Book List
Book List
SACI understands the challenges that come about when exploring various ideals and theories in order to help strengthen your skills within the realm of our competencies. Therefore, please feel free to browse through our book list in order to find supplementary materials for accomplishing your goals of each competency. We encourage you to contact the chair (s) of SACI if there are books not on this list that you would like to add!
Title of Book |
Author (s) |
Year Published |
Theme |
Availability |
A Hope in the Unseen |
Ron Suskind |
1999 |
first generation/ black student |
Hamersly/Summit |
A Journey into the Deaf-World |
Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffeister, Ben Bahan |
1996 |
deaf/hard of hearing |
Hamersly/Summit |
America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines |
Gail Collins |
2007 |
struggles of American women |
Hamersly/Summit |
Between the World and Me |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
2015 |
Race, classism, social justice, and privilege |
Hamersly, Summit |
Debating Race |
Michael Eric Dyson |
2007 |
class conflicts in the African American Community, government bias, civil rights |
Summit |
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot |
John Callahan |
1990 |
disability, sexuality, American welfare and political systems |
Summit |
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club |
Benjamin Alire Saenz |
2012 |
Sexuality, gender, Mexican-American culture, poverty, addiction |
Summit |
Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader |
Raymond Luczak |
2007 |
deaf/lgbt |
Summit |
Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics (2nd edition) |
bell hooks |
2015 |
Feminism, race, class, gender |
|
Lotería |
Mario Alberto Zambrano |
2013 |
Mexican-American culture, gender, class, race |
|
I Survived the Killing Fields |
Seng Kok Ung |
2011 |
racism, Communism |
|
I’m Walking as Straight as I Can |
Geri Jewell |
2011 |
disability awareness/lgbtq |
Hamersly/Summit |
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s |
John Elder Robison |
2007 |
disability awareness |
Summit |
Man Up: Reimaging Modern Manhood |
Carlos Andrés Gómez |
2012 |
Gender, masculinity, equity, culture |
Summit |
Part Asian, 100% Hapa |
Kip Fulbeck |
2006 |
age, racism, hawaiian culture, ethnicity |
Summit |
Privilege, Power and Difference |
Allan G. Johnson |
2005 |
privilege, acceptance, and difference in American society |
Summit |
Race Matters |
Cornel West |
2001 |
African American issues, leadership, affirmative action, black- jewish relations sexuality |
Hamersly/Summit |
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry |
Mildred D. Taylor |
2004 |
segregation, bigotry, racism, poverty, and ethnicity issues |
Hamersly/Summit |
Still Me |
Christopher Reeve |
1999 |
life-altering disability, struggles, personal acceptance |
Summit |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
1982 |
power, privilege, race, women’s rights |
Hamersley/Summit |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
Mark Haddon |
2004 |
autism and children |
Hamersly/Summit |
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky |
Heidi Durrow |
2010 |
race, mixed race, identity, minority experiences |
Summit |
The House on Mango Street |
Sandra Cisneros |
2009 |
Gender, equality, equity, Mexican-American culture, race |
Summit |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
April 27, 2004 |
political turmoil in Afghanistan and struggles of leaving |
Hamersly/Summit |
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness |
Michelle Alexandar |
2015 |
Race, criminal justice system, incarceration, social justice |
Hamersly/Summit |
The Way I See It |
Temple Grandin, Ph.D. and Ruth Sullivan |
2008 |
disabilities; autism and aspergers vs. neurotypical |
Hamersly/Summit |
The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition) |
Temple Grandin, Ph.D. |
2011 |
disabilities; autism and aspergers vs. neurotypical |
Summit |
There Are No Children Here |
Alex Kotlowitz |
1992 |
inner city pathology, race, minority experiences |
Hamersly |
Waist-high In the World |
Nancy Mairs |
1997 |
life with a disability |
Summit |
What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People |
Pearl Fuyo Gaskins |
1999 |
race, gender, age, ethnicity, cultural transition, customs |
Summit |
White Like Me: Reflections of a Privileged Son |
Tim Wise |
2007 |
race, privilege |
Summit |