Blogs

By Youssef Farhat

In alignment with the Common Academic Program's responsiveness to the changing times while remaining informed by the seven institutional learning goals, this DSJreads list offers a series of recommended books revolving around the Diversity ILG learning continuum.

We hope you find interest in some of these books and invite you to examine the issues presented critically.

Bias/Perspective

• All About Love: New Visions
  bell hooks
• The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
  Kristin Henning
• Just Us: An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
  Claude M. Steele 
• Fix your climate: a Practical Guide to Reducing Microaggressions, Micro bullying, and Bullying in the Academic Workplace.
  Myron Anderson, and Kathryn Young 
• O Beautiful
  Jung Yun

Intersectionality/Power

• Living a Feminist Life
  Sara Ahmed
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
  Caroline Criado Perez
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  Matthew Desmond
• Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention
  Helena Liu
• Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
  Kate Masur

Intercultural Competence

• Light from Uncommon Stars
  Ryka Aoki  
• The Stone of Laughter
  Hoda Barakat 
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
  Jamie Ford
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xochitl Gonzalez 
• How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
  Saeed Jones
• They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents
  Neda Toloui-Semnani 

Social Justice/Inequality 

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
  adrienne maree brown
• There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
  Fiona Hill
• Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory
  Ed. Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight
• How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  Clint Smith
• Dear America, Notes from an Undocumented Citizen
  Jose Antonio Vargas
• Dispatches from the Race War
  Tim Wise 

This list was crowdsourced by CAP Diversity and Social Justice faculty, and published in collaboration with University of Dayton Libraries, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Multi-Ethnic Education and Engagement Center, Global and Intercultural Affairs Center, and the Diversity ILG Working Group. 

Youssef Farhat, CAP Diversity and Social Justice (DSJ) Coordinator, and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science.