Equity/Eliminating Institutional Racism: Reading List

  • Adelman, L. (Executive Producer). (2003). RACE. The power of an illusion [DVD]. A three-part documentary series produced by California Newsreel.
  • Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York, NY: The New Press.
  • Anderson, A. D. (2011). Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Berardo, K. & Deardorff, D. K. (Eds.). (2012). Building Cultural Competence: Innovative Activities and Models. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC.
  • Berry, P. (July/August 2013). “Four Ways to Reinvigorate Diversity Councils.” Diverse Executive, 32-35.
  • Black Lives Matter is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life. We are working to (re)build the Black liberation movement.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E. (2014). Racism without Racists. Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Catalyst Project. Anti-Racism For Collective Liberation
  • Clayton-Pedersen, A. R., Parker, S., Smith, D. G., Moreno, J. F., & Teraguchi, D. H. (2007). Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities.
  • Crenshaw, K. & Harris, L. Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race. African American Policy Forum.
  • Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training. Dismantling Racism, Building Racial Justice in Institutions
  • Dismantling Racism Works. dRworks is a collaborative of trainers and organizers who have been facilitating Dismantling Racism work for many years
  • Equity Advocates (Facebook page)
  • Erickson, T. J. (2013). “Harness Differences to Create Strengths: People With Different Perspectives Can Complement One Another.” Diverse Executive, 12.
  • Gasman, M., Baez, B., & Turner, C. (Eds.). (2008). Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions. New York, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Harris, F. C. & Lieberman, R. C. (2015). Racial Inequality After Racism: How Institutions Hold Back African Americans. Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2015-03-01/racial-…
  • Heath, C. & Heath, D. (2013). Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work. New York, NY: Random House, Inc.
  • Implicit-associaton Test (IAT). Project Implicit. Harvard University.
  • Johnson, K. V. & Williams, L. (2015). When Treating All the Kids the Same Is the Real Problem: Educational Leadership and the 21st Century Dilemma of Difference. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. A SAGE Company.
  • Kalman, F. (2013). “The Do’s and Don’ts of Shaping Culture.” Diverse Executive, 20-23.
  • Kimmel, S. (2013). “The Value of Diversity: Leadership and Organizational Commitment.” Diverse Executive, 16.
  • Kivel, P. (2011). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.
  • Lioz, A. (2014). Stacked Deck: How the Racial Bias in Our Big Money Political System Undermines Our Democracy and Our Economy. New York, NY: demos.org.
  • Lopez, I. H. (2014). Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class. Oxford University Press.
  • Mills, M. (2015). Institutional Racism by the Numbers. AMERICAblog. http://americablog.com/2015/05/institutional-racism-by-the-numbers.html
  • Open Source Leadership Strategies. Building Organizational and Leadership Capacity for BREAKTHROUGH SOCIAL CHANGE
  • Oosterwal, G. (2010). Cross-cultural Competency in the Work Place: A Seminar on Caring for People from Diverse Cultures. Berrien Springs, MI: Center for Intercultural Relations.
  • Patterson, K., Grenny, J., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2012). Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High. (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Pew Research Center. Wealth inequality has widened along racial, ethnic lines since end of the Great Recession
  • Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.
  • Racial Equity Institute. Optimizing institutional outcomes for everyone.
  • Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
  • Rodriguez, R. (2013). “More than Lip Service: CEO’s Should Show Diversity Commitment with Actions.” Diverse Executive, 10.
  • Roundtable on Community Change. Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis. The Aspen Institute.
  • Sevier, R. (Presenter). (2013). Increasing the Marketability of Your Academic Programs [Online Seminar]. Magna Publications, Inc.
  • Showing Up For Racial Justice. SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice.
  • State of Black America. (2014). “One Nation Underemployed: Jobs Rebuild America.” New York, NY: National Urban League.
  • Ten Lessons for Taking Leadership on Racial Equity – The Aspen Institute
  • The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond focuses on understanding what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone (Undoing Racism workshops).
  • Thomas Jr., R. R. (2013). “Stop Using Diversity as a Sham: Diversity, Social Justice are not Synonymous with Affirmative Action.” Diverse Executive, 50.
  • Turner, A. (2013). “The Business Case For Racial Equity. America Healing.” Prepared by the Altarum Institute and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
  • Turner, C. (2013). “Case Study: Diversity Starts with Recruiting.” Diverse Executive, 44-46.
  • United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power that corrupts democracy, deepens the racial divide and tears communities apart.
  • Winant, H. (2002). The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  • Wise, T. (2015). How Racism Explains America’s Class Divide and Culture of Economic Cruelty (An Excerpt from: Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Jeopardizing the Future of America). San Francisco, CA: City Lights.
  • WorldTrust. Social Impact through Film and Dialogue. (2015). Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible [Film]. Oakland, CA: World Trust Educational Services, Inc.

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