Books about Diversity and Social Justice in Higher Education

In graduate school, my specialization was access, equity, and diversity in higher education. I focused on access to higher education policy as well as civic engagement and service-learning. In honor of Careers in Student Affairs Month, I have listed my favorite seminal and updated books about this subjects below. 

This list will be continuously updated annually.

• Advancing Social Justice: Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies for Strengthening Your Campus - 2013
• ASHE Reader on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education (3rd Ed) – 2010
• Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
• Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity - 1997
• Civic Engagement in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices – 2009
• Contested Issues in Student Affairs: Diverse Perspectives and Respectful Dialogue – 2011
• Creating Multicultural Change on Campus - 2014 
• Critical Race Theory, An Introduction (2nd Ed) - 2012
• Degrees of Inequality: Culture, Class and Gender in American Higher Education - 2011
• Developing Social Justice Allies (New Directions for Student Services) - 
• Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education 
• Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Students - 2013
• Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach – 2011
• Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work - 2015
• Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility – 2010
• Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education - 2006
• Faded Dreams: The Politics and Economics of Race in America - 1996
• Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Across Academic Disciplines and Cultural Communities - 2013
• Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs - 2004 
• Multiculturalism on Campus: Theory, Models, and Practices for Understanding Diversity and Creating Inclusion  - 2011
• Multicultural Student Services on Campus: Building Bridges, Re-Visioning Community – 2011
• Privilege, Power and Difference - 2005
• Public Policy and Higher Education: Reframing Strategies for Preparation, Access, and Success – 2012
• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice - 2013
• Responding to the Realities of Race on Campus - 2008
• Service Learning Essentials - 2014
• Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education - 2010
• Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform - 2012
• Student Engagement in Higher Education (2nd Ed)
• Teaching for Social Justice (2nd Ed)
• The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstruction of Higher Education, 1965-1972 - 2012
• The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1932 - 1988
• The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College Admissions - 2000
• The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities - 2006
• The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America - 1996
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
• When Diversity Drop: Race, Religion, and Affirmative Action 
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - 2003