Durham Tech Library Recommended Reading Lists and Resource Guides
Resource guides provide recommendations for nonfiction books, fiction books, ebooks, videos, research databases, and websites found in the Durham Tech libraries and online.
Book review by Julie Humphrey, Library Director
Women’s Studies Resource Guide
Read: Learning More About Race in America
Watch: Learning More About Race in America
Listen: Learning More About Race in America
Read: E-books and Audiobooks for Black History Month
Articles
A Colorful History of the Rainbow Flag, Jacopo Prisco, CNN.com, 6/2019
Building a Culture of Inclusion for All Students, Christina A. Samuels, Education Week, 2/19/2020
Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong, Dr. David Campt, Medium.com, 4/27/2020
My Job Is Talking About Race, And Yet I Dread Talking About It At Work. Here’s Why. Jodi M. Savage, guest writer, Huffington Post, 6/25/2020
Where'd All These Woke White People Come From?, Michael Harriot, The Root, 6/4/2020
The First Pride March, Library of Congress, 2020
Books
On Being Different: What it Means to be Homosexual, Merle Miller, Publisher: PenguinRandomHouse.com, 2012
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, Carolina de Robertis, 2017
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Jacob Tobia, 2019
Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg, 1993 (free pdf copy)
The Tradition, Jericho Brown, Publisher: CopperCanyonPress.org (Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry)
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Helen Oyeyemi, Publisher: PenguinRandomHouse.com, 2017
Videos
13th, Directed by Ava DuVernay, Netflix Feature made free on YouTube
Watch: Learning More About Race in America
Brokeback Mountain, Directed by Ang Lee, 2005
Elisa & Marcela, Directed by Isabel Coixet, 2019
Love Simon, Directed by Greg Berlanti, 2018
Why Gender Pronouns Matter, YouTube Channel: Seventeen, 2017