LGBTQ Pride Month
June is Pride Month! Join us at Pardee in celebrating the past and present accomplishments of queer and transgender leaders in the workforce with a selection of books from our collection. From the ups and downs of transgender truck drivers to the diaries of a lesbian coal industry mogul, we have been here and queer forever, and we are here to stay.
Looking to connect with other LGBTQ students, staff, or faculty at BU? Learn more about Cohort Q, Questrom's LGBTQ student organization.
Happy Pride!
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Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Offers an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Queer Career shows how LGBT history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past. -
Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-1836
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022The remarkable, recently rediscovered diaries of Anne Lister, a lesbian businesswoman in 19th century England. She was an impressive scholar, fearless traveler, coal mine developer, political activist, and more. In these diaries, Lister recounts her accomplishments and romantic affairs with striking candor. -
Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars around the globe--but it's definitely not the last dance. Drawing on over 100 interviews with bar owners, party producers, revelers, and rabble-rousers, this book showcases the revolution revitalizing queer urban nightlife.
Books for Pride Month
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Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019David K. Johnson tells the story of the physique magazine produced by and for gay men to show how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it. -
The Queering of Corporate America
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the story of how LGBT rights activism during the 20th century helped turn major companies into reliable movement allies. The Queering of Corporate America complicates the narrative of corporate conservatism, and provides insights into the future of the legal, political, and cultural implications of this unexpected relationship. -
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014Chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of LGBT+ workers in the 1970s and 1980s. She documents coming out on the job and in the union as well as issues of discrimination and harassment, and the creation of alliances between unions and LGBT communities. -
Work! A Queer History of Modeling
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Elspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history, showing how it is both the quintessential occupation of a modern consumer economy and a practice that has been shaped by queer sensibilities. -
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. These oral histories reveal the realities of life behind the wheel.
Juneteenth
June 19 is Juneteenth, commemorating the day enslaved people in Texas gained their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day and commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education, achievement, and celebration.
Celebrate Juneteenth by exploring the history and accomplishments of African Americans in business and industry. See these and other titles on display at Pardee Library.
For more information about Juneteenth, check out the links listed below:
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
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Location: Pardee Stacks E185.8 .H55 2024Publication Date: 2024After the Civil War, thousands of emancipated people invested in the Freedman's Bank, which promised to be a launch point for self-determination and economic freedom. Its collapse shaped inequality in this country for over a century. Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the bank and its depositors. -
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street : One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most brutal acts of racist violence in U.S. history, a ruthless attempt to smother a spark of Black independence. But that was never the whole story of Greenwood. Journalist Victor Luckerson weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased. -
What We Build With Power: The Fight for Economic Justice in Tech
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Activist and organizer David Delmar Sentíes argues that tech is in a position to move beyond empty platitudes and toward an organized workforce that values the economic well-being of Black and Latinx communities. Delmar Sentíes uses his firsthand experience as the founder of Resilient Coders—a free and stipended nonprofit coding bootcamp that trains people of color from low income communities for careers as software engineers—to highlight how we must identify and dismantle the systemic barriers in tech.
Books for Juneteenth
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Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023With nearly 150 entries, this book has been carefully curated to showcase the inspiring stories of African Americans in entertainment, business, sports, politics, and other fields whose hard work, courage, and talent have led the course of US and global history. -
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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Location: Pardee Stacks HD8081.A65 K455 2023Publication Date: 2023In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future. -
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Before, during, and after the Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from skilled trades, factories, and public works projects. Jacqueline Jones presents inspiring and heart-rending stories of people who ingeniously forged careers in spite of monumental obstacles. -
Ted Mack and America's First Black-Owned Brewery: The Rise and Fall of People's Beer
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Ted Mack fought in the Korean War, played football at Ohio State, organized buses to the March on Washington, and started his own beer company. Mack and Peoples Brewing is an inspirational story of Black entrepreneurship, innovation and pride. -
Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022In the darkest hours of the 20th century, iconic Black leaders gathered hundreds across the US and beyond to build vast networks of mutual aid. This book offers both an original account of Black cooperatives and a moving meditation on the possibilities of the present.
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