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| Title | Author | Yale Library Availability | Recommended because: |
| 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11071340 | |
| A Brief History of 7 Killings | Marlon James | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12276603 | |
| A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing | Damaris B. Hill | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15381657 | |
| A Chinese Life | Li Kunwu | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977886 | "It is a graphic novel centered around China under Mao and the Cultural Revolution. The sketches are beautiful." |
| A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars | Erin Sharkey, editor | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16624468 | "New edited volume on Black land relations and caretaking that I think Yale community folks should know about." |
| A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America | Ronald Takaki | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3524073 | "The book details the roles of various immigrant groups in making the U.S. what it is today, something absent in many hist books." |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3882909 | |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3497774 | |
| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12440125 |
“This book changed the way I live my life at Yale. The book explores friendship and love in such profound depth.” |
| A Mercy | Toni Morrison | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8451745 | "This historical fiction novel centers the stories of black and indigenous women in early colonial America." |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3583194 | |
| "A Retrograde" in What Noise Against The Cane | Desiree C. Bailey | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15901677 | |
| A Small Place | Jamaica Kincaid | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3076177 | |
| A Third University Is Possible | la paperson | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16521424 | "A must-read for any student or academic interested in decolonizing work, by a certain K. Wayne Yang (as in, Tuck and Yang)." |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8081069 | |
| A Toast in the House of Friends | Akilah Oliver | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8557929 | "These poems are witness to complexities of grief, loss, limits of the body. Holy/earthly, they transfigure mourning into living." |
| African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000 | Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6247140 | "Learn about black women on the 'frontier,' their varied experiences and colonial encounters, as well as their organizing." |
| All About Love: New Visions | bell hooks | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4514219 | |
| Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire | Adria Imada | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13704365 | "Hula and other Hawaiian cultural practices are widely appropriated across the U.S. and even by Yale students." |
| Aloha Betrayed | Noenoe K. Silva | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9075018 | |
| Altai | Wu Ming | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11352559 | |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12697315 |
“An incredible book about what it's like to enter the racial world of America when being from a different country.” |
| Amistad (movie) | Steven Spielberg | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/1929317 | |
| An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977898 | |
| Angela Davis: An Autobiography | Angela Davis | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8837568 | "Because 'we have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.'" |
| Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12914237 | "This book is written by an incredible black woman and was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016." |
| Another Country | James Baldwin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5239908 | |
| Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Y. Davis | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6402386 | |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533805 |
"Two very different Chicano boys become friends, and together think about family, sexuality, and their futures. Funny and lyrical." |
| Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950 | T. C. McCaskie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4786863 | |
| Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle | Jacob Dlamini | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12599474 | |
| Assata: An Autobiography | Assata Shakur | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/784765 | |
| Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12276611 | |
| Beauty is a Wound | Eka Kurniawan | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12617043 | |
| Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self | Danielle Evans | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9576154 | "This book was the first time I read about Black girls in fiction, and the stories have a way of getting into your head.” |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6330204 | "Morrison invents her own language and literary style to describe the indescribable, haunting legacy of slavery." |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12533589 | "Most beautifully written book I've ever read and perfectly captures the intellectual argument against institutional racism in U.S.” |
| Binti | Nnedi Okorafor | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12912051 | |
| Bir Dinazorun Anilari | Mina Urgon | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | |
| Bitch Planet | Kelly Sue DeConnick | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12613444 | |
| Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth | Richard Wright | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4536818 | |
| Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3629078 |
“This book opened my eyes to the whole issue of discrimination and maltreatment 50 years ago.” |
| Black Man in a White Coat | Damon Tweedy | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1441192 | |
| Black Movie | Danez Smith | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13231045 | |
| Black Skin, White Masks | Frantz Fanon | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8259900 | |
| Blended | Sharon Draper | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15367964 | |
| Blind Willie Johnson (artist) | Blind Willie Johnson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7202989 | |
| Book of Salt | Monique Truong | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14489504 | |
| Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza | Gloria Anzaldúa | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4566186 | "This is a great book which encompasses the experience of Anzaldua as she navigates her identity as a queer Chicana." |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11742735 | "Beautifully written and totally perspective changing - highly recommend for science majors and thinkers!" |
| Breathe: Shifting Tides Book 2 | Maxine Jackson | Not currently available; available on Amazon | |
| Cairo Trilogy | Naguib Mahfouz | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4876208 | |
| Calling A Wolf A Wolf | Kaveh Akbar | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13338380 | "Emotionally gripping poetry on faith and grief, and often connected to the author's Persian-American identity." |
| Cane | Jean Toomer | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16384 | "Depicts the everyday lifestyle of African Americans in the early 20th century, specifically those in the South." |
| Carceral Capitalism | Jackie Wang | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13602371 | |
| Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7896151 | |
| Certain Dark Things | Silvia Moreno- Garcia | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13017924 | |
| Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel García Márquez | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/268857 | "The story is easy to follow, immensely interesting, and beautifully written." |
| Circle K Cycles | Karen Tei Yamashita | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4812258 | "Really cute book about assimilation and cultural exchange between Japanese and Brazilians in Brazil, and also has a lot of pics." |
| Citizen | Claudia Rankine | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12287556 | |
| Code of the Street | Elijah Anderson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7085804 | "Great for understanding the isolating effects of poverty on urban communities." |
| Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir | Yashica Dutt | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16052048 | "Powerful insight to the oppressive caste system in India. Relatable to the Black struggle in America yet different." |
| Community As Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color | Lorgia García Peña | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16305505 | |
| Cosmopolitan Canopy | Elijah Anderson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9723092 | "Good examination of how our everyday spaces are racially charged. Provides good framework for looking at racism in our time." |
| Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed The Movement | Kimberlé Crenshaw | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3992718 | |
| Cruising | Gerald Walker | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5237902 | |
| Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples | Linda Tuhiwai Smith | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10735397 | "Reclaiming our history is powerful & therefore indigenous participation is essential in establishing new research methods.” |
| Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution | Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4730003 | "A lesser-known but absolutely essential history of Black workers' revolutionary organizing in late 1960s Detroit." |
| Discourse in Colonialism | Aimé Césaire | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5239384 | |
| Discrimination and Disparities | Thomas Sowell | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14052100 | |
| Disgraced | Ayad Ahktar | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12371753 | |
| Don’t Let Me Be Lonely | Claudia Rankine | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6959122 | |
| Dragon Republic | R.F Kuang | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14534055 |
| Eleven Minutes | Paulo Coelho | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6581201 | |
| Enjambie (music group) | Enjambie | Not currently available | |
| Essays on Native Modernism: Complexity and Contradiction in American Indian Art | Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | |
| Everything I never told you | Celeste Ng | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12543114 | |
| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13099317 | |
| Fast Car (song) | Tracy Chapman | Not currently available | |
| Feel Free | Zadie Smith | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13553167 | |
| Fences: A Play | August Wilson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/410783 | "It's a play written in accessible language that explores the dynamics of a Black family (with a strong female character)." |
| Fifteen Dogs | Andre Alexis | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12521041 | |
| Fight or Flight, Shifting Tides Book 1 | Maxine Jackson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977916 | |
| For Colored Girls Who Have Considered suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf | Ntozake Shange | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6714516 | "It's a beautifully poetic and moving play that tells the life stories of several women of color." |
| Frédéric Bruly Bouabré | Frédéric Bruly Bouabré | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16261338 | "Very good overview of the work of a talented and respected artist from Côte d'Ivoire." |
| From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi | Haunani Kay Trask | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4457563 | "Recent and current issues having to do with race and ethnicity in Hawai'i are even less known than Hawaiian history." |
| Get Out (movie) | Jordan Peele | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13587338 | |
| Ghana Must Go | Taiye Selasi | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11319226 | "Absolutely beautifully written; a complex portrait of a transnational African family in Ghana and the US." |
| Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4941911 | "Because James Baldwin was a God of writing and this is his best." |
| Gnosis (magazine) | Jay Kinney, editor | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/817280 | "This periodical contains invaluable (and hard to obtain) information about the various branches of African American Islam." |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/257462 | |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8188829 | |
| Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1672880 | |
| Here Comes the Sun | Nicole Dennis-Benn | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12870466 | |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12865485 | |
| House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/414258 | |
| How Long Til Black Future Month | N.K. Jemisin | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13891215 | "The short stories involve Afrofuturist elements. Several protagonists of color and of sexual minorities." |
| How Tia Lola Came to Stay | Julia Alvarez | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7944700 | “The author lives in my hometown in Vermont, and it was one of my first introductions as a child to the complexities of heritage.” |
| How To Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15362409 | |
| How to be Drawn | Terrance Hayes | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12499071 | |
| How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir | Saeed Jones | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14616777 | |
| I Am Alfonso Jones | Tony Medina | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13663227 | |
| I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter | Erika Sánchez | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533820 | |
| I Hotel | Karen Tei Yamashita | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9383828 | |
| I Love Her | Sunjeev Sahata | Not currently available | |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5239925 | |
| Ikaw (song) | Yeng Constantino | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00C1HkgMx4 | |
| In Praise of Shadows | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/147128 | |
| In The Time of Butterflies | Julia Alvarez | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11824707 | |
| Indian Epics Retold | R. K. Narayan | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6832112 | |
| Infidel | Pornsak Pichetshote | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17008316 | |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4461264 | |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Waldo Ellison | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11359045 | "A resonating story of self-realization despite upward mobility and social responsibility that transcends its pre-1950s setting." |
| Jazz | Toni Morrison | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15172853 | |
| Jewish War Veterans Women in Military Life | Constance Cotton (Interviewer) | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJm0DAeDn4s | "My mom, who is African American, interviewed women veterans and shared her military story in a video." |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13868339 | "A powerful story of mass incarceration in America and the Equal Justice Initiative's pursuit of justice." |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6818543 | |
| Killer of the Flower Moon | David Grann | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13145103 | |
| Killing the Black Body | Dorothy Roberts | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13894829 | |
| Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Nam-Joo Cho | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16262821 | "Powerful and stark story is presented. Brings many issues to the forefront, would highly recommend." |
| Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9826779 | |
| Lead Belly (artist) | Lead Belly | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4297541 | |
| Letras Afroperuanas: Creación e Identidad | José Campos, José Respaldiza | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9637244 | "An incredible collection of poems drawing from issues of religion, culture, and class in Afro-Peruvian communities." |
| Like One of the Family; Conversations From a Domestic Life | Alice Childress | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5449901 | "A funny epistolary novel by prolific artist-activist Alice Childress told from the point of view of a black domestic in the 50s." |
| Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel | George Saunders | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13203922 | |
| Love (song) | Keyshia Cole | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBZy9j3H3I | |
| Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9169021 | |
| Maud Martha | Gwendolyn Brooks | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6397848 | "A gorgeously wrought examination of black interior girlhood written by one of our greatest poets--her only novel." |
| Men We Reaped: A Memoir | Jesmyn Ward | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11765163 | |
| Mighty Justice: My Life In Civil Rights | Dovey Johnson Roundtree | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17008319 | "Trailblazing civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story." |
| Mohawk Trail | Beth Brand | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/687538 | |
| Monstress | Marjorie M. Liu | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17008320 | |
| Moses Sumney (artist) | Moses Sumney | Not currently available | |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World | Tracy Kidder | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13709316 | |
| Ms. Marvel | G Willow Wilson | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977945 | "Fun, thought-provoking, and politically timely Wilson's Pakistani American MsMarvel is a 21st century super hero you'll root for." |
| Murgu | Artan Fuga | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | "Artan Fuga is a well-known professor of philosophy and and brilliant communicator. His works are beautiful." |
| Music & Literature Magazine | https://www.musicandliterature.org/ | "This journal explicitly seeks to translate and publish great foreign writers that are under-appreciated in the 'west.'" | |
| My Bondage, My Freedom | Frederick Douglass | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11819555 | "The second and best autobiography by one of the greatest poets/prophets/philosophers of freedom in American history." |
| My Dream Carried Love | Noah Humphrey and Meryl Humphrey | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16559518 | "a book by a Yale MDiv student and his mother, both of African American descent." |
| My Sister, The Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15367965 | |
| Native Modernism: The Art of George Morrison and Allan Houser | Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6986240 | |
| Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence | Gregory Cajete | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6794971 | "This is a major philosophical work for indigenous scholars, addressing the relationship between humans, space, place, and land." |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b137209 | |
| Never Fall Down | Patricia McCormick | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977931 | "This novel tells the true story of a refugee from Cambodia and his experiences of resilience during the Genodice." |
| Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15354444 | "Beautifully written, a compelling narrative of the experiences of a young, black boy sentenced to a reform school during Jim Crow." |
| Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Ocean Vuong | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12784798 | |
| Nisekoi = False Love | Naoshi Komi | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11815874 |
| Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5229217 | |
| Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond | Marc Lamont Hill | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1533989 | |
| Nuclear Family | Joseph Han | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16326339 | "A beautiful, surrealist meditation on the afterlives of war and American imperialism surrounding Korean Americans and Hawai'i." |
| O Espaço Dividido (Shared Space) | Marlon Santos | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/46073 | "Prominent Black Brazilian geographer Milton Santos explores develops a theory of unequal urban development in developing countries." |
| Of Love and Dust | Ernest J. Gaines | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5241481 | "This book captures the humanity of a troubled youth trying to escape his own demons and those of the Jim Crow South." |
| Of the Spirit | Douglas Cardinal | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/197695 | "This architecture treaties was written by the most famous indigenous architects of the 20th and 21st century." |
| On Beauty | Zadie Smith | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7069403 | |
| On The Battlefield: Overcoming Challenges Associated with the Aftermath of Military Experiences | Constance C. Cotton | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | "My mother is a disabled war veteran and she published this book to educate society about women veterans." |
| Oreo | Fran Ross | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12670229 | |
| Our Voices: Indignity and Architecture | Rebecca Kiddle, Luugigyoo Patrick stewart, and Kevin O'Brien (editors) | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13854380 | "One of the only edited volumes, written and edited by indigenous people, on indigenous architecture." |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13068851 | |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3602871 | |
| Paradise | Toni Morrison | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4206327 | |
| Passing | Nella Larsen | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/212279 | |
| Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (TV show) | Hasan Minhaj | Not currently available | |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6230144 | "Graphic novel that makes author's sentiments as a child growing up in Iran accessible in a very moving way." |
| Pimp | Iceberg Slim | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12538587 | "Absolutely captivating." |
| Pipeline | Dominique Morisseau | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15367971 | |
| Please Look After Mom | Kyung-Sook Shin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10161508 | "Beautiful story of family and loss set in Korean culture that had me crying in the coffee shop as I read it." |
| Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle | Simone Schwarz-Bart | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4245154 | "Novel written by a female francophone author from the Caribbean. Explores the bonds between women and how they empower each other." |
| Pop Song | Larissa Pham | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16092574 | "It was an incredibly insightful and intimate read. Made me think about my life and the world in new ways!" |
| Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance | Leonard Peltier | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b511465 | "Leonard Peltier is a Native political prisoner and activist that remains in prison today little known by non-Natives." |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6396214 | |
| Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools | Monique Morris | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13977935 | |
| Quicksand | Nella Larsen | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14936420 | |
| Quiver of Arrows | Carl Phillips | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7881916 | |
| Race Matters | Cornel West | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4848095 | |
| Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America | Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11120713 | "This book does a wonderful job of detailing the layers of race's social construction and pervasive power though it's a myth." |
| Reconsidering Reparations | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16155003 | "An argument for a constructive approach to reparations, rooted in distributive justice in the era of catastrophic climate change." |
| Reenactments: Poems & Translations | Hai-Dang Phan | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14029592 | "beautifully written Vietnamese American poetry contemplating on more than just the Vietnam War." |
| Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture | Sherronda J. Brown | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1869399 | |
| Regarding the Pain of Others | Susan Sontag | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6174904 | "In an image saturated word, understanding what these images do to our collective psyche is of utmost importance." |
| Reservation Blues | Sherman Alexie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3855240 | "More magical realism! But this time on a reservation in Washington state surrounding a band of native musicians." |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/81877 | |
| Rosewater | Tade Thompson | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14517535 | |
| Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10161703 | "Really beautiful writing about the tragedy that strike one family in rural Mississippi at the onset of Hurricane Katrina." |
| Saturn Apartments | Hisae Iwaoka | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10472357 | |
| Searching for Zion | Emily Raboteau | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11296514 | "Super compelling, interesting, and personal literary nonfiction; author travels to Israel, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana, & US South." |
| Season of Migration to the North | Tayeb Salih | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8015511 | "Captures experience of post-colonial interactions between Global North and South." |
| Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship | Aimee Meredith Cox | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12573452 | "This book is critical for understanding how Black girls and women navigate hostile territory and make a self." |
| She Weeps Each Time You're Born: A Novel | Quan Barry | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12385447 | "This fantasy book addresses Vietnam's tragic and violent history in a mystical, whimsical fashion. I couldn't put it down." |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jasmyn Ward | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13293646 | |
| So Far from God | Ana Castillo | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3501238 | "Story full of familial love, hardship, and magical realism in a family of Latina women in New Mexico." |
| So You Want To Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13473913 | |
| Statements: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The island | Athol Fugard | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5780449 | |
| Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings | Edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16333916 | "A beautiful, fervent, and political collection of essays, stories, poetry, and art by undocumented writers and activists." |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/43978 | “Such a dense and rich book that everyone should read on literary merit alone." |
| Stay True: A Memoir | Hua Hsu | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16490122 | "A beautifully written coming-of-age memoir about love, loss, and one's perspective of Asian American identity." |
| Suicide Club: A Novel About Living | Rachel Heng | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17111598 | |
| Sula | Toni Morrison | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5236285 | |
| Swingtime | Zadie Smith | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12995578 | |
| Tar Baby | Toni Morrison | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/84252 |
| Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia | Samuel R. Delany | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4012798 | |
| Turbulence Before Takeoff: The Life & Times of Aviation Pioneer Marlon DeWitt Green | Flint Whitlock | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b865412 | "re: U.S. Supreme Court case which broke the color barrier to the commercial aviation cockpit in 1963." |
| Unaccustomed earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11071233 | |
| War of the Mountain: Israelis, Christians and Druze in the 1983 Mount Lebanon Conflict Through the Eyes of a Lebanese Forces Fig | Paul Andary | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | "An episode of the Lebanese Civil War that describes the historical conflit between the Druze and the Christians in mount Lebanon." |
| Ways of Dying | Zakes Mda | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3985621 | |
| What is Not Yours is Not Yours | Helen Oyeyemi | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12767461 | "Highly original, well-written short stories verging on magical realism, sprinkled with themes around race, class, and gender." |
| What It Means When Man Falls From the Sky | Lesley Nneka Arimah | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13127834 | |
| When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving | Reginald Dwayne Betts | http://www.jstor.org/stable/44016074 | |
| When I Get Home (song) | Solange | Not currently available | |
| When My Name Was Keoko | Linda Sue Park | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12837772 |
“This book about two Korean siblings during the Japanese annexation showed me how I almost lost my precious motherland's culture.” |
| When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10435620 | "A powerfully unhinged last chapter contrasts w/ the matter-of-fact directness of previous chapters, making an unforgettable ending." |
| Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? | Martin Luther King Jr. | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3188566 | |
| Where Reasons End | Yiyun Li | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14631320 | |
| White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color | Ruby Hamad | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14631320 | |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4538981 | |
| Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13373214 | |
| Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World | Anand Giridharadas | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13762761 | |
| Witchmark | C.L. Polk | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13857154 | |
| With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533847 | |
| Women, Race & Class | Angela Davis | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/327909 | |
| Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/86120 | |
| Yolk | Mary H.Y. Choi | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533849 | |
| You Bring the Distant Near | Mitali Perkins | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16533850 | |
| Zaatar Diva | Suheir Hammad | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/8513565 | "Hammad's poetry embraces the complexities of her Palestinian-American identity; there is joy, sorrow, anger, & love in her voice." |
| Zami a New Spelling of My Name | Audre Lorde | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7787955 | "Fantastic book about self-discovery, blackness, queerness, womanhood and a lot more." |
| Teaching to Transgress | bell hooks | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3703326 | "She advocates the process of teaching students to think critically and raises concerns central to field of critical pedagogy." |
| The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16168736 | |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3322116 | |
| The Bathing Women | Tie Ning | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15289304 | |
| The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears | Dinaw Mengestu | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7824627 | |
| The Belles | Dhonielle Clayton | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/17008295 | |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/10132699 | "classic and heart-wrenching story that captures the complex many women of color have about not embodying white beauty standards." |
| The Book of Unknown Americans | Christina Henriquez | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12230831 | |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/7965187 | "The voice and narrative so accurately mirror my own experience.” |
| The Broken Earth | N.K. Jemisin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12541321 | |
| The City We Became | N. K. Jemisin | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14981656 | |
| The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays | Esmé Weijun Wang | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13927230 | "This book was validating and insightful in its intimate descriptions of mental and chronic illness.” |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/3733336 | "It's the sort of epistolary novel that makes you want to write letters in colored ink." |
| The Condemnation of Blackness | Khalil Muhammad | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16560152 | "A definitive writing on race, criminality and urban immigrants becoming white in the early 1900s." |
| The Elementary Particles | Michel Houellebecq | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14525591 | |
| The Essential Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9779892 | "Bengali literature is not often highlighted in western classes. However, he is a noble prize recipient and his work is amazing." |
| The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12541321 | "Women of color writing science-fiction and fantasy don't get enough exposure. This story is intersectional and awesome." |
| The Fire This Time | Jesmyn Ward | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12904875 | |
| The Four Agreements | Don Miguel Ruiz | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12413291 | |
| The Future Home of the Living God | Louise Erdrich | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15887654 | |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4126387 | |
| The Green Bone Saga | Fonda Lee | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16123617 | |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13221394 | |
| The Island | Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/15261712 | "This play shows the power of art and theater for self-expression and political resistance in apartheid South Africa." |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Sherman Alexie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4805852 |
| The Loneliest Americans | Jay Caspian Kang | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16018418 | |
| The Mamba Mentality: How I Play | Kobe Bryant | Try Interlibrary Loan (link to WorldCat) | |
| The Marrow Thieves | Cherie Diamline | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13688278 | |
| The Museum of Innocence | Orhan Pamuk | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12355234 | |
| The Namesake | Jumpa Lahiri | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/6343377 | |
| The Old Drift: A Novel | Namwali Serpell | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/14490937 | |
| The People of Kenya Speak for Themselves | Mbiyu Koinange | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5428177 | |
| The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4187302 | |
| The Prey of the Gods | Nicky Drayden | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13246392 | |
| The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History | Ned Blackhawk | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16642282 | "This book is a comprehensive and unique look at US history." |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/798438 | |
| The Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre | Aimé Césaire | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4650771 | |
| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1753497 | "The Vanishing Half is a beautiful novel that describes a multi-generational story of black twins and how their paths diverge." |
| The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide | Steven Thrasher | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16320914 | "Excellent book about structural inequality and infectious disease." |
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9533299 | |
| The Women of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/274777 | |
| The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5245270 | "It exposes through a psychological and psychiatric perspective, the dehumanizing effects of colonialism." |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4683075 | "Beautiful, extremely emotional, and individual story, incredibly written, eye-opening." |
| There, There: A Novel | Tommy Orange | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13667677 | "This novel probes a key question for people from increasingly diverse backgrounds: who am I? and how do I construct my identity?" |
| They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement | Wesley Lowery | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12983751 | |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4067848 | "This book changed the way I approach cross-cultural interactions and facilitate conversation." |
| This Bridge Called My Back | Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua (editors) | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/525072 | "This book is fundamental to women of color and intersectional feminism, discusses juggling multiple worlds and achieving acceptance." |
| This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Diaz | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/b1239747 | "First of all, it has perhaps my favorite title of all time. Junot's character's jump off the page with an unparalleled honesty. " |
| To Pimp a Butterfly (album) | Kendrick Lamar | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/13386127 | |
| "Tower of Babylon" in Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/5999940 | |
| Tram 83 | Fiston Mwanza Mujila | http://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/12675035 | "Fiston Mwanza Mujila portrays the realities of colonialism old and new with a biting, dark humor." |
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