Cultural Competency Resources
For anyone interested in working towards addressing and tackling their own biases, or seeking to make their classroom, department, or college a more inclusive and welcoming place for all people, listed below are resources to begin the journey of self-awareness, some knowledge of people different from yourself, as well as the skills and actionable tools to start and continue the reflection process and difficult dialogues.
We must do more. We will do more.
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