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Research Guides
- Systemic Racism
- Diversity Celebration Slideshow Photograph Guide
- Diversity & Inclusion at University Libraries
Instructional Materials Center (IMC) Booklists
The IMC provides several Books Lists to help people navigate different topics within their K-12 library on the lower level of Belk Library & Information Commons.
- Civil Rights Movement in the United States
- Non-Traditional Roles for Women & Girls
- Celebrating Diversity
- LGBTQIA+ Non-Fiction
- LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novels
- Bilingual Stories for Children
- Immigration Stories
Diversity Picks from the University Libraries' Faculty & Staff
- A queer and pleasant danger : a memoir by Kate Bornstein
- Absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, The by Sherman Alexie
- Affrilacha / Poems by Frank X. Walker
- All you can ever know : a memoir by Nicole Chung
- American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
- Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
- The Arabian nights : tales from a Thousand and one nights translated, with a preface and notes by Richard F. Burton ; introduction by A.S. Byatt
- Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley
- Aya : of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie
- Bad feminist : essays by Roxane Gay
- Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, Art by Ko Hyung-Ju
- Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Bitch : in praise of difficult women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Black leopard, red wolf by Marlon James
- Blind rage : letters to Helen Keller by Georgina Kleege
- Caste : the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The collected schizophrenias : essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time based on the novel by Mark Haddon; adapted by Simon Stephens
- Devil in a Blue Dress : an Easy Rawlins novel by Walter Mosley
- Educated : a memoir by Tara Westover
- The empathy exams : essays by Leslie Jamison
- Fargo rock city : a heavy metal odyssey in rural Nörth Daköta by Chuck Klosterman
- Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics by bell hooks
- Flying lessons & other stories edited by Ellen Oh
- The Foxfire book edited with an introd. by Eliot Wigginton
- Fresh ink edited by Lamar Giles
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Gone home : race and roots through Appalachia by Karida L. Brown
- Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
- The house on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
- In the dream house : a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
- Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao Junot Díaz ; traducción de Achy Obejas
- Last will, last testament by Frank X. Walker
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
- Long time coming : reckoning with race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Magnificent homespun brown : a celebration by Samara Cole Doyon
- The matter of black lives : writing from the New Yorker by James Baldwin
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
- Number our days by Barbara Myerhoff
- The only good Indians : a novel by Stephen Graham Jones
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
- Prozac nation : young and depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Queenie by Candice Carty Williams
- The rose code : a novel by Kate Quinn
- Sarah's key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Staubs and ditchwater : A friendly and useful introduction to hillfolks' hoodoo by H. Byron Ballard
- Sugar run : a novel by Mesha Maren
- The things they carried by Tim O'Brien
- Two moons : stories by Krystal A. Smith
- The undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White teeth : a novel by Zadie Smith
- Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang
- The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers