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.

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson cover
What We’re Reading: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Book review by Julie Humphrey, Library Director

Antiracist Resource Guide(link is external)

Global Studies Resource Guide(link is external)

LGBTQIA Resource Guide(link is external)

Sociology Resource Guide(link is external)

Women’s Studies Resource Guide(link is external)

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(link is external), Jacopo Prisco, CNN.com, 6/2019

Building a Culture of Inclusion for All Students(link is external), Christina A. Samuels, Education Week, 2/19/2020

Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong(link is external), 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(link is external). Jodi M. Savage, guest writer, Huffington Post, 6/25/2020

Where'd All These Woke White People Come From?(link is external), Michael Harriot, The Root, 6/4/2020

The First Pride March(link is external), Library of Congress, 2020
 

Books

On Being Different: What it Means to be Homosexual(link is external), Merle Miller, Publisher: PenguinRandomHouse.com, 2012

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times(link is external), Carolina de Robertis, 2017

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story(link is external), Jacob Tobia, 2019

Stone Butch Blues(link is external), Leslie Feinberg, 1993 (free pdf copy)

The Tradition(link is external), Jericho Brown, Publisher: CopperCanyonPress.org (Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry)

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours(link is external), Helen Oyeyemi, Publisher: PenguinRandomHouse.com, 2017


Videos

13th(link is external), Directed by Ava DuVernay, Netflix Feature made free on YouTube

Watch: Learning More About Race in America

Library LGBTQIA Videos(link is external)

Brokeback Mountain(link is external), Directed by Ang Lee, 2005

Elisa & Marcela(link is external), Directed by Isabel Coixet, 2019

Love Simon(link is external), Directed by Greg Berlanti, 2018

Why Gender Pronouns Matter(link is external), YouTube Channel: Seventeen, 2017