Guides: History of Inequity: Reading suggestions from your librarians

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This reading list has been curated by the librarians at Dayton Memorial Library as a selection of materials addressing issues relating to diversity, inclusion, inequity, and oppression from across disciplines and decades. Most of these resources are written from a scholarly/academic perspective, and many of these items are intersectional in nature and will fall within more than one category listed here.

The link to each resource is a permanent URL that will give you more information about the item and tell you how you can find it, either in the library or online.

Take a look at the suggestions below.

Topics on this page:
Race
Gender/LGBTQ* issues
Society and politics

Race and ethnicity

Anti-immigration in the United States. [book]
Arnold, K. (2011).
Black, white, and in color: essays on American literature and culture. [book]
Spillers, H.J. (2003).
Clean and white: A history of environmental racism in the United States. [book]
Zimring, C. (2015).
Color behind bars: Racism in the U.S. prison system. [book]
Bowman, S.W. (2014).
The comparative imagination: On the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements. [book]
Fredrickson, G. (1997).
The constraint of race: Legacies of white skin privilege in America. [book]
Williams, L. (2003).
Cracks in the melting pot: Racism and discrimination in American history. [book]
Steinfield, M. (1970).
Defining difference: Race and racism in the history of psychology. [book]
Winston, A. (2004).
An encyclopedia of human rights in the United States. [book]
Conde, V. (2011).
Encyclopedia of race and racism. [book]
Mason, P.L. (2016).
Fatal invention:how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century. [book]
Roberts, D. (2012).
Ideas of race in the history of the Humanities. [book]
Morris-Reich, A. & Rupnow, D. (2017).
Making sense of race, class, and gender: commonsense, power, and privilege in the United States. [book]
Pascale, C. (2007).
Making the second ghetto: race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. [book]
Hirsch, A.R. (1998).
A people's history of riots, protest, and the law: The sound of the crowd. [book]
Clement, M. (2017).
Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among immigrant-origin adolescents. [article]
Tummala-Nara, P. and Claudius, M. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 19(3). Jul 2013. p. 257-269.
Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: Understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race. [book]
Derald Wing, S. (2015).
Raciolinguistics: how language shapes our ideas about race. [book]
Alim, H.S., Rickford, J.R., and Ball, A.F. (2016).
Racism: A short history. [book]
Fredrickson, G. (2002).
Reading race: white American poets and the racial discourse in the twentieth century. [book]
Nielson, A.L. (1988).
Roots too: White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America. [book]
Jacobson, M.F. (2008).
What's the use of race?: Modern governance and the biology of difference. [book]
Whitmarsh, I. and Jones, D.S. (2010).
Whose justice? Which rationality? [book]
MacIntyre, A. (1988).
Working toward whiteness: how America's immigrants became white: the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs. [book]
Roediger, D.R. (2005).

Black resistance, white law: A history of constitutional racism in America. [book]
Berry, M.F. (1971).
Body and soul: the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination. [book]
Nelson, A. (2011).
Collected essays. [book]
Baldwin, J. (1998).
Dark journey: black Mississippians in the age of Jim Crow. [book]
McMillen, N.R. (1989).
I've got the light of freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle. [book]
Payne, C.M. (2007).
Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. [book]
Washington, H.A. (2006).
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. [book]
Alexander, M. (2010).
The press and slavery in America, 1791-1859: The melacholy effect of popular excitement. [book]
Gabrial, B. (2016).
Roots. [book]
Haley, A. (1976).
Sweet land of liberty: the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North. [book]
Sugrue, T.J. (2009).

After camp: portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics. [book]
Robinson, G. (2012).
Asian American Policy Review. [journal]
Harvard University Press. (2004-2017).
Christianity, social justice, and the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. [book]
Blankenship, A.M. (2016).
Crosscurrents: The newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
UCLA. (2009-2016).
An examination of Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT populations across the United States: Intersections of race and sexuality. [book]
Battle, J., Pastrana, A., & Harris, A. (2017).
Infamy: The shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II. [book]
Reeves, R. (2015).
Jim and Jap Crow: A cultural history of 1940s interracial America. [book]
Briones, M.M. (2012).
A postmodern psychology of Asian Americans: creating knowledge of a racial miority. [book]
Uba, L. (2002).
Relocating authority: Japanese Americans writing to redress mass incarceration. [book]
Shimabukuro, M. (2015).
Strangers from a different shore: A history of Asian Americans. [book]
Takaki, R. (1998).

Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan This link opens in a new window
[database]
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life This link opens in a new window
[database]

At home in the Academy: Latina faculty counterstories and resistances. [article]
Oliva, M., et al. Educational Foundations, 27(1-2). Win-Spr 2013. p. 91-109.
Coping with discrimination among Mexican American college students. [article]
Villegas-Gold, R. and Hyung Choi Yoo. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 61(3). Jul 2014. p. 404-413.
Doing Latina/o ethics from the margins of empire: liberating the colonized mind. [article]
De La Torre, M.A. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 33(2). Fall-Wint 2013. p. 3-20.
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture. [book]
Dorn, G.M., et al. (1996).
Also available in print at https://lumen.regis.edu/record=b1139370~S3
From the editor -- escalating hate crime in the U.S. [article]
Thomas, S. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 27(6). Jul 2006. p. 595-596.
Hispanic immigration and black violence at the macro level: examining the conditioning effect of victim race/ethnicity. [article]
Harris, C. T. et al. Sociological Forum, 30(1). Mar 2015. p. 62-82.
Hostility and Hispandering in 2016: The demographic and discursive power of Latinx voters. [article]
Anguiano, C.A. Women's Studies in Communication, 39(4). 2016. p. 366-369.
Internalized racism, perceived racism, and ethnic identity: Exploring their relationship to Latina/o undergraduates. [article]
Hipolito-Delgado, C.P. Journal of College Counseling, 19(2). Jul 2016. p. 98-109.
Liberation theology: The Latin American Christian response to transnational capitalism. [article]
Puntarigvivat, T. Prajña Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion, 15(2), 1-54.
Making feminist, queer, Latinx, and #BlackVotesMatter. [article]
McAlister, J.F. Women's Studies in Communication, 39(4). 2016. p. 353-356.
National identity and perceived discrimination predict changes in ethnic identity commitment: evidence from a longitudinal study of Latino college students. [article]
Fuller-Rowell, T.E., et al. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 62(3). Jul 2013, p. 406-426.

American Indian education: a history. [book]
Reyhner, J.A. (2004).
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West. [book]
Brown, D. (1970).
Education for extinction: American Indians and the boarding school experience. [book]
Adams, D.W. (1995).
Making the white man's West: Whiteness and the creation of the American West. [book]
Pierce, J. (2016).
The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska. [book]
Curtis, E.S. (1907).

America's women: four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines. [book]
Collins, G. (2003).
Before the second wave: gender in the sociological tradition. [book]
Finlay, B. (2007).
Encyclopedia of American women in business: from colonial times to the present. [book]
Krisman, C. (2005).
Equal play: Title IX and social change. [book]
Hogshead-Makar, N. and Zimbalist, A. (2007).
The feminine mystique. [book]
Friedan, B. (1963).
The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II. [book]
Kiernan, D. (2013).
Hidden figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. [book]
Lee Shetterly, M. (2016).
Incarcerated women: a history of struggles, oppression, and resistance in American prisons. [book]
Hayden, E. & Jach, T. (2017).
Making feminist, queer, Latinx, and #BlackVotesMatter. [article]
McAlister, J.F. Women's Studies in Communication, 39(4). 2016. p. 353-356.
The other women's movement: workplace justice and social rights in modern America. [book]
Cobble, D. (2004).
Rise of the rocket girls: the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars. [book]
Holt, N. (2016).
Women, family, and work: writings on the economics of gender. [book]
Moe, K. (2003).
Writing through Jane Crow: Race and gender politics in African American literature. [book]
Hardison, A.K. (2014).

Gay artists in modern American culture: An imagined conspiracy. [book]
Sherry, M.S. (2007).
Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940. [book]
Chauncey, G. (1995).
The gay revolution: the story of the struggle. [book]
Faderman, F. (2015).
Historical dictionary of the lesbian and gay liberation movements. [book]
Myers, J. (2013).
The lavender scare: the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government. [book]
Johnson, D.K. (2004).
Making feminist, queer, Latinx, and #BlackVotesMatter. [article]
McAlister, J.F. Women's Studies in Communication, 39(4). 2016. p. 353-356.
Stonewall. [book]
Duberman, M.B. (1993).

Society and politics

Consumer equality: Race and the American marketplace. [book]
Henderson, G.R. (2016).
The economics of poverty: history, measurement, and policy. [book]
Ravallion, M. (2016).
Also available in print: https://lumen.regis.edu/record=b1661970~S3
The economics of race in the United States. [book]
O'Flaherty, B. (2015).
Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis. [book]
Vance, J.D. (2016).
Women, family, and work: writings on the economics of gender. [book]
Moe, K. (2003).

Equity and justice in development science: Implications for young people, families, and communities. [book]
Horn, S.S., Ruck, M.D., and Liben, L.S. (2016)
Integrating mindfulness into anti-oppression pedagogy: Social justice in higher education. [book]
Berila, B. (2016).
Pedagogy of the oppressed. [book]
Freire, P. (2000).
Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: Understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race. [book]
Derald Wing, S. (2015).

A civil action. [film]
Rudin, S., Redford, R., Pfeffer, R. 1999. Touchstone Pictures.
Failed promises: evaluating the federal government's response to environmental justice. [book]
Konisky, D.M. (2015).
Clean and white: A history of environmental racism in the United States. [book]
Zimring, C. (2015).

Caring for the vulnerable: perspectives in nursing theory, practice, and research. [book]
de Chesnay, M. and Anderson, B.A. (2016).
The double-edged helix: social implications of genetics in a diverse society. [book]
Alper, J.S. et al. (2002).
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. [book]
Skloot, R. (2010).
Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. [book]
Washington, H.A. (2006).
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care. [article]
American College of Physicians. Updated 2010. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians; 2010: Policy Paper.
Social justice, health disparities, and culture in the care of the elderly. [article]
Dilworth-Anderson, P., Pierre, G., & Hilliard, T. S. (2012). Journal Of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 40(1), 26-32.
Taking race out of human genetics. [article]
Yudell, M. et al. Science (New York, N.Y.), 351(6273), 564–565.

The Civil Rights Act and the battle to end workplace discrimination: a 50 year history. [book]
Gregory, R. (2014).
Digital sociologies. [book]
Daniels, J., Gregory, K., Cottom, T.M. (2017).
Freedom is not enough: the opening of the American workplace. [book]
MacLean, N. (2008).
Making a new deal: industrial workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. [book]
Cohen, L. (1991).
Women, family, and work: writings on the economics of gender. [book]
Moe, K. (2003).

Acts of faith: the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation. [book]
Patel, E. (2007).
Building the interfaith youth movement: beyond dialogue to action. [book]
Brodeur, P. and Patel, E. (2006).
The burdens of church history. [article]
Maffly-Kipp, L.F. Church History, 82(2). Jun 2013, p. 353-367.
Christians as citizens of a persecuting state: a theological and ethical reflection from a historical perspective. [article]
Pilli, T. Journal of European Baptist Studies, 7(1) Sep 2006, p. 5-22.
A nun on the bus: how all of us can create hope, change, and community. [book]
Campbell, S. and Gibson, D. (2014).
Racial justice and the Catholic church. [book]
Massingale, B. (2010).
Revelation as liberation from oppression: Black theology's challenge for American Catholic theology. [article]
Connolly, J.R. Horizons, 26(2). Fall 1999. p. 232-252.
Roots of Catholic racism. [book]
Wycliff, D. Commonweal, 123. Jul 12 1996. p. 23-24.
Sacred ground: pluralism, prejudice, and the promise of America. [book]
Patel, E. (2012).
Warrants for reconstruction: Christian hegemony, white supremacy. [article]
Hill Fletcher, J. Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 51(1) Winter 2016, p. 54-79.
We hold these truths: Catholic reflections on the American proposition. [book]
Murray, J. (1960).

Other materials

Here are some suggestions that the library does not currently own or have access to.
You can purchase these from your favorite bookseller or request them through Prospector (for books) or Interlibrary Loan (for articles and books).

Those damned immigrants: America's hysteria over undocumented immigration.
Román, E. (2013).

Impossible subjects: Illegal aliens and the making of modern America.
Ngai, M.M. (2004).

The "huddled masses" myth: Immigration and civil rights.
Johnson, K.R. (2003).

Christian literature and social justice: A literary analysis.
Lynskey, A.C. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 76(5-A)(E), 2015.

Foundational perspectives in multicultural education.
Duarte, E.M. & Smith, S. (2000).

Bilingual education: History, politics, theory, and practice. 4th ed.
Crawford, J. (1995).

Vietnamerica: A family's journey.
Tran, G.B. (2010).

Concentration camps on the home front: Japanese Americans in the house of Jim Crow.
Howard, J. (2008).

Only what we could carry: The Japanese American internment experience.
Inada, L.F. (2000).

Islanders in the empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican laborers in Hawaii.
Poblete, J. (2014).