ALT "In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in America by braiding together personal and marginalized people's histories. After being orphaned as a young girl, Asghar grapples with coming-of-age as a woman without the guidance of a mother, questions of sexuality and race, and navigating a world that put a target on her back. " Available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Titles: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jenny Ferguson Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonido Reyes Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds Flamer by Mike Curato Available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT "In 1950s Paris, a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin’s classic novel delves into the mysteries of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart." Available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT "To camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circumstances. To camp can also mean to queer. And for many children and young adults, summer camp is a formative experience mixed with homosocial structure and homoerotic longing. In Queer as Camp, editors Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason curate a collection of essays and critical memoirs exploring the intersections of “queer” and “camp,” focusing especially on camp as an alternative and potentially nonnormative place and/or time." https://fdu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1097365973

ALT From the hard fought passing of Title IX, the landmark legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in schools, to the most recent debates surrounding compliance, this encyclopedia explores the significant controversies, individuals, events, key concepts, and legal cases revolving around Title IX and its application in collegiate athletics. Fierce debate has long loomed over Title IX, the landmark legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in schools, whether in academics or athletics. Since its inception, Title IX has inspired both backlash and backlash-against-backlash commentary. Supporters contend that the legislation is a long overdue measure in securing equal opportunities for girls and women in America's school and university athletics. Opponents argue that Title IX is nothing more than a government-enforced quota system that is damaging men's sports programs... Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Women's Voices: Global Perspectives on the Right to Vote is a special global collection of essays, published as a companion to personal stories about the importance of the right to vote by women in several countries captured on video and produced with the assistance of LexisNexis and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT By engaging deeply with American legal and political history as well as the increasingly rich material on gender history, Gendered Citizenship illuminates the ideological contours of the original struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from 1920 to 1963. As the first comprehensive, full-length history of that struggle, this study grapples not only with the battle over women’s constitutional status but also with the more than forty-year mission to articulate the boundaries of what it means to be an American citizen. Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,” through a narrative that weaves together exclusive interviews, never-before-seen FBI files, and documents, offering profound insights into his significant role in American history and the civil rights movement. Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Good Help the Child Playing In the Dark A Mercy Language as Liberation Books available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Summary: Controversial analysis of the Jackson campaign by a black scholar who argues that his candidacy hurt the development of a viable black political movement. Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Summary: Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, defendant in the Chicago conspiracy case, and one of the New Haven Panther 14, writes from jail about himself, his party, and its leadership- the black men who have changed themselves, have changed America, and in the course of it, have caused an enormous controversy about our liberties and institutions. Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders. Available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT Summary: The story of Black education is about more than desegregation and inclusion in mainstream schooling. Jarvis Givens returns to the classrooms of Jim Crow to highlight the forgotten work of Carter G. Woodson and his followers, who undertook the radical act of educating Black children. Their subversive methods continue to provide a model today. Book available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library

ALT The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction by Akhil Reed Amar, a landmark work that reinterprets the first ten amendments by examining their original intent and how their meaning was transformed during Reconstruction, particularly through the Fourteenth Amendment.

ALT Debating Human Rights by Daniel P. L. Chong Reinventing Human Rights by Mark Goodale Humanitarianism and Human Rights: a world of differences? By Michael N Barnett Available in our collection at library.fdu.edu/library The Human Rights Watch global report on women's human rights By the Women's Rights Project (Human Rights Watch) & the Human Rights Watch (Organization)

ALT Rosa Parks : my story Authors: Rosa Parks 1913-2005 & James Haskins 1941-2005 Available in our collection https://fdu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/19322654