DMU Stands in Solidarity: White Coats for Black Lives – Social Justice Resources - Cultural Competency in Healthcare

A Good Place to Start

1. Take the Harvard Implicit Association Test (IAT). The IAT measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about.

Tests take around 15-20 minutes to complete
Several tests are available, however, Select “Race IAT” (‘Black-White- IAT)
Click on the following link to complete the IAT https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html\

Important Note: Once you complete the IAT test online, write no more than a 1-page reflection paper on what you learned or observed and then discuss with a colleague or friend.

2. Read either Blindspot (Banaji M., Greenwald, A.) or 35 Dumb Things Well- Intended People Say (Cullen, M.)

35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say by Maura Cullen
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781600378126
Publication Date: 2008
Blindspot : hidden biases of good people by Mahzarin R. Banaji; Anthony G. Greenwald
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780345528438
Publication Date: 2016
I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot.

3. Familiarize yourself with important terminology.

White Privilege

What is White Privilege Really? (Essay)
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (Essay)
How To Recognize Your White Privilege (Ted Talk)

White Supremacy

Microagression

Anti-Racism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

Anti-Racism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Resources
Guide created by the Office of Multicultural Affairs
Student Counseling Center Resources
Guide created by the Student Counseling Center

Hidden Brain (podcast)
The 1619 Project (podcast)
“1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery.
What is Race? (comic)
Resource List for Anti-Racist and Trauma-Informed Patient Care
Researchers around the world prepare to #ShutDownSTEM and ‘Strike For Black Lives’
Science Magazine article by Sophia Chen
Specific Resources for Healthcare Providers
Under Our Skin: A Project of The Seattle Times
Under Our Skin grew out of conversations about how The Seattle Times covers race at a time when national and local events — the furor over police shootings, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, protests on college campuses and charged campaign rhetoric — dominate headlines.
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible.
158 Resources to Understand Racism in America
These articles, videos, podcasts and websites from the Smithsonian chronicle the history of anti-black violence and inequality in the United States
BY MEILAN SOLLY
Race and Healthcare: New poll shows Black Americans see a racist health care system setting the stage for pandemic’s impact
"A new nationwide poll by The Undefeated and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that 7 in 10 African Americans believe that people are treated unfairly based on race or ethnicity when they seek medical care. It’s a feeling born of unequal history and intensified by the coronavirus pandemic, which is disproportionately ravaging Black lives both physically and economically." by Michael A. Fletcher

Statements of Solidarity

Iowa Library Association Statement on Racism and Social Justice

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association Statement Condemning Increased Violence and Racism Towards Black Americans and People of Color

The “8-4-6” Personal Challenge: A 21 Day Call to Action

21-Day “8-4-6” Personal Challenge Sample Form
The “8-4-6” Personal Challenge: A 21 Day Call to Action
This is an invitation and challenge for our DMU community to:

Identify 8 things you will do for the next 21 days to increase your awareness or learn more about becoming anti-racist or serving as an ally.
Identify 4 actionable items; disrupt/interrupt when hearing racist jokes/comments or joining a social justice organization in the local community, engaging with community partners, or actively listen to communities of color/other marginalized groups.
Agree to meet with 6 new individuals/colleagues and discuss what you each have learned, will continue to do, or identify other areas of growth, self-reflection etc... this can be over coffee, staff meetings, or lunch- zoom meetings/phone calls ...

What does "8-4-6" represent?

For 8 minutes and 46 seconds, Mr. George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis’ police officer’s knee on his neck, resulting in his death. The “8-4-6 challenge” is a way for us all to reflect on the demand for social justice and our individual and collective contributions toward that goal.

Why 21 days?

Based on several studies, most habits or routines require at least a minimum of 21 days to develop. As discussed in the Diversity Health Series, this is an ongoing process for all of us. The 21 Day Challenge is a place to start.

Anti-Racist and DEI Books Available in the Library Catalog

35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say by Maura Cullen
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781600378126
Publication Date: 2008
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781400032051
Publication Date: 2006
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man's first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780807013106
Publication Date: 2018
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism. Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers' Day, when migrant laborers--Chicana/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth--united in resistance on the first "Day Without Immigrants." As African American civil rights activists fought Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from Central America and the Caribbean. In stark contrast to the resurgence of "America First" rhetoric, Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have historically urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the Americas.
America's original sin : racism, white privilege, and the bridge to a new America by Jim Wallis (Foreword by Bryan Stevenson)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781587433429
Publication Date: 2016
Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo. His participation in the civil rights movement brought him back when he discovered a faith that commands racial justice. Yet as recent tragedies confirm, we continue to suffer from the legacy of racism. In America's Original Sin, Wallis offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society. He speaks candidly to Christians--particularly white Christians--urging them to cross a new bridge toward racial justice and healing.
Blackballed: the Black vote and US democracy by Darryl Pinckney
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781590177693
Publication Date: 2014
In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, Pinckney investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president.
Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
ISBN: 9781250105042
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than in whites." Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of many health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Burning House : Jim Crow and the making of modern America by Anders Walker
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780300235623
Publication Date: 2018
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker investigates how prominent intellectuals like Robert Penn Warren, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, and Zora Neale Hurston handled the paradoxical relationship between diversity and equality.
The Condemnation of Blackness : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780674054325
Publication Date: 2011
Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
A Different Mirror for Young People by Ronald Takaki; Rebecca Stefoff (Adapted by)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781609804169
Publication Date: 2012
A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: white people on what we need to do by Jennifer Harvey; Karin A. Case; Robin Hawley Gorsline
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780829816075
Publication Date: 2004
Through careful, thoughful examination of the nature and workings of race, racism, and white supremacy, the contributors--an all-white group of theologians, ethicists, teachers, ministers, and activits--have provided a resource that will help white people do their own souls, acknowledging its devasting effects on people of color, and taking their own steps toward it's abolishment.
The emperor has no clothes : teaching about race and racism to people who don't want to know by Tema Okun
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781617351044
Publication Date: 201
Theoretical grounding and practical approaches for leaders and teachers interested in effectively addressing racism and other oppressive constructs. The book draws both on the author's extensive experience teaching about race and racism in classroom and community settings and from the theory and practice of a wide range of educators, activists, and researchers committed to social justice.
Everyday injustice : Latino professionals and racism by Maria Chávez
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781442209190
Publication Date: 2011
As members of the fastest-growing demographic group in America, Latinos are increasingly represented in the professional class, but they continue to face significant racism. Everyday Injustice introduces readers to the challenges facing Latino professionals today.
Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice by Eddie Moore (Editor); Marguerite W. Pennick-Parks (Editor); Ali Michael (Editor); Paul C. Gorski (Foreword by)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781620362082
Publication Date: 2015
This book presents - in their own words - the personal stories, experiences and reflections of fifteen prominent White anti-racists. They recount the circumstances that led them to undertake this work, describe key moments and insights along their journeys,
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (but Were Afraid to Ask) by Brynn Tannehill
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781785928260
Publication Date: 2018
The book aims to break down deeply held misconceptions about trans people across all aspects of life, from politics, law and culture, through to science, religion and mental health, to provide readers with a deeper understanding of what it means to be trans. This important and engaging book enables any reader to become informed the most critical public conversations around transgender people, and become a better ally as a result.
Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780553447439
Publication Date: 2016
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems.
Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; James D. Houston
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781328742117
Publication Date: 2017
During World War II a community called Manzanar was created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans. Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who was seven years old when she arrived at Manzanar in 1942, recalls life in the camp through the eyes of a child. First published in 1973, this new edition of the classic memoir of a devastating Japanese American experience includes an inspiring afterword by the authors.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780679744726
Publication Date: 1993
"Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781501126369
Publication Date: 2016
Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, contemporary writers reflect on the past, present, and future of race in America.
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780872867390
Publication Date: 2017
In December 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States.
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? : being young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780143115410
Publication Date: 2008
An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim- Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Just over a century ago , W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: How does it feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America's new "problem"-Arab- and Muslim-Americans. Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty-somethings living in Brooklyn, home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States. He moves beyond stereotypes and clichés to reveal their often unseen struggles, from being subjected to government surveillance to the indignities of workplace discrimination. Through it all, these young men and women persevere through triumphs and setbacks as they help weave the tapestry of a new society that is, at its heart, purely American.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780525509288
Publication Date: 2019
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism--and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas--from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities--that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
I'm still here : black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781524760854
Publication Date: 2018
From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means to love blackness," Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780807049396
Publication Date: 2019-
Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.
Isms in health care human resources : a concise guide to workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion by Darren Liu, Betty Burston
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781284201819
Publication Date: 2021
Isms—typically defined as harmful and discriminatory philosophies or views—are a threat to human unity and may affect outcome maximization in healthcare workplaces. Isms in Health Care Human Resources: A Concise Guide to Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lays a foundation in which readers can become familiar with diversity, equity and inclusion issues in the workplace and gain an understanding of how isms in health care can reduce output and elevate costs. After providing an overview of isms in healthcare and other workplaces, this concise text closely examines various isms, from central tendancyism and sexualism to IQism and heterosexism while covering a range of other isms. It then proposes strategies for intermediation for healthcare administrators in order to guide them in reducing isms in the workplace and, in turn, maximizing output.
Just medicine : a cure for racial inequality in American health care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781479896738
Publication Date: 2015
Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites.
Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship--and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
Latinos Facing Racism by Joe R. Feagin; José A. Cobas; José A. Cobas
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781612055541
Publication Date: 2013
Feagin and Cobas provide the first in-depth examination of the everyday racism faced by middle-class Latinos. Based on a national survey, we learn how a diverse group of talented Latinos Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, Cuban Americans, and others respond to and cope with the commonplace white racial framing and discriminatory practices.
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781620974858
Publication Date: 2019
This updated and revised edition of the American Book Award-winner and national bestseller revitalizes the truth of America's history, explores how myths continue to be perpetrated, and includes a new chapter on 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Mapping Race by Laura E. Gómez
ISBN: 9780813561387
Publication Date: 2013-08-12
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways in which they may be integrated into future scientific endeavors. It concludes on a prescriptive note, providing an arsenal of multidisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological tools for studying race specifically within the context of health inequalities.
Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781728209807
Publication Date: 2020-
This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.
Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781984820372
Publication Date: 2020
As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality--when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they're dissonant--and in their tension, Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today.
The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans facing racism by Rosalind S. Chou; Joe R. Feagin
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781612059174
Publication Date: 2014
The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America's male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the lives of Asian Americans.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781620971949
Publication Date: 2020
In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
Nice Racism by Robin DiAngelo
ISBN: 9780807074138
Publication Date: 2021-06-29
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include: -rushing to prove that we are "not racist"; -downplaying white advantage; -romanticizing Black, Indigenous and other peoples of color (BIPOC); -pretending white segregation "just happens"; -expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism; -carefulness; -and feeling immobilized by shame. DiAngelo explains how spiritual white progressives seeking community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups' rituals create separation, not connection. She challenges the ideology of individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and she demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment, and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who recognizes the existence of systemic racism and white supremacy and wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice. BIPOC readers may also find the "insiders" perspective useful for navigating whiteness. Includes a study guide.
Nobody: casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781501124976
Publication Date: 2016
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Editor's Choice Nautilus Award Winner "A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature." --The New York Times From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems and policies that enabled them. In this "thought-provoking and important" (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America--Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others--and incidents of gross negligence by government, such as the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He digs underneath these events to uncover patterns and policies of authority that allow some citizens become disempowered, disenfranchised, poor, uneducated, exploited, vulnerable, and disposable. To help us understand the plight of vulnerable communities, he examines the effects of unfettered capitalism, mass incarceration, and political power while urging us to consider a new world in which everyone has a chance to become somebody. Heralded as an essential text for our times, Marc Lamont Hill's galvanizing work embodies the best traditions of scholarship, journalism, and storytelling to lift unheard voices and to address the necessary question, "how did we get here?"
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781317325307
Publication Date: 2015
This is a new edition of the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present. This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to portray the social turmoil behind the "march of progress".
Queer: a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker; Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781785780714
Publication Date: 2016
Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly.
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence : understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race by Derald Wing Sue
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781118959657
Publication Date: 2015
Learn to talk about race openly, honestly, and productively Most people avoid discussion of race-related topics because of the strong emotions and feelings of discomfort that inevitably accompany such conversations
Reproductive Injustice by Dána-Ain Davis
ISBN: 9781479853571
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants. Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income black women are often the "mascots" of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely.
Team spirits : the Native American mascots controversy by C. Richard King (Editor)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780803277984
Publication Date: 2001
Team Spirits is the first comprehensive look at the Native American mascots controversy. In this work activists and academics explore the origins of Native American mascots, the messages they convey, and the reasons for their persistence into the twenty-first century.
Trouble maker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington by Michael G. Long; Jacqueline Houtman; Walter Naegle
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780872867659
Publication Date: 2019
A biography for younger readers about one of the most influential activists of our time, who was an early advocate for African Americans and for gay rights. Troublemaker for Justice describes not only how Rustin orchestrated the March on Washington in two months but also how he stood up for his Quaker principles throughout his life.
Two Faces of Exclusion: the untold history of anti-Asian racism in the United States by Lon Kurashige
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781469629452
Publication Date: 2016
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus; it was a subject of fierce debate. This book complicates the exclusion story by examining the organized and well-funded opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in American politics, business, religion, and academia.
The Warmth of Other Suns : the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780679444329
Publication Date: 2010
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history.
White Fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
White like me : reflections on race from a privileged son : the remix by Tim Wise
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781593764258
Publication Date: 2011
The inspiration for the acclaimed documentary film, this deeply personal polemic reveals how racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise examines what it really means to be white in a nation created to benefit people who are "white like him."
White People and Black Lives Matter : ignorance, empathy, and justice by Johanna C. Luttrell
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9783030224882
Publication Date: 2019-08-14
This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice. It is a philosophical self-reflection on the ways in which 'white' reactions to Black Lives Matter stand in the way of the movement's important work. It probes reactions which often prevent white people from according to black activists the full range of human emotion and expression, including joy, anger, mourning, and political action. Johanna C. Luttrell encourages different conceptions of empathy and impartiality specific to social movements for racial justice, and addresses objections to identity politics.
White Trash by Matt Wray (Editor); Annalee Newitz (Editor)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780415916929
Publication Date: 1996
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
ISBN: 9781408870570
Publication Date: 2018
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.