Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

George Takei’s firsthand account of his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Takei recounts the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. In this books, Joyce Antler has at last broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.

Mia Alvar’s stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America–and, sometimes, turning back.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. This is the 25th anniversary edition of the book acclaimed as ‘the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust’ (Wall Street Journal).

A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of Indian immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical activist dedicated to effecting historic policy reform in the military.

Two teens during the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there’s a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew brought up by his father, an ultra-orthodox rabbi, while Reuven has been raised by his secular scholar father.

In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen’s life was changed forever when she was sexually assaulted at Harvard. A heart-wrenching memoir of survival and hope, Saving Five boldly braids the story of Nguyen’s activism—which resulted in Congress’s unanimous passage of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act in 2016—with a second adventure of Nguyen’s younger selves as they navigate through the emotional stages of her path toward healing.

Despite increased contact between the West and the Arab world, even top American political leaders have only limited awareness of the realities and complexities of their Arab counterparts. Arab Voices asks the questions, collects the answers, and shares the results that will help us see Arabs clearly, bringing into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding this important variety of cultures.

Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor, loved ones in Stalin’s purges, and war looms once more on the horizon. These daughters of Ukraine will face devastation and loss as they fight to survive and protect the ones they love.

Building on the collected psychological research and the author’s own experience of the past twenty years, The Velvet Rage will help gay men profoundly understand their dichotomous extremes. Explaining the psychological underpinnings of the forces at play in their lives, it also offers helpful strategies to stop the insidious cycle of avoidance and rage.

In Dark Laboratory, Goffe embarks on a historical journey into the influences that have made the Caribbean islands a target of Western capitalism and the foundation of the global economy as we know it today. Through the lens of personal and family memoir, as well as cultural and social history, Goffe seeks to radically transform how we conceive of Blackness, natural history, colonialism, and the climate crisis.

What’s the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American. Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society.

A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be ‘the best place in the world.’