“A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to…
/faculty-research/library-research-services/collections/diversity-inclusion-belonging/minor-feelings
“Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor Black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial…
“One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children,…
“When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside…
“In her new book, rather than tear down the statues of certain white men, Ijeoma Oluo casts her eye on the long view of a nation that, as a…
/faculty-research/library-research-services/collections/diversity-inclusion-belonging/we-cast-shadow
“‘You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.’ This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their…
“On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of…
“With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking…
“Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large…
“Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social…