Recommended Readings

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House of Sticks: A Memoir Ly TranHouse of Sticks: A Memoir

Ly Tran

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom Bettina L. LoveWe Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Bettina L. Love

DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right [by] Lily Zheng DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

Lily Zheng

An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence [by] Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia ValianAn Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence

Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian

Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader [by] Edna Chun and Alvin Evans The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader: Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education

Edna Chun and Alvin Evans 

Toxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty [by] Professor Ruth Enid ZambranaToxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty

Ruth Enid Zambrana

The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference [by] Roderick A. Ferguson The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

Roderick A. Ferguson

Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving InstitutionsEducating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions

Clifton Conrad & Marybeth Gasman

Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities Paperback Ebony and Ivy [by] Craig Steven WilderEbony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities Paperback

Craig Steven Wilder

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law [by] David SpadeNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome [by] Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

Alondra Nelson

The Educational Value of Diversity by Jonathan R. Alger The Educational Value of Diversity

Jonathan R. Alger

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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life [by] Sara AhmedOn Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

Sara Ahmed

Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, & Angela P. HarrisPresumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, & Angela P. Harris

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude M. SteeleWhistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)

Claude M. Steele

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club [by Eileen PollackThe Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club

Eileen Pollack

Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure edited by Patricia Matthew Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure

Edited by Patricia Matthew

Natasha K. Warikoo The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions and Meritocracy at Elite Universities The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

Natasha K. Warikoo

Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [by] Dr. Randal PinkettData-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dr. Randal Pinkett

A volume in Hispanics in Education and Administration Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs
(Hispanics in Education and Administration)

Gina Ann Garcia, Editor

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Edited by Alice WongDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Alice Wong

Inclusion in Higher Education: Research Initiatives on Campus Edited by Amanda Macht Jantzer and Kyhl LyngaardInclusion in Higher Education: Research Initiatives on Campus

Edited by Amanda Macht Jantzer and Kyhl Lyngaard

Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education by Paul LeBlanc Forward by Bridget Terry LongStudents First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education

by Paul LeBlanc