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Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Access

Resources

These resources serve as a starting point for students, employees, and community members who want to engage in antiracist and inclusive practices across various realms of self-learning, reflection, and actions. This guide is by no means an exhaustive list, but a living learning library that we continue to build upon.

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 Books and Articles

Anti-Racism and Resistance
  • Assata: An Autobiography by Assara Shakur
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
  • A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa by Florence Bernault
  • How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  • The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams
  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  • Your Silence Will Not Protect You Essays by Audre Lorde
Abolition and the Decarceral State
  • Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons by Colin Kaepernick
  • Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
  • Beyond Survival by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Captive Genders by Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith, CeCe McDonald
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
  • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
  • Prison by any other name : the harmful consequences of popular reforms by Vicki Law
  • Soledad Brother by George Jackson
  • We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
Caste Abolition
  • Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar
  • Caste Privilege 101: A Primer for the Privileged by Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Sinthujan Varatharajah
  • Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader by Sunaiana Arya
  • Karukku by Bama Faustina
  • Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint by Anandita Pan
  • The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
  • The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoir by Urmila Pawar
  • We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement by Urmila Pawar, Meenakshi Moon, and Wandana Sonalkar
Civil Rights Trip
  • U.S. Civil Rights Trail by Deborah D. Douglas
  • Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
  • Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights by Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Rachel West Nelson Millhouse, Frank Sikorand
  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams and Julian Bond
  • Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
  • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer (PBS Series)
Disability Justice
  • Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage
  • Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
  • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann with Kristen Joiner
  • Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
  • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
  • Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole by Julia Watts Belser
  • The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health by Zena Sharman
  • The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
First Nation Voices
  • As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight For Environmental Justice, From Colonization to First Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
  • In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Jaida Grey Eagle, and Casey Riley
  • Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler
  • Talking Back: Native Woman and the Making of the Early South by Alejandra Dubcovsky
  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
  • The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs by Joshua L Reid
Gender and Intersectionality
  • Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  • Feminism Is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
  • Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
  • Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
  • A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Tristan Jimerson
  • Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
  • Sisters in Spirit by Sally Roesch Wagner
  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
  • Transgender History by Susan Stryker
  • Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis
Immigration and Undocumented Lives
  • Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Paperback by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Inventing Latinos : a New Story of American Racism by Laura E Gómez
  • The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D Wu
  • The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman
  • The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
  • White Borders by Reece Jones
  • Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
Queer History and Liberation
  • Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
  • Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, Jim Downs
  • Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York by Sarah Schulman
  • Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
  • The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage Hardcover by Sasha Issenberg
  • The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library and Jason Baumann
  • We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
Higher Education and Inclusive Pedagogy
  • From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education by Tia Brown McNair, Estela Mara Bensimon, and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux
  • On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed
  • A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE by Virginia Stead
  • Queer People of Color in Higher Education by Joshua Moon Johnson and Gabriel Javier
  • An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence by Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian
  • Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students' Search for Community at Historically White Universities by Micere Keels
  • Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work by Daryl G. Smith
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  • Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris
  • Toxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty by Ruth Enid Zambrana

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