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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Reading List and Resources

This reading list has been developed to assist faculty, staff, and students in gaining understanding and appreciation of DEI issues in our society.

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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Nonfiction

Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

Nonfiction

Coming of Age in the Other America

Nonfiction
Also available as eBook

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Nonfiction

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Memoir

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Memoir

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

Nonfiction

The Moral Demands of Affluence

Nonfiction

The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century

Nonfiction
Also available as eBook

Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education

Nonfiction

Stiffing the Working Class: Welcome to Third-World America

Nonfiction

Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens Our Future

Nonfiction

Undocumented: A Worker's Fight

Graphic Novel
Also available as eBook

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Nonfiction

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nonfiction

White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

Nonfiction