RESOURCES
Education is an essential part of the Demystifying Diversity Podcast, so we’ll continue researching and curating a list of resources for you to read, listen, and watch. Our recommended books are categorized according to generalized reading ages so that children and adults alike can have fun brushing up on their racial and cultural literacy skills. Keep checking in for material updates. Once you’ve read, listened, or watched any of these suggested items, we would love to hear your thoughts, so feel free to contact us and don't forget to sign up for the Demystifying Diversity Podcast Newsletter!
READ IT
All The Colors We Are (picture book)
- Katie Kissinger
American Born Chinese (fiction)
- Gene Luen Yang
Black Feminist Thought (nonfiction)
- Patricia Hill Collins
Black Meetings and Tourism (nonfiction)
- Various Contributors
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (nonfiction)
- Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald
- Trevor Noah
Counting on Community (picture book)
- Innosanto Nagara
COVID as a catalyst: shifting experiences of disability and (mis)fitting in the college classroom (nonfiction)
- Sarah M. Parsloe & Elizabeth M. Smith
Demystifying Diversity (nonfiction)
- Daralyse Lyons
Dos Idiomas, One Me (fiction)
- Maggy WIlliams
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining life (nonfiction)
- Louise Aronson
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (nonfiction)
- Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Doreen Rappaport
Harbor Me (fiction)
- Jaqueline Woodson
How To Be Antiracist (nonfiction)
- Ibram X. Kendi
I'm Mixed (fiction)
- Maggy Williams
Intersection Allies (picture book)
- Chelsea Johnson, Latoya Council & Carolyn Choi
I've Got Your Back: The Indispensable Guide to Stopping Harassment When You See It (nonfiction)
- Right To Be
Just Mercy (nonfiction)
- Bryan Stevenson
Lies My Teacher Told Me (nonfiction)
- James W. Loewen
Reflections From Both Sides of the Glass Ceiling (nonfiction)
- Stephanie Battaglino
Sister Outsider (nonfiction)
- Audre Lorde
Stamped (nonfiction)
- Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Subtle Acts of Exclusion (nonfiction)
- Jana & Baran
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women (nonfiction)
- Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood & Rhonda Joy McLean
The New Green Book - For Travel (nonfiction)
- Various Contributors
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (nonfiction)
- Michelle Alexander
The Proudest Blue: The Story of Hijab and Family (picture book)
- Ibtihaj Muhammad
The Undefeated (picture book)
- Kwame Alexander
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy (fiction)
- Medina
This Chair Rocks (nonfiction)
- Ashton Applewhite
What Lane? (fiction)
- Torrey Maldonado
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know (nonfiction)
- Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey
When We Were Alone (fiction)
- David A. Robertson
When your disability is often invisible, it can be hard to claim your identity (nonfiction)
- Daralyse Lyons
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (nonfiction)
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
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WATCH IT
Black or White? Refusing to Choose & Embracing Biracial Identity
Amend: The Fight for America
All That We Share
How to resolve racially stressful situations
3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace
The intergenerational wisdom woven into Indigenous stories
Fall Forward
Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate
Way of Sorrows: Charlene Teters Exhibit 2020
Watch the CURED documentary film trailer. For more about this illuminating documentary, visit cureddocumentary.com/the-film/
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
The Social Dilemma