Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani
Publication Date: 1994
Anthology
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery (essays) by Rochelle Riley; Nikole Hannah-Jones (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2018
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, and Classism by Maurianne Adams (Editor); Warren J. Blumenfeld (Editor)
Call Number: E 184 .A1 R386 2000 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2000
Arabs / Muslims
Civil Rights in Peril: the Targeting of Arabs and Muslims by Elaine C. Hagopian (Editor)
Call Number: E 184 .A65 C585 2004 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2004
Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims by Stephen Sheehi
Publication Date: 2010
Asian
The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu
Call Number: E 184 .C5 L62 1998 Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 1998
Everything You Need to Know about Asian American History by Himilce Novas; Lan Cao; Rosemary Silva
Publication Date: 2004
Strangers from a Different Shore: a history of Asian Americans by Ronald T. Takaki
Call Number: E 184.06 T35 1990 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 1990
Two Faces of Exclusion: the Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States by Lon Kurashige
Publication Date: 2016
Yellow: Race in America beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu
Call Number: E 184 .O6 W84 2002 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2001
Asian Pacific Islanders
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities by Chen, E.W.
Publication Date: 2006; 2nd ed.
Biography or Novel
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: as told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X
Call Number: BP 223 .Z8 L57943 1992b -Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 1992
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Publication Date: 2018
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: PZ 7.1 .T448 Hat 2017 (Juvenile collection)- Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2017
Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: QA 27.5 .L44 2016- Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootNow a major motion picture from HBO® starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, 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. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vacci≠ uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta's small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia--a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo--to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family--past and present--is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family--especially Henrietta's daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother's cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn't her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
Call Number: RC 265.6 .L24 S55 2009 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2010
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
Publication Date: 2017
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Call Number: KF 8745 .S67 A3 2013ab (10 CD set) - Audio Book Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2014
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: E 185.615 .D97 2017 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2017
Waking up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Publication Date: 2014
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call Number: E 185.97 .A18 A3 2004 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2004
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
Publication Date: 2019
When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; Asha Bandele
Call Number: E 185.97 .K43 A3 2018 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2018
Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World by Ralph Wiley
Publication Date: 1992
Critical Theory
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberle Crenshaw; Neil Gotanda; Garry Peller
Publication Date: 1996
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire; Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)
Call Number: LB 880 .F73 P4313 2000 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2000
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon; Constance Farrington (Translator); Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
Call Number: DT 33 .F313 1968 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 1968
Diversity
Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect by Rupert W. Nacoste
Call Number: Ebook Available from Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2014
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice by Geneva Gay
Call Number: LC 1099.3 .G393 2000 - Available in Detroit Mercy Library
Publication Date: 2000
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta L. (Lynn) Hammond