Research Guides: Faculty: Classroom Resources for Inclusion: Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

This list is a small sampling of books about the experiences of diverse college students. More books like this can be found in the library's collections using the instructions at the bottom of this page.

Class: A Memoir (Print Book) by Stephanie Land
Publication Date: 2023
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a "raw and inspiring" (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid...Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, food insecurity, the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line--Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties.
Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability (Print Book) by Michael Gill and Beth Myers (Editors)
Publication Date: 2023-10-10
In relating their experiences and aspirations, these student perspectives mount a powerful challenge to assumptions that intellectual disability is best met with protection or segregation. Taken together, the essays expose and contradict the inherently ableist claim that individuals with intellectual disability cannot be reliable storytellers. Instead, their deeply informative stories serve as a corrective narrative.
I Am Where I Come From (Ebook) by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor (Editors)
Publication Date: 2017
Also available in print.
I Am Where I Come From presents the autobiographies of 13 Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College, 10 of them current and recent students.
Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education (Print Book) by Peter J. Guarnaccia
Publication Date: 2019
Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college...The text builds its analysis using extensive quotes from the 160 immigrant students who participated in the 21 focus groups that form the core of this study. The students' families come from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America, and reflect a wide diversity of experiences and insights into how these students successfully pursued higher education.
Growing up Muslim: Muslim College Students in America Tell Their Life Stories (Ebook) by Andrew C. Garrod and Robert Kilkenny (Editors)
Publication Date: 2014
In Growing Up Muslim, Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny present fourteen personal essays by college students of the Muslim faith who are themselves immigrants or are the children of immigrants to the United States. In their essays, the students grapple with matters of ethnicity, religious prejudice and misunderstanding, and what is termed Islamophobia.
Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ebook) by Andrew C. Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Christina Gomez (Editors)
Publication Date: 2007
Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds--they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints.
Shot Story: From Juvie to PhD (Ebook) by David Borkowski
Publication Date: 2015
A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D. is a riveting account of how being shot saved his life and helped a juvenile delinquent become an esteemed English professor...Borderline illiterate at the time of the shooting, David took his future into his own hands and found salvation in books. But his attempts to improve his life were stymied by lack of familial support. Bound on all sides by adults who had no faith in his ability to learn or to succeed, David persevered and earned his Ph.D.
Trans People in Higher Education (Print Book) by Genny Beemyn (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019
While more trans students, faculty, and staff have come out on US college campuses today than ever before, many still report enduring harassment and discrimination. Others avoid disclosing their gender identity because they do not feel safe or comfortable at their schools. This groundbreaking book is the first to address their experiences in a single volume. Genny Beemyn brings together personal narratives and original research to give readers both individual and large-scale perspectives, which provide unprecedented insight into the experiences of trans people in higher education.
Untold Narratives: African Americans Who Received Special Education Services and Succeeded Beyond Expectations (Ebook) by Shawn Anthony Robinson
Publication Date: 2018
This edited book reflects a much needed area of scholarship as the voices of African American (AA) or Black students defined by various labels such as learning disability, blindness/visual impairment, cognitive development, speech or language impairment, and hearing impairment are rare within the scholarly literature.

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