It requires an ongoing and intentional journey to gain the understanding and perspective to create diverse, equitable and inclusive environments. Because there is so much we can learn, as well as a lack of information and misinformation, we are providing the following resources. We encourage you to make a commitment to learn and engage on a regular basis to assist you in your work to transform beyond inclusion.
We will continue adding resources on additional dimensions of diversity in the future.
Organizations
- National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) www.ncbi.org
- Racial Equity Institute: https://www.racialequityinstitute.com/
- Project Implicit: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
- Everyday Democracy: https://www.everyday-democracy.org
- Living Room Conversations: https://livingroomconversations.org
Race Related Resources
Books
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy Leary
- Race: Are We So Different? by Goodman, Moses, and Jones
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
- The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation and Transformation by DeWolf and Geddes
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- The Racial Healing Handbook
- Waking Up White by Debby Irving
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness by Ruth Frankenberg
- How to be an AntiRacist by Ibram Kendi
Online Articles & Videos
- Creating Equitable Educational Environments: Illuminate, Bridge and Transform – Guest post by Chrysalis Consulting: https://k12civilleadership.com/2021/09/01/creating-equitable-educational-environments-illuminate-bridge-and-transform/
- 14 Black LGBTQ+ Folks on How They’re Taking Care of Themselves Right Now: https://www.self.com/story/black-lgbtq-self-care-tips
- Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice: Moving from Actor → Ally → Accomplice: https://www.powershift.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/opportunities-for-white-people.pdf
- The Little Free Library: The Little Book of Racial Healing https://youtu.be/RknfZdFOGnw
- Authors Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi on how to become aware of privilege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteOQPzc_so
- How do we know if something is racist? An expert explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2WTWPEmFI
- Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating A More Equitable Society Is In White Americans’ Self Interest :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCUOX3NMd4U&t=284s
- Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity Video by Shakti Butler:
- Stream or purchase: https://www.world-trust.org/cracking-the-codes
- Film & discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OU_rH0OpbY&t=9s
- One species, living worldwide video: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/one-species-living-worldwide (4:20)
- Race: The Power of an Illusion http://newsreel.org/video/race-the-power-of-an-illusion
Podcast
Scene on Radio – Seeing White
https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.
Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017.