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Books Suggested During DEI Town Hall

The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty

Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

Your blues ain't like mine / Bebe Moore Campbell

I'm not dying with you tonight / Gilly Segal; Kimberly Jones

So You Want to Talk about Race

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.

Farming while Black : Soul Fire Farm's practical guide to liberation on the land / Leah Penniman; Karen Washington

Cooke, N. A. (2020, May 30). Anti-Racism Resources for all ages. [A project of the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair at the University of South Carolina]. https://padlet.com/nicolethelibrarian/nbasekqoazt336co

Books from the Diversity Collection on Allyship

What does it mean to be white? : developing white racial literacy / Robin DiAngelo

White fragility : why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism / Robin DiAngelo

Backlash : what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America / George Yancy ; foreword by Cornel West

So you want to talk about race [electronic resource] / Ijeoma Oluo

American Islamophobia [electronic resource] : understanding the roots and rise of fear / Khaled A. Beydoun

Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race / Reni Eddo-Lodge

Blindspot : hidden biases of good people / Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

Resources Available Online on Antiracism during COVID-19 closures

A pedagogy of anticapitalist antiracism : whiteness, neoliberalism, and resistance in education / Zachary A. Casey

Transpacific antiracism [electronic resource] : Afro-Asian solidarity in twentieth-century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa / Yuichiro Onishi

Exploring the emotions of white racism and antiracism [electronic resource] / by Lisa Spanierman

Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature [electronic resource] / Dave Gunning

Race, racialization, and antiracism in Canada and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Randy Enomoto.

Race on the brain [electronic resource] : what implicit bias gets wrong about the struggle for racial justice / Jonathan Kahn

Unveiling whiteness in the twenty-first century : global manifestations, transdisciplinary interventions / edited by Veronica Watson, Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Lisa Spanierman

The night Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union : a transatlantic story of antiracial protest / Stephen Tuck ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr

White race discourse [electronic resource] : preserving racial privilege in a post-racial society / John D. Foster

Blinded by sight : seeing race through the eyes of the blind / Osagie K. Obasogie

Color conscious : the political morality of race / K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann

The intersections of whiteness [electronic resource] / [edited by] Evangelia Kindinger and Mark Schmitt

Being an Ally

11 Things White People Can Do to Be Real Anti-Racist Allies
Published on Alternet, April 27, 2015
Black Minds Matter
Black Minds Matter is a public course seeking to raise the national consciousness about issues facing Black boys and men in education. It is taught by Dr. Luke Wood, the Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Education and serve as the Director of SDSU’s Joint Doctoral Program in Education, a partnership between San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University.
Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
Published by Citizen and Social Justice, July 10, 2015
Introduction to Critical Race Theory
This graduate seminar will explore the foundations and central tenets of Critical Race Theory, from its origins in Critical Legal Studies, to current applications, debates, and evolutions, with particular attention to CRT’s intersections with the field of American Studies. We will also bring in CRT “offshoots” such as TribalCrit, LatCrit, AsianCrit, and DisCrit. CRT posits that racism is endemic to society, but that we must also remain committed to social justice and praxis. How do we navigate these tensions, use CRT to provide a toolkit for navigating scholarship, and work toward social change in the realms of race and racism?
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
How can we help students understand George Floyd’s death in the context of institutionalized racism? A selection of articles from JSTOR's database on institutionalized racism.
Denver Public Library Hosts Symposium on Advancing Racial Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
When Denver Public Library’s Community Connections Program Coordinator Ozy Aloziem began planning in February 2020 for a symposium on “Advancing Racial Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace,” she was expecting about 100 attendees. Then COVID-19 happened, affecting nearly all meetings and conferences, and the symposium went virtual. (Thank you to Jessica Kelly for adding)
Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racism Lens
A guide developed by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It was "developed in response to librarians fielding multiple requests from UMN researchers looking to incorporate anti-racism into their research practices."

Antiracism Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an antiracist and Stamped from the beginning,wrote this antiracism reading list for the New York Times in May 2019.

Books that are included in this reading list that are available from the University of Arkansas Libraries are linked below, with Kendi's comments. Where possible, eBook versions of the titles have been highlighted to encourage access during library closures due to COVID-19.

Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
ISBN: 1595586911
Publication Date: 2011-06-14
No book destabilized my fraught notions of racial distinction and hierarchy — the belief that each race had different genes, diseases and natural abilities — more than this vigorous critique of the “biopolitics of race.” Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, shows unequivocally that all people are indeed created equal, despite political and economic special interests that keep trying to persuade us otherwise.
West Indian Blacks by Suzanne Model
ISBN: 9780871546319
Publication Date: 2008-06-12
Some of the same forces have led Americans to believe that the recent success of black immigrants from the Caribbean proves either that racism does not exist or that the gap between African-Americans and other groups in income and wealth is their own fault. But Model’s meticulous study, emphasizing the self-selecting nature of the West Indians who emigrate to the United States, argues otherwise, showing me, a native of racially diverse New York City, how such notions — the foundation of ethnic racism — are unsupported by the facts.
The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
ISBN: 9780674062115
Publication Date: 2011-11-30
“Black” and “criminal” are as wedded in America as “star” and “spangled.” Muhammad’s book traces these ideas to the late 19th century, when racist policies led to the disproportionate arrest and incarceration of blacks, igniting urban whites’ fears and bequeathing tenaciously racist stereotypes.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780837118857
Publication Date: 1970-02-01
Of course, the black body exists within a wider black culture — one Hurston portrayed with grace and insight in this seminal novel. She defies racist Americans who would standardize the cultures of white people or sanitize, eroticize, erase or assimilate those of blacks.
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” Hughes wrote nearly 100 years ago. “We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.” We are all imperfectly human, and these imperfections are also markers of human equality.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780679433736
Publication Date: 1993-12-28
The Bluest Eye,published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.