Resources to Engage in Conversations About Race and Anti-Racism

Cornell Courses for Faculty

The Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation offers a number of courses for inclusive teaching for diverse classrooms.

• Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.
• Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.
• Building Connections with Dialogue, (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Cornell Resources

• Resources for the AAPI Community
• Cornell University Library Black Lives Matter Library Guide
• Cornell University Library Community Resources and Research on Anti-Asian Violence
• Hate in the Time of COVID, Cornell Asian American Studies Program
• Inclusive Excellence Podcast
• “I” Statements, a podcast created by the Intergroup Dialogue Project
• Practical Steps to Support Social Justice & Address Inequities, offered by Cornell Graduate School
• Racism in America: Policing and Incarceration, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences
• Responding to Incidents that Affect the Teaching and Learning Environment
• Implicit Bias Educational Resources

Training, Actions and Tools

• Asian Americans Advancing Justice 
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Resources for COVID-19
• Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
• Stanford’s SPARQtools (specifically RaceWorks) – a digital toolkit
• Free bystander intervention training to stop harassment (offered by an external organization, Hollaback)
• Implicit Bias Educational Resources
• Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Site
• Social Justice and Anti-Racism Resources for Graduate Education, Council of Graduate Schools

Podcasts

• ‘1619,’ a A Podcast from the New York Times
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé 
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast 
• Pod for the Cause (from the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights) 
• Seeing White
• One Korean American’s Reckoning

READ

Articles

• Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death is…A Lot by Shenequa Golding
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Ok — Chances Are They Are Not by Danielle Cadet
• The case for reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Becoming Trustworthy White Allies by Melanie S. Morrison
• The 1619 Project, New York Times
• The Asian American Reply to Pandemic-Era Racism
• Black Power, Yellow Peril: Towards a Politics of Afro-Asian Solidarity by Diane Wong
• Solidarity Not Allyship: A Call to the AAP Community (Op-Ed)

STEM Readings

• Race Matters by David Asai (Cell 181, May 14, 2020)
• To Learn Inclusion Skills Make it Personal by David Asai, Nature, May 20, 2020
• Excluded by David Asai, Journal of Microbiology Education, 2020: 21(1)
• Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play? By Tess L. Killpack and Laverne C. Melón, CBE: Life Science Education, 15(3): 1-0. (2016)
• Cognitive Reserve and Racial Privilege in STEM by Mélise Edwards
• How Diversity Efforts Burden Those Who Try to Help: The ‘Cultural Taxation’ of Scientists from Under-Represented Groups and How to Curb It

Books

• An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Dives and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• How Does it Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
• How To Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy a. Degruy
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Short Stories (Fiction and Non Fiction) Read by the Cornell Intergroup Dialogue Book Club

• I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege So I Asked by Claudia Rankine
• Arturo by Giusi Marchetta, translated by Jamie Richards
• My Father Spent 30 Years in Prison. Now He’s Out by Ashley C. Ford
• The Water that Falls from Nowhere by John Chu
• Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience by Rebecca Roanhors

WATCH

Short Films

• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” Peggy McIntosh at TedxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Trevor Noah: George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper
• Systemic racism explained (4 minute animated video)

Full Length Films (free)

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Caruthers (50:48)
• We Want to Do More Than Just Survive
• A Conversation of Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott

Netflix/Other Film Services

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) on the Criminalization of African American and the U.S. Prison Boom
• American Son (Kenny Leon)
• Dear White People (Justin Simien)
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) – Hulu
• King in the Wilderness – HBO
• Black Power Mix tape: 1967-1975
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary directed by Raoul Peck)
• Selma (Ava DuVernay)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) – Hulu with Cinemax

PRACTICE

•  106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack
• Array 101: An online education platform of supplemental learning guide to Array’s films and TV series launched by Ava DuVernay
• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• Becoming Anti-Racist: Being a Better Adviser, Lab Mate and Friend to Black Colleagues
• A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity

TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT RACE

• 26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students
• Systemic racism explained (4-minute animated video)
• 31 children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

Cornell Faculty Work: Research, Writing and Art

• Race, Labor, and the Future of Work, by Ifeoma Ajunwa (Oxford Handbook for Race and Law)
• Racism and the Future of Memorials, webinar hosted by Esra Akcan
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward W. Baptist, History
• Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World, by Peter Enns
• Protesters aren’t Destroying History, They are Recasting It by Durba Ghosh and Kelly King-O’Brien. See Cornell Chronicle story
• What I Learned About Being a Black Scientist by Neil Lewis, Jr.
• Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics, by Jamila Michener
• Whose Hero? New Perspectives on Monuments in Public Landscape, an online panel discussion with Jolene Rickard. Listen to the recording
• Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education by Noliwe Rooks, Africana Studies and Research Center
• On White Privilege, Again and Still on White Privilege by Olúfémi Táíwo
• Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and Turning Grief for a Hidden Past into a Healing Space, designed by Meejin Yoon

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Anti-Racism Resources  (University of Michigan)
• Resources for Support (University of Michigan)
• Detour-Spotting for White Anti-Racists by Jona Olsson

This list is mostly adapted from the University of Michigan which sourced it from the OUD DEI Team, U-M’s Development Professionals of Color, and Anti-Racism Educators. Thank you, Sheri Notaro (U of M), for sharing the University of Michigan resource list. Thanks also to Noliwe Rooks, Sara Xayarath Hernández, Adi Grabiner-Keinan, and Neema Kudva for contributing these ideas and lists.