Cultural Competency Resources

Books & Articles

Privilege & Whiteness 

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism, DiAngelo (2018)
• Why Can't We All Just Be Individuals?: Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Anti-Racist Education, DiAngelo (2010)
• White Privilege, McIntosh (1988)
• The History of White People, Painter (2011)
• Explaining Privilege To A Broke White Person, Crosley-Corcoran (2014)  
• By The Color Of Their Skin: Tim Wise On The Myth Of A Postracial America, Cook (2019) 
• "What Group?" Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of "Color-Blindness", Lewis (2004) 
• What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege, Hutcherson (2016)
• Making America White Again, Morrison (2016)
• Killers of the Dream, Smith (1949)
• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, Sue (2015)
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Anderson (2016)
• Waking up White  Irving (2014)
• Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism Sullivan (2014)

Racism

• Defining Racism, Tatum (2015)
• The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America, Bonilla-Silva (2015)
• Why Can't We Just Get Along?, Bonilla-Silva (2015)
• The Case for Reparations, Coates (2014)
• Michelle Alexander: “A System of Racial and Social Control”, Alexander (2014)
• Exploring “America’s Original Sin” With Author Jim Wallis, Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson (2016) 
• Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture, Nagel (1994)
• What is the Model Minority Myth? Blackburn (2019)
• From Equity Walk, to Equity Talk McNair (2020)
• How to be an Anti-Racist Kendi (2019)
• The New Jim Crow Alexander (2016)
• America's Original Wallis (2016)

Class

• I was a Low Income Student, Jack (2019)
• The Poverty Myth, Ching (2012)
• The Other America, Harrington (1962)
• White Working Class, Williams (2017)
• Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty, Payne
• Media Magic: Making Class Invisible, Mantsios

Gender

• "Night to his Day": The Social Construction of Gender, Lorber (1994) 

Multi-Cultural Education 

• The Importance of Multicultural Education, Gay (2011)
• White teachers, race matters: Preparing teachers for the new millennium, Bigler (2002)
• Why Aren't We There Yet? Taking Personal Responsibility for Creating an Inclusive Campus, Arminio, Torres, Pope (2012)
• Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs, Pope, Reynolds, Mueller (2004)
• Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Rothenberg (1998)
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Tatum (2017)
• Other People's Children, Delpit (2006)
• 10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools, Utt (2015)

Microaggressions

• Microaggressions and Implicit Bias in the Classroom, Gannon (2017)
• “Am I overreacting?” Understanding and Combating Microaggressions, Crandall & Garcia (2016)

Podcasts & Films

• Seeing White, Biewan (2017)
• Color of Fear (2013)
• A Place at the Table 
• Take the Other to Lunch (2016)
• The Hate You Give (2018)
• Code Switch NPR podcast
• 1619 NYT podcast
• Intersectionality Matters! Crenshaw podcast
• 13th (2016)

Additional Resources

• 20 (Self-)Critical Things I Will Do to Be a Better Multicultural Educator
• Take a Test, Project Implicit
• Locating Yourself for Your Students, Pamar & Steinburg (2008)
• Creating a Positive Classroom Climate for Diversity, Garibay (2015)
• What Can We Do?: Becoming Part of the Solution, Johnson (1997)
• Multicultural Self-Assessment