The Office of Diversity Services' Resource Library includes a variety of books that students, faculty, and staff can access at their convenience.

Race & Ethnicity

  • Chavz, Leo R- The Latino Threat
  • Cosby, Bill & Alvin F. Poussaint. M.D.- Come On People
  • Davila, Arlene- Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race
  • Diaz, Johnny- Bean Town Cubans
  • Dimarco, Damon & Roy Rimmons- Out of Bounds
  • Easter, Cheers, & Brooks-  Songs Of My People
  • Educational Publishing Foundation,- Cultural Diversity & Ethnicity Minority Psychology
  • Factoids & Style Guide: Practical and Concise Information on Diversity- Diversity Inc.
  • Gates Jr., Henry Louise- America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
  • Henslin, James M.- Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
  • Hooks, Bell- Killing Rage, Ending Racism
  • Hooks, Bell- Yearning- Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
  • Hyun, Jane- Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians
  • Katznelson, Ira- When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
  • Kennedy, Randall- Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
  • Kotz, Nick- Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
  • Leary, Joy Degruy- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
  • Lagoerio, Koaquim- Almas Danadas
  • McWhorter, John- Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America
  • Meyerson, Debra E- Tempered Radical: How People Use Difference to Inspired Change at Work
  • Mittzvah, Bnei- The Value of the Individual
  • Nathan, Rebekah- My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
  • Ortiz, Raquel- The Silk Purse
  • Rothenberg, Paula S- Race, Class, And Gender In The United States
  • Steinberg, Shirley R- Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader
  • Salett, Elizabeth Pathy- Race Ethnicity and Self: Identity in Multicultural Perspective
  • Takaki Ronald- A History Of Asian Americans: Strangers From A Different Shore
  • Tatum, Beverly Daniel- Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
  • Vernon, Irene S- Killing Us Quietly: Native Americans and HIV/AIDS
  • Vaca, Nicolas- The Presumed Alliance:The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America
  • Urrea, Luis Alberto- The Devil's Highway
  • West, Cornel - Race Matters
  • Whitfield, Teresa- Paying the Price
  • Wolf-Wemble, Twombly, Tuttle, Ward & Gaston-Gayles- Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and the Student Affairs
  • Wu Shen, Jean Yu- Wen- Asian American Studies
  • Zia Helen- Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of An American People
  • Zenoff, David B.-Private Enterprise in the Developing Countries
  • Zogby, James- What Ethnic Americans Really Think
  • Zogby, James- What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns
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LGBT

  • Arnup, Katherine- Lesbian Parenting, Living with Pride and Prejudice
  • Baez, John- The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life
  • Benkov Ph. D, Laura- Reinventing the Family, Lesbian and Gay Parents
  • Bently, Kevin- Boyfriends from Hell: True Tales of Tainted Lovers, Disastrous Dates and Love Gone Wrong!
  • Bergman, David- Men on Men 7: Best New Gay Fiction
  • Bergman, Bear S.- Butch Is A Noun
  • Best, Deborah L. and Williams, John E. - Measuring Sex Stereotypes: A Multination Study
  • Blake, William- Songs of Innocence and of Experience                                                                                                            
  • Borhek, Mary V. - Coming out to Parents: Two-Way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents
  • Boykin, Keith- Beyond the Down Low
  • Boykin, Keith- One More River To Cross: Black & Gay In America
  • Bullough, Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough- Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender
  • Califia, Pat- Advocate Advisor
  • Califia, Pat- Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality
  • Cameron, Edwin and Mark Gevisser- Defiant Desire
  • Cashorali, Peter- Fairy Tales: Tradition Stories Retold for Gay Men
  • Clark Ph. D, Don- Loving Someone Gay
  • Cowan, Thomas, - Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World
  • Currah, Paisley- Transgender Rights
  • Curry, Clifford, and Leonard- A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples
  • Diaz, Rafael M- Latino Gay Men and HIV
  • Dawson, Jeff- Gay & Lesbian Online
  • De Crescenzo MSW, Teresa- Helping Gay and Lesbian Youth
  • De Solla Price, Mark- Living Positively in a World with HIV/Aids
  • Dilano, Krumholtz, & Hickey- The Unofficial Gay Manual
  • Douglas, Carol Anne- Love and Politics, Radical Feminists and Lesbian Theories
  • Eisenbach, David- An International Revolution: Gay Power
  • Ellul, Jaxques- Propaganda, The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
  • Fairfield, Betty and Hayward, Nancy- Now That You Know
  • Feingold, Stanley and George McKenna- Taking Sides
  • Forrest, Katherine V. - Curious Wine
  • Gillespie, Peggy- Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families  
  • Gottifried, Adele Eskeles and Allen W. Gottfried, - Redefining Families
  • Grahn, Judy- Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds 
  • Hadleigh, Boze- The Lavender Screen
  • Hardesty, Craig A. and Sherrill, Jan- Mitchell- The Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Students’ Guide to Colleges, Universities, and Graduate Schools
  • Harris, Daniel- The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
  • Heron, Ann- Two Teenagers in Twenty
  • Heger, Heinz- The Men With The Pink Triangle
  • Helminiak, Daniel- What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality
  • Hitches, Neal- Voices that Care: Stories and Encouragements for People With AIDS/HIV and Those That Love Them
  • Holbrook, Sabra- Fighting Back
  • Holland, Barbara- Soviet Sisterhood
  • Hulse, Charles- In Tall Cotton
  • Hutchins, Loraine and Lani Kaahumanu- Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
  • Isensee, Rik- Growing Up Gay in A Dysfunctional Family
  • Iwata, Jun’inchi, and Watanabe, Tsuneo- The Love of the Samurai
  • Keating, Ana Louise and Bredin, Renae- Gender Studies                                                                                                      
  • Kilmer-Purcell, Josh- Candy Everybody Wants
  • Labonte, Richard- Daddies: Gay Erotic Stories
  • Labonte, Richard- Boy Crazy
  • Lassell, Michael- The Name of Love
  • Leong, Russell- Asian American Sexualities: dimensions of the gay & lesbian esperience
  • Liebman, Marvin- Coming Out Conservative
  • Madsen, Hunter and Kirk, Marshall- After the Ball
  • Marcus, Eric- Making History, The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights
  • Marcus, Eric- Is It a Choice
  • Marcus, Eric- Making Gay History
  • Martelli, Messina, Peltz, Petrow- When Someone You Know Has Aids
  • Mason-John, Valerie- Talking Black: Lesbians of African and Asian Descent Speak Out
  • Mastoon, Adam- The Shared Heart
  • McNeill, John J. - The Church and the Homosexual
  • Miller, Neil- Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
  • Monette, Paul- Becoming a Man
  • Murray, Raymond- Images in the Dark, An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video
  • Nanda, Serena- The Hijras of India: Neither Man nor Woman
  • New England Pride Guide
  • Newman, Leslea- Heather Has Two Mommies
  • Olson, Jenni- The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
  • Richards, Dell- Lesbian Lists
  • Schwartz, Helen – The Meadowlark Sings
  • Seabrook, Jeremy- Love in a Different Climate: Men who have sex with men in India
  • Sears, James T. – Bound by Diversity
  • Shelby Ph. D., R. Dennis – If a Partner Has Aids
  • Signorile, Michelangelo – Outing yourself
  • Sloan, Irving J. – Homosexual Conduct and the Law
  • Stewart, William – Cassell’s Queer Companion
  • Strker Susan- Transgender History
  • Theophano, Teresa- Queer Quotes
  • Unks, Gerald- The Gay Teen
  • Vida, Ginny- Our Right to Love
  • Weinberg, Martin S- "Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality"
  • Witt, Lynn- Out in All Directions- The Almanac of Gay and Lesbian America
  • Wolfe, Daniel- Men Like Us
  • Woods, Gregory- A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
  • Gillespie, Weston, Kaeser, and Martin Love Makes Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families
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Women's Studies

  • Kerber, Linda and Jane De Hart- Women’s America: Refocusing the Past
  • Cheris Kramarae- Technology and Women’s Voices Keeping In Touch
  • Haraway, Donna J. - Feminism and Technoscience
  • Zimmerman, Jan- Once Upon the Future
  • Jazzy, -“Rules of Engagement”
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Religion

  • Bnei- Mitzvah- As a Jewish Individual in Society
  • Bnei Mitvah Program- Jewish Values in the Changing World
  • Glatzer, Nahum N. - A Jewish Reader
  • Mittzvah, Bnei- As a Jewish Individual in Society
  • Kaye, Melanie- The Tribe of Dina
  • Sheila Isenperg- A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry
  • Fast, Howard- The Outsider
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Disability

  • Ostroff, Elaine- Building a World Fit for People: Designers with Disabilities at Work
  • Pelka, Fred- The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Disability Rights Movement
  • Disability Laws in Massachusetts
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Visiting Keynote Speaker Books

  • Bao Bean, Cathy- The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual
  • Newman, Leslea- Heather Has Two Mommies
  • Marshawn Evans, JD- S.K.I.R.T.S In The Boardroom
  • Tyree, Omar- The Equation: Applying the 4 Undisputable Components of Success
  • Wise, Tim- White Like Me
  • Ochs, Robyn & Sarah E. Rowley- Getting BI: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World
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Miscellaneous

  • Anderson, Pope, Kramer- Federal Taxation 2006
  • Bornstein, Kate- Hello Cruel World, 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws
  • Boyla, Jennifer Finner- She's Not There
  • Cullen, Maura- 35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say
  • Disability Laws is Massachusetts
  • Elmore, Dr. Tim- Habitudes #1,2,3&4
  • James, David P. Canton Marcia- Mentoring in Higher Education
  • Kiego, Weygandt, Warfield- Intermediate Accounting (Volumes 1,2,30
  • Kilmer-Purcall, Josh- Candy Everybody Wants
  • McCall, Catherine- Life guarding
  • Pearsall, Shelley- All of the Above
  • Smith, Anna Deavere- Letters to a Young Artist
  • Tomalin, Barry and Nicks, Mike- The World’s Business Cultures and How to Unlock Them 
  • Vidal Gore- Burr
  • (2) The Pulse: 2010 
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