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Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream by Christina M. Greer
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2013
Offers a superb and rigorous analysis of black politics and coalitions in the post-Civil Rights era. Using an original survey of a New York City labor population and multiple national data sources, author Christina M. Greer explores the political significance of ethnicity for new immigrant and native-born blacks.
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: 305.512 WILKERSON
Publication Date: 2021
Beyond race, class, and other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior. Isabel Wilkerson links the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, exploring the eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations. Wilkerson tells riveting stories about people to illustrate the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day.
Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Derald Wing Sue; David Sue; Helen A. Neville; Laura Smith
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2019
Examines the concept of "cultural humility" as part of the major characteristics of cultural competence in counselor education and practice; roles of white allies in multicultural counseling and in social justice counseling; and the concept of "minority stress" and its implications in work with marginalized populations.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Call Number: 973.049 FOUR
Publication Date: 2021
Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: 305.8 KENDI
Publication Date: 2019
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.
Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader by David K. Yoo (Editor); Pamela Grieman (Editor); Charlene Villaseñor Black (Editor); Danielle Dupuy (Editor); Arnold Ling-Chuang Pan (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2020
Knowledge for Justice is a joint publication of UCLA's four ethnic studies research centers: American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and African American Studies. The book addresses the intersectional intellectual, social, and political struggles that confront the groups represented in the anthology.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Call Number: 973.007 Loewen
Publication Date: 2018
Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should--and could--be taught to American students.
The Matrix of Race by Rodney D. Coates; Abby L. Ferber; David L. Brunsma
Call Number: 305.8 COATES
Publication Date: 2017
Examines the intersecting, multilayered identities of contemporary society, and the powerful social institutions that shape our understanding of race. Leading scholars Rodney D. Coates, Abby L. Ferber, and David L. Brunsma use a storytelling approach to illustrate how racial inequality has produced drastically different opportunities, experiences, and outcomes within all aspects of life, from schools, housing, medicine, and workplaces to our criminal justice and political systems.
Race in America, 2nd Ed. by Matthew Desmond
Call Number: SOCI/RACE(2ND)/LIBRARY
Publication Date: 2019
With a groundbreaking intersectional approach framed around social spheres, Race in America gives students the tools to think critically about race, racism, and white privilege.
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: 305.8 OLUO
Publication Date: 2018
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 about how racism infects every aspect of American life.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Call Number: 305.8 MCGHEE
Publication Date: 2021
McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm--the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor); Cherríe Moraga (Editor)
Call Number: 810.8 THIS
Publication Date: 1981
Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation."
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Call Number: 305.8 DIANGELO
Publication Date: 2018
In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people' (Claudia Rankine).

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A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
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Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new window
This full-text database is a dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents.
Ethnic Diversity Source covers culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of:
African Americans
Arab Americans
Asian Americans
European Americans
Jewish Americans
Latinx Americans
Native Americans
Multiracial Americans
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. *ArtSTOR has merged with JSTOR. All content available in ArtSTOR is now accessible through JSTOR.

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Ethnic Studies Review
The official publication of the Association for Ethnic Studies. "A venue and forum for all interested in and committed to Ethnic Studies, and remains committed to this inclusivity."
Journal of American Ethnic History
"Addresses various aspects of North American immigration history and American ethnic history."
Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
"Interdisciplinary journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies."
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Studies
"Publishes theoretical, methodological, and empirical research from all disciplines dealing with ethnicity and culture."

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Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts by Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2015
An indispensable reference that will help students understand the major ethnic conflicts that dominate the headlines and shape the modern world. Since World War II, significant conflicts have most often taken the form of acts of violence between ethnic or national communities inside individual states.
Encyclopedia of North American Immigration by John Powell
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2005
The transformation of the culture of the North American continent since the 15th century is one of the great historical events of the past 500 years. It has shaped the destinies of millions of people of all races, transformed the nature of international politics, and altered the concept of personal possibilities in every country. The magnitude and diversity of the migration to North America has made analysis of the process as a whole quite difficult, mainly because the peopling of North America was not a single movement but hundreds of separate movements, each with its own story, foundations, rationale, and outcome.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism by Patrick L. Mason
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2013
The Encyclopedia Of Race And Racism, 2nd Edition, provides critical information and context on the underlying social, economic, geographical, and political conditions that gave rise to, and continue to foster, racism. Religion, political economy, social activism, health, concepts, and constructs are explored. Given the increasingly diverse population of the United States and the rapid effects of globalization, as well as mass and social media, the issue of race in world affairs, history, and culture is of preeminent importance.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism by John H. Moore (Editor)
Call Number: REF 305.8 ENCYCLOPEDIA
Publication Date: 2007
Based on the premise that race and racism are two distinct concepts with separate histories, the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism delves into the origins of these ideas through the analytic prisms provided both by the sciences and the humanities.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2014
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America contains 175 essays on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The Encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish.
The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity by Steven Ratuva (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2019
This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge analysis of ethnicity through diverse multidisciplinary lenses. It explores numerous aspects of ethnicity and how it is linked to a range of contemporary political, economic and social issues at the global, regional as well as local levels. In a world where globalization has enveloped and transformed societies through economic and financial integration, social media networks, knowledge transfer, transnational travel, technology and education, there is a tendency to frame issues largely from the standpoint of economic, political and strategic interests of the dominant powers.
Race and Racism in the United States by Charles A. Gallagher (Editor); Cameron D. Lippard (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2014
In the 21st century, it is easy for some students and readers to believe that racism is a thing of the past; in reality, old wounds have yet to heal, and new forms of racism are taking shape. Racism has played a role in American society since the founding of the nation, in spite of the words "all men are created equal" within the Declaration of Independence.
Understanding and Navigating Discrimination in America by Omnigraphics
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780780819016
Publication Date: 2021
Understanding and Navigating Discrimination in America is a resource guide to help people identify and understand challenging conversations about race and discrimination. This is an important resource guide that hits discrimination in America past and present head on, offering easy to navigate content with key links to organizations, local and national support groups and government agencies to help readers identify, report and manage discrimination in personal, professional and academic settings.

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Accidental Courtesy: Musician Daryl Davis Meets and Befriends Members of the Ku Klux Klan by First Run Features
Publication Date: 2016
In his travels, he’s collected robes and other artifacts from friends affiliated with the Klan, building a collection piece by piece, story by story, and person by person in hopes of eventually opening a “Museum of the Klan”, a testimony to what knowledge and respectful, personal communication can accomplish.
American Portrait Episode 4: I Rise by PBS
Publication Date: 2021
Go inside the lives of people working to create an antiracist American future. They film themselves doing the work, confronting the obstacles and achieving the victories that could add up to real change in the movement for racial justice.
Berkeley Diversity by NewsHour Productions
Publication Date: 2022
In this NewsHour segement, John Yang visits Berkeley, looking at their big push to improve diversity without the consideration of race or sex in the admissions process.
Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?: A Debate by Open to Debate
Publication Date: 2023
Some argue that “color blindness,” or treating people without any regard to race or ethnicity, is the best way to overcome racism and promote equal opportunity. Opponents argue that such an approach downplays deep-seated biases, silently maintains discrimination, and ignores systemic problems in American society.
Race: The Power of an Illusion (Series) by California Newsreel
Publication Date: 2003
This three-hour series by California Newsreel questions the very idea of race as innate biology, suggesting that a belief in inborn racial difference is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth.
White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America by Media Education Foundation
Publication Date: 2013
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.

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Kretz, Kate. Reparation: Where Our Greatness Lies. Embroidery on U.S. Flag. 2022. https://www.americandiversityflag.com/.

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