find connection & resources
Below is a list of resources and connections relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion,
including reading lists, podcasts, video and film series and organizations to enhance
your understanding and support critical-thinking around diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If you would like to suggest a resource or don’t see a resource that fits your needs,
please contact the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at diversity@franklinpierce.edu.
How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
Resources to Help Empower Asian and Pacific Islander Communities
The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
“The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
“Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
”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)
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or 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 for free in June in the U.S.
King In The Wilderness — HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
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
Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | FacebookParenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang
Brandt’
Fare of the Free Child podcast
1619 (New York Times)
Code Switch (NPR)
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Seeing White
10 Books on Abortion to Understand the Roe v. Wade Debate - The New York Times
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Sen
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist
in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United
States, edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work
by Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illustrator)
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (Paperback)
by Jim Wallis, Bryan Stevenson (Foreword by)
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century
America by Ira Katznelson
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
by Roberts, Dorothy, 2011
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Kendi, Ibram X., 2016
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by DiAngelo, Robin J., 2018
Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by Forman, James, 2017
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou, Maya, 2015
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Cooper, Brittney C., 2018
Heavy: An American Memoir by Laymon, Kiese, 2018
The Fire Next Time by Baldwin, James, 1993
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Lorde, Audre, 2007
Between the World and Me by Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 2015
The Fire This Time by Kenan, Randall, 2007
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Baptist, Edward E., 2014
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of A Nation by Berry,
Daina Ramey, 2017
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II by Blackmon,
Douglas A., 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle, 2012
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 2011
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Rothstein, Richard
Book – 2017
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Sugrue, Thomas J., 1996
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Theoharis, Jeanne, 2018
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy by Dudziak, Mary L. , 2000
Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by White, Deborah G., 1999
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Giddings, Paula, 1996
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 2016
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Davis, Angela Y., 2003
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan, 2014
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Berman, Ari, 2015
Antiracism: An Introduction by Zamalin, Alex, 2019
How To Be An Antiracist by Kendi, Ibram X., 2019
The Wellbeing Handbook for Overcoming Everyday Racism: How to Be Resilient in the Face of Discrimination and Microagressions by Cousins,
Susan, 2019
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement by Horace,
Matthew, 2018
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Butler, Paul, 2017
Citizen: An American Lyric by Rankine, Claudia, 2014
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Cooper, Brittney C., 2019
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Bennett, Michael, 2018
Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
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