Anti-Racism Library

The following materials have been compiled as a general resource for those interested in advancing anti-racist education and communication action. For additions to this section, please contact me here or here. Many of these materials have been compiled by our faculty at Saybrook University from the departments of Clinical Psychology and Counseling as well as from friends, students, and alumni of the university. My hope is that you will find this list edifying as well as a call to anti-racist action.

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Featured Saybrook Insights Podcast Episodes

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Civil Rights and Anti-Racist Organizations
Videos

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Podcasts
General Readings

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Harvard Business Review Collection

  1. The Editors

    June 15, 2020

    Companies must confront racism at a systemic level — addressing everything from the structural and social mechanics of their own organizations to the role they play in the economy at large. We know that diversity programs have historically failed, but there are proven ways to improve hiring programs, interrupt bias at the team level, interrogate supposedly “color-blind” analytics, and support employees of color — especially Black employees.

    There’s much work to do on a personal level, too. White leaders and employees must learn to really listen to their colleagues, to recognize their own biases, histories, and everyday actions in a new light. They must understand that being vocal about race, diversity, and inclusion is their own responsibility — not the job of their Black or brown colleagues.

    We hope that this collection of articles provides a starting place for companies and business leaders to take on this work together.

    • “Numbers Only Take Us So Far” Facebook’s global director of diversity explains why stats alone won’t solve the problem of organizational bias. (November 2017)

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Offline Readings

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander (2012)

  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo (2018)

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race, Caprice Hollins and Ilsa Govan (2015)

  • Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, D.W. Sue (2016)

  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi (2016)

  • So You Want to Talk About Race? Ijeoma Oluo (2019)

  • It’s time to talk (and listen): How to have constructive conversations about race, class, sexuality, ability & gender in a polarized world. New Harbinger Publications. Kim, A.S., & del Prado, A. (2019).

  • Where we stand: Class matters. New York, NY: Routledge Press. hooks, b. (2000).

  • The colonizer and the colonized. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Memmi, A. (1965).

  • Privilege, power, and difference. McGraw Hill: Boston. Johnson, A. (2006). 

  • Uprooting Racism: How White people can work for racial justice. New Society Publishers: Canada. (2) Kivel, P. (2002).

  • How does your positionality bias your epistemology? Thoughts & Actions, 19 (1), p. 27 – 38. Takacs, D. (2003).

  • A different mirror: A history of multicultural America (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Back Bay Books. Takaki, R. (2008).

  • French, B. H., Jioni, A. L., Mosley, D. V., Adames, H. Y., Chanvez- Dueñas, N. Y., Chen, G. A., and Neville, H. A. (2020). Toward a Psychological Framework of Radical Healing in Communities of Color. The Counseling Psychologist, 48 (1), 14-46.

  • Toporek, R, L. (2018). Strength, Solidarity, Strategy and Sustainability: A Counseling Psychologist’s Guide to Social Action. The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 7(1), 90–110. doi:10.5964/ejcop.v7i1.153

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