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Archive of Understanding Difference Resources

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Exploring Diversity and Social Justice in Books [U-Z]

 

Unaccustomed Earth  (Jhumpa Lahiri)  Read via HathiTrust  Amazon

The Underground Railroad    (Colson Whitehead)    PS3573 .H4768 U53 2016

Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy.

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism  (Barry M. Prizant)  RJ506 .A9 P77 2015  [BSEL]

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Martha S. Jones)  JK1924.J66 2020  [Law Library]  Amazon    

The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail (Karenne Wood, editor) VFH 2/V 817 I [2009]         E78 .V7 V56 2007 (Clemons Library)

Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race Debby Irving.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson.

The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City  (Barbara Engelking & Jacek Leociak ; translated by Emma Harris) .

WASP, Where is Thy Sting?  Florence King. Instructions for Paste and Spellcheck

The Water Dancer: A Novel  by Ta-Nehisi Coates   PS3603 .O17 W38 2019

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's (Temple Grandin)   RC553 .A88 G743 2008    alsoRC553 .A88 G743 2015    Request from Ivy 

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy  Ta-Nehisi Coates.

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World   (Sara Hendren)  E-Book  Amazon   

What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People (Verna A. Myers)     Law Library KF300 .M944 2013   Amazon

What Strange Paradise: A novel  (Omar El Akkad)   PS3605 .L12 W48 2021  Amazon

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia  Elizabeth Catte.

Where the Dead Sit Talking  (Brandon Hobson)

Where We Stand: Class Matters Bell Hooks.

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Ian Haney López)   KF4755 .H36 2006.

White Kids:  Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (Margaret A. Hagerman)  E184 .A1 H185.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism  Robin DiAngelo. 

White Privilege: Essential readings on the other side of racism, Ed. by Paula S. Rothenberg  E184 .A1 W394 2002

White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide  (Naomi Zack)  HV7936 .R3 Z33 2015 Law .

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson.  

White Trash: Race and Class in America  Matt Way and Annalee Newitz.

White Trash: The Construction of an American Scapegoat Angel Price.

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg. 

Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views From a Black Man's World  (Ralph Wiley)     E185.86.W45 1991 

Why We Can’t Wait (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)   E185.61 .K54 2018  Access Online

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China  (Jung Chang)  CT1828 .C478 A3 1992

With the Fire on High (Elizabeth Acevedo)   Amazon

Winter in the Blood  (James Welch)  PS3573 .E44 W5   

The Wolf by the Ears:  Thomas Jefferson and Slavery John Chester Miller.

A Woman is No Man: A Novel (Etaf Rum) PS3618 .U564 W66 2019

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston) CT275 .K5764 A33 1989   Online

Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White, the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs  (David R. Roediger)   E184 .A1 R644 2005 .

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story  (Diane Ackerman)