15-996 Class Library

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1	This is the 15-996 class library, from which any SCS grad student can check out books.

2	Current library manager: Ananya Joshi (aajoshi@andrew)
3	Where do I pick up my book?		GHC 6002. Stop by and see if anyone is there to let you in, or email the current library manager and arrange a time to come pick up your book.
4	When is my book due?		Books are due 6 weeks after you pick it up. To renew a book, email the current library manager. Please try to return your book on time - the students who run this library are busy!
5	How do I place a hold on a book?		If you want a book but it's currently checked out, you can put a hold on the book by putting your andrew ID in the "place a hold" column below next to the book. This means you are next in line to check out the book, and you should check back after the current due date of the book.
6	Who do I contact with questions?		The current library manager (above).
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8	Title	Author(s)	Description	Book status	Place a hold
9	Americanah	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	"Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze." -Wikipedia As per Wikipedia, it touches on the themes of Americanization, Gender and Migration.	Available
10	Bad Feminist	Roxane Gay	"A New York Times bestseller, a collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation." - Roxane Gay Website	Available
11	Beautiful Country	Qian Julie Wang	"... seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. ... an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light." - Penguin Random House	Available
12	Daring Greatly	Brene Brown	Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage. -Barnes and Noble	Available
13	Data Feminism	Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein	"[The authors] present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics - one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. ... show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. ... . Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed." - MIT Press	Available
14	Disability Visibility	Alice Wong	"One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. ... this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community " - Penguin Random House	Available
15	A field guide to grad school: uncovering the hidden curriculum	Jessica Calarco	"... how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article... are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own" - Princeton University Press	Checked out
16	How to be Antiracist	Ibram X Kendi	"an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science--including the story of his own awakening to antiracism-bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form ... helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships (including beliefs about race and IQ and interracial social relations) and reexamines the policies and larger social arrangements we support." -Ibram X Kendi website	Available
17	Hunger	Roxane Gay	"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written [essays] with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health." - Roxane Gay Website	Available
18	Invisible Women	Caroline Criado-Perez	"... so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives ... Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world" - Goodreads	Available
19	Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson	"Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a memoir by Bryan Stevenson that documents his career as a lawyer for disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children who receive life sentences and other poor or marginalized clients." - Wikipedia	Available	ccodel	Hoaian Nguyen
20	Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China	Leta Hong Fincher	"Contrary to many claims made in the media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. Leftover Women lays out the structural discrimination against women and speaks to broader problems with China’s economy, politics, and development." - Bloomsbury Collections	Available
21	No study without struggle	Leigh Patel	"... the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few. Through original research and interviews with activists and organizers ... argues that the struggle on campuses reflect a starting point for higher education to confront settler strategies. " - Beacon Press	Available
22	On earth, we're briefly gorgeous	Ocean Vuong	"a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read ... the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known ... it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. " -Goodreads	Checked out (due 4/27/22)
23	Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia	Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzàlez, Angela P. Harris	"Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color..." -Goodreads	Available
24	Race after technology	Ruha Benjamin	"... ways in which social hierarchies, particularly racism, are embedded in the logical layer of internet-based technologies. ... references Michelle Alexander's work The New Jim Crow, to analyze how seemingly "neutral" algorithms and applications can replicate or worsen racial bias." - Wikipedia	Available
25	Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist	Eli Saslow	"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another." -Penguin Random House	Available
26	So you want to talk about race	Ijeoma Oluo	"offers a revelatory examination of race in America, ,,, How do you tell your boss her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law hang up on you when you had questions about police reform? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? ... guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth ... honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life." - Seal Press	Available
27	Stuck in the shallow end	Jane Margolis	". ... The race gap in computer science, ..., is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. ... a story of how inequality is reproduced in America - and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system." -MIT Press	Available
28	The end of bias: a beginning (copy 1)	Jessica Nordell	"Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We see it in medicine, the workplace, education, policing, and beyond. ... weaves gripping stories with scientific research to reveal how minds, hearts, and behaviors change. ... Biased behavior can change; the approaches outlined here show how we can begin to remake ourselves and our world. " -Macmillian	Checked out (due 3/28/22)
29	The end of bias: a beginning (copy 2)	Jessica Nordell	""	Available
30	The end of bias: a beginning (copy 3)	Jessica Nordell	""	Available
31	The Loneliest Americans	Jay Caspian Kang	".... story of Kang and his family ... against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. At the same time, upwardly mobile urban professionals have struggled to reconcile their parents’ assimilationist goals with membership in a multicultural elite—all while trying to carve out a new kind of belonging for their own children, who are neither white nor truly “people of color.” " - Penguin Random House	Available
32	The Rise of Big Data Policing	Andrew Guthrie Ferguson	"Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reveals how these new technologies --viewed as race-neutral and objective--have been eagerly adopted by police departments hoping to distance themselves from claims of racial bias and unconstitutional practices." -Goodreads	Available
33	The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together	Heather McGee	"From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. " - Penguin Random House	Available
34	There there	Tommy Orange	"... follows a large cast of Native Americans living in the Oakland, California area and contains several essays on Native American history and identity. The characters struggle with a wide array of challenges, ranging from depression and alcoholism, to unemployment, fetal alcohol syndrome, and the challenges of living with an "ambiguously nonwhite" ethnic identity in the United States." - Wikipedia	Available
35	Thick	Tressie Mcmillan Cottom	"In eight highly praised treatises [essays] on beauty, media, money, and more, ... McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. Thick “transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women” (Los Angeles Review of Books) with “writing that is as deft as it is amusing” (Darnell L. Moore). - The New Press	Available
36	Weapons of Math Destruction	Cathy O'Neil	"It explores how some big data algorithms are increasingly used in ways that reinforce preexisting inequality. .. in a variety of fields, including insurance, advertising, education, and policing, can lead to decisions that harm the poor, reinforce racism, and amplify inequality. She posits that these problematic mathematical tools share three key features: they are opaque, unregulated, and difficult to contest. They are also scalable, thereby amplifying any inherent biases to affect increasingly larger populations." - Wikipedia	Available
37	Whipping Girl	Julia Serano	"... a transsexual woman shares her powerful experiences and observations-both pre- and post-transition-to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. ... ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender." -Seal Press	Available
38	Whistling Vivaldi	Claude Steele	"...offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports [Claude Steele's] groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities." - Norton	Available
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