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Archive of Understanding Difference Resources

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Exploring Diversity and Social Justice in Books [H-P]

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law  (Haben Girma)    Amazon

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Edward E. Baptist).

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War  (Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow, Jr.)   D570.33 369th .S25 2014 

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (David Treuer)   E77 .T797 2019  Amazon

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate (Neil Baldwin)  CT275 .F68 B28 2001

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race  (Margot Lee Shetterly)  QA27.5 .L44 2016

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis   (J. D. Vance).

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law  (James Q. Whitman).

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons (John Paul Brammer)   HQ75.8 .B7245 A3 2021

Homeland Elegies: A Novel  (Ayad Akhtar)  PS3601 .K53 H66 2020  Amazon

Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American  (Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert)

House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)  PS3563 .O47 H6    VIDEO .VHS12166

The House of Broken Angels   (Luis Alberto Urrea)    PS3571.R74 H68 2018.

The House on Mango Street  (Sandra Cisneros)  PS3553 .I78 H6 1991

How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel  (C. Pam Zhang)

How Queer! Personal Narratives from Bisexual, Pansexual, Polysexual, Sexually-fluid, and Other Non-monosexual Perspectives (Faith Beauchemin)

How Race Is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart  (New York Times correspondents).

How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (Natalia Molina) .

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez)  PS3551 .L845 H66 1991  .

How the Irish Became White.

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America  (Clint Smith)  E441 .S654 2021

How to Be an Antiracist    (Ibram X. Kendi)  E184 .A1 K344 2019   Amazon

How to Be Gay (David M. Halperin)  HQ76 .H2795 2012

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide (Crystal Marie Fleming)  E184 .A1 F576 2018  Clemons Library by Request    Amazon

How to Rent A Negro  (Damali Ayo)  Read via HathiTrust    

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir  (Saeed Jones)

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter  (Erika L. Sánchez)    PS3619 .A517 I2 2017

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope (Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin)  RJ506 .A9 G562 2021  Amazon 

I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her (Joanna Connors).

Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells  [Michelle Duster]

If They Come for Us: Poems  (Fatimah Asghar)  PS3601 .S48 A6 2018

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Adam Cohen).

In America: Tales from Trump Country (Caitriona Perry).

In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby  (Mark Morrison-Reed) .

In Those Terrible Days: Writings From the Lodz Ghetto (Josef Zelkowicz; translation by Naftali Greenwood)   DS135 .P62 L6813 2002.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)   E76.8 .D86 2014 .

Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu)  PS3625.U15 I58 2020  

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943  (Introduced by J.G. Gaarlandt ; translated from the Dutch by Arno Pomerans)   DS135 .N6 .

The Invention of Heterosexuality  (Jonathan Ned Katz)  HQ23 .K315 1995

The Invention of the White Race (Theodore W. Allen)   E185 .A44 1993 v.1 and v.2.  .

Invisible Man  (Ralph Ellison)    PS3555 .L625 I5 1965    Read Online     Amazon

Islamophobia and Racism in America  (Erik Love).

It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable―And How We Can Stop It  (Jonathan Greenblatt)  Amazon

It’s Not All Downhill From Here  (Terry McMillan)

Janesville: An American Story  (Amy Goldstein).

Jews Don’t Count: : How Identity Politics Failed One Particular Identity (David Baddiel)  DS145 .B255 2021  Interlibrary Lending 

John Henry Days: A Novel  (Colson Whitehead)   PS3573 .H4768 J64 2001   Amazon

Juneteenth: A Novel  (Ralph Ellison)  PS3555 .L625 J86 1999   Amazon

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption  (Bryan Stevenson).

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World  (A.J. Jacobs)   AE5 .E44 J33 2004 .

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir  (Kao Kalia Yang) 

Laughing at My Nightmare (Shane Burcaw)  Amazon

Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil   (Susan Neiman) DD256.48 .N45 2019   Amazon

The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America (Robert Wuthnow).

The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion  (Lewis V. Baldwin)   E185.97 .K5 L35 2002     Amazon

Less: A Novel (Andrew Sean Greer)   PS3557 .R3987 L47 2017

A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines).

Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till  (Elliott J. Gorn).

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (Jossi Klein Halevi).  

Lies My Teacher Told Me:  Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong  [James W. Loewen]  E175.85 .L64 1995  .

The Line Becomes a River  (Francisco Cantú)  JV6565 .C37 2018  .

The Line of Beauty  (Alan Hollinghurst).

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America  (James Forman, Jr.). 

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's (John Elder Robison)

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (First edition)  HD6072.2 .U5 L36 2019  

The Making of Asian America: A History  (Erika Lee)  E184 .A75 L43 2015  Amazon                

The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea   (Christopher J. Lebron).

Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard  [Archie Epps, editor]  BP223 .Z8 L5799 1991 .

Manchild in the Promised Land (Claude Brown).

Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community  (Rebecca J. Bailey) F247 .M57 B335 2008.

Medicine Walk  (Richard Wagamese)      PR9199.3 .W316 M43 2015

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America  (Ijeoma Oluo)  HQ1090.3 .O58 2020  Amazon  

Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation  (Derald Wing Sue)    BF575 .A3 S88 2010

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Cathy Park Hong)   E184 .O6 H64 2020  Read Online   Amazon

Missing Pieces: A Chronicle Of Living With A Disability  (Irving Kenneth Zola)    HV1559 .N4 Z64 1982  Amazon

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History   (Jeanne Theoharis).

Mudbound (Hillary Jordan).

Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline (Lauren F. Winner).

My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin  (edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin)  Ivy By Request  KF373 .F745 A3 1997  Amazon  

My Monticello (Jocelyn Nicole Johnson)      PS3610 .O35648 M9 2021   Amazon

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education (Jennine Capó Crucet)  (Available to order)  Amazon

My Vanishing Country: A Memoir(Bakari Sellers)  Amazon   

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Robert Wald Sussman).

Native Speaker Chang-rae Lee)  PS3562 .E3347 N38 1995

Native Women's History in Eastern North America Before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing (Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, editors).

The Natural History of the Rich : A Field Guide  (Richard Conniff).

The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker  (Scott Neuman)

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Steve Silberman)    RC553 .A88 S54 2015  BSEL 

Never Caught: The [George} Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge  (Erica Armstrong Dunbar).  E444 .D86 2017

The New American: A Novel  (Micheline Aharonian Marcom)  PS3563 .A63629 N49 2020   Amazon 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness  (Michelle Alexander).

The Niceties (Eleanor Burgess) [from]  Plays by Women from the Contemporary American Theater Festival

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America  (Barbara Ehrenreich).

Night: A Novel  (Edgar Hilsentath)   PT3919 .H67 N2813 .

Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area

(Harry M. Caudill).

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America  (Darnell L Moore).

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Jessica Bruder).

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos [6th Edition] (Rodolfo F. Acuna)  E184 .M5 A63 1988

The Official Preppy Handbook (Lisa Birnbach, et al.).

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel  (Ocean Vong)  PR3622 .U96 O52 2019

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (A'Lelia Bundles)

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (DeRay Mckesson).

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America (Maria Hinojosa) 

The Opposite of Hate [electronic resource]: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity  (Sally Kohn).

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain  Maria Rosa Menocal  [foreword by Harold Bloom]   BR1024 .M46 2002

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America  (Andrés Reséndez)   E98 .S6 R47 2016 .

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance  (Nick Estes)   E99 .D1 E87 2019

Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart  (Howard J. Ross with JonRobert Tartaglione).

Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)    PS3612 .E346 P33 2017

Passage West: A Novel (Rishi Reddi)   PS3618 .E4265 P37 2020       Amazon

A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America  (Elliott Currie)   E185.615 .C87 2020   Amazon

The Perks of Being a Wallflower  PS1292.C33 P47 1999

Persepolis   PN6747 .S245 P47 2007   Read Via HathiTrust 

Philosophy of Science and Race  (Naomi Zack)  GN269 .Z33 2002.

Plague of Doves (Louise Erdrich)  PS 3555 .R42  P55 2008

Plutocracy in America: How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor  (Ronald P. Formisano)  HN90 .S6 F67 2015

Port Chicago Mutiny  (Robert L. Allen)     D810 .N4 A45 1989  

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing  (Joy DeGruy ; foreword by Randall Robinson)   RC451.5 .N4 L43 2005  [Law]

Postcolonial Love Poem (Natalie Diaz)   PS3604 .I186 P67 2020   Amazon  

The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain (Thomas Armstrong)   Amazon

Pride Against Prejudice:  Transforming Attitudes to Disability  (Jenny Morris)  Read via HathiTrust Amazon

Pure America (Elizabeth Catte).