2021 Great Lakes Retreat - Research Development in Pivotal Times

Racial & Social Justice Resources Selected discussion guides, facilitator websites, documentaries, books, podcasts, and other resources curated by the 2021 Great Lakes Retreat Planning Committee. Stay Connected!  Join the NORDP Committee on Inclusive Excellence  Keep the conversation going by joining NORDP Great Lakes Slack workspace  Join the Great Lakes listserv  Share resources, programs and action items with the NORDP listserv

Resources for Guiding Conversations  Conversation Roadblocks – Catalyst  Teaching Black Lives Matter | Emtrain - a video based upon an 2016 incident in a Silicon Valley company where employees had written “Black Lives Matter” and other employees crossed out “Black” and wrote “All.”  Seek out campus projects. For example, explore the White Racial Literacy Project (https://wrlpiupui.weebly.com/) at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis established by Lori Patton. From the website: “The purpose of this project is to undertake an innovative approach to racial equity on campus by facilitating concrete efforts to address whiteness and racial inequities in institutional decision-making, the academic curriculum, and the campus.”

Bring Programming to Your Institution – Facilitators and Workshop Providers  The Peace Learning Center, Indianapolis (https://peacelearningcenter.org/) o Implicit Bias Workshops - Program Schedule: 1 day 3-4 hours with a break or 2 days, 2 hours each  Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training (http://crossroadsantiracism.org/) o Workshops and Webinars - Analyzing & Understanding Systemic Racism, Introduction to Systemic Racism and AntiBias AntiRacist (ABAR) Education  Emtrain (https://emtrain.com/ ) o Unconscious Bias Course - Course length: 30 minutes, Audience: Managers and employee program versions o Diversity Training - Course length: 30 minutes, Audience: Managers and employees Books & Articles  Dear White People Reimagining Whiteness In the Struggle for Racial Equity, Lori Patton Davis & Chayla Haynes  The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander  The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin  Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittany Cooper,  Good White Racist? Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice, Kerry Connelly  Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth, Dána-Ain Davis  White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo  Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X.Kendi  How to be An Antiracist, Ibram X.Kendi  March, graphic novel by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin (Co-writer), Nate Powell (Artist)  Read White By Law, Ian Haney Lopez  Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl  What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People, Verna A. Myers  So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo  Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad  Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism, Shannon Sullivan  Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, Craig Steven Wilder

Further Reading – Curated Lists:

o Chicago Public Library - Black Lives Matter - A Booklist o Rachel Cargle – Rachel’s #Revolution Reading List

Additional Media and Online Resources  Follow anti-racist Twitter pages: o @nowhitenonsense o @theconsciouskid  Workshop Series: “Confronting Racism: Conversations on Systemic Racism and Protest” - https://crres.indiana.edu/  America & Moore Diversity Education, Research & Consulting 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge - https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge  Catalyst: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity - https://www.catalyst.org/topics/gender-race-ethnicity/  The Whiteness project - http://whitenessproject.org/  YouTube Videos o TED: An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbicAmaXYtM&feature=emb_title o TED: “The urgency of intersectionality” | Kimberlé Crenshaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o o Dorothy E. Roberts: “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUukdHM_2Uw&feature=youtu.be  Podcasts o Code Switch - NPR o 1619 Project – NYT o Intersectionality matters! - Kimberle Crenshaw and African American Policy Forum o About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge  Documentaries about Systemic Racism: o 13th (2016) - Directed by Ava DuVernay o The Central Park Five (2012) – Directed by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns o I am Not your Negro (2016) – Directed by Raoul Peck o RACE – The Power of an Illusion (2003) – PBS Series Directed by Christine Herbes- Sommers, Tracy Heather Strain, Llewellyn Smith