This guide is intended to provide some guidance and recommendations for how to think about a more inclusive curriculum. It is a living resource, created by faculty, for faculty: the contents are not exhaustive nor are they complete. We will add to the guide on a regular basis.
Kendi, a National Book Award winning historian (Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America), developed this text as a manual for defining and unpacking fundamentally important terms: “racism” and “antiracism” in particular, and how there is genuinely no middle ground. He uses his own personal history and lived experience, the history of his parents, and other contemporary examples of racism and antiracism in action. It absolutely lives up to its “How To” title, as it serves as a clear, concise, and vital lesson. This may be one of the most important books available right now.
Recommended by Professor Jared Gilpatrick
This reader includes a series of essays, each addressing a common myth about race-ethnicity and racism such as, “If Only He Hadn’t Worn the Hoodie:” Race, Selective Perception, and Stereotype Maintenance, and “If People Stopped Talking About Race, It Wouldn’t Be a Problem Anymore”: Silencing the Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Both editors and most/all of the essay authors are social scientists of color.
I use this reader as a supplement to the main text in my Sociology of Race and Ethnicity course, but it is also a great resource for faculty looking for empirically grounded, research-based information to counter students’ misperceptions about race. The essays cover a wide range of issues such as the myth of meritocracy, racialized school mascots, race and college admissions, affirmative action in the job market, and more.
Readers will expand their understand of core topics in the study of race-ethnicity and racism at both the macro/structural and micro/interpersonal levels, as well as becoming skilled at countering common misconceptions with high-quality facts.
Recommended by Professor Jennifer Dziuba-Leatherman
Recommended by Professor Jennifer Dziuba-Leatherman
A collection of poetry, visual art, and prose about lived experiences and what Ewing calls “desire-based thinking” about racial equity, justice, socioeconomic transformation, speculative history, and education. This collection is significantly valuable to educators for its fundamentals: how the old canon is flawed and incomplete, how writing can a pathway toward asserting power, and how stories need not be told in traditional forms. It also presents histories, like the Great Chicago Fire and the Revolutionary movements of the 60’s and 70’s, in a new way, and its central emphasis on surviving in a racist society makes it an eminently valuable collection for educators teaching in a racially diverse environment.
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This collection of essays focuses itself on singular narrative consistencies in traditional U.S. culture, and how those narratives need to be adjusted, reworked, or dismantled. Solnit examines and deconstructs the concept of “rugged individualism,” explores capitalism as a cause for violent misogyny, and unpacks issues as current as the Christine Blasey-Ford testimony. For educators, these essays can be valuable for curriculum development and for student readings.
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Kendi does broad historical work in this text about the history of segregationist, assimilationist, and antiracist thought in American history, since before its founding. Although it centers itself around five primary actors in American history in order to organize its investigation (Thomas Jefferson, Cotton Mather, William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. DuBois, and Angela Davis), the text is a massive collection of material that provides historical examples and makes tangible some of the most abstract concepts. Overall, it’s a robust but focused social, intellectual, and cultural history of America.
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A more comprehensive look at the American Revolution than the traditional narratives, this book focuses on grassroots efforts by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and Tobacco farmers as a cause for the colonial aristocracy (Jefferson, Washington, et al) to advocate for rebellion against the British Empire. This is a good text for educators who might be seeking to explain movement politics to students, the power of the grassroots, and how history is rarely (almost never) about singular “heroes.”
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Beverly Daniel Tatum is an educator, higher education administrator and clinical psychologist who specializes in racial identity development, with emphasis on children of color in predominately white communities. I use this text in my Sociology of Race and Ethnicity course to teach students about theories of racial identity development and it is especially well-received by students in Elementary and Secondary Education programs.
Readers new to the concept of racial identity will especially appreciate the chapters on Racial Identity Development (stages) and White Racial Identity Development. This is especially important for those working with or raising children, but also serves as a tool for anyone who seeks to develop insight into their own complex relationship to race.
Tatum’s work is also addressed in widely available interviews and Ted Talk videos. I highly recommend the “Chocolate Milk” video (https://youtu.be/l_TFaS3KW6s) for anyone looking to develop their ability to speak with young children about race in a way that empowers people of color and the developing self- esteem of the child, while not diminishing the truth about systemic inequality.
Recommended by Jennifer Dziuba-Leatherman
A narrative history recounting significant moments of Latin American women workers organizing themselves and gaining control over their unions, workplaces, and lives. Dana Frank provides two important points of context for contemporary educators here: a detailed analysis of gender discrimination in Latin America, and a broader history of the often devastating economic impact of U.S. neoliberal trade policy within Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.
Recommended by Professor Jared Gilpatrick
This reader includes a series of essays, each addressing a common myth about race-ethnicity and racism such as, “If Only He Hadn’t Worn the Hoodie:” Race, Selective Perception, and Stereotype Maintenance, and “If People Stopped Talking About Race, It Wouldn’t Be a Problem Anymore”: Silencing the Myth of a Color-Blind Society. Both editors and most/all of the essay authors are social scientists of color.
I use this reader as a supplement to the main text in my Sociology of Race and Ethnicity course, but it is also a great resource for faculty looking for empirically grounded, research-based information to counter students’ misperceptions about race. The essays cover a wide range of issues such as the myth of meritocracy, racialized school mascots, race and college admissions, affirmative action in the job market, and more.
Readers will expand their understand of core topics in the study of race-ethnicity and racism at both the macro/structural and micro/interpersonal levels, as well as becoming skilled at countering common misconceptions with high-quality facts.
Recommended by Jennifer Dziuba-Leatherman
This book explores slavery as not just a minor feature of the American constitutional system, but as an essential part of its foundation. It explains, through historical and political analysis, why slavery as an institution persisted for so long in the United States after its abolition elsewhere across the world, and consequently why racism persists on an institutional level. This book is, in a sense, an audit of the U.S. Constitution, and is highly valuable for educators in exploring how modern systems in the United States still serve to benefit only a portion of the population.
Recommended by Professor Jared Gilpatrick
This is probably the single most important books for many history students, and one of the most influential works of history produced since it was first published in 1978. Orientalism concerns itself narrowly with western representations of the Arab-Islamic world, which in too many cases remain myopic, and broadly with how western scholarship approaches non-western societies. Its best use for educators is in Said’s definition of Orientalism as a “discourse by the Powerful about the Power-less,” which offers us a useful tool to rethink how we approach certain subjects, decolonize our classrooms, and develop a more equitable curriculum.
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As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.
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Congressman John Lewis is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations. Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books selection, recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults, "March- Book One," written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell.
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Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation to join the struggle. Now, March brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement's young activists place their lives on the line while internal conflicts threaten to tear them apart. But their courage will attract the notice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy... and once Lewis is elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into the national spotlight, becoming one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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"One of the Best Books of 2016", Publishers Weekly. Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and death. The only hope for lasting change is to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter suppression, "One Man, One Vote." To carry out their non-violent revolution, Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of the Democratic Party waged live on national television. With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures within the movement are deepening, even as 25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma.
