SAYHU Lending Library & Wish List

As a feminist collective, we want to ensure that our collective members have access to novels, academic texts, and graphic novels that center South Asian identity and experience to support individual and community growth and development.

We greatly appreciate your generosity in helping us to grow our library! And hopefully you’ll find some ideas on what you might want to be reading about South Asian experiences.

We’d also like to support authors, independent publishers, and independent and Black-owned bookstores in Texas. Check out our list of books and consider ordering books online through one of these small business to send to our library:

The Dock Bookstore in Fort Worth, TX

Black Pearl Books in Austin, TX

Charis Books & More in Decatur, GA

Please email us at info@sayhu.org for our shipping address and to prevent duplicate orders.

*SAYHU’s library is kept at the home of our collective members and made available to community members throughout the year and at our summer institute. Folks that are interested in checking out books from SAYHU’s library can reach out to us via email or social media (linked below).

• Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla

• Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald

• Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements by Anandi Ramamurthy (Paperback)

• Colonialism/Postcolonialism (The New Critical Idiom) by Ania Loomba

• Dalit Women Speak Out: Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India by Aloysius Irudayam S. J., Jayshree P. Mangubhai

• Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj

• Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Doing Oral History (Oxford Oral History Series) 3rd edition by Donald A. Ritchie

• Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch by Prema A. Kurien

• Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy (Paperback)

• Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants (Contemporary Ethnography) by Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

• Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion by Piyali Bhattacharya

• The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla et al.

• How to Be a Muslim: An American Story by Haroon Moghul

• Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora by Neha Vora

• Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath

• Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (Asian American Experience) by Shilpa S. Dave

• Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry by Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa

• Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (Asian American History & Culture ) by Karen Leonard

• Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

• My Story by Kamala Das

• Quarantine: Stories by Rahul Mehta

• South Asian Feminisms by Loomba

• Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora by Junaid Rana

• The Fear That Stalks: Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces by Sarah Pilot and Lora Prabhu

• The Karma of Brown Folk by Prashad

• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee

• Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar

• Understanding Gender Based Violence (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society) by Nadia Aghtaie, Geetanjali Gangoli

• Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States by Monisha Das Gupta

• Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities: Issues for Policy and Practice by Ravi K. Thiara

• Women's Words by Sherna Berger Gluck, Daphne Patai