Standing Together for Justice
This guide highlights Dickinson library resources, including books, films, and databases, for expanding our understanding of social justice issues, so that we can combat discrimination in all its forms. You can discover more resources on the library website. If you would like help finding additional information sources, or if you wish to recommend additional resources, please contact a librarian for assistance.
Other Online Resources
Books: Poetry & Drama
Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945 by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020
Graphic Novels
The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 by Call Number: NC1499 .S337 A2 2015Publication Date: 2015-10-20
The Arab of the Future 2: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East (1984-1985) by Call Number: NC1499 .S337 A23 2016Publication Date: 2016-09-20
The Arab of the Future 3: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East (1985-1987) by Call Number: NC1499 .S337 A2 2018Publication Date: 2018-08-07
The Arab of the Future 4: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East (1987-1992) by Call Number: NC1499.S337 A2 2019Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid by Call Number: PN6727.X53 E84 2020Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Films & Documentaries
Explore the library's streaming and DVD collections:
https://www.dickinson.edu/info/20391/library/2519/film_search
Some Films Include:
- The Undocumented
- The Other Side of Immigration
- Icebox
- Letters from the Other Side
- The New Americans: Supporting Families
- El Sol Sale Para Todos
- Secrets of Silicon Valley
- Golden Dream (La Jaula de Oro)
- A Thousand & One Journeys: The Arab Americans
- Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary
- The Border Wall
- Harvest of Empire
Books: Nonfiction
Immigration Structures and Immigrant Lives by Call Number: JV6475 .H33 2017Publication Date: 2017-10-20
The Migrant Crisis: European Perspectives and National Discourses by Call Number: JV7590 .M4843 2017Publication Date: 2017-07-31
Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Call Number: JV6225 .M577 2017Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy by Call Number: JV6483 .H57 2017Publication Date: 2017-01-24
Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization by Call Number: JV6217 .P48 2017Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Handcuffs and Chain Link: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America by Call Number: JV6483 .O47 2018Publication Date: 2018-07-25
The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What it Means to Be American by Call Number: JV6483 .W528 2018Publication Date: 2018
Remittance As Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home by Call Number: JV6217 .M34 2025Publication Date: 2025
From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color by Call Number: E184.D6 F84 2023Publication Date: 2023-05-12
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Call Number: JV6455 .Y34 2020Publication Date: 2020-05-19
Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration by Call Number: PS153.H56 W66 2021Publication Date: 2021-02-19
Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border by Call Number: JV6565 .M66 2018ISBN: 9781576878675Publication Date: 2018-03-27
They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration by Call Number: JV6455 .C46 2018ISBN: 9780807057162Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Call Number: JV6465 .C46 2014Publication Date: 2014-05-13
Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant by Call Number: JV6483 .F66 2020Publication Date: 2020-10-14
The Border: Policy and Politics in Europe and the United States by Call Number: JV7633 .S36 2019Publication Date: 2019-09-12
The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle Over National Citizenship by Call Number: JV6483 .N52 2019Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Does Immigration Increase Crime?: Migration Policy and the Creation of the Criminal Immigrant by Call Number: JV6033 .F37 2019Publication Date: 2019-09-05
Books: Memoir & Biography
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir by Call Number: HV640.4.U54 Y364 2020Publication Date: 2020-11-10
Books: Fiction
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Call Number: F128.68.C47 C45 2023Publication Date: 2023-04-25
Scary Monsters: A Novel in Two Parts by Call Number: PR9619.4.D4 S33 2022ISBN: 9781646221097Publication Date: 2022-04-26
The King Is Always above the People by Call Number: PS3601 .L333 A6 2017Publication Date: 2017-10-31
The Turtle of Oman: A Novel (Stellfox 2018) by Call Number: PZ7.N976 Tur 2014Publication Date: 2016-05-03
