
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.
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
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)