Research Guides: New Books in the Library 2017: Week of January 3

FEATURED BOOKS -- Race in America

Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Call Number: E184.A1 B597 2014
The acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for and ultimately justify racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society. The fourth edition adds a chapter on what the author calls "the new racism," which provides the essential foundation to explore issues of race and ethnicity in more depth. This edition also updates Bonilla-Silva's assessment of race in America after President Barack Obama s re-election.

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016
*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION*
Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists.

America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
Call Number: E185.615 .W3125 2016
Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo. His participation in the civil rights movement brought him back when he discovered a faith that commands racial justice. In America's Original Sin, Wallis offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society. Probing yet positive, biblically rooted yet highly practical, this book shows people of faith how they can work together to overcome the embedded racism in America, galvanizing a movement to cross the bridge to a multiracial church and a new America.

RELIGION

The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
Call Number: BX1378.7 .I94 2015
A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religions.
The Mormon Jesus: A Biography
Call Number: BX8643.J4 T87 2016
From the author of the definitive life of Brigham Young comes a biography of the Mormon Jesus that revises and enriches our understanding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Criminal Justice System

How Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room by James L. Trainum
Call Number: KF9664 .T73 2016
This book takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions happen. James L. Trainum reveals how innocent people can become suspects and then confessed criminals even when they have not committed a crime.

Wildfire Fighters

The Fire Line
Call Number: SD421.24 .S26 2016
When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, it set off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history. The twenty men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots heard the call and sprang into action. The Fire Line is the story of an elite crew trained to combat the wildfires that scorched 4 million acres of wild lands in the United States that year.

MELE Program

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Call Number: ML420.S77 A3 2016
Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep.
Sam Phillips: the Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Call Number: ML429.P54 G87 2016
Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before.

Let's talk about gender...

Transgender History
Call Number: HQ77.9 .S77 2008
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today,this book takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.

Man, Interrupted: Why Young Men Are Struggling and What We Can Do about It
Call Number: HQ1090 .Z545 2016
The premise here is that we are facing a not-so-brave new world; a world in which young men are getting left behind. In record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. Philip G. Zimbardo and Nikita Coulombe say that an addiction to video games and online porn have created a generation of shy, socially awkward, emotionally removed, and risk-adverse young men who are unable (and unwilling) to navigate the complexities and risks inherent to real-life relationships, school, and employment.

Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Call Number: HQ1219 .W45 2016
A thought-provoking examination of how we think and talk about beauty today--and the unexpected and often positive ways that beauty shapes our lives. The author thoughtfully examines the relationship between appearance and science, social media, sex, friendship, language, and advertising to show how beauty actually affects us day to day.

ISIS / TERRORISM

Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick
Call Number: HV6433.I722 I8593 2016
*WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION*
In a thrilling dramatic narrative, reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today's most dangerous extremist threat.
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss; Hassan Hassan
Call Number: HV6433.I722 W45 2015
American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain.
The Girl Who Beat Isis: Farida's Story by Farida Khalaf with Andrea C. Hoffmann
Call Number: HV6604.I74 K43 2016
The astonishing true story of a heroic young woman's capture by and eventual escape from ISIS. Searing and immediate, this is the first memoir by a young woman that shows first-hand what life is like for innocents caught up in the maelstrom of day-to-day life with ISIS.

HISTORY - ASIA

Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
Call Number: D767.25.N3 S74 2016
This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath.
Experiences of Japanese American Women During and after World War II
Call Number: D769.8.A6 Y343 2014
Precious Yamaguchi follows these women after they were released and shows how they tried to rebuild their lives after losing everything. Using evidence from primary sources...
Before and After September 11, 2001: An Asian Perspective
Call Number: DS35.2 .B425 2004
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Call Number: DS559.8.S6 N48 2016
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory…This book is a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War--conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations.

Smokejumping

Smokejumper
Call Number: SD421.25.R36 A3 2016
"A fascinating look" (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.