Suggested Readings
The list featured here is by no means exhaustive. This list was curated from our recent retreats, workshops, trainings, as well as campus-wide DEI efforts. It, therefore, is ever expanding. For more resources and events, see: https://diversity.umd.edu/resources
We appreciate active involvement from all faculty, staff and students in our department. If you have a resource that can be added to this virtual bookshelf, please use our DEI Contact Form to notify us.
Each resource is provided as a link to site, pdf or google doc. When linked to a google document, you may be prompted to copy the source to your google drive.
Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Before the Classroom
- "Anti-Racism Toolkit" (2021) curated by UMD Diversity Training and Education
- "Anti-Racism Teach-In Series" (2021) video training series by UMD Diversity Training and Education
- "Anti-racist pedagogy: from faculty's self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom" (2016) article by Kyoto Kishimoto
- "Let's talk about power: How teacher use of power shapes relationships and learning" (2017) chapter by L.F. Reid and Jalal Kawash
- "Review: Does Higher Education Cause Inequality?" (2015) by Roger L. Geiger
- "Decolonization is not a metaphor" (2012) by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
- "Sidelines and separate spaces: making education anti-racist for students of color" (2010) by Deanna M. Blackwell
- "Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education" project curated by the American Council on Education
- browse their own list of resources pertaining to race and ethnicity in higher education here
In the Classroom
- "Confronting Systems of Privilege and Power in the Classroom: Uses of Power" (2015) chapter by Bridget Turner Kelly and Joy Gaston Gayles in Designing Transformative Multicultural Initiatives (ed. Sherry K. Watt) - available through UMD Libraries
- "The Souls of Black Professors" (2020) by Colleen Flaherty
- this article is part of a series about the Black Experience in Higher Education, view the series here
- "Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color" (2017) by Sarah E. Bond
- "Whitewashing of Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism and Color in the Ancient World" (2017) by Sarah E. Bond
- "Teaching Diversity - im/possibility pedagogy" (2006) by Sanjay Sharma
- "How Internalized White Supremacy Manifests for My BIPOC Students in Art School" (2021) by Aram Han Sifuentes
- "Notes from the Apotheke: A Blog about being BIPOC in Classics": http://notesfromtheapotheke.com/
- "Confronting Class in the Classroom" (1994) by bell hooks
- "This Ship We're In" (2020) by Eugenia Zuroski
- "Faculty Teaching Diversity Through Difficult Dialogues: Stories of Challenges and Success" (2015) by Joy Gaston Gayles, Bridget Turner Kelly, Shaefny Grays, Jig Jing Zhang & Kamaria P. Porter
Beyond the Classroom
- "white supremacy culture" infosheet by Tema Okun (www.dismantlingracism.org)
- "How has time been stolen from people of color?" video speech by Brittany Cooper
- "Latino/a Art: Race and the Illusion of Equality" (2016) by Arlene Davila
- "'CRASH' - Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Whiteness" (2010) by Sanjay Sharma
- "Wanted: A White Leader Able to Free Whites of Racism" (2000) by Derrick Bell in the Derrick Bell Reader (2005)
- "What is Whiteness?" (2015) by Nell Irvin Painter
- "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh
- "A message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" (2019) video uploaded by The Intercept
- "The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race" (2007) by Geroge Lipsitz