LibGuides: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources: Anti-racism resources

Mega resources about anti-racism and anti-racist organizations

Mega resource about anti-racism and equity for all educators compiled by Anna_Ogunnaike
Mega resource about anti-racism compiled by the Wofford College Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Anti-racist resources for educators from the Greater Good Center of UC Berkeley
Mega resource compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
Mega resource compiled by the WABASH Center
Mega resource created by Root and Rebound and United Ministries. This one has a lot of information about racial inequities and incarceration.

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Podcast called "Scene on radio." Seasons 2 on "Seeing White" and Season 4. In Scene on radio, season 4: "Our season-long series will touch on concerns like authoritarianism, voter suppression and gerrymandering, foreign intervention, and the role of money in politics, but we’ll go much deeper, effectively retelling the story of the United States from its beginnings up to the present."

Articles on how to be an effective anti-racist ally

Scholarly articles on DEI and Higher Education

Dr. Tema Okun and Dr. Krista Robinson-Lyles of Teach.Equity.Now recommended this article during their visits to Wofford.

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Guiffrida, D. A., Kiyama, J. M., Waterman, S., & Museus, S. D. (2012). Moving from individual to collective

cultures to serve students of color  In S. D. Museus & U. M. Jayakumar (Eds.). Creating campus

cultures: Fostering success among racially diverse student populations (pp. 68-87). New York:

Routledge.

This article provides insight of how campus cultures best serve racially diverse student populations through cultivating values and beliefs focused on “including, validating, and creating equitable outcomes among diverse undergraduate students”.

Killpack, Tess L, and Laverne C Melón. “Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do

Faculty Play?.” CBE life sciences education vol. 15,3 (2016): es3. doi:10.1187/cbe.16-01-00

This article examines the personal role that faculty play in the creation of diverse classrooms specially in regard to STEM fields.

Museus, S. D. (2008). Focusing on institutional fabric: Using campus culture assessments to enhance

cross-cultural engagement. In S.R. Harper (Ed.), Creating inclusive environments for cross-cultural

learning and engagement in higher education (pp. 205-234). Washington, DC: National Association of

Student Personnel Administrators.

This article explores the need for new tools and measurements of success among diverse college students as well as outlines and critiques Tinto’s Theory of College Student Success.

Museus, S. D. (2008). Understanding the role of ethnic student organizations in facilitating cultural

adjustment and membership among African American and Asian American college students. Journal of

College Student Development, 59(6), 568-586.

This article elaborates on the idea that low graduation rates among minority students stem from student’s inability to feel connected to campus culture.

Museus, S. D. (2010). Delineating the ways that targeted support programs facilitate minority students’

access to social networks and development of social capital in college. Enrollment Management

Journal, 4(3), 10-41.

This article is a qualitative study of campus support groups influence on college success of racial/ethnic minority students.

Museus, S. D. (2011). Generating Ethnic Minority Success (GEMS): A collective-cross case analysis of

high-performing colleges. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 4(3), 147-162.

This article strives to identify and analyze the institutional factors that contribute to college student success among racially diverse groups of students.

Museus, S. D. (2014). The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) Model: A new theory of

college success among racially diverse student populations.In M. B. Paulsen (Ed.), Higher Education:

Handbook of Theory and Research (Vol. 29, pp. 189-227). New York: Springer.

The author proposes a new theory of college success among racially diverse student population called Culturally Engaging Campus Environments and compares different frameworks of success from different diverse communities.

Museus, S. D., & Neville, K. (2012) . Delineating the ways that key institutional agents provide racial

minority students with access to social capital in college. Journal of College Student Development,

53(3), 436-452.

This article focuses on “institutional agents who can and do facilitate racial minority student success by providing them with access to social capital in college.

Museus, S. D., & Ravello, J. N. (2010).  Characteristics of academic advising that contribute to racial and

ethnic minority student success at predominantly White institutions. NACADA Journal, 30(1), 47-58.

This study explores the role of academic advisors of helping minority students reach successes at White institutions.

Museus, S. D., & Quaye, S. J. (2009). Toward an intercultural perspective of racial and ethnic minority

college student persistence. The Review of Higher Education, 33(1), 67-94.

Six of every ten black/Latinx students who begin higher education will fail to achieve a bachelor’s degree in six years which result in negative consequences for the individual. This article explores this statistics and its implications.

Books about racism in Higher Education

Ahmed, S. (2012). On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. Durham, NC: Duke

University Press.

“Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work.”- Summary on Amazon.com

Jayakumar, U. M., & Museus, S. D. (2012). Mapping the intersection of campus cultures and equitable

outcomes among racially diverse student populations  In S. D. Museus & U. M Jayakumar (Eds.).

Creating campus cultures: Fostering success among racially diverse student populations (pp. 1-27).

New York: Routledge.

There is a need for colleges to engage in self-reflection of their ability to best serve racially diverse student populations. This book  provides insight on how college campuses can “shape the experiences and outcomes of their racially diverse student populations”. Also, this book addresses institutional obstacles that hinder colleges from meeting the needs of diverse populations.

Mack, K. M., Winter, K., & Soto, M. (2019). Culturally responsive strategies for reforming Stem higher

education: turning the Tides on inequity. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

It is projected that by the end of the decade the US economy will create thousands of new jobs in the STEM field. This book seeks to address the need for higher education in the STEM field to implement culturally responsive teaching methods in the STEM departments.

Museus, S. D., & Liverman, D. (2010). Analyzing high-performing institutions: Implications for studying

minority students in STEM. In, S. R. Harper, C. Newman, & S. Gary (Eds.), Students of color in STEM:

Engineering a new research agenda: New Directions for Institutional Research (no. 148, 17-27). San

Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

This book inquires upon how to actively involve minority students in the study of STEM.

Smith, D. G. (2015). Diversity’s promise for higher education. Place of publication not identified: Johns

Hopkins Univ Press.

Smith attests to the evolution of diversity on college campuses in relation to the modern university experience.

Books related to racism (also see the list within the mega resources at the top of the page)

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2018 ). Racism without racists: Color-blinded racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America.

Coates, T.-N. (2017). Between the world and me. Ditzingen: Reclam, Philipp.

Coates offers an alternate understanding our nation’s history and current crisis concerning racism

DiAngelo, R. J. (2019). White fragility: why its so hard for white people to talk about racism. London: Allen

Lane

This book examines why it is so hard for white people to talk about racism

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. (2018) Racism without Racists:Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequalities in America. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield
Argues against notion that current public policy does not perpetuate racism
MacMullan, Terrance. (2009) Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Explores race & racism by focusing on racial habits.
Kendi, Ibram X., (2019), How to be an Antiracist. New York: One World Ballentine.
Advances proactive approach to battling racism.
Jones, Saeed, (2019). How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster
Memior of Award-Winning African American Gay Poet.
Ward, Jesamyn. (2017). The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. New York: Scribner.
Taylor, Keeanga. (2016). From #BLACKLIVESMATTER to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Norris, Zachary. (2020). We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities. Boston: Beacon Publishing.
Sarsour, Linda. (2020). We Are Not Here to be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Autobiography of Palestinian Political Activist & Feminist.
Berry, Daina Ramey,(2020). Black Women's History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Publishing.
Examines various cases of resilience over 400 years off American History
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, (2019). Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
The idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, Khalil Gibran Muhammad reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
Laymon, Kiese. (2018). Heavy: An American Memoir. New York: Scribner/Simon & Schuster.
An African-American Biography.
Eberhart, Jennifer L. (2019). Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think. and Do. New York: Viking
From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time.
Bernard, Emily. (2019). Black is the Body: Stories from my Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine.
A Biography of African-American Women.
Lipsitz, George, (2018). Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment.
Carruthers, Charlene A., (2018). A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Boston: Beacon Press..
African American Lesbians and Political Activity in the United States.
Flynn, Andrea, et al., (2017). Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
By understanding how our economic and racial rules work together, we can write better rules to finally address inequality in America.
Diangelo, Robin J., (2018). White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press.
DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. (2017). How We Get Free: Black Feminism And The Combahee River Collective. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles.
Noble, Safiya Umoja. (2018). Algorithims of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press.
An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppression contributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century.
Theoharis,Jeanne. (2018). More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Boston: Beacon Publishing
Lamont, Marc. (2017). Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. New York: Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.
A thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems and policies that enabled them.
Bayoumi, Moustafa (2015).This Muslim American Life: Dispatches From the War on Terror. New York: New York University Press.
Author explores absurdities of contemporary Muslim-American life.
Morris, Monique W., (2014). Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century. New York: New Press.
Compilation & analysis of statistics covering various aspects of Black American life.
Wu, Ellen D., (2014). Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Shift in stereotype from 'Yellow Peril' to 'Model Minority' in the 20th century.
Roberts, Dorothy. (2011). Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century. New York: New Press.
Analysis of race, science, and politics in the 21st century.
Lorde, Audre. (2013). Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches. Berkeley: Ten Speed Publishing.
Essays by an African-American Poet.
Collins, Patricia Hill. (2000). Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge Press.
Providing the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought. Perspectives on gender.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources

Mega resources about anti-racism and anti-racist organizations

Articles on how to be an effective anti-racist ally

Scholarly articles on DEI and Higher Education

Books about racism in Higher Education

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Books related to racism (also see the list within the mega resources at the top of the page)