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Unraveling complicated issues of inequality in workplaces, communities

Adia Harvey Wingfield's new book exposes how hospitals, clinics and other institutions participate in “racial outsourcing,” relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians and physician assistants to do “equity work”— extra labor that makes organizations more accessible to communities of color.

Browse titles from Washington University’s faculty and alumni. Thoughtful. Diverse. Well researched. These books might just make it to your shelf, nightstand or coffee table.

Award Winner

I Met Loh Kiowan

Translated by Ji-Eun Lee

Tigers, Fairies, and Gods

Enchanting Folktales from Korea

By Mijeong Mimi Kim

The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps For Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

By Anjan V. Thakor

Michelangelo, God’s Architect

The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

By William E. Wallace

Flatlining

Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

By Adia Harvey Wingfield

Saint-Saëns and the Stage

Operas, Plays, Pageants, a Ballet and a Film

By Hugh Macdonald

Lessons Learned

Stories of a Teacher and Teaching

By David M. Becker

Building the Black Arts Movement

Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s

By Jonathan Fenderson

The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

Edited by Gerald Early

What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew

(and What It Means to Americans)

Edited by Nancy Berg (with Naomi B. Sokoloff)

Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings

By Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima

In her new book, “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving,” sociologist Caitlyn Collins argues that big changes in U.S. policies and cultural attitudes are necessary to bring work-life balance to America’s working mothers and their families.

Making Motherhood Work

How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

By Caitlyn Collins