LibGuides: Building Inclusion Collaborative Resource Guide: Intercultural Dialogue Resources

Websites

Dismantling Racism Works This web-based workbook was originally designed to support the Dismantling Racism Works 2-day basic workshop. The workbook is now offered as a resource to the community.
AFL-CIO Racial Justice Resources Through this website you can access a tool kit for multiple group activities to learn about and practice skills for: TALKING ABOUT RACIAL AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE
World Trust Social Justice Through Films and Dialogue A page with film resources to promote discussion. Fielding has access to 'Mirrors of Privilege' via the library website.

Films on Kanopy

Latinos Beyond Reel - Challenging a Media Stereotype
In Latinos Beyond Reel, filmmakers Miguel Picker and Chyng Sun examine how US news and entertainment media portray -- and do not portray -- Latinos. Drawing on the insights of Latino scholars, journalists, community leaders, actors, directors, and producers, they uncover a pattern of gross misrepresentation and gross under-representation -- a world in which Latinos tend to appear, if at all, as gangsters and Mexican bandits, harlots and prostitutes, drug dealers and welfare-leeching illegals. The film challenges viewers to think critically about the wide-ranging effects of these media stereotypes, and to envision alternative representations and models of production more capable of capturing the humanity and diversity of real Latinos.
Current library users can access this title via our Kanopy subscription.
Pride Denied - Homonationlism & the Future of Queer Politics
This film tells the story of how corporate sponsors coopted the concept of LGBTQ pride, turning it into a feel-good brand and blunting its radical political edge. The film locates the origins of pride in sites of grassroots resistance and revolt, going back to the anti-police Stonewall uprising led by queer and trans people of color in 1969. It then traces how the deeply political roots of pride morphed into the depoliticized big-business PRIDE(tm) spectacles of today -- multimillion-dollar events designed to project an image of tolerance and equality rather than calling attention to the relationship between normative identity, power, and sexual repression.
Current library users can access this title via our Kanopy subscription.
More Than a Word: Native American-Based Sports Mascots
An exploration of Native American-based mascots, especially the Washington R_dskins, and their impact on real-life attitudes, issues, and policies. Through interviews with scholars, tribal leaders, lawyers, policy experts, activists, and Washington R_dskins fans, the film explores the history of the slanderous term "redskin," and delves into cultural stereotypes of Native Americans and their relationship to history. Ultimately, the film argues for representations that honor and celebrate the humanity of Indigenous people.
Current library users can access this title via our Kanopy subscription.
Souls of Black Girls
Filmmaker Daphne Valerius's award-winning documentary The Souls of Black Girls explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African-American women. Valerius surveys the dominant white, light-skinned, and thin ideals of beauty that circulate in the culture, from fashion magazines to film and music video, and talks with African-American girls and women about how these images affect the way they see themselves. The film also features powerful commentary from rapper and activist Chuck D, actresses Regina King and Jada Pinkett Smith, PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill, cultural critic Michaela Angela Davis, and others.
Current library users can access this title via our Kanopy subscription.

On this page...

The resources on this page are meant to assist with encouraging, initiating, and facilitating cultural and intercultural discussions. Scroll down to view resources by content type.

Articles

Saad, L.F. (2017, August 15). I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy: Part one [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-1

Saad, L.F. (2017, October 16). I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy: Part two [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://laylafsaad.com/poetry-prose/white-women-white-supremacy-2

Jason, K., & Epplen, S. N. (2016). Interrogating Ourselves in a Racialized World: Using Personal Experience to Improve Students’ Understanding of Racism. Sociology of race and ethnicity, 2(4), 584-590. Find in a local library. Fielding users can access this article by connecting to the SAGE Premier database and searching for the title.

Frye, M. (1983). On being white: Thinking toward a feminist understanding of race and race supremacy. The politics of reality: Essays in feminist theory, 110, 27. Find the collection in a local library. Read the essay online.

Book Chapters

The Combahee River Collective. (1983). The Combahee River Collective Statement. In B. Smith (Ed.) Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (pp. 264-274). New York, NY: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Find in a local library.

*The statement is posted many places online and can be found via web search.

F. W. Twine & C. A. Gallagher. (2012). Introduction: The future of whiteness: a map of the 'third wave'. In C. A. Gallagher & F. W. Twine (Eds.) Retheorizing race and whiteness in the 21st century: Changes and challenges (pp. 1-20). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis. Find in a local library. Article version from Racial & Ethnic Studies journal posted here.

Books

Emerging Intersections by Bonnie Thornton Dill, et al.
ISBN: 9780813544557
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
ISBN: 9780807057834
Publication Date: 2015-08-11
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta L. (Lynn) Hammond
ISBN: 9781483308012
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation―until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.
Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America by Kristin Haltinner (Editor)
ISBN: 9789400771000
Publication Date: 2013-10-28
This book presents thoughtful reflections and in-depth, critical analyses of the new challenges and opportunities instructors face in teaching race during what has been called the “post-racial era”. It examines the racial dimensions of the current political, economic, and cultural climate. The book features renowned scholars and experienced teachers from a range of disciplines and offers successful strategies for teaching important concepts through case studies and active learning exercises. It provides innovative strategies, novel lesson plans and classroom activities for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about race and racism to today’s students. A valuable handbook for educators, this book should be required reading for all graduate students and college instructors.
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
ISBN: 9781931498555
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9781568584638
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
This Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor); Cherríe Moraga (Editor)
ISBN: 9781438454382
Publication Date: 2015-03-01
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities―race, class, gender, and sexuality―systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.”
Making All Black Lives Matter by Barbara Ransby
ISBN: 9780520292710
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
In Making All Black Lives Matter, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of this movement, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition, one that is anticapitalist, internationalist, and focused on some of the most marginalized members of the Black community. From the perspective of a participant-observer, Ransby maps the movement, profiles many of its lesser-known leaders, measures its impact, outlines its challenges, and looks toward its future.
Reproducing Racism by Daria Roithmayr
ISBN: 9780814777121
Publication Date: 2014-01-20
Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination. Drawing on work in antitrust law and a range of other disciplines, Roithmayr brilliantly compares the dynamics of white advantage to the unfair tactics of giants like AT&T and Microsoft.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
ISBN: 0465083617
Publication Date: 2003-01-17
Here, Tatum asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences. Using real-life examples and research, she presents evidence that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides.