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Campus Diversity---Diversity Commission Grants
   
[Reviewed] - Recommendation based on academic review
 

2001



In June, 2001, the University's Diversity Commission awarded a $1,500 grant to the
Francis A.Drexel Library for the purpose of strengthening our collection in the area of 
diversity resources and to support a diverse curriculum.  The materials listed below
were purchased with the Diversity Commission grant.

 


Please click on the hyperlinked titles to check the Library Catalog for current availability and shelf location.

Adam, Barry D., Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Andre Krouwel, eds. The global emergence of gay and lesbian politics : national imprints of a worldwide movement.  Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1999. 

Adams, Maurianne, et. al, eds.  Readings for diversity and social justice.   New York ; London : Routledge, 2000. 

Allen, Paula Gunn.  Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons.   Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1998. 

Anzaldua, Gloria.  Borderlands = La frontera.   2nd ed.  San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, c1999. 

Barry, Brian M.  Culture & equality : an egalitarian critique of multiculturalism. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001. 

Booker, Christopher B.  "I will wear no chain!" : a social history of African-American males.  Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000. 

Carroll, Rebecca.  Sugar in the raw : voices of young Black girls in America.  New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, c1997. 

Davis, Mike.  Magical urbanism : Latinos reinvent the US city.   London ; New York : Verso, 2000. 

Derricotte, Toi.  The black notebooks : an interior journey.  New York : W.W. Norton, c1997. 

Duberman, Martin, ed.  Queer representations : reading lives, reading cultures : a Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies book.   New York : New York University Press, c1997. 

Eaton, Mary, Jane Longmore and Arthur Naylor (eds.).  Commitment to diversity : Catholics and education in a changing world.   London ; New York : Cassell, 2000. 

Faderman, Lillian.  To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 

Fenton, Steve.  Ethnicity : racism, class and culture.  Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1999. 

Foster, Thomas, Carol Siegel, and Ellen E. Berry, eds.  The Gay '90s : disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations in queer studies. New York : New York University Press, c1997. 

Garcia, Alma M, ed.  Chicana feminist thought : the basic historical writings.   New York : Routledge, 1997. 

Gluckman, Amy and Betsy Reed, eds.  Homo economics : capitalism, community, and lesbian and gay life.  New York : Routledge, 1997. 

Golden, Marita and Susan Richards Shreve, eds.  Skin deep : Black women & White women write about race.   New York : Anchor Books, 1996, c1995. 

Gregory, Sheila T.  Black women in the academy : the secrets to success and achievement.   Rev. and updated ed.  Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1999. 

Griffin, Gabriele and Sonya Andermahr, eds.  Straight studies modified : lesbian interventions in the academy.  London ; Washington : Cassell, 1997. 

Grofman, Bernard.  Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.   Charlottesville, VA : University Press of Virgina, 2000. 

Gross, Larry and James D. Woods, eds. The Columbia reader on lesbians and gay men in media, society, and politics.   New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.

Hartigan, John.  Racial situations : class predicaments of whiteness in Detroit.   Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999. 

Hero, Rodney E.  Faces of inequality : social diversity in American politics.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 

Kelley, Robin D.G. and Earl Lewis.  To make our world anew : a history of African Americans.  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000. 

Keyssar, Alexander.  The right to vote : the contested history of democracy in the United States.  New York : Basic Books, c2000. 

Kim, Kwang Chung, ed.  Koreans in the hood : conflict with African Americans.   Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 

King, Desmond S.  Making Americans : immigration, race, and the origins of the diverse democracy.  Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000. 

Klein, Laura F. and Lillian A. Ackerman, eds.  Women and power in native North America.   Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1995. 

Lewis, David L.  W.E.B. DuBois--the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963.  New York : H. Holt, 2000. 

Lindemann, Marilee.  Willa Cather, queering America.  New York : Columbia University Press, c1999. 

Lipkin, Arthur. Understanding homosexuality, changing schools : a text for teachers, counselors, and administrators.  Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999. 

Lowe, Jr., Eugene Y., ed.  Promise and dilemma : perspectives on racial diversity and higher education.   Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999. 

Marriott, David.  On black men.   New York : Columbia University Press, 2000. 

McDonald, Trevy  and T. Ford-Ahmed, eds.  Nature of a sistuh : black women's lived experiences in contemporary culture. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1999. 

McGillivray, Anne and Brenda Comaskey.  Black eyes all of the time : intimate violence, aboriginal women, and the justice system .  Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1999. 

Miller, Diane Helene.  Freedom to differ : the shaping of the gay and lesbian struggle for civil rights.  New York : New York University Press, c1998. 

Mintz, Beth and Esther Rothblum, eds.  Lesbians in academia : degrees of freedom.   New York : Routledge, 1997. 

Morrison. Toni, ed.  Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality.  New York : Pantheon Books, 1992. 

Mullings, Leith.  On our own terms : race, class, and gender in the lives of African American women.   New York : Routledge, 1997. 

Murdoch, Joyce and Deb Price.  Courting justice : gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court.   New York, N.Y. : Basic Books,  c2001. 

Nicholson, Philip Yale.  Who do we think we are? : race and nation in the modern world.  Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1999. 

O'Reilley, Mary Rose.  The peaceable classroom.   Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, c1993. 

Parekh, Bhikhu C.  Rethinking multiculturalism : cultural diversity and  political theory.  Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000. 

Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the Black middle class.  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1999. 

Reverby, Susan M, ed.  Tuskegee's truths : rethinking the Tuskegee syphilis study.   Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2000. 

Ristock, Janice L. and Catherine G. Taylor (eds.).  Inside the academy and out : lesbian/gay/queer studies and social action.  Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1998. 

Rogers, Lesley.  Sexing the brain.   New York : Columbia University Press, c2001. 

Rosenbloom, Rachel, ed.  Unspoken rules : sexual orientation and women's human rights.  London ; New York, NY : Cassell, 1996. 

Ruiz, Vicki.  From out of the shadows : Mexican women in twentieth-century America.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1999, c1998. 

Shah, Sonia, ed.  Dragon ladies : Asian American feminists breathe fire.   Boston : South End Press, c1997. 

Smith, Barbara.  The truth that never hurts : writings on race, gender, and freedom.  New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998. 

Smith, Ralph R.  Progay/antigay : the rhetorical war over sexuality.  Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2000.

Smitherman, Geneva.  Black talk : words and phrases from the hood to the amen corner.   Rev. ed.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000. 

Springer, Kimberly, ed.  Still lifting, still climbing : contemporary African American women's activism.  New York : New York University Press, c1999. 

Sterba, James P.  Three challenges to ethics : environmentalism, feminism, and multiculturalism.   New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. 

Stevens, Jacqueline.  Reproducing the state.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Presss, c1999. 

Thompson, Becky  and Sangeeta Tyagi, eds.  Names we call home : autobiography on racial identity.   New York : Routledge, 1996. 

Towner, Theresa M.  Faulkner on the color line : the later novels.   Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2000. 

Vaz, Kim Marie.  Black women in America.  Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1995.

Waters, Mary C.  Black identities : West Indian immigrant dreams and American realities.  New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. 

Weston, Kath.  Long slow burn : sexuality and social science.  New York : Routledge, 1998. 

Zia, Helen. Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people.  New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. 

Zinn, Maxine Baca and Bonnie Thornton Dill, eds.  Women of color in U.S. society.  Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994. 
 



2002

 

 

Over the past two years, the University's Diversity Commission has awarded grants 
to the Francis A.Drexel Library for the purpose of strengthening our collection 
in the area of diversity resources and to support a diverse curriculum.
This year, books, videos, and DVDs are being purchased for African American literature. 
Listed below are the titles purchased with the 2002 Diversity Commission grant. 
Materials will be added continuously throughout the year.

Please click on the hyperlinked titles to check the Library Catalog  for current availability and shelf location.


Books | Videos | DVDs

 

Books

Alaniz, Yolanda and Nellie Wong, eds.  Voices of color .  Seattle : Red Letter Press, 1999.

Balfour, Katharine Lawrence.  The evidence of things not said : James Baldwin and the promise of American democracy.   Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.

Baraka, Imamu Amiri and Paul Vangelisti, ed. Transbluesency : the selected poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995) .  New York : Saint Paul, MN : Marsilio Publishers ; Distributed in the US by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 1995.

Brooks, Gwendolyn.  Maud Martha .  Chicago : Third World Press, 1993.

Brown, Stewart and John Wickham, eds.  The Oxford book of Caribbean short stories .  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Brown, William Wells.  Clotel, or, The president's daughter .  New York : Modern Library, 2000.

Brown, William Wells.  The president's daughter .  London : X Press, c1995.

Brown, William Wells.  Sketches of places and people abroad; the American fugitive in Europe .  Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

Brown, William Wells and Paul Jefferson, ed.  The travels of William Wells Brown, including The narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, and The American fugitive in Europe, sketches of places and people abroad .  New York : M. Weiner Pub., 1991.

Clifton, Lucille.  Blessing the boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000 .  Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2000.

Dove, Rita.  Mother love : poems .  New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.

Dove, Rita.  Selected poems .  New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Ellison, Ralph and John F. Callahan, ed.  The collected essays of Ralph Ellison .  New York : Modern Library, 1995.

Ellison, Ralph.  Going to the territory .  New York : Random House, c1986.

Ellison, Ralph and John F. Callahan, ed.  Juneteenth : a novel .  New York : Random House, c1999.

Ellison, Ralph, Albert Murray, and John F. Calhoun, eds.  Trading twelves : the selected letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray .  New York : Modern Library, c2000.

Equiano, Olaudah and Vincent Carretta, ed.  The interesting narrative and other writings .  New York : Penguin Books, 1995.

Foner, Philip S. and Robert James Branham, eds.  Lift every voice : African American oratory, 1787-1900 .  Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, eds.  The Norton anthology of African American literature .  New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed.  Three classic African-American novels .  New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

Giovanni, Nikki.  Black feeling, Black talk, Black judgement .  New York : Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1979, c1970.

Giovanni, Nikki.  Blues : for all the changes : new poems .  New York : William Morrow, c1999.

Giovanni, Nikki.  Love poems .  New York : Morrow, c1997.

Giovanni, Nikki.  My house : poems .  New York, NY : Perennial, 2001, c1972.

Giovanni, Nikki.  The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni .  New York : William Morrow and Co., c1996.

Graham, Maryemma, ed.  Complete poems of Frances E.W. Harper .  New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Gruesser, John Cullen, ed.  The unruly voice : rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins .  Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.

Harper, Frances E.W.  Iola Leroy, or, Shadows uplifted .  New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Harper, Frances E.W. and Frances Smith Foster, ed.  Minnie's sacrifice ; Sowing and reaping ; Trial and triumph : three rediscovered novels .  Boston : Beacon Press, c1994.

Hoeveler, Diane Long and Janet K. Boles, eds.  Women of color : defining the issues, hearing the voices .  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Hopkins, Pauline E.  Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South .  New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Hopkins, Pauline E.  The magazine novels of Pauline Hopkins .  New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Hughes, Langston and Arnold Rampersad, ed.  The collected works of Langston Hughes .  Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001.

Jackson, Lawrence.  Ralph Ellison : emergence of genius .  New York : Wiley, c2002.

Komunyakaa, Yusef and Radiclani Clytus, ed.  Blue notes : essays, interviews, and commentaries .  Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Komunyakaa, Yusef.  Dien Cai Dau .  Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1988.

Komunyakaa, Yusef.  Pleasure dome : new and collected poems .  Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2001.

Komunyakaa, Yusef.  Talking dirty to the gods : poems .  New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

Kramer, Victor A. and Robert A. Russ, eds.  Harlem renaissance re-examined .  Troy, N.Y. : Whitson Pub., c1997.

Larson, Nella and Charles R. Larson, ed.  The complete fiction of Nella Larsen .  New York : Anchor Books, 2001.

Larson, Nella.  Passing .  New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

Lorde, Audre.  The cancer journals .  San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, c1997.

Lorde, Audre.  The collected poems of Audre Lorde .  New York : Norton, c1997.

Marshall, Paule.  Brown girl, brownstones .  Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, [1981] c1959.

Marshall, Paule.  The chosen place, the timeless people .  New York : Vintage Books, 1992, c1969.

Marshall, Paule.  Daughters .  New York : Plume, 1992.

Marshall, Paule.  The fisher king : a novel .  New York : Scribner, c2000.

Marshall, Paule.  Praisesong for the widow .  New York : Penguin Books USA Inc. c1983.

Marshall, Paule.  Reena and other stories .  Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, 1983.

Marshall, Paule.  Soul clap hands and sing .  Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1988.

Miller, D. Quentin, ed.  Re-viewing James Baldwin : things not seen .  Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000.

Morrison, Toni.  Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination .  New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Napier, Winston, ed.  African American literary theory : a reader.    New York : New York University Press, c2000.

O'Meally, Robert, ed.  New essays on Invisible man .  Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Reed, Ishmael, Bruce Dick, and Amritjit Singh, eds.  Conversations with Ishmael Reed .  Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1995.

Reed, Ishmael, ed.  MultiAmerica : essays on cultural wars and cultural peace .  New York : Penguin Books, 1998.

Reed, Ishmael.  New and collected poems .  New York : Atheneum, 1988.

Reed, Ishmael.  Writin' is fightin' : thirty-seven years of boxing on paper .  New York : Toronto : New York : Atheneum ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1990.

Rowley, Hazel.  Richard Wright : the life and times .  New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2001.

Sanchez, Sonia.  I've been a woman : new and selected poems .  Sausalito, Calif. : Black Scholar Press, 1978.

Sanchez, Sonia.  Like the singing coming off the drums : love poems .  Boston : Beacon Press, c1998.

Sanchez, Sonia.  Wounded in the house of a friend .  Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1995.

Sayre, Gordon M, ed.  American captivity narratives : selected narratives with introduction .  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.

Shange, Ntozake.  Betsey Brown : a novel.   New York : Picador USA, 1995.

Shange, Ntozake.  A daughter's geography.   New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Shange, Ntozake.  For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf .   New York : Scribner Poetry, 1997.

Shange, Ntozake.  If I can cook, you know God can .  Boston : Beacon Press, c1998.

Shange, Ntozake.  Nappy edges .  New York : St. Martin's Press, c1978.

Shange, Ntozake.  Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo : a novel .  New York : St. Martin's Press, c1982.

Wintz, Cary D.  Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance .  College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1996.

Wintz, Cary D.  The emergence of the Harlem Renaissance .  New York : Garland Pub., 1996.

Woodard, Komozi.  A nation within a nation : Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black power politics .  Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.

 

Videos

Alex Haley : a conversation with Alex Haley .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992.

Alice Walker : a conversation with Alice Walker .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992.

August Wilson  : a conversation with August Wilson .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1992.

Black theatre : the making of a movement .  Dir. Woodie King, Jr.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1978.

Charles Johnson : a conversation with Charles Johnson .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992.

For my people : the life and writing of Margaret Walker .  Dir.  Judith McCray.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [199-?]

Furious flower : African American poetry 1960-1995 .  Dir. John Hodges.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.

Gloria Naylor : a conversation with Gloria Naylor .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, c1992.

Hellfire, a journey from Hiroshima .  Dirs. John Junkerman and John W. Dower.  Videocassette.  New York, NY : First Run Features, 1986.

James Baldwin : the price of the ticket.   Dir. Karen Thorsen.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1990.

John Wideman  : a conversation with John Wideman .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992.

Kim's story : the road from Vietnam.  Dir. Shelley Saywell.  Videocassette.  New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997.

Ralph Ellison : an American journey .  Dir. Avon Kirkland.  Videocassette.  California : California Newsreel, c2001.

Richard Wright : Black boy .  Dir. Madison Davis Lacy.  Videocassette.  San Francisco : CA : California Newsreel , c1994.

These shoes weren't made for walking.  Dir. Paul Lee.  Videocassette.  [New York?] : Cinema Guild, 1995.

Toni Morrison : a conversation with Toni Morrison .  Dir. Matteo Bellinelli.  Videocassette.  San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992.

Where is Grandma Zheng's homeland.  Dir. Zhong-yi Ban.  Videocassette.  New York, N.Y. : First Run Features, 2000.

DVDs

Amistad .  Dir. Steven Spielberg.  DVD.  Universal City, CA : DreamWorks, c1999.

Boyz 'n the hood .  Dir. John Singleton.  DVD.  Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1991.

Do the right thing .  Dir. Spike Lee.  DVD.  Universal City, CA : Universal City Studios ; distributed by the Criterion Collection, 2001.

Glory .  Dir. Edward Zwick.  DVD.  Culver City, CA : TriStar, c2000.

Guess who's coming to dinner .  Dir. Stanley Kramer.  DVD.  Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1998.

In the heat of the night .  Dir. Norman Jewison.  DVD.  Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2001.

Love Jones .  Dir. Theodore Witcher.  DVD.  United States : New Line Home Video, c1999.

Malcolm X .  Dir. Spike Lee.  DVD.  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2000.

Mo' better blues .  Dir. Spike Lee.  DVD.  Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, c2000.

A raisin in the sun .  Dir. Daniel Petrie.  DVD.  Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1999.

Rosewood .  Dir. John Singleton.  DVD.  Burbank, CA : Warner Home video, c1997.

Slam .  Dir.  Marc Levin.  DVD.  Offline Entertainment Group, c1998.

To sir, with love .  Dir. James Clavell.  DVD.  Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1999.

 

 



Marjorie A. Rathbone
Associate Director for Resources Management
Saint Joseph's University
Last revision / review:  June 19, 2008
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