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.
Looking to connect with other LGBTQ students, staff, or faculty at BU? Learn more about Cohort Q, Questrom's LGBTQ student organization.
Happy Pride!
Featured Reading: Pride
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America by 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.
The Queering of Corporate America by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the story of how LGBT rights activism during the twentieth 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.
All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading Authentically by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Celebrated corporate leader James Fielding delivers an inspirational leadership story told from the perspective of an out and proud LGBTQ+ executive. All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading Authentically will earn a place on the bookshelves of young, aspiring leaders seeking practical and impactful strategies for real-world leadership.
LGBTQ Pride Month Books
Transgender in the Workplace: The Complete Guide to the New Authenticity for Employers and Gender-Diverse Professionals by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Offering a fresh and practical perspective for employers and gender-diverse professionals, this book presents useful tools, information, and resources to help organizations and individuals to understand and leverage the power of gender authenticity as a pathway to business success.
Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021In Millennial Feminism at Work, volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of their feminist studies programs in their chosen career paths. The result is a dynamic collection of voices, shaking up preconceived ideas and showing the positive influence of gender and sexuality studies on individuals at work.
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement by 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. He offers a vivid look into the lives of physique entrepreneurs and their customers, presenting a wealth of illustrations.
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014Out in the Union tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. Miriam Frank shrewdly chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 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.
Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Institutional focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion affects all parts of higher education management. Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation scrutinizes the conceptual framework for diversity, equity, and inclusion actions in academia to facilitate research-based and critically reflected decisions in higher education management.
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920s and continuing into the post-September 11 era, Plane Queer examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as female-oriented.
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.
Featured Reading: Juneteenth
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by 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.
Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023With nearly 150 entries across 17 categories, 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 history in the United States and around the world.
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 by 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.
Juneteenth Books
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020A biography of Anthony Overton, a son of enslaved people who became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century, whose Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance.
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires by Location: Pardee Stacks HC102.5.A2 W55 2019Publication Date: 2019Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success. Black Fortunes illuminates as never before the birth of the Black business titan.
Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013Chronicles the cultural history of Black barber shops as businesses and civic institutions. Through several generations of barbers, Mills examines the transition from slavery to freedom in the 19th century, the early 20th-century expansion of Black consumerism, and the challenges of professionalization, licensing laws, and competition from white barbers.
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry by Location: Mugar Stacks E185.86 .G494 2010Publication Date: 2010Looking through the lens of Black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how Black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism.
To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013Explores the reasons why Black activists, who were committed to their own fight for equality during the 19060s, crossed racial, socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological divides to align themselves with a union of predominantly Mexican American farm workers in rural California.
The African American Entrepreneur: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trump Era by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019A history of Black entrepreneurship in America throughout history and a roadmap that explains the steps that prospective entrepreneurs must take to achieve success in business. The African American Entrepreneur also explores the lower economic status of Black Americans in light of slavery, segregation, and rampant discrimination.
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