Resources for Discussing Race Issues
Online Resources
- Coping with Racial Trauma, Counseling and Psychological Services
- Guide to Allyship
- Racial Equity Tools Glossary
- Resources for talking about race, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Let's Talk about Race, an interview with Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Origin of Race in the USA, PBS
- Key Findings on Americans' views of race in 2019, Pew Research Center
- New Era of Public Safety
- The Talk: Race in America. Stream for free on PBS.
- The film Just Mercy is free to stream/rent through the month of June (via YouTube, Netflix, Apple TV, FandangoNow, Google Play, or Amazon Prime Video)
- BLM Instructional Library (Kids books)
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American Society for Engineering Education Shared Community Resources on Anti-Racism
- Bystander Intervention Training
- Implicit Bias Resources compiled by Cornell University
- What Does Intersectionality Mean? by 1A, NPR
Podcasts
- Intersectionality Matters
- Code Switch
- Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
- 1619
- About Race
- Seeing White
Books
Beginner
- "The Hate U Give" - Angie Thomas
- "Stamped from the Beginning" - Ibram X. Kendi
- "A People's History of the United States" - Howard Zinn
- “Freedom is a Constant Struggle” – Angela Davis
- "So You Want to Talk About Race"– Ijeoma Oluo
- “Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice” – Maurianne Adams
- “Taking on Diversity: How We can Move from Anxiety to Respect” – Rupert W. Nacoste
- “The Fire Next Time” – James Baldwin
- “The Possessive Investment in Whiteness” – George Lipsitz
- "The Other Wes Moore" – Wes Moore
- "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" – Rebecca Skloot
- "The Grace of Silence: A Memoir" – Michele Norris
Intermediate
- "How to Be an Anti-Racist" – Ibram X. Kendi
- “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice” – Paul Kivel
- “White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism” – Robin DiAngelo
- "Just Mercy" – Bryan Stevenson
- "Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria" – Beverly Daniel Tatum
- “Teaching to Transgress” – Bell Hooks
- "Me and White Supremacy" – Layla F. Saad (note: this is an interactive tool that requires personal work beyond simply reading)
- “Unconscious Bias in Schools” – Tracey A. Benson and Sarah E. Fiarman
- “Reflecting Back, Looking Forward: Civil Rights and Student Affairs” – NASPA
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” – Michelle Alexander
- “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment” – Patricia Hill Collins
- “Between the World and Me” – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor