Resources
The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion encourages our community of life-long learners to explore these resources to increase an understanding of cultural awareness and identity.
Race and Ethnicity
Articles
- “Talking about Race” – Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 5 Disturbing Signs That You Might Not Be An Antiracist After All – Forbes
- “97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice” – Corinne Shutack
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) – The New York Times Magazine
- “Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement” – Courtney Martin
- “The Death of George Floyd, in Context” – Jelani Cobb
- “Diversity and Inclusion Are Not Enough” – Benjamin Reese
- “Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing Is People Pushed to the Edge” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- “The Gap Between White and Black Americans, in Charts” – Patrick Sharkey, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Yaryna Serkez
- “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change” – Barack Obama
- “The Intersectionality Wars” – Jane Coaston
- “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People” – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” – Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” – Ibram X. Kendi
- “You Shouldn’t Need a Harvard Degree to Survive Birdwatching While Black” – Samuel Getachew
Books
- American Slavery, American Freedom – Edmund Morgan
- How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- Biased – Jennifer Eberhardt
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla Saad
- White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness – Anastasia Higginbotham
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? – Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter – Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
- Negroland: A Memoir – Margo Jefferson
- So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
- A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature – Jacqueline Goldsby
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You – Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Black Man in White Coat – Damon Tweedy
- Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story – Timothy B. Tyson
- Brutal Imagination – Cornelius Eady
- Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine
- Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt – Melissa Kean
- Genesis Begins Again – Alicia D. Williams
- Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress – Joseph Winters (Duke University)
- Ivory and Ebony Towers: Race Relations in Higher Education – Charles Vert Willie
- Let’s Talk About Race – Julius Lester
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla F. Saad
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies – Resmaa Menakem
- Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life – Karen E. Fields
- Racism without Racists – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke University)
- Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare – Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
- Waking Up White – Debby Irving
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America – Ira Katznelson
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do – Claude M. Steele
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Asian American Legal and Education Defense Fund
- Asian Americans – PBS
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Stop AAIP Hate
- What you can do to fight violence and racism against Asian Americans – PBS
- Anti-Racism College Guide for AAPI Students and Allies – College Consensus
Videos
- The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man: Pt 1” – Emmanuel Acho
- Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’ – Robin DiAngelo
- How the church can combat racism and white privilege – Fr. Bryan Massingale
- America’s Persistent Pandemic—Racism: How to Foster Antiracist Practices and Create a Culture of Inclusion, Equity and Justice Diversity Forum 2020 – University of Pittsburgh
The Catholic Church
- US Bishops Pastoral Letter on Racism – United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Pope Francis and U.S. Bishops Respond to George Floyd’s Killing
- How Catholics can work for racial justice – US Catholic
- Combatting Racism – United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Pope Francis: No tolerance for racism, but without violence – Vatican News
- “The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it” – Fr. Bryan Massingale
- Racial Justice and the Catholic Church – Fr. Bryan Massingale
Microaggressions and Bias
- Examples of microaggressions – University of Minnesota
- How to Respond to Racial Microaggressions When They Occur – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
- Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send – University of Southern California
- Racial Microaggressions in Every Day Life – Chronicle
- Implicit Bias – Racial Equity Tools
LBGTQ+
- My Pronouns (video)
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- LGBTQ+ Violence & Discrimination/Silence the Violence – WTIU
- What Does It Mean To Be An Ally? – WTIU
- A ‘milestone’ Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ job protections – WTIU
Faculty Resources
- A Leader’s Guide to Talking About Bias
- Inclusive Teaching – Brown University
- Inclusive Teaching Practices Toolkit – Association of College and University Educators
- Inclusive Teaching Strategies – University of Washington
- “Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice” – Amie Thurber, M. Brielle Harbin, and Joe Bandy
- Center for Teaching and Learning (Columbia University) – Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia
- Understanding the Challenges Facing First-Generation College Students