These are physical books available through UMKC Libraries and surrounding area libraries.
by Judith Heumann; Kristen Joiner - One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates - In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis.
by Isabel Wilkerson - Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
by Ellen D. Wu - This book tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the yellow peril to model minorities--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
by Alfiee M. Breland-Noble (Editor) - Summarizes research on reducing mental health disparities in underserved populations through community engagement programs.
by Kim E. Nielsen - The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation.
by Eileen Truax - In Dreamers, Eileen Truax illuminates the stories of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States (as many as two million came as children) who are living proof of a complex and sometimes hidden political reality that calls into question what it truly means to be American.
by Ethan Nebelkopf & Mary Phillips (Editors) - In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health services.
by Patti R. Rose - As the title suggests, Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Context, Controversies, and Solutions helps the reader understand key social justice issues relevant to health disparities and/or health equity, taking the reader from the classroom to the real world to implement new solutions.
by Ibram X. Kendi - Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.
by Erika Lee - This book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life.. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both “despised minorities” and “model minorities,” revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country.
by Michelle Alexander - Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow Laws, the system that once forced African Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts America, the US criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and an entire segment of the population is deprived of their basic rights.
by Nancy Isenberg - The contributors to this latest volume investigate race, ethnicity and gender as factors in health and health care disparities. Looking specifically at the factors that impact race and ethnicity in a US context, gender issues, hospitals and health care spending, and research from India. Chapters focus on linkages to health disparities among races, health experiences for incarcerated women and issues of hospital and health care spending.
by William N. Eskridge Jr & Robin Fretwell Wilson (Editors) - This volume assembles impactful voices from the faith, LGBT advocacy, legal, and academic communities. The contributors offer a 360-degree view of culture-war conflicts around faith and sexuality and explore whether communities with such profound differences in belief are able to reach mutually acceptable solutions in order to both live with integrity.
by Ibram X. Kendi - Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by) - In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
by Nancy Isenberg - Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society - where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility - and forces a nation to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class.
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