aid to liberating the curriculum within schools and universities.
Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (Editors)
Publication Date: 2021
n Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Publication Date: 2021
The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we're looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell's argument is that, on some level, it already has...
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
Publication Date: 2021
Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, Leigh Patel shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few. She reveals how blurring the histories of slavery and Indigenous removal only traps us in history and perpetuates race, class, and gender inequalities.
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
ISBN: 9781982103569
Publication Date: 2020
Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through five of the cosmos's possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, the Big Rip, Vacuum Decay (the one that could happen at any moment!), and the Bounce. Guiding us through cutting-edge science and major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory, and much more, The End of Everything is a wildly fun, surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of all that we know.
Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures by Christina Dunbar-Hester
Publication Date: 2019
Hacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia. Hacking Diversity investigates the activists engaged in free and open-source software to understand why, despite their efforts, they fail to achieve the diversity that their ideals support.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski
Publication Date: 2019
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a roadmap to minimizing stress, managing emotions, and living more joyfully. Burnout. You, like most American women, have probably experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to exist as a woman in today’s world are two different things—and we exhaust ourselves trying to close the gap.
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'Shea
Publication Date: 2019
A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow. When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards.
Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education by Ursula Thomas (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018
Gender and diversity are crucial areas that require more attention in multiple academic settings. As more women progress into leadership positions in academia, it becomes necessary to develop solutions geared specifically toward success for females in such environments. Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education provides innovative insights into the institutionalized racism against women of color in higher education institutions.
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
Publication Date: 2018
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should.
Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave by Alice Gregory
Publication Date: 2018
Sleep plays a crucial role in our waking lives, and we need to start paying it more attention. The latest research tells us that it's essential for learning and memory, for mental health and physical well-being, and yet we tend to only think about it when it's proving a struggle. Nodding Off leads you on a fascinating journey through the science of sleep as it evolves throughout our lives.
Lab Girl: A Memoir by Hope Jahren
Publication Date: 2016
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs.
Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women by Amy Sue Bix
Publication Date: 2013
Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher education.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Publication Date: 2010
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang
Publication Date: 2020
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr. Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own.