The following is a list of resources that will contribute to your overall education and personal growth as aspiring graduate and professional students. The objective and mission of the EIP/McNair Office within the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at the University of Washington are to promote diversity in academia and the professions, which will enrich research and policy programs and ultimately represent the entire spectrum of American people.

Race, Ethnicity and Culture

Butler, Octavia. Kindred.
DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk.
Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man.
Entman, Robert M. and Rojecki, Andrew. The Black Image in the White Mind.
Giovanni, Nikki. Racism 101.
Gould, Stephen J. The Mismeasure of Man.
Graves, Joseph L. The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium.
hooks, bell. Killing Rage.
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White.
Morrison, Toni and Lacour, Claudia Brodsky (Eds.). Birth of a Nation'hood.
Price-Spratlen, Lois. African American Registered Nurses in Seattle: The Struggle for Opportunity and Success.
Rosaldo, Renato. Culture and Truth.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
Tatum, Beverly. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Tatum, Beverly. Other Conversations About Race.
West, Cornel. Race Matters.
West, Cornel. The Cornel West Reader.
 

Poetry

Boyle, Kay. The Collected Poems of Kay Boyle.
Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats.
Flores, Lauro (Ed.). The Floating Borderlands.
Lorde, Audre. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance.
McElroy, Colleen. Bone Flames.
Milligan, Guerrero Milligan, de Hoyos (Eds.). !Floricanto Sí!: A collection of Latina poetry.
Rich, Adrienne. The Fact of a Doorframe.
 

Technical Skills

Becker, Howard. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish your thesis, book or article.
Cresswell, John C. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Approaches.
Strunk, William and E.B. White. The Elements of Style.
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well.
 

Education

Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. A Special Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Davies, Bronwyn. A body of writing, 1990-1999.
Feibelman, Peter J. A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Hamming, Richard W. (Speech) http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
hooks, bell. Teaching Community.
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress.
Ibarra, Robert A. Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education.
Peters, Robert. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
 

Magazines and Periodicals

Smithsonian magazine
The Economist
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Guardian
The International Herald Tribune
 

Social Theory/Metaphysics/Philosophy

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands.
Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.
Loeb, Paul. Soul of a Citizen: Living with conviction in a cynical time.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo.
Schrodinger, Erwin. What is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches.