Recommended Resources
We've developed this list of books, articles, podcasts and videos to assist our audiences with building upon the conversations and dialogues in our workshops and training sessions.
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We hope that this page is helpful to pushing your understanding of DEI Issues further.
Books
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Recommended for EMG’s Intro to DEI and Unconscious Bias workshop attendees:
We Can’t Talk About That at Work, Mary-Francis Winters
Biased, Jennifer Eberhardt
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
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Recommended for EMG’s Navigating Difficult Conversations and Courageous Conversations About Race DEI workshop attendees:
Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy and Belonging Across Differences by Mary-Frances Winters (2020)
Difficult Conversations (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series) by Harvard Business Review | Feb 16, 2016
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott (2004)
Additional recommended reading:
Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands, Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness , Janet Mock
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century , Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns , Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God , Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Articles
“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
"Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
The Combahee River Collective Statement
“The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Videos To Watch
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)