Research Guides: Queer Academics and Activism (QAA) Precollege Program: Articles &amp; Books

Home
Articles & Books

Free E-Books & Journal Articles

Open Content on JSTOR
Search across journals, e-books, and audiovisual materials that are freely available online.
Open Access Content in Project Muse
Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from university presses and scholarly societies.
SocArXiv
A free open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers.

Brandeis Library OneSearch

OneSearch searches our library's physical collections as well as many of our online collections.

Library Catalog: Your first stop to connect to items that the Library owns or has immediate access to.
Brandeis and More: Your second stop if you want to broaden your search beyond Brandeis. Request materials from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
Course Reserves: Search for books and films that have been set aside for your courses.
Archives and Special Collections: Search for rare and unique materials (both physical and digital) held by Brandeis Library.
Brandeis ScholarWorks: Search for research and creative work created by Brandeis faculty, students, and staff.

Books at Brandeis Library

Although we can't provide remote access to these materials to QAA students, we encourage you to check to see if e-books are available from your school and/or local libraries!

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. by E. Patrick Johnson
Publication Date: 2018
Drawn from the life narratives of more than 70 African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South.
Critically Sovereign by Joanne Barker (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2017
Traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism.
Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements by JoAnne Myers
Publication Date: 2013
Brief entries describe key people, topics, and concepts related to lesbian and gay liberation movements.
In a Queer Country by Terry Goldie (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2002
This anthology covers topics in Canadian Queer Studies, including some with a historical focus.
Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson
Publication Date: 2016
LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. This book recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism.
Pride Parades: How A Parade Changed the World by Katherine McFarland Bruce
Publication Date: 2016
Tells the story of Pride from its beginning in 1970 through 2010.
Queer Brown Voices by Uriel Quesada (Editor); Letitia Gomez (Editor); Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Essays and oral history interviews of 14 activists across the U.S. and Puerto Rico about Latino/a activism in the 1970s-1990s.
Restoried Selves by Kevin K. Kumashiro (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2003
First-person accounts of 20 queer Asian/ Pacific American activists.
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein
Publication Date: 2012
Focusing on the decades from the 1940s through the 1990s, Stein offers a new take on the gay and lesbian movement in the United States.
Sweet Tea by E. Patrick Johnson
Publication Date: 2008
Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, Sweet Tea collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States.
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Publication Date: 2008
Covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century through 2007.