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Inclusion and Diversity Intersectionality/Privilege Inclusion and Diversity Articles How Colleges Can Foster Inclusion on Campus: https://www.noodle.com/articles/how-colleges-can- foster-inclusion-on-campus Videos Inclusion Starts with I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynH4HSGcY6I (includes Microaggressions) How you see me: How to Practice Understanding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fls_W4PMJgA&list=PLzvRx_johoA8ja2oM5MkABrJBHFxHXr- G&index=10 ***How you see me: Labels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GkSHBVHzc&list=PLzvRx_johoA8ja2oM5MkABrJBHFxHXr- G&index=11 (Starts with what does an American look like?) How you see me: Victim Card https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llc1DYCCn_U&index=12&list=PLzvRx_johoA8ja2oM5MkABrJB HFxHXr-G Do one thing for Diversity and Inclusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5JcGo3FCyk Cultural diversity examples: Avoid Stereotypes while communicating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUO59Emi3eo What is culture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2HlTQPS40 Intersectionality/Privilege Articles Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person : https://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina- crosleycorcoran/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person_b_5269255.html Helping Students explore their privileged identities: https://www.aacu.org/publications- research/periodicals/helping-students-explore-their-privileged-identities Videos **Kids explain Intersectionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzbADY-CmTs Kaleidoscope of Identity: Christine Ngo at TEDxUOregon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGqgNuJDIk (Stop 3:55) What is Privilege? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5f8GuNuGQ (privilege walk done by Buzzfeed) Microaggressions Articles Students see Many Slights as ‘Microaggressions’: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/us/as- diversity-increases-slights-get-subtler-but-still-sting.html ‘Microaggression’ Is The New Racism On Campus: http://time.com/32618/microaggression-is-the- new-racism-on-campus/ Are Racial Microaggressions on college campus’s harmful: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/culturally-speaking/201711/are-racial-microaggressions- college-campuses-harmful Facing microaggressions: how LGBT+ students navigate classrooms, campus: http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/facing-microaggressions-how-lgbt-students-navigate- classrooms-campus/article_9805c04a-e648-11e5-a50d-ebbcc8c1bf87.html UND Microaggressions: https://register.und.edu/learning/jsp/course.jsp?categoryId=10005&courseId=LD.MS2IYCCC 5 tips to handle microaggressors effectively : https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-giraldo-kerr/5- tips-to-handle-microagg_b_5658351.html Breaking the Prejudice Habit, Microaggression activity: http://breakingprejudice.org/teaching/group- activities/microaggression-activity/ Microaggressions Don’t Just Hurt Your Feelings by Alia E. Dastagir: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/28/what-microaggressions-small-slights-serious- consequences/362754002/ How racism and microaggressions lead to worse health by Bina Torina: https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/2017/11/08/how-racism-and-microaggressions-lead- worse-health The Adverse Impact of Racial Microaggressions on College Students’ Self- Esteem: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265924638_The_Adverse_Impact_of_Racial_M icroaggressions_on_College_Students'_Self-Esteem Microaggressions in the Classroom (includes tips to deal with microaggressions): http://otl.du.edu/wp- content/uploads/2013/03/MicroAggressionsInClassroom-DUCME.pdf Great examples and chart: https://www.dds.ca.gov/HealthDevelopment/SARC/RacialMicroaggressions.pdf University of Minnesota PowerPoint/PDF: https://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/DisplaySessionHandout.aspx?Title=Identifying%20and%20R esponding%20to%20Microaggressions&SessionID=580 Videos Ouch Did You Really Mean That? Naiya Davis TEDxYouth@Wayland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rlxQ2F-Ic Microaggressions in the Classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahtlxW2CIQ #Hatchkids Discuss Microaggressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfwnibEd3A Microaggressions explained by Derald Wing Sue: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-is-a- microaggression Unconscious Bias Articles University of California, San Francisco unconscious bias training: https://diversity.ucsf.edu/resources/unconscious-bias Additional Information about Unconscious Bias, Vanderbilt University: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/equity-diversity-inclusion/unconsciousbias/ The Challenges to Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Campus: http://diversity.arizona.edu/challenges- creating-diverse-and-inclusive-campus http://www.ndsu.edu/forward/resources Videos The Empathy Gap | The Science of Empathy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdLOkqMfRJk How Often Do You Challenge Your Biases? | Reverse Assumptions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeM0OeL1DBE Upstander Articles Five things students can do about racism: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/five- things-students-can-do-about-racism California Safe Zone training- includes a great explanation of why you should stand up for others: http://www.calfac.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/safe_zone_manual.pdf Videos The Bystander Effect - The Science of Empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6eUTLzcU4 What Would You Do: Waitress discriminates against Muslim family | WWYD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6A-2PwfMI Diversity Overall Dear Higher Education, This is Why Your Diversity Initiatives are Failing. http://www.advancingdiversity.com/dear-higher-education-this-is-why-your-diversity- initiatives-are-failing/ If the world were 100 people – video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFrqTFRy-LU Compassion Ripple of kindness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovj5dzMxzmc Interactions Language: Steven Pinker – RSA Animate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU Race Ted Talk - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Danger of a Single Story - https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Danger+of+a+single+story&ei=UTF- 8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004 Ted Talk – Bryan Stevenson – We Need to Talk About Injustice - https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=bryan+stevenson+we+need+to+talk+about+injustice&ei =UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004 Laci Green – Is Racism Over Yet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hx30zOi9I Laci Green – Messages in the Hunger Games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHxQx-Zi5oQ Laci Green – Interracial Relationships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEEowOnXqEM White Ally to Marginalized Communities - Article- https://medium.com/@keeltyc/how-to-easily-be-a- white-ally-to-marginalized-communities-fb0ff326e7ac#.ry5j1on83 LGBT Resources TedxBoulder – Ash Beckham – Straight people coming out of the closet. http://www.upworthy.com/a-4-year-old-girl-asked-a-lesbian-if-shes-a-boy-she-responded-the- awesomest-way-possible The Vlogbrothers (Hank Green) – Human Sexuality Is Complicated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAoG8vAyzI (Discusses differences between gender/sex/orientation/) TED – Lee Mokobe: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender. http://www.ted.com/talks/lee_mokobe_a_powerful_poem_about_what_it_feels_like_to_be_tra nsgender Gender Share the Load - http://wwww.littlethings.com/share-the-load-commercial-v4/?utm_source=manzo Laci Green – Girl on Girl Hate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0UvvYs3AE Tony Porter – Call to Men - http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_porter_a_call_to_men Jackson Katz, Ph.D. –Violence against women – It’s a men’s issue - http://www.upworthy.com/a-ted- talk-that-might-turn-every-man-who-watches-it-into-a-feminist-its-pretty-fantastic-7 Gender Roles in Society - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QthMrCqspww Teaching Girls Bravery, not perfection. TEDTalk - http://www.ted.com/talks/reshma_saujani_teach_girls_bravery_not_perfection Sarah Kay – If I should have a daughter – Ted Talk – (first 3:45 minutes) http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter Keith Edwards – Putting your Man Mask On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OacbMC9lTc Men and Masculinities Facilitator Guides - https://Sites.google.com/slu.edu/mandm Religion Ted Talk - Mustafa Akyol – Faith versus tradition in Islam (17 mins) - https://www.ted.com/talks/mustafa_akyol_faith_versus_tradition_in_islam Ted Talk - Karima Bennoune – When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism (20 mins)- https://www.ted.com/talks/karima_bennoune_the_side_of_terrorism_that_doesn_t_make_hea dlines Ted Talk – Lesley Hazleton – On Reading the Koran (9 min) - https://www.ted.com/talks/lesley_hazelton_on_reading_the_koran Socioeconomic Status (SES) Xtranormal - Socioeconomic status and education - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmkXE2CK-rM - gets to the point but not appropriate The Vicious Cycle of Education - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o45dVVbFNo Ethnic and Racial Minorities and Socioeconomic status - http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/factsheet-erm.aspx US News and World Report - Where do you fall in the American Economic Class System (article)- http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2012/09/13/where-do-you-fall-in- the-american-economic-class-system Perspectives on socioeconomic status - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpj_C6PE-jE Photo Voice – The Impact of Low Socioeconomic Status on Learning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT6dYNaBKNs Tale of Two Schools - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdfVAPvv9A On A Plate - http://nextshark.com/one-comic-perfectly-sums-up-class-differences-in-society/ - Comic Sexuality It’s Time to Talk…about Gender Norms. – 2012 Article. http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/SAAM_2012_Gender-norms.pdf Ableism Social Justice
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