Diversity Resources

Read

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Why I No Longer Talk to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Loge
• The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X Kendi via the New York Times
  This list by Ibram X Kendi, one of the leading scholars in racism and founder of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University and the BU Center for Antiracist Research covers topics related to race and biology, ethnicity, body, culture, behavior, color, whiteness, blackness, spaces, gender, and sexuality.
• An Anti-Racist Reading List: 20 Highly Rated Nonfiction Books by Black Authors
  20 recent non-fiction books, memoirs, and histories on the topic of race, written by Black American authors. While by no means a comprehensive list, these books are a good place to start. 

Listen

• Brené Brown with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist (Unlocking Us)
• Whistling Vilvaldi (NPR)
• Side Effects of White Women (Small Doses with Amanda Seales)
• Well Meaning White People (Smartest Person in the Room)
• A Decade on Watching Black People Die (Code Switch)
• Kaepernick (Still Processing)
• White Lies (NPR)
• The 1619 Project  by the New York Times
• Uncivil by Gimlet Media
• Pass the Mic by The Witness Podcast Radio
• Seeing White by Scene On Radio

Watch

• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown (Art of the Sermon)  
• White Awake by Daniel Hill (FSP Chicago)
• 13th (Ava DuVernay)
• How We Can Win (David Jones)
• 5 Tips for Being an Ally

For Youths, Young Adults, and Parents as Recommended by “Scaffolded Antiracist Resources”

Accessible resources for the youth:

• Antiracist Baby (Ibram X. Kendi)
• This Book is Antiracist  (Tiffany Jewell)
• Crossover Series (Kwame Alexander)

Young Adult Literature:

• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

Middle grades:

• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• New Kid by Jerry Craft

Resources for parents:

• Raising White Kids (Jen Harvey) -- article here: 'Raising White Kids' Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race 
• Books to Teach White Children and Teens How to Undo Racism and White Supremacy

For Educators

• Anti-Racist Educator Self-Questionnaire and Rubric 
• Anti-Racist Student Self-Questionnaire
• "Collectors, Nightlights, and Allies, Oh My!" (Marisela Martinez-Cola, JD/PhD)
• UMass ISSR Racial Justice Education Project