The links below are provided as resources for personal exploration and growth as we all look within ourselves to better understand and be an active part of the many discussions facing our world today around diversity and inclusion.
This is not an exhaustive list and all are welcome to contribute. If you would like to suggest titles or resources to include here, please email suggested additions to cci.its@yale.edu.
Yale Resources
- Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- Climate, Culture, and Inclusion Task Force (CCI)
- Diversity & Inclusion on LinkedIn Learning
Books (Links to Yale Library)
- A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history by Jeanne Theoharis
- Black and blue : inside the divide between the police and Black America by Patricia Hill Collins
- Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring.
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Jim Crow’s Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation by Ruth Thompson-Miller
- Just medicine: a cure for racial inequality in American health care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Killing with Prejudice: Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment by R. J Maratea
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- White Rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carol Anderson(Carol Elaine)
Articles & Books
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Better Allies by Karen Catlin
- 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 Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groupsdeveloped 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
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (YouTube 50:48)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (YouTube 18:26)
Suggested Films and TV Series
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- One Night in Miami — Amazon Prime
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Organizations to follow on Social Media
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Museum of the Courageous
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook