Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Reading Resources

BOOKS

• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
• Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
• Mindful of Race by Ruth King
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverley Daniel Tatum
• Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire by Gregory Cajete
• White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
• me & white supremacy by Layla Saad
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• How To Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (highly suggest listening to audiobook read by author) by Michael Eric Dyson
• Decentering Whiteness by Jeff Hitchcock/Charles Flint
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

ARTICLES

• We Are Living in a Racism Pandemic,' Says APA President from the American Psychological Association
• To Stop, Listen, and Act: How You Can Help Protesters and Black Lives Matter Groups by IndieWire Staff
• Guide to Allyship by Amélie Lamont
• Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma from Teaching Tolerance
• 5 Ways to Show Up for Racial Justice Today by Nastia Voynovskaya
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Identity-Affirming Schools Need Race-Conscious Educators by Erica Buchanan-Rivera
• The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement by Shawn Ginwright
• When SEL is Used as Another Form of Policing by Cierra Kahler-Jones
• Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Toward SEL in Service of Educational Equity and Excellence by Robert Jagers, Deborah Rivas-Drake, and Brittney Williams
• 74 Interview: Researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings on Culturally Relevant Teaching, the Role of Teachers in Trump’s America & Lessons From Her Two Decades in Education Research
• How to Be an Antiracist Educator by Dena Simmons
• Why COVID-19 Is Our Equity Check by Dena Simmons
• Decolonizing our Minds and Actions by Waziyatawin and Michael Yellow Bird
• We’re In a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There are Glimmers of Hope by john a. Powell
• The Characteristics Of White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Why White Liberals Are So Unwilling to Recognize Their Own Racism by Isaac Chotiner
• Avoiding Racial Equity Detours by Paul Gorski
• Helping Students Discuss Race Openly by Julie Landsman
• How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators? by Charlie McGeehan
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• Why Marginalized Students Need Hope to Succeed by Dante Dixson
• Three Social-Emotional Skills You Need to Discuss Race in Classrooms by Amy L. Eva
• How to Help Diverse Students Find Common Ground by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
• How to Change the Story About Students of Color by Dena Simmons
• Why Teachers Are More Likely to Punish Black Students by Jeremy Adam Smith
• Four Ways Teachers Can Reduce Implicit Bias by Jill Suttie
• Why Don’t Students Take Social-Emotional Learning Home? by Vicki Zakrzewski
• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• Education | Got 10 minutes a day? Class is Open: Justice in June
• Elle Glenise