How to Be An Anti-Racist

Ibram X. Kendi

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from how we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to how we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class, culture, and geography and even changes how we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and continues to possess a special urgency as the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in urban centers around the world continues. 

Queer People of Color in Higher Education

Joshua Moon Johnson and Gabriel Javier

Queer People of Color in Higher Education (QPOC) is a comprehensive work discussing the lived experiences of queer people of color on college campuses. This book will create conversations and provide resources to best support students, faculty, and staff of color who are people of color and identify as LGBTQ. The edited volume covers emerging issues affecting higher education around the country. Leading researchers and practitioners have remarkable writing that concisely summarizes current literature while also adding new ways to address issues of injustice related to racism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia. 

Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data

Julie J. Park

Park argues that there are surprisingly pervasive and stubborn myths about diversity on college and university campuses and that these myths obscure the notable significance and admirable effects that diversity has had on campus life. Based on her analysis of extensive research and data about contemporary students and campuses, Park counters these myths and explores their problematic origins. Among the major myths that she addresses are charges of pervasive self-segregation, arguments that affirmative action in college admissions has run its course and become counterproductive, related arguments that affirmative action policies poorly serve Asian Americans, and suggestions that programs and policies meant to promote diversity have failed to address class-based disadvantages. In the course of responding to these myths, Park presents a far more positive and nuanced portrait of diversity and its place on American college campuses.

So You Want to Talk About Race?

Ijeoma Oluo

Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and how racism infects every aspect of American life.

Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Students and Staff in Further and Higher Education

Dr. Matzon Lawrence and Dr. Stephanie Mckendry

According to the research underpinning this book, 85% of trans students and staff faced barriers. This practical guide enables post-secondary education professionals to create a safe and supportive environment for gender-diverse applicants, students, and staff. Using real life examples to explore common experiences and challenges for trans people in further and higher educational settings, it sets out policies, interventions and advice that have proven effective in providing impactful support on a wide range of issues such as learning, teaching, mental health, recruitment, support services, and institutional policies. Included is an easy-to-follow introduction to transgender terminology and identities, as well as legal and medical considerations.

Teachers as Allies: Transformative Practices for Teaching DREAMers and Undocumented Students

Shelley Wong, et. all.

Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. Teachers as Allies provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The authors show how immigration policies, ICE enforcement, and societal attitudes affect undocumented students and how teachers and school leaders can recognize these influences on the students’ day-to-day lives and learning.

The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism

Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin

This title offers the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the “double consciousness” of many Asian Americans―experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America’s highly achieving “model minority.” 

Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion

Z Nicolazzo

This title addresses implications for Trans and non-binary students in the classroom and wider campus community as they navigate higher education and their personal journey with gender identity. 

We are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States

Leisly J. Abrego and Genevieve Negron-Gonzales

The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates undocumented youth's educational and economic achievements to justify a path to citizenship. This title argues that, while a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward.

White Fragility: Why it's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin Diangelo

This title illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility: how it develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.