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The Lealtad-Suzuki Center Resource Library

The Lealtad-Suzuki Center has over 200 books, movies, documentaries, and audio recordings in its resource library covering a wide variety of subjects listed below.  Resources are available to be checked out from the Center (located in Kagin Commons) for two week intervals.  Contact Afifa Benwahoud , the Department Coordinator for the Department of Multicultural Life, to request to check out an item.

To further inquire about any of the Center's library resources, please contact Karla Benson Rutten .




AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK CARIBBEAN

 

A Lesson Before Dying (Gaines, Ernest J.)

 

Black Boy (Wright, Richard)

 

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Collins, Patricia Hill)

 

Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon, Frantz)

 

Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America - An Anthology (Boyd, Herb, & Allen, Robert L.)

 

Frederick Douglass (McFeely, William S.)

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou, Maya)

 

Native Son (Wright, Richard)

 

New Directions: African Americans in a Diversifying Nation (Jackson, James S.)

 

Passing (Larsen, Nella)

 

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (Franklin, John Hope, & Schweninger, Loren)

 

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson, James Weldon)

 

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Rampersad, Arnold, & Roessel, David)

 

The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans (Russell, Kathy; Wilson, Midge; & Hall, Ronald)

 

The Mind of Frederick Douglass (Martin, Waldo E. Jr.)

 

Up From Slavery (Washington, Booker T.)

 

Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio (Barlow, William)

 

Why We Can't Wait (King, Martin Luther  Jr.)

 

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (Giddings, Paula)

 

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Lorde, Audre)

 

2nd Time Around (Hardy, James Earl)

 

B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story (Hardy, James Earl)

 

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (Carbado, Devon W.)

 

The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities (Constantine-Simms, Delroy)

 

Bamboozled (DVD) - (Lee, Spike)

 

Babouk (Endore, Guy)

 

The Color Purple (DVD) - (Speilberg, Steven)

 

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (DVD) -(Thorson, Karen; Miles, William; & Dempsey, D.)

 

Malcolm X (DVD) - (Lee, Spike)

 

 

 

ASIAN/ASIAN AMERICAN/MIDDLE EASTERN

 

American Visa (Ping, Wang)

 

Foreign Devil (Ping, Wang)

 

New Generation: Poems from China Today (Ping, Wang)

 

Of Flesh and Spirit (Ping, Wang)

 

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (Zia, Helen)

 

Asian Americans (Lee, Joann Faung Jean)

 

YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American (Nam, Vickie)

 

Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White (Wu, Frank)

Rose (Lee, Li-Young)

 

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Fadiman, Anne)

 

The God of Small Things (Roy, Arundhati)

 

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Inada, Lawson Fusao)

 

Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (Daniels, Roger)

 

Dictee (Cha, Theresa Kyung Hak)

 

Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora (Women of the South Asian Descent Collective)

 

Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose (Tran, Barbara; Truong, Monique; & Khoi, L. T.)

 

Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (Ping, Wang)

 

Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography (Fulbeck, Kip)

 

Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage (Peterson, Margaret Kim)

 

The Karma of Brown Folk (Prashad, Vijay)

Once Were Warriors (DVD) - (Scholes, Robin)

 

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Prashad, Vijay)

 

The Joy Luck Club (DVD) – (Wang, Wayne)

 

Once Were Warriors (DVD) – (Scholes, Robin)

 

Whale Rider (DVD) – (Ihimaera, Witi)

 

Contemporary Paciific Societies: Studies in Development and Change (Lockwood, Victora S.; Harding, Thomas G.; Wallace, Ben J.)

 

Materializing the Nation: Commoditites, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea (Foster, Robert J.)

 

Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America (Chan, Sucheng)

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League (Suskind, Ron)

 

Dictionary of Multicultural Education (Grant, Carl A., & Ladson-Billings, Gloria)

 

Giants Among Us (Rodriquez, Sandria)

 

Teaching from a Multicultural Perspective (Roberts, Helen, Gonzales, Juan C., et. al.)

 

The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (Simonson, Rick, & Walker, Scott)

 

Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (D'Emilio, John)

 

Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence (Cajete, Gregory)

 

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

 

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of of the Environmental Justice Movement (Cole, Luke W., & Foster, Sheila R.)

 

The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, & Pedagogy (Adamson, Joni; Evans, Mei Mei; & Stein, Rachel)

 

Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y vida (Peña, Devon G.)

 

 

 

GENDER & FEMINISM

 

This Bridge We Call Home:  Radical Visions for Transformation (Anzaldua, Gloria, & Keating, Analouise)

 

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (Guy-Sheftall, Beverly)

 

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (hooks, bell)

 

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Bornstein, Kate)

 

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Boylan, Jennifer Finney)

 

The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir (Scholinski, Daphne)

 

Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (Cohen, Cathy J.)

 

Freedom's Daughter's: The Unsung Heroines of The Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 (Olson, Lynn)

 

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Lorde, Audre)

 

Our Bodies, Ourselves for The New Century: A Book by and for Women (Boston Women's Healthbook)

 

My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out (Jacob, Iris)

 

True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism -- For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals (Brown, Mildred L.)

 

Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora (Women of the South Asian Descent Collective)

 

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory (Ching Yoon Louie, Miriam)

 

Colonize This!  Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Hernandez, Daisy & Rehman, Bushra)

 

Wow! Facts 2002: Resource on Women & Diversity (Business Women's Network)

 

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism (Mihesuah, Devon)

 

Boys Don't Cry (DVD) – (Pierce, Kimberly)

 

 

 

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

 

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda: 1616-1782 (Bernhard, Virginia)

 

Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor 1860-1899 (Scott, Rebecca J.)

 

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Takaki, Ronald T.)

 

A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices (Takaki, Ronald T.)

 

A Peoples History of The United States: 1492 To Present (Zinn, Howard)

 

Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress (Miller, William Lee)

 

Lies My teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Loewen, W. James)

 

The New York City Draft Riots (Bernstein, Iver)

 

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family's Story from Early America (Demos, John)

 

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (VHS - 4 part series) – (Jersey, Bill; & Wormser, Richard)

We Shall Overcome (VHS) -  (Quest Productions, Videoline Prod., 13/WNET)

 

 

 

LATINA/O / LATIN AMERICAN

 

La Otra America (Pietri, Arturo Uslar)

 

Let Me Speak!  Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines (De Chungara, Domitila Barrios)

 

Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso Por Sus Labios (Moraga, Cherrie L.)

 

Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child (Hart, Elva Trevino)

 

Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology (Santiago, Roberto)

 

Caramelo: A Novel (Cisneros, Sandra)

 

Empowering Latinas: Breaking Boundaries, Freeing Lives (Davidds-Garrido, Yasmin)

 

It's All in the Frijoles (Nava, Yolanda)

 

La frontera/Borderlands (Anzaldua, Gloria)

 

Strangers Among Us: Latinos' Lives in a Changing American (Suro, Roberto)

 

The House on Mango Street (Cisneros, Sandra)

 

The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present (Augenbraum, Harold)

 

When I Was Puerto Rican (Santiago, Esmeralda)

 

Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories (Cisneros, Sandra)

 

Muy Hacho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood (Gonzalez, Ray)

 

Che Guevara Speaks (Guevara, Ernesto Che)

 

The Fight in The Fields: Cesar Chavez and The Farmworkers Movement  (Ferries, Susan, & Sandoval, Ricardo)

 

The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S Hispanic Literature (Flores, Laura)

 

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Anderson, Jon Lee)

 

My Family/Mi Familia (DVD) – (Thomas, Anna; Coppola, F. F)

 

Real Women Have Curves (DVD) – (Lavoo, George; Brown, E. T.)

 

Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) (DVD) – (Corrugate Films)

 

Rain of Scorpions and Other Stories (Trambley, Estela Portillo)

 

Speaking Like an Immigrant: A Collection (Romo-Carmona, Mariana)

 

Floating Kingdom (Rabasa, George)

 

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives (Whalen, Carmen Teresa; Vásquez-Hernández, Victor)

 

 

 

MULTIPLE IDENTITIES

 

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Celebrating Interethnic, Interfaith, and Interracial Relationships (Richardson, Brenda Lane)

 

Women, Race, & Class (Davis, Angela Y.)

 

Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (Kroeger, Brooke)

 

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, 5th Edition (Rothenberg, Paula S.)

 

Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cuban Goddess (Anders, Gigi)

 

Crash (DVD) – (Haggis, Paul)

 

 

 

MULTIRACIAL/BIRACIAL

 

New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identitiy in the 21st Century (Winters, Loretta I., & DeBose, Herman L.)

 

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (McBride, James)

 

What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People (Fuyo Gaskins, Pearl)

 

 

 

NATIVE AMERICAN

 

"We Are Still Here":  American Indians in the Twentieth Century (Iverson, Peter)

 

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (LaDuke, Winona)

 

Ceremony (Silko, Leslie Marmon)

 

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875-1928 (Adams, David Wallace)

 

Firesticks (Glancy, Diane)

 

Flutie (Glancy, Diane)

 

Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing (Moore, MariJo)

 

Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000 (Nabokov, Peter, & Deloria, Vine Jr.)

 

Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America (Weatherford, Jack)

 

Power and Place: Indian Education in America (Deloria, Vine, Jr. & Wildcat, Daniel R.)

 

Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (Glancy, Diane)

Resource Rebels (Gedicks, Al)

 

Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World (Stokes, John, & Fadden, John)

 

The Only Piece of Furniture in the House (Glancy, Diane)

 

The Relief of America (Glancy, Diane)

 

The Voice that was in Travel (Glancy, Diane)

 

The West Pole (Glancy, Diane)

 

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (Harjo, Joy)

 

Visit Teepee Town (Glancy, Diane and Mark Nowak)

 

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists (Wagner, Sally Roesch)

 

The Fast Runner (DVD) - (Bochner, Sally)

 

Smoke Signals (DVD) – (Eyre, Chris; Beach, Adam; & Adams, Evan)

 

Indian Boyhood (Eastman, Charles A.)

 

From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i (Trask, Haunani-Kay)

 

Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative (Broker, Ignatia)

 

Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing (Moore, MariJo)

 

Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 (Archuleta, Margaret L.; Child, Brenda J.; Lomawaima, K. Tsianina)

 

 

 

POPULAR CULTURE

 

Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Chang, Jeff)

Hip Hop America (George, Nelson)

 

Multicultural Marketing (Schreiber, Alfred L, & Lenson, Barry)

 

Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Shohat, Ella)

 

 

 

RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY

 

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth Century America (Braude, Ann)

 

Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Said, Edward W.)

 

Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs and Values for Today's Families (Diamant, Anita)

 

Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice (Doswick, Wayne D.)

 

Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal (Huthison, William R.)

 

Life Is Beautiful (DVD) – (Ferri, Elda & Braschi, Gianluigi)

 

Schindler's List (DVD) – (Spielberg, Stephen)

 

Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers (Hanh, Thich Nhat)

 

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (Hogan, Linda)

 

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (Deloria, Vine Jr.)

 

The Measure of a Man (King, Jr., Martin Luther)

 

Strength to Love (King, Jr., Martin Luther)

 

Padres: The National Chicano Priest Movement (Martínez, Richard Edward)

 

 

SEXUALITY

 

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples, 11th edition (Curry, Hayden; Clifford, Denis; & Hertz, Frederick)

 

Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives (Kaufman, Gershen)

 

Foucault and Queer Theory (Spargo, Tasmin)

 

Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities (Atkins, Dawn)

 

Stone Butch Blues (Feinberg, Leslie)

 

The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life (Inness, Sherrie A.)

 

The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People (Mastoon, Adam)

 

Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (Hemphill, Essex)

 

Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Clare, Eli)

 

The Laramie Project (DVD) - (Baldwin, Declan)

 

And the Band Played On (DVD) – (Sanford, Midge, & Pillsbury, Sarah)

 

Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology (Roscoe, Will)

 

Rolling the R's (Linmark, R. Zamora)

 

Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbians, and Dilemmas of Citizenship (Phelan, Shane)

 

Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life (Seidman, Steven)

 

 

 

SOCIAL JUSTICE

 

"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race (Tatum, Beverly Daniel)

 

American Studies in a Moment of Danger (Lipsitz, George)

 

Crime Against Nature (Pratt, Minnie Bruce)

 

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice (Guinier, Lani)

 

Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Parents & Their Families (Kaeser, Gigi, & Gillespie, Peggy)

 

Privilege, Power, and Difference (Johnson, Allan G.)

 

Race Matters (West, Cornel)

 

Readings for Diversity & Social Justice: Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Classism, & Ableism (Adams, Maurianne)

 

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (Jordon, June)

 

Global AIDS: Myths and Facts - Tools for Fighing the AIDS Epidemic (Irwin, Alexander; Millen, Joyce; & Fallows, Dorothy)

 

Higher Learning (DVD) - (Singleton, John)

 

A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Audio) - (Carson, Clay)

 

American Beyond the Color Line (DVD) – (Gates, Henry Louis Jr.)

 

Higher Learning (DVD) – (Singleton, John)

 

Race: The Power of an Illusion (VHS - 3 part series) – (California Newsreel)

 

Skin Deep (VHS) – (Reid, Frances)

 

The Thirty-Minute Blue Eyed (VHS) – (Strigel, Claus; & Verhaag, Bertram)

 

This Is What Democracy Looks Like (DVD) – (Big Noise Films)

 

Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work (Sears, James T. & Williams, Walter L.)

 

 

 

SOCIOECONOMICS

 

Race Rebels: Cultural, Politics, and the Black Working Class (Kelley, Robin D. G.)

 

Power Politics (Roy, Arundhati)

 

Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Security (Collins, Chuck, & Veskel, Felice)

 

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in American (Ehrenreich, Barbara)

 

Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting (Bailey, Robert W.)

 

 

 

WHITE IDENTITY

 

Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness (Bush, Melanie E. L.)

 The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics

(Lipsitz, George)

 

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the Amerian Working Class (Roediger, David R.)

 

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Jacobson, Matthew Frye)

 

Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America (Guglielmo, Jennifer; Salerno, Salvatore)

 

How the Irish Became White (Ignatiev, Noel)

 


 

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