Resources for Belonging

This resource list was created in December 2024 to provide additional reading on the Campus Community Book Project (CCBP) topic for 2025-2026 — belonging — and to supplement the book selection, Solito: A Memoir, by Javier Zamora.

Below are suggested books, scholarly articles and other resources divided by sub-topics.

cover of the book solito by Javier zamora, with an outline of a young boy filled with photos of mountains, field and a moon.

General

Brown, B. (2017). Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone (First edition). Random House.
Davis, K. (2018). Contested Belonging: Spaces, practices, biographies (2nd ed.). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Guirat, M. (2018). Politics And Poetics of Belonging (1st ed.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Powell, J. A., & Menendian, S. (2024). Belonging Without Othering: How we save ourselves and the world. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503640092
Ross, H. J., & Tartaglione, J. (2018). Our Search for Belonging: How our need to connect Is tearing us apart (1st ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Vogl, C. (2016). The Art Of Community (1st ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

“Bridging Across Difference”

Block, P. (2018). Community: The structure of belonging (2nd ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Brown, A. M. (2024). Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy Series, 12). AK Press.
Cohen, G. (2022). Belonging: The science of creating connection and bridging divides (First Edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Guzmán, M. (2022). I Never Thought of It That Way: How to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times. BenBella Books, Inc.
Murthy, V. H. (2020). Together: The healing power of human connection in a sometimes lonely world (First). Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Parks, C. (2022). Diary of a Misfit: A memoir and a mystery (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Powell, J. A. (2024). The Power of Bridging (1st ed., p. 400). Macmillan Trade.
RD, J. W. M. (2023). It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the story of black women’s bodies (4th ed.). Hachette Go.
Wiest, B. (2020). The Mountain Is You: Transforming self-sabotage into self-mastery (First). Thought Catalog Books.
Winters, M.-F. (2020). Inclusive Conversations: Fostering equity, empathy, and belonging across differences (1st ed., p. 216). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Disability

Brown, R. L., Maroto, M. L., & Pettinicchio, D. (2023). The Oxford handbook of the sociology of disability. Oxford University Press.
Haidt, J. (2024). The Anxious Generation: How the great rewiring of childhood Is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Penguin Press.
Hirschmann, N. J., & Linker, B. (2015). Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, membership, and belonging (N. J. Hirschmann & B. Linker, Eds.). DE GRUYTER. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290530
Huggins, D. W., & Copeland, S. R. (2023). Disability and belonging in an inclusive Christian faith community. Inclusion, 11(4), 271–285. https://doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-11.4.271
Jarman, M., Monaghan, L. F., & Harkin, A. Q. (2017). Barriers and Belonging: Personal narratives of disability. Temple University Press.
Jones, J. L., & Gallus, K. L. (Eds.). (2021). Belonging and Resilience in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: Community and family engagement. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81277-5
Mobily, K., & Johnson, A. (2021). Disability, belonging, and inclusive leisure. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 44(2), 144–154. https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2021.1935429
Monaco, E. H., Brusnahan, L., Fuller, M., & Odima, M. (2024). An Intersectional Approach to Working with Students with Disabilities: Socioculturally sustaining practices (Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Ethnicity

Khong, R. (2024). Real Americans. BookPage, 20.
Krawec, P. (2022). Becoming Kin: An indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future (1st ed.). Broadleaf Books.
McBride, J. (2023). The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Riverhead Books.
RD, J. W. M. (2023). It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the story of black women’s bodies (4th ed.). Hachette Go.
Ritchie, A. (2023). Practicing New Worlds Abolition and Emergent Strategies (1st ed., p. 336). AK Press.
Tubbs, A. M. (2021). The Three Mothers: How the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation (Later prt.). Flatiron Books.
Uché Blackstock, M. D. (2024). Legacy: A black physician reckons with racism in medicine (1st ed.). Viking.
Varela, A. (2022). The Town of Babylon (1st ed., p. 320). Random House Publishing Services.

Immigration

Brettell, C. B. (2006). Political belonging and cultural belonging. American Behavioral Scientist, 50(1), 70–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764206289655
Foner, N., & Simon, P. (2015). Fear, anxiety, and national identity: Immigration and belonging in North America and Western Europe (1st ed.). Russell Sage Foundation.
Jimenez, T. R., Schildkraut, D. J., Huo, Y. J., & Dovidio, J. F. (2021). States of Belonging: Immigration policies, attitudes, and inclusion (1st ed.). Russell Sage Foundation.
Masuoka, Natalie., & Junn, Jane. (2013). The politics of belonging: Race, public opinion, and immigration. The University of Chicago Press.
Motomura, H. (2025). Borders and Belonging: Toward a fair immigration policy. Oxford University Press, New York. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197743720.001.0001
Ramírez, C. S. (2021). Precarity and Belonging: Labor, migration, and noncitizenship (C. S. Ramírez, S. M. Falcón, J. Poblete, S. C. McKay, & F. A. Schaeffer, Eds.). Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978815667
Sanchez, A. E. (2021). Homeland: Ethnic Mexican belonging since 1900 (Volume 2) (New Directions in Tejano History) (p. 248). University of Oklahoma Press.
Savage, M., Bagnall, Gaynor., & Longhurst, B. (2005). Globalization and Belonging. SAGE.
Sigona, N., Gonzales, R. G., Franco, M. C., & Papoutsi, A. (2019). Undocumented Migration (Immigration & Society) (1st ed., p. 192). Polity.
Zamora, J. (2022). Solito: A Memoir (2nd ed., p. 386). Hogarth.

Poverty

Ambroz, D. (2022). A Place Called Home: A memoir (First, p. 384). Legacy Lit.
Brady, D. (2009). Rich Democracies, Poor People: How politics explain poverty. Oxford University Press.
Desmond, M. (2023). Poverty, by America (First edition.). Crown.
Hartman, C. (2006). Poverty & Race in America: The emerging agendas (Text is Free of Markings, p. 456). Lexington Books.
Jenkins, S. P., & Micklewright, John. (2007). Inequality and Poverty Re-examined. Oxford University Press.
Kingsolver, B. (2022). Demon Copperhead: A novel (First). Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Lister, R. (2004). Poverty. Polity.
Nallari, R., & Griffith, B. (2011). Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, policy, and empirics. The World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-6953-1
Nichols, L., & Switzer, J. (2016). Abundance Now: Amplify your life and achieve prosperity today (First). Dey Street Books, An imprint of William Morrow Publishers.
Varela, A. (2022). The Town of Babylon (1st ed., p. 320). Random House Publishing Services.
Walker, R. (2014). The Shame of Poverty. Oxford University Press.
William J. Barber, I. I. (2024). White Poverty: How exposing myths about race and class can reconstruct American democracy (First, p. 256). Liveright.
Wilson, M. (2009). Poverty. Greenhaven Press.

Religion

Boscaljon, D. (2016). Resisting the Place of Belonging: Uncanny homecomings in religion, narrative and the arts. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605777
Davie, Grace. (1994). Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without belonging. Blackwell.
Day, A. (2022). Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping belief and belonging, 1945-2021. Oxford University PressOxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866684.001.0001
Kunz, K. (2025). Contested Home: Asylum-seeking in Switzerland and the politics of belonging, place, and religion (Vol. 5). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839400722
Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley. (2021). Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging (1st ed., p. 354). Duke University Press Books.
Manis, A. M. (2021). Religion, Belonging, and Social Mobility in Civil Rights Era Birmingham, Alabama. Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media. https://doi.org/10.26262/exna.v0i5.8493
McBride, B. (2023). Troubling the Water (4th ed., p. 336). Stylus Publishing LLC.
Mitchell, C. (2017). Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315244709
Provost, R. (2014). Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging: Religion and multiculturalism from Israel to Canada. Oxford University Press.
Serrão, R. (2022). Negotiating Belonging: Race, class, and religion in the Brazilian quest for “becoming American.” Sociology of Religion, 83(4), 459–479. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srac002