A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY
This list of resources was originally created by Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU). For our purposes at Valparaiso University, we have added a few additional resources and will continue to add items as this is working document. Valparaiso University thanks SCSU for its leadership and innovative work around curriculum development for racial justice. Items with an * can also be found at the Christopher Center Library.
Books ● *Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America
● *Ibram X. Kendi, Anti-racist baby
● *Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped – Racism, Anti-racism and You
● *Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
● *Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory
● *Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
● *Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk about Race?
● *Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
● *Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
● *Ashley Jardina, White Identity Politics
● *Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why are all the Black Kids sitting together in the cafeteria?
● *Austin Channing Brown, I’m still here Black Dignity in a world made for whiteness
● *Layla F. Saad, Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world and become a good ancestor
● *Rendi Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
● *Paul Ortiz , An African American and Latinx History of the United States
● *Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage
● *Mahzarin A Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blindspot – Hidden Bias of Good People
● *Jennifer Harvey, Raising White Kids
● *Daniel Hill, White Awake
● *Joy DeGruy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
● *Robin D’angelo, White Fragility
● *Richard Delgado, Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror
● *Malcolm Gladwell, Blink
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf ● *Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers
Articles, excerpts, and other online resources ● bell hooks, “Understanding Patriarchy”
● “white supremacy iceberg”
● Audre Lourde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
● Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President” (in The Atlantic)
● Black Lives Matter Syllabus
● Sanctuary Syllabus, resource created by NYU Sanctuary
● A History: The Construction of Race and Racism, Dismantling Racism Project Western States Center
● Nicole Rodgers & Rashad Robinson: “How the News Media Distorts Black Families” (from The Washington Post)
● Mary Alice Daniel, “The History White People Need to Learn”
● Mapping Inequality - database of redlining maps
● Race: The Power of an Illusion Resources
● Natalie Morris, The emotional impact of watching white people wake up to racism in real-time
● Eula Biss, “White Debt”
● Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
● Accomplices Not Allies
● Cory Collins, “What is White Privilege, Really?”
● Allen Johnson Social Construction of Difference in Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
● Toby Morris, “On a Plate”
● rboylorn, “On Safety Pins, Pantsuits, and (Faux) Markers of Safety”
● George Sacks, “10 Ways White Liberals Perpetuate Racism”
Films and Podcasts ● *13th, Ava DuVernay’s documentary about the prison-industrial complex
● “The Red Line: Racial Disparities in Lending”, Reveal episode on ongoing racism in the mortgage industry
● What is Systemic Racism?, from Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation
● *California Newsreel: Race: The Power of an Illusion from California Newsreel
○ Available to stream via Kanopy or through Facing Our History and Ourselves
● *Just Mercy
● Seeing White Podcast
● Interview with DiAngelo
● https://www.aaihs.org/white-fragility-anti-racist-pedagogy-and-the-weight-of-history/
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf ● "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion"
● Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History
How Does Systemic Racism Operate in Educational Spaces?
● James Baldwin: “A Talk To Teachers”
● Nikole Hannah Jones, Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City, NY Times
● Ibram X. Kendi, “Why the Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea”
● “Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment” - Revisionist History podcast episode on Brown v. Board
● Carla Shalaby, Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
● Propublica, Miseducation
How Do I Teach for Racial Justice?
● Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
● bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
● Rethinking Schools
● Teaching Tolerance
● Christopher Emdin, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood….and the Rest of Y’all Too (reality pedagogy)
What Additional Concepts Should I Know?
● Racial Equity Tools, A Glossary
● Ngọc Loan Trần, “Calling In: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable”
● Hidden Brain Podcast, “The Mind of the Village” (implicit bias)
● Kimberlé Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality”
● Maisha Johnson, “What’s Wrong With Cultural Appropriation?”
● Hope Ferguson, “Let’s Stop Describing Ourselves as ‘Minorities’”
● Jenée Desmond-Harris, “What Exactly is a Microaggression?”
● “Equity, Equality, Justice” - visual representation of the difference between equality, equity, and justice
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf Additional recommendations from the Valparaiso community:
*California Newsreel: Race: The Power of an Illusion from California Newsreel
*The 57 Bus
*All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir Manifesto
*White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by: Robert P Jones
*Trumping the Race Card
*Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 2nd Edition - Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman
*Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A Washington
*Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E Fields and Barbara J Fields
*Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
*Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
*Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
*American Street, Ibi Aanu Zoboi
*Fruitvale Station
*If Beale Street Could Talk
*BlacKKKlansman
*Selma
*Harlan County U.S.A.
*Central Park 5
*When They See Us (having trouble finding this to order but not giving up)
*The Thin Blue Line
Emma Dabiri - Don't Touch My Hair - A Conversation BBC World Histories, Issue 17
From Versos Brick, Issue 90, Winter 2013
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf In Conversation with Zadie Smith Brick, Issue 85, Summer 2010
An Interview With Toni Morrison Brick, Issue 76, Winter 2005
Black Mass Publishing Dazed, Autumn 2020
Black Took Collective's Call For Dissonance Fence, Fall/Winter 2001
Africa's Futue Has No Space For Stupid Black Men Granta, Issue 136 - Legacies of Love
Just Right - Zadie Smith Granta, Issue 123 - The Best of Young British Novelists
Josie Mitchell - The Play's The Thing (Review Of Girl Woman Other) Literary Review, May 2019
A Dandy In Harlem (Review of The New Negro: The Life Of Alain Locke) Literary Review, July 2018
Alex Silcox - Now He Is Published (Review of Some Kind Of Black) Literary Review, June 1996
Raymond Antrobus Modern Poetry In Translation, Profound Pyromania
Maya Angelou - the most banned author in the US New African, July 2014
A Book For Okri New African, December 1991
More dangerous than the male? New African, April 2019
Alice Walker New Internationalist, 1 September 2012
Race revelations New Statesman, 18 - 31 March 2016
Black Poetry In Zimbabwe PN Review, January - February 1984
Letter from Trinidad PN Review, March - April 2019
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf Listen Pops': Desdemonda Speaking PN Review, March - April 2020
Grace Nichols: The Insomnia Poems (Review) Poetry Wales, Winter 2017 53.2
The Lift and the Pedestal, Inua Ellams The Poetry Review, Summer 2016
Slaving for Profits review of Baptist: The Half has Never Been told TLS, 3 April 2015
New Black Men review of Ta-Nehisi Coates: We were Eight Years in Power TLS, 5 Jan 2018
Racism without ruining it TLS, February 7, 2020
#publishingsowhite TLS, October 11, 2019
Broken Identity: Why Race Still Matters TLS, February 2, 2018
Check Your Privilege TLS, 7 July, 2017
Monique Morris, Pushout
Podcasts https://www.academics4blacklives.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intersectionality-matters/id1441348908
Adult ISH
The Nod
The Stoop
Asian Americana
Yo, Is This Racist?
Still Processing
Asian Enough
Tamarindo
Minority Korner
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf Silence is Not an Option
Latino USA
Unfinished: Deep South
In the Dark
The United States of Anxiety
Floodlines
Catlick
You Must Remember This
Song of the South
Finding Cleo
1619
Queer Teen Podcast
Afro Queer
Making Gay History
Nancy
The Fall Line
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
No White Saviors Podcast
2 Dope Queens
You Had me at Black
Identity Politics
Code Switch
Updated January 2021
Adapted from the SCSU Racial Justice Pedagogy Project: http://socialjustice.southernct.edu/Moving-Beyond-Diversity-A-Syllabus-for-Faculty-Staff-and-Community.pdf