Materials
on Race Relations, Equity, and
Diversity Issues
at
Baldwin Public Library
Prepared by:
Anne Berg, Adult Services Librarian
Baldwin Public Library
Birmingham, Michigan
January 2002
Subject Headings
Below is a select list of Library of Congress subject headings under which books and other materials will be found. A librarian can assist you in finding related headings.
| Affirmative Action Programs | Hispanic Americans |
| African Americans | Indians of North America |
| African Americans—Civil Rights | Lesbians---United States |
| African Americans—Race Identity | Minorities |
| African Americans—Social Conditions | Minorities—Civil Rights |
| Arab Americans | Prejudices |
| Asian Americans | Race Awareness—United States |
| Civil Rights | Race Discrimination |
| Culture Conflict—United States | Race Relations |
| Discrimination | Racially Mixed People—United States |
| Discrimination in Education | Racism |
| Discrimination in Employment | Sex Discrimination |
| Chaldean Catholics | Toleration |
| Ethnicity | United States—Race Relations |
| Gays---United States | Whites—Race Identity—United States |
| Hate Crimes | Women’s Rights |
| Hate Groups |
Articles
To find articles on these topics, look in General Reference Center Gold (a subscription database on the Baldwin Public Library home page) under the subject headings listed above. Other databases may also contain relevant information. Contact a Baldwin Adult Services librarian for assistance.
Titles
We have many books and other materials on minorities, race relations, diversity and related issues. Included here are nonfiction titles owned by Baldwin Public Library with publication dates of late 2000 or 2001. Older titles can be found under the previously listed subject headings or in the same Dewey Decimal numbers. All will be found in the Adult Reading Department. (Please visit the Reference collection for Reference books on the above subjects, and the Youth Room for children’s books.)
| 364.0899 NOT | Asim, Jabari, ed. Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice and Life. 2001. |
| 305.8924 AUE | Auerbach, Jerold S. Are We One?: Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel. 2001. |
| BIO BACA | Baca, Jimmy Santiago. A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet. 2001. |
| 920 BAL | Ball, Edward. The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History. 2001. |
| 306.8097 BEN | Bennett, William J. The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family. 2001. |
| B BERGER | Berger, Joseph. Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust. 2001. |
| 938 BER | Bernal, Martin. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. 2001. |
| 973.7 BLI | Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. 2001. |
| BIO BLUM | Blum, Louise A. You’re Not From Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America. 2001. |
| 791.4508 BOG | Bogle, Donald. Primetime Blues: African Americans in Network Television. 2001. |
| 920 CON | Conley, Dalton. Honky. 2000. |
| 391.43 CUN | Cunningham, Michael,
and Craig Marberry. Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats. 2000. |
| 363.3309 DEC | DeConde, Alexander. Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control. 2001. |
| 306.874 DEG | DeGeneres, Betty. Just a Mom. 2000. |
| 345.7302 DEL | DeLaughter, Bobby. Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. 2001. |
978.0049 BLA |
DeSersa, Esther Black Elk. Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family. 2001. |
| BIO SHAKUR | Dyson, Michael Eric. Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur. 2001. |
| 305.569 EHR | Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. 2001. |
| 323.1196 FAI | Fairclough, Adam. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000. 2001. |
| 305.4209 LIS | Findlen, Barbara, ed. Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation. New Expanded Edition. 2001. |
| 398.0899 FIN | Fine, Gary Alan, and Patricia A. Turner. Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America. 2001. |
| 296.0973 FRE | Freedman, Samuel G. Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. 2000. |
| 362.734 GAL | Galluccio, Jon and Michael. An American Family. 2001. |
| 305.563 GIL | Gilbert, Charlene, and Quinn Eli. Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers. 2000. |
| 940.5318 GIL | Gilbert, Martin. Never Again: A History of the Holocaust. 2000. |
| 306.845 GRE | Grearson, Jessie Carroll, and Lauren B. Smith. Love in a Global Village: A Celebration of Intercultural Families in the Midwest. 2001. |
| 344.7301 GRE | Gregory, Raymond F. Age Discrimination in the Workplace: Old at a Young Age. 2001. |
| 306.8508 HAR | Harris, Phyllis Y. From the Soul: Stories of Great Black Parents and the Lives They Gave Us. 2001. |
| 920 LAS | Harth, Erica, ed. Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. 2001. |
| 297.0973 HAS | Hasan, Asma Gull. American Muslims: The New Generation. 2000. |
| BIO HENRY | Henry, Neil. Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family. 2001. |
| 973.0496 HOR | Horton, James Oliver. Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America. 2000. |
| 305.8009 HOW | Correspondents of the New York Times. How Race Is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart. 2001. |
| 306.7089 HOO | Hooks, Bell. Salvation: Black People and Love. 2001. |
| 305.5097 HOO | Hooks, Bell. Where We Stand: Class Matters. 2000. |
| BIO HOWARD | Howard, Arlene, with Ralph Wimbish. Elston and Me: The Story of the First Black Yankee. 2001. |
| 306.85 HUS | Huston, Perdita. Families As We Are: Conversations From Around the World. 2001. |
| 364.6609 JAC | Jackson, Rev. Jesse L., Sr., et al. Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future. 2001. |
| BIO JONES | Jones, Quincy. Q: the Autobiography of Quincy Jones. 2001. |
| BIO JORDAN | Jordan, Vernon E., with Annette Gordon-Reed. Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir. 2001. |
| 261.2609 KER | Kertzner, David L. The Pope Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism. 2001. |
| 977.434 LES | Lester, Larry, et al. Black Baseball in Detroit. 2000. |
| 305.896 MAD | Madison, James H. A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America. 2001. |
| 920 MAN | Mann, William J. Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969. 2001. |
| 398.2089 MAR | Marshall, Joseph. The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living. 2001. |
| 305.896 MAY | May, Reuben A. Buford. Talking at Trena’s: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern. 2001. |
| O 796.332 MCD | McDaniel, Pete. Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf. 2000. |
| BIO MCKINNON | McKinnon, Dr. Isaiah “Ike”. Stand Tall. 2001. |
| 973.0496 VOI | Meacham, Jon, ed. Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement. 2001. |
| 305.9066 MUR | Murdoch, Joyce, and Deb Price. Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court. 2001. |
| 362.84 NEU | Neubeck, Kenneth J., and Noel A. Cazenave. Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor. 2001. |
| B NGUYEN | Nguyen, Kien. The Unwanted: A Memoir. 2000. |
| BIO OLIVER | Oliver, Kitty. Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl. 2001. |
| 323.0922 OLS | Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. 2001. |
| 371.826 PER | Perrotti, Jeff, and Kim Westheimer. When the Drama Club Is Not Enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. 2001. |
| 305.8009 RAC | Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints. 2001. |
| 305.896 REM | Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. 2001. |
| 943.97 ROS | Rosner, Bernat, and Frederic C. Tubach. An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust. 2001. |
| 362.8292 RUS | Russo, Ann. Taking Back Our Lives: A Call to Action for the Feminist Movement. 2001. |
| 306.362 SEG | Segal, Ronald. Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora. 2001. |
| BIO SOWELL | Sowell, Thomas. A Personal Odyssey. 2000. |
| 909.0492 TYE | Tye, Larry. Home Lands: Portrait of the New Jewish Diaspora. 2001. |
| 973.0496 WAL | Walker, Clarence E. We Can’t Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism. 2001. |
| BIO WALKER | Walker, Rebecca. Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. 2001. |
| 363.2309 WEB | Websdale, Neil. Policing the Poor: From Slave Plantation to Public Housing. 2001. |
| 344.7307 WHA | What Brown v Board of Education should have said: the nation’s top legal experts rewrite America’s landmark civil rights decision. 2001. |
| BIO WIDEMAN | Wideman, John Edgar. Hoop Roots. 2001. |
| 975.043 WIL | Wilkie, Curtis. Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South. 2001. |
| 814 SIG | Wilson, Jon, and Kimberley Ridley, eds. Signs of Hope: In Praise of Ordinary Heroes, Selections from Hope Magazine. 2000. |
| 305.235 YEL | Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American. 2001. |
To find reviews of these books, or information about their authors, contact the Adult Services librarians at Baldwin Public Library.
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"We must learn to appreciate diversity, not suppress it. How devastating to think of a world in which everyone is the same." - Janice LaFountain