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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

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