Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017 | Book
Colorblindness keeps "good" people from recognizing the arguments, phrases and stories they use to explain and justify racial inequity. This book addresses the real problems caused by colorblind racism and offers advice on what individuals can do interpersonally and organizations can do structurally to confront and dismantle racism.
Craig Steven Wilder | Bloomsbury Press, 2013 | Book
Slaves were sold to start colleges, expand campuses and pay professors. Slaves waited on faculty and students, and college presidents courted slave owners and traders. This fascinating study shines a light on histories that many institutions have forgotten — or wish they could.
David K. Shipler | Vintage, 2016 | Book
How do Black and White people see each other really? What assumptions do they make? How much of what we do is based not in reality but on biases and self-fulfilling prophecies that just look like truth? This book digs deep into the stereotypes and discrimination that drive our behavior and interactions.
Michelle Alexander | The New Press, 2010 | Book
As much as we'd like to believe that we’re in a post-racial society, we simply replaced old social controls like Jim Crow and legal racial segregation with a new one, mass incarceration. The result is a caste system that robs whole generations of liberty and livelihood and distorts the idea of justice.
Jared Diamond | W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 | Book
Real estate isn't the only area where it's all about location, location, location. Diamond argues that providential geography — not intellectual, moral or genetic superiority — gave some cultures a head start that has allowed them to gain and hold on to societal dominance.
Trudy Bourgeois | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017 | Book
Real progress toward diversity and inclusion in corporate America starts with courageous conversations — talking about all the things we’re most afraid of talking about.