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Read: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Book Recommendations
This list was compiled by our CEO, avid reader and writer, and noted inclusion advocate Rachelle Jervis. Rachelle welcomes your suggestions for additions to the book list. ESC chose to focus this reading list on the following areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion: Ageism, Anti-Racism, Body Diversity Acceptance, Citizenship, Diverse Abilities, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Identity, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI. Our book links connect you to the following independently and women and/or person of color owned book stores: 57th Street Books, Book Cellar, Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, and Women and Children First. ESC offers numerous free diversity, equity, and inclusion training and resources available thanks to donors like.
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Cover | Title | Author | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Topics | Book Link | Author Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1919 | Eve L. Ewing | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608465989 | https://twitter.com/eveewing | |
A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time | Paula Tarnapol Whitacre | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781640123113 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitacre/ | |
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America | Ronald Takaki | History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780316022361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Takaki | |
A Disability History of the United States | Dr. Kim E. Nielsen | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807022047 | https://www.utoledo.edu/al/history/faculty/NielsenK.html | |
A History of Southland College | Thomas C. Kennedy | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781557289162 | ||
A More Beautiful and Terrible History | Jeanne Theoharis | Anti-Racism, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807063484 | https://twitter.com/JeanneTheoharis | |
A Nation Unmade by War | Tom Engelhardt | History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781608469017 | ||
A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn | Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780060838652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn | |
Ageism: Past, Present, and Future | Tay K. McNamara, John B. Williamson | Agism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781138202962 | ||
Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Persons | Todd D. Nelson | Agism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780262640572 | ||
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism | Bell Hooks | Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781138821514 | https://twitter.com/bellhooks | |
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights | Deborah Kops | Citizenship, Feminism, Gender, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781629793238 | https://twitter.com/Deborahkops | |
All Labor Has Dignity | Martin Luther King, Jr., Author, Michael K. Honey, Editor | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807086001 | https://twitter.com/TheKingCenter | |
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages | Saundra Mitchell | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781335146816 | https://twitter.com/SaundraMitchell | |
All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies and the Politics of Dignity | Robert W. Fuller | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781576753859 | ||
America Is in the Heart: A Personal History | Carlos Bulosan | Anti-Racism, Citizenship | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780295952895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bulosan | |
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States | Erika Lee | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, History of Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781541672604 | https://twitter.com/prof_erikalee | |
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807057834 | https://twitter.com/rdunbaro | |
And Tango Makes Three (Children's Book) | Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, Henry Cole | Sexual Orientation, LGBTQ+ | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781481446952 | ||
And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality | Mark Segal | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781617753992 | https://twitter.com/PhilaGayNews | |
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | Randy Shilts | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780312374631 | https://twitter.com/Wine_andProses | |
Assata, an Autobiography | Assata Shakur | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781556520747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur | |
Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | Feminism, Gender | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062282712 | https://twitter.com/rgay | |
Be the Change: Grandfather Gandhi (Children’s Book) | Arun Gandhi, with Bethany Hegedus | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/be-change-grandfather-gandhi-story | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Manilal_Gandhi | |
Becoming | Michelle Obama | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781524763138 | https://twitter.com/MichelleObama | |
Becoming A Visible Man | Jamison Green, Ph.D. | Gender, Identify, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/becoming-visible-man | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamison_Green | |
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy | Barbara Applebaum | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/good-white-people-problem-middle-class-white-anti-racism | ||
Beloved | Toni Morrison | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/beloved-0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison | |
Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/between-world-and-me | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates | |
Beyond the Gender Binary (Age 12 and Up) | Alok Vaid-Menon, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator) | Identify, Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780593094655 | ||
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do | Jennifer L. Eberhardt | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/blindspothidden-biases-good-people | https://twitter.com/banaji | |
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment | Patricia Hill Collins | Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/black-feminist-thoughtknowledge-consciousness-and-politics-empowerment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hill_Collins | |
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | C. Riley Snorton | Anti-Racism, Identity, Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781517901738 | https://twitter.com/CRileySnorton | |
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses | Lawrence Ross | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/blackballed-black-and-white-politics-race-americas-campuses | https://thelawrenceross.com | |
Born a Crime: Stories from A South African Childhood | Trevor Noah | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/born-crime-stories-south-african-childhood | https://twitter.com/Trevornoah | |
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good | Chuck Collins | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/born-third-base-one-percenter-makes-case-tackling-inequality-bringing-wealth-home-and-committing-com | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Collins | |
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero | Dr. Kate Clifford Larson | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI
| https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780345456281 | https://twitter.com/KCliffLarson | |
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants | Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781571311771 | https://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/ | |
Brown Girl Dreaming (Ages 10+) | Jacqueline Woodson | Anti-Racism, Gender, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780147515827 | https://twitter.com/JackieWoodson | |
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide | Daniel Hunter | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-age-colorblindness | http://www.newjimcroworganizing.org | |
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) | Rebecca Solnit | Feminism, Gender, History of Sexism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608469468 | ||
Capitalism and Disability
Selected Writings | Marta Russell | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI
| https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781608466863 | ||
Care Work- Dreaming Disability Justice | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781551527383 | https://twitter.com/thellpsx | |
Carly’s Voice | Carly Fleischmann | Diverse Abilities | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781439194157 | https://twitter.com/CarlysVoice | |
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence | Chad Williams, Editor, Kidada E. Williams, Editor, Keisha N. Blain, Editor | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/race-space-and-riots-chicago-new-york-and-los-angeles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Abu-Lughod | |
Cleanness | Garth Greenwell | Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780374124588 | https://twitter.com/GarthGreenwell | |
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism | Daisy Hernández, Editor, Bushra Rehman, Editor | Anti-Racism, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781580057769 | ||
Coming of Age in Mississippi | Anne Moody | Anti-racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/coming-age-mississippi | https://twitter.com/AnneMoodyHP | |
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival | Staceyann Chin | Anti-Racism, Gender | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781642590258 | https://twitter.com/staceyannchin | |
Dear America - Notes of an Undocumented Citizen | Jose Antonio Vargas | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780062851345 | https://twitter.com/joseiswriting | |
Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict | Dr. Donna Hicks | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/dignityits-essential-role-resolving-conflict | ||
Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland | Jonathan Metzel | Anti-racism, Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/dying-whiteness-how-politics-racial-resentment-killing-americas-heartland | http://www.jonathanmetzl.com | |
Elder Justice, Ageism, and Elder Abuse | Lisa Nerenberg | Agism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780826147561 | ||
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781250112880 | https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk | |
Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Global Perspectives on Aging) | Margaret Morganroth Gullette | Ageism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780813589282 | ||
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children) | Seanan McGuire | Sexual Orientation | https://www.semcoop.com/every-heart-doorway | https://twitter.com/seananmcguire | |
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/evicted-poverty-and-profit-american-city-0 | https://twitter.com/just_shelter | |
Fairest: A Memoir | Meredith Talusan | Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780525561309 | https://twitter.com/1demerith | |
Fat Boy Chronicles (Ages 12 and Up) | Jimmy Winterock | Body Shape Acceptance | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781585365432 | ||
Feminist Freedom Warriors | Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Editor, Linda E. Carty, Editor | Feminism, Gender, History of Sexism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608468973 | ||
Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780827244948 | https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber | |
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us | Kate Bornstein | Gender, Identify, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781101973240 | https://twitter.com/katebornstein | |
Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin | Anti-Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9780345806567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin | |
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America (Children’s Book) | Carole Boston Weatherford | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/gordon-parks-how-photographer-captured-black-and-white-america | https://twitter.com/poetweatherford | |
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/half-yellow-sun | https://twitter.com/ChimamandaReal | |
Her Name Is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write about Love, Courage, and Faith | Meeta Kaur, Editor | Anti-Racism, Citizenship | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781938314704 | https://twitter.com/SikhLoveStories | |
Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781101971062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaa_Gyasi | |
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women | E. Patrick Johnson | Anti-Racism, Gender, Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781478006534 | https://twitter.com/epatrickjohnson | |
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Anti-Racism, Feminism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608468553 | https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta | |
How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | Anti-racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/how-be-antiracist | https://twitter.com/DrIbram | |
I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing | Maya Angelou | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780345514400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou | |
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters | Bayard Rustin | Anti-Racism, Gender, History of Racism, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/i-must-resistbayard-rustins-life-letters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin | |
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens | Alice Walker | Anti-Racism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780156028646 | https://alicewalkersgarden.com | |
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780679732761 | ||
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color | Andrea Ritchie | Anti-Racism, Gender, Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780807088982 | https://twitter.com/dreanyc123 | |
Juneteenth | Rachel Grack | Juneteenth, Anti-racism, Racial Justice, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9781626177888 | ||
Juneteenth for Mazie (Children's Book) | Floyd Cooper | Juneteenth, Anti-racism, Racial Justice, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/juneteenth-mazie | ||
Juneteenth: A Children's Story | Opal Lee | Juneteenth, Anti-racism, Racial Justice, History of Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781513684918 | ||
Juneteenth: A Novel (updated content) | Ralph Ellison | Juneteenth, Anti-racism, Racial Justice, History of Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780593242100 | ||
Juneteeth | Kevin P. Winn, Kelisa Wing | Juneteenth, anti-racism, racial justice | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781534188884 | ||
Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | Anti-Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/just-mercy-story-justice-and-redemption-0 | http://bryanstevenson.com | |
Killing Rage: Ending Racism | Bell Hooks | Anti-racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/killing-rageending-racism | https://twitter.com/bellhooks | |
Leah On the Offbeat | Becky Albertalli | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062643810 | https://twitter.com/beckyalbertalli | |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong | James Loewen | History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781620973929 | https://twitter.com/JamesWLoewen | |
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement | Janet Dewart Bell | Anti-Racism, Gender, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/lighting-fires-freedom-african-american-women-civil-rights-movement | https://twitter.com/JanetDewartBell | |
Lockdown America | Christian Patrenti | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781844672493 | ||
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We can | Maya Schenwar | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781626562691 | https://twitter.com/MayaSchenwar | |
Love Wins | Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062456106 | ||
Luna | Julie Anne Peters | Sexual Orientation | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780316011273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Anne_Peters | |
March (Graphic Novel) | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell | Anti-racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781603093002 | https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis | |
Me and White Supremacy | Layla F. Saad | Anti-Racism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781728209807 | http://laylafsaad.com | |
Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir | Terry Galloway | Diverse Abilities, Gender, Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780807073315 | ||
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present | Harriet A. Washington | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/medical-apartheidthe-dark-history-medical-experimentation-black-americans-colonial-times-present | https://twitter.com/haw95 | |
My Grandmother's Hands: Radicalized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies | Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781942094470 | https://twitter.com/ResmaaMenakem | |
My Life in Pictures | Dr. Temple Grandin | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780307275653 | https://twitter.com/DrTempleGrandin | |
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter | Aja Monet | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608467679 | ||
Native Son | Richard Wright | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/native-son-0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author) | |
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Book | Steve Silberman | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780399185618 | https://twitter.com/stevesilberman | |
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America | Darnell L. Moore | Anti-racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/no-ashes-fire-coming-age-black-and-free-america-0 | https://twitter.com/Moore_Darnell | |
No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies | E. Patrick Johnson, Editor | Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780822362425 | https://twitter.com/epatrickjohnson | |
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond | Marc Lamont Hill | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/nobody | https://twitter.com/marclamonthill | |
On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice | Jewish Voice for Peace | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781608467617 | |||
Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781455563920 | https://twitter.com/minjinlee11 | |
Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals | Richard Plant | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/pink-triangle-nazi-war-against-homosexuals | ||
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag (Children’s Book) | Rob Sanders, Steven Salerno | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780399555312 | ||
Public Secrets & Justice: A Journal of a Circuit Court Judge | Judge Laura Melvin | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780989497305 | ||
Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders | Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall | Gender, Identify, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781626390621 | https://twitter.com/jake2point0 | |
Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation | David P. Leong | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780830841349 | ||
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/racism-without-racists-color-blind-racism-and-persistence-racial-inequality-america-4ed | ||
Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and her Activist Worlds | Nancy A. Hewitt | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781469640327 | ||
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America | Jennifer Harvey | Anti-Racism | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781501878077 | ||
Real Life: A Novel | Brandon Taylor | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780525538882 | ||
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box | Angela P. Dodson | Citizenship, Feminism, Gender, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781455570942 | https://twitter.com/angelapdodson | |
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter | Dr. Kate Clifford Larson | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780544811904 | https://twitter.com/KCliffLarson | |
Say Her Name | Zetta Elliott | Anti-Racism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781368045247 | https://twitter.com/zettaelliott | |
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery | Kara Siddharth | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780231139618 | https://twitter.com/siddharthkara | |
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Gender, Identify, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780385346979 | https://twitter.com/JennyBoylan | |
Since I Laid my Burden Down | Brontez Purnell | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/i-laid-my-burden-down | ||
Sister Citizen by Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America | Melissa Harris-Perry | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780300188189 | https://twitter.com/MHarrisPerry | |
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Audre Lorde | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781580911863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde | |
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild | Dr. Deborah Siegel | Feminism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781403973184 | https://twitter.com/girlmeetsvoice | |
So You Want To Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/so-you-want-talk-about-race-0 | https://twitter.com/IjeomaOluo | |
Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87 | Peter Shapiro | Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI
| https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608466801 | ||
Stamped from the Beginning | Ibram X Kendi | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/stamped-beginning | https://twitter.com/DrIbram | |
Story of Juneteenth: An Interactive History Adventure (Children/Young Adult Book) | Steven Otfinoski | Juneteenth, Anti-racism, Racial Justice, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9781491418048 | ||
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family | Lauren Kessler | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780870714177 | https://twitter.com/laurenjkessler | |
Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education | Demetri L. Morgan, Editor, Charles H.F. Davis, III, Editor | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781138327603 | ||
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions | Tiffany Jana, Michael Baran | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9781523087051 | https://twitter.com/twiffanyjana | |
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America | Adam Cohen | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780735221505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cohen_(journalist) | |
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz | Eva Mozes Kor | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781933718576 | https://candlesholocaustmuseum.org/eva-kor/meet-eva.html | |
Symptoms of Being Human | Jeff Garvin | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780062382870 | ||
The 1619 Project | The New York Times | History of Racism | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html | ||
The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed | Dr. Temple Grandin | Diverse Abilities, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780544227736 | https://twitter.com/DrTempleGrandin | |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/autobiography-malcolm-x-0 | https://www.malcolmx.com | |
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian | W. Kamau Bell | Anti-Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/awkward-thoughts-w-kamau-bell-1 | https://twitter.com/wkamaubell | |
The Black Flamingo (Young Adult Novel) | Dean Atta | Anti-racism, Sexual Orientation | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780062990297 | ||
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780452282193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison | |
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic | Jamila Woods, Editor, Mahogany L. Browne, Editor, Idrissa Simmonds, Editor | Anti-Racism, Gender | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781608468577 | https://twitter.com/jamilawoods | |
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America | Anders Walker | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780300223989 | ||
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage: The Fight for Interracial Marriage (Children's Book) | Selina Alko | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780545478533 | https://twitter.com/SelinaAlko | |
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/color-law-forgotten-history-how-our-government-segregated-america | ||
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America | Khalil Gilbran Muhammad | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI
| https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780674238145 | https://twitter.com/KhalilGMuhammad | |
The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation | Éric Toussaint | Citizenship, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI
| https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781608463091 | ||
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know | Tema Jon Okun | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9781617351044 | ||
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of his Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas | Mahatma Gandhi, Author, Louis Fischer, Editor | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781400030507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi | |
The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9783836571517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin | |
The Gay Revolution | Lillian Faderman | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781451694123 | https://twitter.com/lillianfaderman | |
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America | Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Chimene Suleyman (Editor) | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780316524230 | https://twitter.com/nikeshshukla | |
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband | David Finch | Diverse Abilities | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781439189740 | ||
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | Francisco Cantu | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780735217737 | https://twitter.com/_franciscocantu | |
The Making of Asian America | Erika Lee | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781476739410 | https://twitter.com/prof_erikalee | |
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk | Randy Shilts | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780312560850 | https://twitter.com/Wine_andProses | |
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table | Minda Harts | History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/memo-what-women-color-need-know-secure-seat-table | https://twitter.com/MindaHarts | |
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/new-jim-crowmass-incarceration-age-colorblindness-0 | ||
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir | Staceyann Chin | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780743292917 | https://twitter.com/staceyannchin | |
The Plot Against America: A Novel | Philip Roth | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780358008811 | ||
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism | Naoki Higashida, Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell | Diverse Abilities | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780812985153 | ||
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks | Jeanne Theoharis | Anti-Racism, Gender, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807063484 | https://twitter.com/JeanneTheoharis | |
The Seamstress | Sara Tuval Bernstein | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780425166307 | ||
The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/souls-black-folk-6 | ||
The Story Behind Juneteenth | Jack Reader | Juneteenth, Anti-racism, Racial Justice, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9781725300545 | ||
The Summer We Got Free | Mia Mckenzie | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780988628601 | https://twitter.com/miamckenzie | |
The Sympathizer: A Novel | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780802124944 | https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen | |
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson | Anti-Racism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780679763888 | https://twitter.com/Isabelwilkerson | |
The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/water-dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates | |
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780061120060 | ||
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable | Michael Bennett | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/things-make-white-people-uncomfortable | https://twitter.com/mosesbread72 | |
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color | Cherríe Moraga, Editor, Gloria Anzaldúa, Editor | Anti-Racism, Feminism, Gender, History of Racism, History of Sexism | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781438454382 | https://twitter.com/CherrieMoraga | |
Towards the Other America- Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter | Chris Crass | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/ingram-0?isbn=9780827237094 | ||
Transgender Warriors: The Making of History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman | Leslie Feinberg | Feminism, Gender, History of Sexism, Identity, Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780807079416 | ||
Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements | Charlene A. Carruthers | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/unapologetic-black-queer-and-feminist-mandate-radical-movements | https://twitter.com/CharleneCac | |
Untamed | Glennon Doyle | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781984801258 | https://twitter.com/GlennonDoyle | |
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice | Paul Kivel | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/uprooting-racismhow-white-people-can-work-racial-justice | ||
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony | Nelson A. Denis | Anti-Racism, Citizenship, History of Racism, History of Sexism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781568585611 | https://twitter.com/NelsonADenis | |
War and an Irish Town | Eamonn McCann | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781608469741 | ||
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America | Ira Katznelson | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/when-affirmative-action-was-whitean-untold-history-racial-inequality-twentieth-century-america | ||
When We Rise | Cleve Jones | Sexual Orientation, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780316315418 | https://twitter.com/CleveJones1 | |
When the Moon Was Ours: A Novel | Anna-Marie Mclemore | Sexual Orientation | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781250160102 | https://twitter.com/LaAnnaMarie | |
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber | Susan Fowler | Feminism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780525560128 | https://twitter.com/susanthesquark | |
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race | Robin DiAngelo | Anti-Racism, History of Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-white-people-talk-about-racism | ||
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? : And Other Conversations About Race | Beverly Daniel Tatum | Anti-Racism, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.semcoop.com/why-are-all-black-kids-sitting-together-cafeteria-and-other-conversations-about-race | https://twitter.com/BDTSpelman | |
Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People | Danny Katch | Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9781608468584 | https://twitter.com/dannylucia4 | |
Women, Race, & Class | Angela Y. Davis | Anti-Racism, Gender, Structural Barriers to DEI | https://www.bookcellarinc.com/book/9780394713519 | ||
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography | Audre Lorde | Anti-Racism, History of Racism | https://www.semcoop.com/zami-new-spelling-my-namea-biomythography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde |
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