Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources

05 June 2020

The information below is intended to serve as resources and is split up into sections in which you can donate, petitions you can sign, books, articles, videos, podcasts and resources to assist in your personal education.

Activist and filmmaker, Sarah Sophie Flicker, and writer, Alyssa Klein, compiled the majority of the information listed below for public use in May 2020. And, two members of the Salus University Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Alyshah Hassam, ‘22OD, and Ruth Shoge, OD, MPH, assisted in the compilation in addition to Cassandre Luberus, MBA, MSA and Christina Harris, PhD.

Definitions

Ally - any person that actively promotes and aspires to advance the culture of inclusion through intentional, positive and conscious efforts that benefit people as a whole.
Sponsor - a person or institution that vocally and actionably supports the work of those from underrepresented groups in all contexts, but specifically in situations that will help boost their standing and reputations.
Bias
- Explicit (conscious) - a person is very clear about their feelings and attitudes, and related behaviors are conducted with intent. This type of bias is processed neurologically at a conscious level as declarative, semantic memory, and in words. Conscious bias in its extreme is characterized by overt negative behavior that can be expressed through physical and verbal harassment or through more subtle means such as exclusion.
- Implicit (unconscious) - operates outside of a person’s awareness and can be in direct contradiction to a person’s espoused beliefs and values. What is so dangerous about implicit bias is that it automatically seeps into a person’s affect or behavior and is outside of the full awareness of that person.
Cultural competency - a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professions to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
Cultural humility - the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the person
Privilege - a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
Race vs. Ethnicity
- Race - a social construct that categorizes people by skin color.
- Ethnicity - a category of people who identify with each other, usually on the basis of presumed similarities such as a common language, ancestry, history, society, culture, nation or social treatment within their residing area.
Prejudice - a preconceived belief/thought about a group/individual based on stereotypes.
Discrimination - the act of treating someone differently based on some aspect of their identity.
Racism - a conscious or unconscious belief in the superiority of a certain race coupled with the power to determine one’s own reality and influence the reality of others.
Racial Reconciliation - the spiritual practice of seeking loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God and one another, and striving to heal and transform injustice and brokenness in ourselves, our communities, institutions, and society.
Restorative Justice - a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior (the term injustice is preferred). It is best accomplished through cooperative processes that include all stakeholders. This can lead to transformation of people, relationships and communities.

Donate

Minnesota Freedom Fund
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
ActBlue - splits your donation among 11 charities:
- The Advancement Project
- Unicorn Riot
- The National Police Accountability Project
- The Marshall Project
- Reclaim the Block
- Black Visions Collective
- National Bail Out
- Black Lives Matter Global Network
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Campaign Zero
- ColorOfChange Education Fund

Petitions

Books to Read

by Patricia Hill Collins
by Dr. Brittney Cooper
by Kiese Laymon
by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
by Maya Angelou
by Bryan Stevenson
by Layla F. Saad
by Jenna Arnold
by Janet Mock
by Audre Lorde
by Ijeoma Oluo
by Toni Morrison
by James Baldwin
by Michelle Alexander
by Grace Lee Boggs
by Isabel Wilkerson
by Zora Neale Hurston
by Cherríe Moraga
by Ira Katznelson
by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
by Austin Channing Brown
by Akala
by James Baldwin
by June Sarpong
by Emma Dabiri
by Angela Davis
by Wesley Lowery
by Audre Lorde
by Hilton Als
by Afua Hirsch
by David Olusoga
, edited by Nikesh Shukla

Articles to Read

Videos to Watch

A conversation with Asian-Americans on race
(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
(Van Jones)
(Marc Lamont Hill)
(Hasan Minaj)

Films and TV Series to Watch

500 Years Later (MK Asante)
13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Black American Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Amazon Prime
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
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap - Netflix
Eyes on the Prize - PBS
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
Rosewood
Roots (Alex Haley)
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland - HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
Slavery by Another Name - PBS
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson - Netflix
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
Time: The Kalief Browder Story - Netflix
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Whose Streets - Amazon Prime

Podcasts to Subscribe to

Resources for Parents to Raise Anti-Racist Children

Books:
Podcasts:
Articles:
Social Media:
The Conscious Kid: follow them on and consider signing up for their

Organizations to Follow on Social Media

Antiracism Center:
Audre Lorde Project: | |
Black Women’s Blueprint: | |
Color Of Change: | |
Colorlines: | |
The Conscious Kid: | |
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): | |
Families Belong Together: | |
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: | |
MPowerChange: | |
George Floyd: How can I help from the UK? (via Das Penman):
10 steps to non-optical allyship (via Mireille Harper):
Black and Mobile: *online submission

More Anti-Racism Resources to Check Out

Topics to Google

Civil Rights
- Jim Crow
- Sharecropping
- Sundown Towns
Criminal Justice System
- Bail System
- Mass Incarceration
- Plea Bargaining for Racial Minorities
- School to Prison Pipeline
- War on Drugs
Economics
- Part-time/Unemployment/Underemployment in the Black Community
- Shift Work in the Black Community
- Generational Wealth from Businesses/Land ownership, systems that prevented
- Welfare System
Education
- The Opportunity Gap
- Funding for Public Schools
- Access to Pre-K
- Read
  - Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris
  - Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum
  - Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Healthcare
- Flint Water Crisis
- Henrietta Lacks’ Stolen Cells
- HIV in the Black Community
- Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- Health Insurance, lack of access
- Maternal Health disparities
- Read Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
Housing
- Gentrification
- Lead Poisoning
- Racism & Discrimination in,
- Redlining
Systematic Family Breakdown
- Assassination of Black Leaders
- Crack Epidemic
- Destruction of the Black Family Unit
- Media portrayal of Black People
- Welfare System prohibiting men from being in the home
- The Moynihan Report

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