Fall 2024 Readings
We will read selected chapters from the books listed below.
For access to the chapters please email deib-bookish-club@utica.edu
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Fall 24 Reads
Disability Visibility by
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience"
Call Number: HV1552.3 .D57 2020
The Other Side by
"The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue."
Call Number: HV640.5.C46 V55 2022
The Beiging of America by
"THE BEIGING OF AMERICA is an absorbing and thought-provoking collection of stories that explore racial identity, alienation, with people often forced to choose between races and cultures in their search for self-identity. While underscoring the complexity of the mixed-race experience, these unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and empowering message to all readers."
Gender Failure by
"Gender Failure is a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and Rae's personal journeys from gender failure to gender self-acceptance. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, it's a book that will touch LGBTQ readers and others, revealing, with candor and insight, that gender comes in more than two sizes"
Call Number: HQ77.7 C69 2014
This Arab Is Queer by
"This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab."
Call Number: HQ73.4.A72 T45 2022
Past Reads
All about Love by Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies
Diversity, Inc by "In Diversity, Inc., award-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk shines a bright light on the diversity industry, asking the tough questions about what has been effective and why progress has been so slow. Newkirk highlights the rare success stories, sharing valuable lessons about how other industries can match those gains. But as she argues, despite decades of handwringing, costly initiatives, and uncomfortable conversations, organizations have, apart from a few exceptions, fallen far short of their goals."
On the Come Up by The story of an aspiring rapper, daughter to a rap artist who lost his life in a gang-related shooting, balancing high school, friends, her family's financial struggles, and the rap career she needs to take off so she and her family can have a different life.
Racism, Gang Violence, Rapping, Rap Battle, Cycles of Poverty, Racial Profiling, Friendship, First Love
Another Appalachia by A memoir in which the author shares vignettes from her life, from childhood to adulthood, as the child of Indian immigrants who grew up in West Virginia.
Appalachia, Identity, Homophobia, Racism, Hinduism
Days of Distraction by A young Asian American woman's burgeoning racial consciousness causes inner and outer turmoil in her otherwise featureless, bland, safe life with her white boyfriend after moving cross-country.
Asian American Stories, Whiteness, Microaggressions, Identity, Racism, Relationships
Whipping Girl by Scholar Julia Serano unpacks our entrenched biases and cultural story about womanhood and femininity and why maintaining rigid conceptions of gender harms us all.
Transgender Women, Gender Transition, Gender Roles, Gender Essentialism, Socialization, Transmisogyny, Feminism
Somebody's Daughter by Ford's memoir about healing and growth in relationship to others and herself, particularly after challenging revelations about her father who was incarcerated most of her life.
African American Stories, Incarcerated Stories, Sexual Assault, Parental Trauma, Friendship, Romantic Relationships, Love, Self-Love
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by A semi-autobiographical novel following a young Vietnamese boy, teen, then young man as he navigates racism, unresolved familial trauma, poverty, and his burgeoning homosexuality in a small town hit hard by the decline of manufacturing and the opioid crisis.
Vietnamese American Stories, LGBTQ+ Stories, The Vietnam War, Homophobia
The Round House by An Ojibwe boy and his friends help his father, a tribal judge, get answers and find justice for a violent attack against his mother.
Ojibwe, Native American Stories, Violence Against Women, Disparity in Justice and Policing, Social Justice, Tribal Courts
The Book of Unknown Americans by Immigrants from across Central America find community, experience anti-immigrant harassment, and struggle to make the best life possible for themselves in the United States.
Immigrant Stories, Disability, Hispanic Stories, Latinx Stories, Xenophobia, Central and North American History
