Diversity Resources
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Anti-Racist Resources
Protests raged across the world in 2020 over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. But tensions over the deaths of other black Americans like Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor were mounting just before Floyd’s death. Additionally, the global coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately killed black and brown Americans, which researchers attribute to social conditions, structural racism, and other factors.
We have gathered these resources that we believe will be helpful during this time of needed change. Understanding begins with all of us looking inward, reflecting on our own attitudes, and of course, having difficult conversations with family and friends.
We hope that you find these sources helpful as we all start into our journey into a new and inclusive normal. Please feel free to share any resources you may find.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business by Pamela Newkirk
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice by Fania Davis
Black Food Geographies by Ashanté M. Reese
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (Martin Luther King Jr. called this “the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement.)
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Minor Feelings -An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
Retablos -Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border
by Octavio Solis
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah A. Miranda
The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh
The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
The 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley
My hour on the history of Confederate statues in Nat Geo’s America Inside Out
Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
Let It Fall, a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King
When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
Whose Streets?, a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
Fruitvale Station, a film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant
American Son, a film with Kerry Washington about an estranged interracial couple waiting for their missing son
The Central Park Five, a documentary from Ken Burns
A Class Divided, a Frontline documentary
Rachel Cargle, a writer and lecturer who explores the intersection between race and womanhood
Ibram X. Kendi, the author of How To Be An Antiracist and Director of the Antiracism Center
Nikkolas Smith, the artist behind portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others
Charlene Carruthers, founder of the Black Youth Project 100
Brittany Packnett Cunningham, co-founder of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence, and a host of Pod Save The People
Ally Henny, a Christian commentator on race
Candace Andrews, a photographer documenting protests
My podcast episode with Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, and Bryan Stevenson about Just Mercy
Still Processing, a New York Times culture podcast with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morrison
Seeing White, a Scene on the Radio podcast
Code Switch, an NPR podcast tackling race from all angles
Jemele Hill is Unbothered, a podcast with award-winning journalist Jemele Hill
Hear To Slay, “the black feminist podcast of your dreams,” with Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom
Pod Save The People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from fellow activists Brittany Packnett, Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith III
The Appeal, a podcast on criminal justice reform hosted by Adam Johnson
Justice In America, a podcast by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith on criminal justice reform
Brené Brown with Ibram X. Kendi, a podcast episode on antiracism
Come Through, a WNYC podcast with Rebecca Carroll
The Kinswomen, conversations on race, racism, and allyship between women, hosted by Hannah Pechter and Yseult Polfliet
Asian Enough, from the Los Angeles Times, “Asian Enough” is a podcast about being Asian American -- the joys, the complications and everything in between
Latino USA, Latino USA offers insight into the lived experiences of Latino communities and is a window on the current and merging cultural, political and social ideas impacting Latinos and the nation
The Red Nation, The Red Nation podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture
Watch
The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
Dear White People, a Netflix series about being black at a predominantly white college
Hidden Figures, a film about the brilliant African American women of NASA
Remember the Titans, story of a newly-integrated football team
These 26 New York Times mini-films for students
Read
“Talking About Race.” Helpful resources from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Anything by Angie Thomas
The Colors Of Us by Karen Katz
Skin Again by Bell Hooks
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
This Promise of Change by Jo Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council, Carolyn Choi