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Books

Resources: Books
Title	Author	Year Published	Theme	Available in MU Library
Is it a Choice?				Yes
A Hope in the Unseen	Ron Suskind	1999	First generation/ black student	Yes
A Journey into the Deaf-World	Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffeister, Ben Bahan	1996	Deaf/hard of hearing	No
America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines	Gail Collins	2007	Struggles of American women	Yes
Andrew Tobias, Best Little Boy in the World			LGBTQ	Yes
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”	Zora Neale Hurston	2018	Race and ethnicity	Yes
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	2015	Race, classism, social justice, and privilege	Yes
Charles Blow’s new memoir, Fire in my Bones			LGBTQ	Yes
Daisy Hernandez, Cup of Water Under my Bed			LGBTQ	Yes
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen	Jose Antonio Vargas	2018	Political, Emigration and Immigration	Yes
Debating Race	Michael Eric Dyson	2007	Class conflicts in the African American Community, government bias, civil rights	Yes
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot	John Callahan	1990	Disability, sexuality, American welfare and political systems	Yes
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club	Benjamin Alire Saenz	2012	Sexuality, gender, Mexican-American culture, poverty, addiction	Yes
Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader	Raymond Luczak	2007	Deaf/lgbt	No
Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics (2nd edition)	Bell Hooks	2015	Feminism, race, class, gender	Yes
I Survived the Killing Fields	Seng Kok Ung	2011	Racism, Communism	Yes
I’m Walking as Straight as I Can	Geri Jewell	2011	Disability awareness/LGBTQ	Yes
Imogene Binnie’s Nevada			LGBTQ	No
Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Aren’t the Only Fruit			LGBTQ	Yes
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s	John Elder Robison	2007	Disability awareness	Yes
Lotería	Mario Alberto Zambrano	2013	Mexican-American culture, gender, class, race	Yes
Man Up: Reimaging Modern Manhood	Carlos Andrés Gómez	2012	Gender, masculinity, equity, culture	No
Mapping Decline				Yes
New Jim Crow			Racism	Yes
Part Asian, 100% Hapa	Kip Fulbeck	2006	Age, racism, Hawaiian culture, ethnicity	Yes
Privilege, Power and Difference	Allan G. Johnson	2005	Privilege, acceptance, and difference in American society	No
Race Matters	Cornel West	2001	African American issues, leadership, affirmative action, black- Jewish relations sexuality	Yes
Racism Without Racist			Racism	Yes
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry	Mildred D. Taylor	2004	Segregation, bigotry, racism, poverty, and ethnicity issues	Yes
Stamped from the Beginning			Racism	Yes
Still Me	Christopher Reeve	1999	Life-altering disability, struggles, personal acceptance	No
Tears We Cannot Stop			Racism	Yes
Thank You for Your Service	David Finkel	2017	War, veterans	Yes
The Color of Law			Racism	Yes
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	1982	Power, privilege, race, women’s rights	Yes
The Common Good	Robert B. Reich	2018	Philosophy, Business, Domestic Politics	Yes
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mark Haddon	2004	Autism and children	Yes
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky	Heidi Durrow	2010	Race, mixed race, identity, minority experiences	Yes
The House on Mango Street	Sandra Cisneros	2009	Gender, equality, equity, Mexican-American culture, race	Yes
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2004	Political turmoil in Afghanistan and struggles of leaving	Yes
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness	Michelle Alexandar	2015	Race, criminal justice system, incarceration, social justice	Yes
The Way I See It				No
The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition)	Temple Grandin, Ph.D.	2011	Disabilities; autism and aspergers vs. neurotypical	Yes
There Are No Children Here	Alex Kotlowitz	1992	Inner city pathology, race, minority experiences	Yes
Uprooting Racism			Racism	Yes
Waist-high In the World	Nancy Mairs	1997	Life with a disability	Yes
What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People	Pearl Fuyo Gaskins	1999	Race, gender, age, ethnicity, cultural transition, customs	No
White like Me			Racism	Yes
White Like Me: Reflections of a Privileged Son	Tim Wise	2007	Race, privilege	Yes
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversaions About Race	Beverly Daniel Tatum	2017	Racism, privilege	Yes
Yellow			Racism	No

Movies & Documentaries

Resources: Movies
Title	Year	Rating	Theme
42	2013	PG-13	Race, racial crimes
12 Years A Slave	2013	R	Race, racism, equality
13th	2016	TV-MA	Civil Rights
A Beautiful Mind	2002	PG-13	Mental illness/ schizophrenia, persons with disabilities
A Day Without a Mexican	2004	R	Race, Mexican-Americans, economy
A Fantastic Woman	2017	R	LGBTQ
American History X	1998	R	Race, racial crimes, gang violence
Amistad	1997	R	Race, slavery, history
Angels in America	2003	Unrated	AIDS, religion, addiction, sexual orientation
Broke Back Mountain	2005	R	Sexual orientation, discrimination, violence, identity
Brokedown Palace	1999	PG-13	Violence, privilege, racial crimes, corruption
Charlotte Sometimes	2003	R	Identity, sexual violence, Asian American community, multi-racial identity, socio-economic status
Children of a Lesser God	1986	R	Disability- deaf and hearing
Crash	2005	R	Racism, sexual violence, privilege, anti-semitism, sexism, heterosexism
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years	2009	Unrated
Fences	2016	PG-13	Classism, race, family
Gandhi	1982	PG	Religion, violence, peace
Hale	2017	Unrated	Disability awareness
Higher Learning	1995	R
Hotel Rwanda	2005	PG-13	Genocide, sexual violence, war, corruption
I Am Sam	2002	PG-13	Person(s) with disabilities
If These Halls Could Talk	2006	Unrated	Racial collegiate experiencee
If These Walls Could Talk	2000	R	Abortion, women’s rights, teen pregnancy
If You Could See What I Hear	1982	PG	Disability awareness
Killing Us Softly 4: advertising’s image of women	2010	Unrated	Gender roles
Milk	2008	R	LGBTQ, equality
Monster’s Ball	2001	R	Racism, awareness
Moonlight	2016	R	Sexuality, African-American studies, drugs/addiction, violence, adolescence and adulthood
Murder Ball	2005	R	Identity, injury/disability
Music Within	2007	R	Deaf/hearing impaired, disability, equality
My Life	1993	PG-13	Illness/death
North Country	2005	R	Woman’s rights, socioeconomic issues, women in the workforce
Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored	1996	PG	Race, racism, equality
Philadelphia	1993	PG-13	LGBTQ, disability rights
Priest	1994	R
Remember the Titans	2000	PG	Race, racism, equality
School Ties	1992	PG-13	Religion
Simon Birch	1998	PG-13	Disability, religion
Sometimes in April	2005	Unrated	Genocide
Strong Island	2017	TV-MA	Racism, Civil Rights
The Color Purple	1985	PG-13	Power, privilege, race, women’s rights
The Joy Luck Club	1993	R	Women’s issues, Asian-American issues, cultural conflict/change
The Killing Fields	1984	R
The Laramie Project	2001	Unrated	LGBTQ issues/history, hate crimes, sexuality
The Miracle Worker	1962	Unrated	Disability awareness/ education, deaf/blind awareness
The Other Sister	1999/td>	PG-13	Disability awareness, socioeconomic issues
The Vietnam War	2017	TV-MA	War
Through Deaf Eyes	2007	Unrated	Disability awareness, deaf population, 19th century American history
Tiptoes	2003/td>	R	Dwarfism
Torch Song Triology	1988	R	Religion, bisexuality, social media
Transamerica	2005	R	LGBT population
When the Levees Broke	2006	Unrated	Poor and underprivileged populations, race

Podcasts & Media

Resources: Podcasts
Title	Website	Topic
How Change Happens In Generational Times	On Being	Culture
Making Obama	WBEZ	Political
Painting Michelle Obama	Smithsonian	Political
Radiolab’s Border Trilogy, Part 2: Hold the Line	Radiolab	Immigration
Radiolab’s Border Trilogy, Part 3: What Remains	Radiolab	Immigration
St. Louis History in Black and White	St. Louis Public Radio	Social commentary
The American Life	St. Louis Public Radio	Social commentary
We Live Here	St. Louis Public Radio	Social commentary
Various	This American Life	Social commentary