Books available to you at the U-High Library (This list is NOT all inclusive, so if you have a topic youre

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Brief Description

World War II and the Holocaust

Photographs and interviews with WWII veterans sixty years after the war.

The Last Good War

940.54 LAS
This powerful study, the result of ten years of painstaking research and extensive interviews, casts new light not only on the origins of the Holocaust, but explains how physicians, sworn by oath and conviction to ease suffering, were transformed from healers to systematic killers.

Nazi Doctors

940.53 LIF
In this unique volume, the authors trace the history of the Holocaust from the life of Adolf Hitler to the Nuremberg Trials and the creation of Israel.

The Complete History of the Holocaust 940.53 COM

Hall has compiled an anthology of 100 primary documents relating to the Holocaust and arranged them in roughly chronological order from the roots of anti-Semitism to reflections and remembrance.

The Holocaust New Encyclopedia of WWII

940.53 HIL

Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies in Germany, he describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust.

Origins of Nazi Genocide

940.53 FRI
In one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history, 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II were forcibly evacuated from their homes and sent to government camps.

Japanese Internment Camps

940.53 JAP

A deep analysis, with numerous maps and 24 pages of photos, of the German operation in the Ardennes--an all-or-nothing gamble that staked Germany's remaining resources in a massive counteroffensive that began on December 16, 1944.

Hitlers Last Gamble

940.54 DUP
Combines eyewitness accounts, statistics, and commentary in a spacious format that includes documentary photos (many of them taken by the Nazis) on almost every page.

Smoke and Ashes

940.53 ROG
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. From Racism to Genocide is an explosive, richly detailed account of how Nazi anthropologists justified racism, developed practical applications of racist theory, and eventually participated in every phase of the Holocaust.

Hitler Youth

943.086 BAR

From Racism to Genocide

301 SCH

The definitive work on Hitler's war machine charting its evolution from the formidable force which won stunning victories during the Blitzkrieg in 1940, to the hard campaigns it fought in the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastelands of the Soviet Union to the eventual retreat to the Fatherland itself. Includes stunning collection of original artwork and photographs to show the kit and equipment of the various land forces. Hitlers Armies 943.086 McN

Gender
Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. But Sikes also captures the differences that distinguish girl gangs: abortion, teen pregnancy and teen motherhood, beatings, being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gangbangers during initiation, raising kids in a household of drugs and guns.

8 Ball Chicks

364.3 SIK

Men and Feminism

305.42 TAR

There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women's issue.

Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, traces the impact of feminism on pop culture

Feminism and Pop Culture

305.42 ZEI
From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates and more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives.

From Mouse to Mermaid

791.43 FRO
In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently

Good Girls and Wicked Witches

791.43 DAV
In this comprehensive history, inquiry, critique, and reference guide, Stuller argues that Superwomen, from Wonder Woman to Charlie's Angels, are more than just love interests or sidekicks who stand by their supermen. She shows how the female hero in modern mythology has broken through the traditional boy's club barrier to reveal the pivotal role of high-heeled crimefighters in popular culture.

Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors

791.4 STU
The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be.

Am I Not a Man? 323.1196 EST

The most up-to-date global perspective on how women are living today across continents and cultures In this completely revised and updated fourth edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of up-to-the-minute global data on the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, the culture of beauty, women at work, women in the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, lesbian rights, women in government, and more. The result is an invaluable resource on the status of women around the world today.

Atlas of Women in the World

305.42 SEA

Boys aren't the only ones who read comics-girls do too! From Betty and Veronica to Slutburger and Art Babe, Girls to Grrrlz explores the amazing but true history of girl comics

From Girls to Grrrlz

741.5 ROB
The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. This is an incisive ethnography of white and Mexican-American teenage girls coming of age in a small town in California's Central Valley. Bettie insightfully examines how these women view themselves and issues of class, race, ethnicity, and peer relationships in their lives. In her landmark appraisal of black women's unsung contributions to the struggles for racial and sexual equality, Giddings draws on speeches, diaries, and letters of influential black women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, to reveal how black women have transcended the double discrimination of being both black and female

Third Wave Feminism

302.23 THI

Women without Class

305.235 BET

When and Where I Enter

305.48 GID

Can girls play softball? Can girls be school crossing guards? Can girls play basketball or ice hockey or soccer? Can girls become lawyers or doctors or engineers? Of course they can... today. But just a few decades ago, opportunities for girls were far more limited, not because they weren't capable of playing or didn't want to become doctors or lawyers, but because they weren't allowed to.

Let Me Play

796 BLU
Female sportswriters present 13 narratives--each on a particular sport and focusing on top female athletes such as Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Billie Jean King, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Sheryl Swoopes.

Nike is a Goddess

796.08 NIK
Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 reflects America's aspirational belief that girls and boys, women and men, both deserve equal educational opportunities in athletics.Equal Play: Title IX and Social Changeshows how this now commonly-held ideal has been both implemented and thwarted over the years via actions in the legislature, executive and judicial branches of government.

Equal Play Title IX

796.08 EQU

Experiences of People of Color

Spectacular Blackness

322.4 ONG

Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity.

The Black Soldier 1492-Present 355 CLI

Black soldiers have fought and died in the Americas for centuries, forming a chain of warriors stretching back nearly 500 years. Yet their contribution to our nation's history has been neglected, and the battles they've had to fight against racism and prejudice have often been as challenging as facing the enemy on the field of battle. Although it may not be the goal of every filmmaker, most people learn something when they watch movies. Movies make people think. Movies make people feel. Occasionally people have the power to transform lives. In her newest book, Reel to Real, Bell Hooks talks back to films she has watched as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema--the way film teaches its audience.

Reel to Real

302.23 HOO

In her landmark appraisal of black women's unsung contributions to the struggles for racial and sexual equality, Giddings draws on speeches, diaries, and letters of influential black women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, to reveal how black women have transcended the double discrimination of being both black and female

When and Where I Enter

305.48 GID
Inner-City Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence: in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young people particularly at risk. This incisive book examines the code as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope. An individual's safety and sense of worth are determined by the respect he commands in public Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger--these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room that shames them and shapes their experiences as citizens. This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations.

Code of the Street

303.3 AND

Sister Citizen

305.48 HAR

American Apartheid 305.896 MAS

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 305.8 TAT

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this self-segregation a problem we should try to fix, or a coping strategy we should support? How can we get past our reluctance to talk about racial issues to even discuss it? And what about all the other questions we and our children have about race? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences: Whites are afraid of using the wrong words and being perceived as "racist" while parents of color are afraid of exposing their children to painful racial realities too soon.

Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. A book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.

Black Picket Fences

305.896 PAT
A vivid, lively, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the Civil Rights movement. Provides a detailed discussion of the racism that accompanied slavery in America and thereafter consigned AfricanAmericans to an inferior position Addresses the actions of racists, liberals, and reformers and radicals

Civil Rights Movement

323.1196 DIE
The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. Estes demonstrates that, at crucial turning points in the movement, both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into implicit assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality.

I am a Man

323.1196 EST
Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v . the Board of Education case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series.

Eyes on the Prize 323.4 WIL

Complete History of American Slavery

326 AME

Slavery began in America in the seventeenth century when the first African slaves were brought to Virginia. The contributors to this anthology track the course of American slavery from its origins in colonial America to the first civil rights laws passed after the Civil War. Articles focus on such topics as what life was like for the slaves, including their work, their families, slave revolts, and abolitionist movements.

Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

Dead Aid

338.9 MOY
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images-ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters- Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the signal achievements of people famous and obscure.

Life upon These Shores

973 GAT

Entine, winner of a National Press Club Award, explores the genetic, cultural, and physiological roots of black athletic superiority. Drawing on recent scientific research, he reveals stunning differences between athletes of Western African heritage and those from East Africa, and explains why the favored explanation for black dominance, a dearth of opportunities, fails to explain the dimensions of black athletic superiority. He tells the story of blacks in sports, and discusses circumstance that have made addressing the facts so controversial.

Taboo

796 ENT
In 1968, ten thousand students marched in protest over the terrible conditions prevalent in the high schools of East Los Angeles, the largest Mexican community in the United States. Chanting "Chicano Power," the young insurgents not only demanded change but heralded a new racial politics. Frustrated with the previous generation's efforts to win equal treatment by portraying themselves as racially white, the Chicano protesters demanded justice as proud members of a brown race. The definitive tie-in to one of the most heavily anticipated CNN documentaries ever, Latino in America, from top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien.

Racism on Trial

305.868 HAN Latino in America 305.868 OBR We are Not Beasts of Burden 331.892 KAL

Examines how the Delano Grape Strike held from 1965 to 1970 brought about changes to how migrant workers were treated.

500 Years of Chicano History 973 QUI

500 Years of Chicano Womens History

973 MAR
This is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video following its national airing on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Chicano! 973 ROS

What are You? 305.8 WHA

In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another. Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their own voices about their own lives.

Genocide of the Mind 305.897 GEN

After five centuries of Eurocentrism, many people have little idea that Native American tribes still exist, or which traditions belong to what tribes. However over the past decade there has been a rising movement to accurately describe Native cultures and histories.

Education for Extinction 371.829 ADA

An account of the Native American experience in government boarding schools, based on government archives, student and teacher autobiographies, and school newspapers, revealing coping strategies of Indian youth in institutions designed to reconstruct them psychologically and culturally.

After Gandhi 303.6 OBR

Over the last century brave people across the world have taken a stand against violence and oppression. Against all odds their actions have toppled governments, challenged unjust laws, and rebuilt societies. This is the power of nonviolent resistance, the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi.

Alien Encounters

305.895 ALI

Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans' interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by a new generation of cultural critics, these essays reflect post-1965 Asian America

Everything You Need to Know About Asian American History

395.895 CAO Asian American Dreams 395.895 ZIA

One can hardly understand American history without knowing the crucial role people of Asian ancestry have played in shaping our past, politics, and culture. Yet many standard history books fail to fully capture the contributions and experiences of Asian Americans, and too many of us know little more about these people and their customs than Bruce Lee movies and take-out Chinese food. This groundbreaking book traces the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society.

Immigration
An award-winning author examines the history of American immigration--a critical topic in 21st century America--particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who were denied entrance into the States or detained for security reasons. These two-volumes are the key to opening the door to the immigrant experience in the United States. This set covers 161 nonindigenous cultural groups currently living in the United States. It discusses both European groups that have been components of American culture for centuries and those groups who arrived in the twentieth century and are therefore less assimilated and more culturally distinct.

Denied, Detained, Deported 325.73 BAU

American Immigrant Culture

305.8 AME

New Kids 373.18 HAU

Freelance writer Hauser tracks the staff and students at the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., providing their personal histories as well as their day-to-day experiences.

MISC.
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Manns best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.

Before Columbus 970.01 MAN

1491

970.01 MAN

The author shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, were greater in population than any European city

Kids on Strike 331.892 BAR

Kids on Strike! tells the story of children who stood up for their rights against powerful company owners, from a "turn-out" in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1836 led by eleven-year-old Harriet Hanson to the dramatic strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. By the early 1900s nearly two million children were in the United States work force.

We Were There Too 973 HOO

From the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to life the contributions of young people throughout American history. Based on primary sources and including 160 authentic images, this handsome oversized volume highlights the fascinating stories of more than 70 young people from diverse cultures.

Sugar Changed the World

Chronicles the human pursuit of sugar to satisfy our collective sweet tooth. The book describes this history in terms of ages, beginning with the Age of Honey, built on local growth and consumption of comestibles; through the Age of Sugar and its slave-supported "factory" plantation method of production; and into a period of science and freedom, when enslaved workers claimed their human rights and production of sweeteners shifted from the field to the lab.

664 ARO Allah, Liberty and Love 297.5 MAN The Righteous Mind 201 HAI
Media & Minorities looks at the media's racial tendencies with an eye to identifying the system supportive messages conveyed and offering challenges to them. The book covers all major media--including television, film, newspapers, radio, magazines, and the Internet--and systematically analyzes their representation of the four largest minority groups in the U.S In her 1988 paper White Privilege and Male Privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies, Peggy McIntosh writes that privilege is like "an invisible package of unearned assets invisible, weightless knapsack of special an provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks." This invisible privilege is also the other side of the coin of prejudice, notes Weekes (English, Pennsylvania State U.) as she re-presents that McIntosh paper, followed by seven contributions inspired by McIntosh's insights to investigate the dynamics of privilege and prejudice as the impact the course of academic careers, the law school application process, female sterilization, interactions with information and communication technology, children's birthday card messages, and representations of dance in film A guide to finding the God of love within Islam explains how everyone can develop moral courage for a life defined by purpose. A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."

Media and Minorities 302.23 LAR

Privilege and Prejudice

303.3 PRI

Unequal Childhoods 305.23 LAR

"Unequal Childhoods" uses actual observations from black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families to provide a vivid account of the importance of social class, and the relative unimportance of race, in shaping parents' and children's lives.

Racism without Racists

This edition includes a chapter examining the Obama mystery the election of a black President even though racial progress has stagnated in the country since the 1980s. Bonilla-Silva argues that this development is not a breakthrough in race relations, but a continuation of racial trends in the last 40 years including the sedimentation of colorblind racism as the dominant ideology in the nation.

305.800 BON
Slavery Today traces the products created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes. Co-authored by the world's leading experts on modern slavery, it unpacks the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while setting out solutions and demonstrating how readers can get involved in the global anti-slavery movement.

Slavery Today

306.3 BAL

500 Years of Slavery

Human Trafficking 306.3 SHE

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of the traffickers themselves. Using a historical and comparative perspective, it demonstrates that there is more than one business model of human trafficking and that there are enormous variations in human trafficking in different regions of the world. Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book published specifically for teens. Profusely illustrated with archival images, the groundbreaking Gay America reveals how gay men and women have lived, worked, and loved for the past 125 years. Eaklor (history, Alfred U.) describes gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) movements, people and events who contributed to twentieth century history while being careful to place them within the contexts of society.

Gay America 306.76 ALS Queer America 306.76 Eak

They Called Themselves the KKK 322.4 BAR

Boys, let us get up a club. With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins, principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this important movement in legal thought. The prison population in the United States has grown dramatically. With this growth comes controversy over the condition and effectiveness of prisons. "We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it," declares Alexander as she sets forth the case that the old functions of Jim Crow--the legal exclusion of African Americans from civil rights to voting, housing, equal employment opportunities, etc.-are now accomplished through the mass incarceration

Critical Race Theory 342.730 DEL Prisons 635 PRI

New Jim Crow 364.9 ALE Pedagogy of the Oppressed 370.11 FRE Savage Inequalities 371.826 KOZ

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies. This book explores politically charged topics through a series of essays by thinkers at the leading edge of educational innovation. It shows how failing schools destroy neighborhoods--not the reverse--and how research reveals that dedicated, attentive teachers are what help at-risk kids succeed.

Waiting for Superman 379.1 WAI

The story of 50,000 Irish who were transported as slaves to Barbados and Virginia in the 17th century is chronicled For The first time.

To Hell or Barbados

325 OCA