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Benton County Cultural Proficiency – Books

These books are available for those seeking more information on the following diversity topics (see our disclaimer):

Book Topics

• Black/African American and African
• Latino(a)/Hispanic
• Asian and Pacific Islander
• American Indian or Alaskan Native
• White/European American
• Women's Issues
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• People with Disabilities
• Economically Disadvantaged

• Seniors & Elders
• Multicultural Issues

Book Topic: Black/African American and African

Race Matters, by Cornell West
Available at: Corvallis-Benton County Public Libraries (CBCPL), Oregon State University (OSU) Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Dubois
Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Autobiography of Malcolm X, edited by Alex Haley
Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, by Beebe Moore Campbell
Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Cultural Criticism and Transformation, by bell hooks
Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Race Rules, by Michael Eric Dyson

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, and the Book Bin

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, by Beverly Tatum

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Angela Davis: An Autobiography, by Angela Davis

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, by Nelson Mandela

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

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Book Topic: Latino(a)/Hispanic

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudy Anaya
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Occupied America, by R. Acuna
Available at: CBCPL

Borderlands: The New Mestiza - La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldúa
Available at: CBCPL

La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman, by Alfredo Mirandé, Evangelina Enríquez
Available at: CBCPL

Spirits of The Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes, by Kathleen Alcalá
Available at: CBCPL

Death of A Mythmaker, by Allana Martin
Available at: CBCPL

Friends From the Other Side - Amigos Del Otro Lado, by Gloria Anzaldúa
Available at: CBCPL

Che, by Ernesto Guevara

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

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Book Topic: Asian or Pacific Islander

A History of Asian Americans: Strangers from A Different Shore, by Ronald Takaki
Available at: Corvallis-Benton County Public LIbrary (CBPL) and the OSU Valley Library

The State of Asian America, by Karen Aguilar-San Juan
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Kelly Loves Tony, by Tou Ger Xiong
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Asian Americans : Opposing Viewpoints, by William Dudley
Available at: CBPL and the OSU Valley Library

The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics, by Dana Takagi

Available at: OSU Valley Library and Borders

Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience, Angelo Ancheta

Available at: OSU Valley Library and Borders

Asian American Dreams: The Emergency of an American People, by Helen Zia

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store and Borders

Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White, by Frank Wu

Available at: CBCPL, Borders and the Book Bin

Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Women in America, by Mary Paik Lee

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands, by Gawan Davis

Available at: OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Then There Were None, by Martha Noyes

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: The Last Queen of Hawaii, 1836-1917, by Helena Allen

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

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Book Topic: American Indian or Alaskan Native

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown (Subjects: race, Native Americans)
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Black Elk Speaks, by John Neihardt
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival, by Velma Wallis (Subjects: ageism, race, Native Americans) Available at: OSU Valley Library

Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog (Subjects: race, Native Americans)
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, by Wilma Mankiller
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492, by Russell Thornton
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

The American Indian in America, by Jayne Clark Jones
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun, by Velma Wallis

Available at: CBCPL, Borders and the Book Bin

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: AN Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Where White Men Fear to Tread: An Autobiography of Russell Means,by Russell Means

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

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Book Topic: Whites/European Americans

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White - edited and with an introduction by, David R. Roediger.

Available at: the OSU Valley Library

1915-1968 Seeds of Destruction - Thomas Merton.

Available at: the OSU Valley Library

Liberal Racism - Jim Sleeper.

Available at: the OSU Valley Library

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, 1998 - Matthew Frye Jacobson.

Available at: CBCPL, and the OSU Valley Library

Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Power, Privilege and Difference, by Allan Johnson

Available at: OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store and Borders

White Lies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse, by Jessica Daniels

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Book Topic: Women's Issues

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, by Joy James

Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman, by Alfredo Mirandé, Evangelina Enríquez
Available at: CBCPL

Conjure Woman, by Charles Chestnut
Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store and the Book Bin

Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins

Available at: OSU Valley Library and Borders

Borderlands: The New Mestiza- La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldua

Available at: OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Women, Race and Class, by Angela Davis

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Feminist Theory, by bell hooks

Available at: OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store and Borders

Feminism without Borders, by Chandra Mohanty

Available at: OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

The Gender Knot, Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, by Allan Johnson

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, and Borders

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy

Available at: OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Kingston

Available at: OSU Valley Library and Borders

Self-Made Man: One Women's Journey into Manhood and Back Again, by Norah Vincent

Available at: CBCPL, Borders and the Book Bin

Women in the Middle East: Tradition and Change, by Ramsey Harik and Elsa Marston

Available at: CBCPL, Borders and the Book Bin

Book Topic: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, by Bennet L. Singer
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

And the Band Plays On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Becoming a Man, by Paul Monette
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Stranger at the Gate (Author unknown)
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Coming out Under Fire: the History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, by Allan Bérubé
Available at: CBCPL and the OSU Valley Library

Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color, edited by Emmanuel Nelson

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals, edited by Barbara Summerhawk, Cherion McMahill and Darren McDonald

Available at: OSU Valley Library, Borders and the Book Bin

Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women, by Sharon Lim-Hing

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

When Sexuality Hits Home: What to Do When a Loved One Says They're Gay, by Joe Dallas

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, by George Chauncey

Available at: OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, by David Johnson

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

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Book Topic: People with Disabilities

Walking into Darkness, The Experience of Spinal Cord Injury, by Oliver et. al. Available at: CBPL and the OSU Valley Library

Encounters with Strangers, edited by J. Morris (Subjects: disability, gender, feminism)
Available at: CBPL and the OSU Valley Library

What’s That Pig Outdoors: A Memoir of Deafness, by Henry Kisor and Walker Percy
Available at: CBPL and the OSU Valley Library

Planet of the Blind, by Steven Kuusisto
Available at: CBPL and the OSU Valley Library

Moving Violation: War Zones, Wheelchair and Declarations of Independence, by John Hockenberry
Available at: CBPL, Borders and the OSU Valley Library

The State of Asian American, by Karen Aquilar-San Juan
Available at: CBPL and the OSU Valley Library

Waist High in the World: The Life of the Nondisabled, by Nancy Mairs

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

The Story of My Life (Unabridged), by Helen Keller

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Book Topic: Economically Disadvantaged

Poor Gabriella: A Christmas Story, by Victoria Forrester
Available at: CBPL

Poor Millie, by Thomas Baird
Available at: CBPL

Collected Poems, by Freda Downie
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Poor Americans: How the White Poor Live, by Marc Pilisuk
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Poor People: Poems, by Shelby Stephenson
Available at: CBPL

The Endangered American Dream, by Edward Luttwak
Available at: CBPL

A Dream Deferred (The Promised Land series)
Available at: OSU Valley Library

The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David Shipler

Available at: CBCPL, Borders and the Book Bin

One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All, by Mark Rank

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

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Book Topic: Seniors/Elders

Empowering Frail Elderly People, by Leonard Heumann
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Health Issues in the Black Community, by Ronald L. Braithwaite
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Health Promotion for the Elderly, by Colleen Keller
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Social Care of the Elderly, by Mark Brennan
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Clinical Perspectives on Elderly Sexuality, by Jennifer L. Hillman
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Behavior, Health, and Aging, by Stephen B. Manuck
Available at: OSU Valley Library

Age Speaks for Itself: Silent Voices of the Elderly, by Tom Koch
Available at: CBPL

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Book Topic: Multicultural Issues

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh (article)
Available at: Benton County Human Resources

Northwest Ethnic Voices (journal)
Available at: Benton County Human Resources

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, by Laura Pulido

Available at: OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Hiding Place, by Corrine Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill and John Sherrill

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust, edited by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today, by Ari Goldman

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James Loewen

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Punishment and Inequality in America, by Bruce Western

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Diversity in America, by Vincent Parrillo

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Two Nations: Black and White, Hostile, Separate and Unequal, by Andrew Hacker

Available at: CBCPL, OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts, by Samar Dahmah-Jarrah and Kirt Dressler

Available at: Borders and the Book Bin

Figs and Fate: Stories About Growing Up in the Arab World Today, by Elsa Marston

Available at: CBCPL, Borders and the Book Bin

Not Quite American?: The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States, by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Available at: OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

Black, White and Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, by Lise Funderberg

Available at: OSU Valley Library, OSU Book Store, Borders and the Book Bin

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