Using the Library Catalog
There are many topics to choose from! Search the library catalog by entering your topic. Here are a few suggestions. Click on the links to take you to the catalog of books on that topic.
Also, be sure to look at the collection of found in the HOT TOPICS section behind the Reference Desk.
Books
The following books can be found in the library's General Collection, or the white-labeled book shelves. Use the call number to find the book on the shelves. You can check out 20 general books at one time. Each book can be checked out for 3 weeks, with up to two renewals of 3 weeks each.
Immigration/Refugees
They Never Come Back: a story of undocumented workers from Mexico by Call Number: HD8081.M6 S36 2014ISBN: 9780801453144Publication Date: 2014-10-14
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis by Call Number: HV640 .P366 2020ISBN: 9780197507995Publication Date: 2020-10-01
Fragile Families: Foster care, immigration, and citizenship by Call Number: HV743.S36 R637 2017ISBN: 9780812249385Publication Date: 2017-06-28
Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation by Call Number: JV6346.5 .Q44 2020ISBN: 9780252043314Publication Date: 2020-10-26Also available as an eBook!
Immigration: Examining the Facts by Call Number: JV6465 .E25 2017ISBN: 9781440835346Publication Date: 2016-12-12
U.S.Immigration in the Twenty-First Century: Making Americans, Remaking America by Call Number: JV6483 .D47 2015ISBN: 9780813344737Publication Date: 2015-02-17
Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families by Call Number: JV6483 .D74 2015ISBN: 9780520283404Publication Date: 2015-03-07Available online
Illegal Immigration: A Reference Handbook by Call Number: JV6483 .L46 2015ISBN: 9781440840128Publication Date: 2015-09-22
From Deportation to Prison: The politics of immigration enforcement in post-civil rights America by Call Number: JV6483 .M265 2016ISBN: 9781479804665Publication Date: 2016-10-11Available online
Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System by Call Number: JV6483 .Y68 2021ISBN: 9780190085957Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Covering the Border War: How the News Media Creates Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide by Call Number: PN4888.C8 K55 2020ISBN: 9781498561426Publication Date: 2019-11-08
Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers by ISBN: 9780190874155Publication Date: 2019-04-12
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration by ISBN: 9780199859016Publication Date: 2013-12-31
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Criminal Justice / Law Enforcement
Gender, Crime, and Justice: Exploring the Dynamics by Call Number: HV6046 .W55 2017ISBN: 9781626376595Publication Date: 2017-07-25
Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race by Call Number: HV7936.R3 B38 2018ISBN: 9781108429313Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism by Call Number: HV8139.H69 2017ISBN: 9780190659332Publication Date: 2017-07-17
Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America by Call Number: HV8141 .P34 2017ISBN: 9781633882577Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Police Use of Force by Call Number: HV8141 .P59353 2017ISBN: 9781498732147Publication Date: 2016-08-12
Convicting the Innocent by Call Number: HV8699.U5 C64 2016ISBN: 9781632206466Publication Date: 2016-04-05
A Country Called Prison by Call Number: HV9466 .L66 2015ISBN: 9780190211035Publication Date: 2015-07-01
Incarcerated Women: A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons by Call Number: HV9466.I53 2017ISBN: 9781498542111Publication Date: 2017-02-06Also in Delano
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States by Call Number: HV9471 .G76 2014ISBN: 9780309298018Publication Date: 2014-05-24Available online
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Call Number: HV9471.B384 2018ISBN: 9780735223585Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by Call Number: HV9950 .F655 2017ISBN: 9780374189976Publication Date: 2017-04-18
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: the making of mass incarceration in America by Call Number: HV9950 .H56 2016ISBN: 9780674737235Publication Date: 2016-05-02Also in Delano
Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration by Call Number: HV9950.B358 2019ISBN: 9780674919235Publication Date: 2019-03-04
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Call Number: KF5399 .C44 2021ISBN: 9781631496516Publication Date: 2021-08-24
Punishment Without Crime: How our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Call Number: KF9300.N38 2018ISBN: 9780465093793Publication Date: 2018-12-31
How Police Generate False Confessions: an inside look at the interrogation room by Call Number: KF9664 .T73 2016ISBN: 9781442244641Publication Date: 2016-07-15
Other Social Justice Issues
Reference Shelf: the American Dream by Call Number: E169.12.A44 2018ISBN: 9781682178683Publication Date: 2018-10-01
Latinos and Latinas at Risk by Call Number: E184.S75 L3676 2015 v.1-2ISBN: 9780313399251Publication Date: 2015-01-26Also in Delano Reference Collection
African Americans at Risk: Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice by Call Number: E185.86 .S752 2015 v.1-2ISBN: 9781440800757Publication Date: 2015-06-22
Allegiance to Liberty: The Changing Face of Patriots, Militias, and Political Violence in America by Call Number: E743 .B325 2014ISBN: 9781440830952Publication Date: 2014-11-25
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Call Number: F264.S685 H43 2021ISBN: 9781627798624Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity by Call Number: GN484.38 .W45 2017ISBN: 9781628727975Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Latinos and Latinas in American Sport by Call Number: GV584.S7 L37 2020ISBN: 9781682830406Publication Date: 2019-11-15
Other Social Justice Issues, cont.
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Call Number: GV706.5 .Z569 2021ISBN: 9781620976753Publication Date: 2021-09-14
Toxic Inequality: how America's wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, & threatens our future by Call Number: HC110.P6 S43 2017ISBN: 9780465046935Publication Date: 2017-03-14
Emerging Domestic Markets: How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States by Call Number: HD75 .F345 2021ISBN: 9780231173223Publication Date: 2021-01-05
Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment by Call Number: HD5857 .P43 2020ISBN: 9780691175102Publication Date: 2020-04-21
Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace by Call Number: HD6060 .S554 2020ISBN: 9781633698727Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Hunger in the Land of Plenty: A Critical Look at Food Insecurity by Call Number: HD9005 .W75 2019ISBN: 9781626377653Publication Date: 2018-11-16
The Broken Ladder : how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die by Call Number: HM821 .P39 2017ISBN: 9780525429814Publication Date: 2017-05-02Also in Delano
Are We The 99%?: The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality by Call Number: HM883 .H87 2021ISBN: 9781439920237Publication Date: 2020-12-04Also available as an eBook!
The End of Bias: a Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Call Number: HM1091 .N67 2021ISBN: 9781250186188Publication Date: 2021-09-21
Starving for Justice : hunger strikes, spectacular speech, and the struggle for dignity by Call Number: HN79.C23 H8425 2017ISBN: 9780816532582Publication Date: 2017-03-21
The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality by Call Number: HN90.I56 W38 2018ISBN: 9781479854110Publication Date: 2018-12-11
Coming of Age in the Other America by Call Number: HQ796 .D3937 2016ISBN: 9780871544650Publication Date: 2016-04-19
Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media by Call Number: HQ1090 .H623 2017ISBN: 9781498526166Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present by Call Number: HV699.A424 2018ISBN: 9780415785501Publication Date: 2017-08-21
Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family Diversity by Call Number: HV875.72.U6 A36 2012ISBN: 9780195322606Publication Date: 2011-08-25
From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability by Call Number: HV1568 .J87 2020ISBN: 9781641601580Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Call Number: HV6548.U6 C37 2020ISBN: 9780691190785Publication Date: 2020-03-17Also available in Delano.
Hate Crimes: Typology, Motivations, and Victims by Call Number: HV6773.5 .H39 2018ISBN: 9781611639247Publication Date: 2018-07-03
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Call Number: JC571 .D33275 2016ISBN: 1608465640Publication Date: 2016-02-09
One Nation Undecided: clear thinking about five hard issues that divide us by Call Number: JK1726 .S37 2017ISBN: 9780691167435Publication Date: 2017-03-21
Contract Children: Questioning Surrogacy by Call Number: K702.3 .D36 2015ISBN: 9783838208107Publication Date: 2016-01-05Available Online
Because of Sex: one law, ten cases, and fifty years that changed American women's lives at work by Call Number: KF3467 .T49 2016ISBN: 9781137280053Publication Date: 2016-03-08
Free Speech on Campus by Call Number: KF4772 .C54 2017ISBN: 9780300226560Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present, and Future by Call Number: KF4772 .S6494 2021ISBN: 9781793623607Publication Date: 2021
Dying in America: improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life by Call Number: R726.8 .D895 2015ISBN: 9780309303101Publication Date: 2015-04-19Available online
The Poisoned City: Flint's water and the American urban tragedy by Call Number: RA591.C53 2018ISBN: 9781250125149Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Measuring the Effects of Racism: Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury by Call Number: RC455.4.E8 C372 2020ISBN: 9780231193061Publication Date: 2020-07-21
