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Critical Foundations Collection

A Disability History of the United States
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States
Becoming a Student-Ready College
Between the World and Me
College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success For All Students
Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice
Creating the Path to Success in the Classroom
Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students Inner Lives
Educated: A Memoir
Every Student Has a Story: Personal Narratives from First-Generation College Students
Everything Here is Beautiful
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk
Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown and Queer
March: Book One
March: Book Two
March: Book Three
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Not a Crime to be Poor
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative
Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data
Racism in Kansas City: A Short Story
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War ||
So You Want to Talk About Race
Stamped from the Beginning
Student Success in Higher Education: Developing the Whole Person Through High-Impact Practices
Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Students and Staff in Further and Higher Education
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know ABout The People We Don’t Know
Technology and Engagement
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
The Color of Money-Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
The Empowered University: Shared Leadership, Culture Change, and Academic Success
The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
The Mis-Education of the Negro
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions On What Matters Most
Thinking, Fast, and Slow
This is How it Always Is
This Will be my Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminst in (White) America
Trans* in College: Transgender Students Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutiona
Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persitance of Anti-LGBT Discrimnation
Waking up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Guys on Campus
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son: The Remix
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Why are the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Writing beyond race

Featured Databases

Kanopy logo Kanopy
Kanopy provides streaming access to thousands of films and videos, including award-winning popular films and documentaries. Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library
Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library
OverDrive logo OverDrive
Through the shared MOBIUS Collection, patrons have access to thousands of e-books and audio books in OverDrive, including popular titles. Titles can be downloaded to phones, tablets, and computers. Select sign in (top right) and William Jewell College from the drop-down menu. Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central includes over 40 smaller databases holding material from over 17,000 sources covering 160 subjects. Over half the resources offer full-text online. Coverage: Paid for by Curry Library