Resource list for learning more about race history and DEI efforts
This list was prepared by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Staff Committee. It does not imply recommendations, but offers a range of resources to explore.
How to Engage Meaningfully in Allyship and Anti-Racism (LinkedIn Learning path):
- Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences
- Inclusive Mindset for Committed Allies
- Advocating for Change in Your Organization
- Difficult Conversations: Talking about Race at Work
- Driving Change and Anti-Racism
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present — Yale University
IU Martin Luther King Day 2021 “Where Do We Go from Here: Social Justice Conference"
"A Call to Action: Then and Now — Angela Davis and Alicia Garza" (Keynote from above conference)
Perspectives on Race, Law and Equality (Big 10 Law School Speaker Series)
1619 Podcast by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Seeing White: Season 2 of Scene On Radio
Good Ancestor podcast with Layla Saad
Pod for the Cause (From The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
"Who Gets to be Afraid in America" by Ibram X. Kendi in The Atlantic
“Allyship – The Key to Unlocking the Power of Diversity” by Sheree Atcheson in Forbes
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic
"Data-driven efforts toward racial equality" in Medium
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly — Volume: 97, Number 3 (September 2020)
- "The Problem With Protests: Emotional Effects of Race-Related News Media" by David Stamps and Dana Mastro
- "Which Bad News to Choose? The Influence of Race and Social Identity on Story Selections Within Negative News Contexts" by Lanier Frush Holt and Dustin Carnahan
- "The Effect of Ethnicity and Number of Co-Viewers on Affective and Cognitive Identification With Media Characters" by Nurit Tal-Or
- "Racializing Captain America: How Racial Attitudes Affect Perceptions of Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiatives in Media" by S. R. Gubitz and Denzel Avant
- "The Great Digital Migration: Exploring What Constitutes the Black Press Online" by Miya Williams Fayne
- "The Effect of News Peril-type on Social Inclinations: A Social Group Comparison" by Julius Matthew Riles, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Haejung Shin and Michelle Funk
"NIH apologizes for ‘structural racism,’ pledges change" by Jocelyn Kaiser in Science
"#CommunicationSoWhite" by Paula Chakravartty, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, and Charlton McIlwain in the Journal of Communication
"How to Be an Antiracist" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
"Me and White Supremacy" by Layla F. Saad
"The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson
"Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson
"So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo
"Stamped from the Beginning" by Ibram X. Kendi
"Stamped – A Remix" by Jason Reynolds
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration" by Michelle Alexander
"The Condemnation of Blackness" by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
"The History of White People" by Nell Irvin Painter
"Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together" by Beverly Daniel
"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" by Douglas A. Blackmon
"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas (for young adults)
"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"White Fragility" by Robin Diangelo
"Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein
"Why We Can’t Wait" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X
"Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today" by Jacqueline Battalora
"They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement" by Wesley Lowery
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies Editors" – Michael Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto
Lists
"The 13th" (2016)
"I Am Not Your Negro" (2016)
"Whose Streets?" (2017)
"The Pieces I Am" (2019)