Continuing Education Resources
*This list is certainly not exhaustive, but rather a starting place for diversity, equity, and inclusion continuing education resources, in alignment with Colorado State University’s definition of diversity. If you have any recommendations for the list, please email inclusiveexellence@colostate.edu. Any bias in the resources represented are not intentional nor representative of the Office for Inclusive Excellence or Colorado State University.
Books and Publications (Alphabetized by Topic)**
**Many of the books listed are intersectional in nature, addressing multiple topics or identities, but we have grouped them according to their main focus.
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
- Closing the Opportunity Gap: Identity-Conscious Strategies for Retention and Student Success, by Vijay Pendakur and Shaun R. Harper
- Creating Multicultural Change on Campus, by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, John A. Mueller, Caryn McTighe Musil
- Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach, by Nancy J. Evans, Ellen M. Broido, Kirsten R. Brown, Autumn K. Wilke
- Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work, by Daryl G. Smith
- Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, by Craig Steven Wilder
- Educating About Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs, by Kathleen M. Goodman, Mary Ellen Giess, and Eboo Patel
- Ethnicity in College: Advancing Theory and Improving Diversity Practices on Campus, by Anna M. Ortiz and Silvia J. Santos
- Improving Trans Lives on Campus by Bri Sérráno, Douglas H. Lee, Kari Dockendorf, and D-L Stewart
- Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education, by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
- No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, by Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobesen
- Straddling Class in the Academy: 26 Stories of Students, Administrators, and Faculty from Poor and Working-Class Backgrounds and Their Compelling Lessons for Higher Education Policy and Practice, by Sonja Ardoin and becky martinez
- Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education, by Dr. Damon A. Williams
- Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, by Z Nicolazzo
Perspectives on Oppression in the U.S. (organized thematically)
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown
- Custer Died For Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, Jr.
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, by Walter Echo-Hawk
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- A Disability History of the United States, by Kim E. Nielsen
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, by Eli Clare
- A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton
- Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, by Susan Stryker
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by Brittney Cooper
- The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
- How to Be An AntiRacist, by Ibram X. Kendi
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, by Dorothy Roberts
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
- Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, by Morgan Jerkins
- When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: and Other Conversations about Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, by Gloria Anzaldúa
- The Making of Asian America, by Erika Lee
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank H. Wu
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, by Ronald Takaki
- A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
- American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, by Khaled A. Beyfoun
- How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
- Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics, by Nazia Kazi
- Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah
- The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, by Sonya Renee Taylor
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by adrienne maree brown
- Identify and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems by Duke Sanford World Food Policy Center
Theory and Social Justice Reference Collections
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks
- Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide, by Torie Weiston-Serdan
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
- Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, by Kimberlé Crenshaw and Neil Gotanda
- Decolonizing Methodologies, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
- Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, by Dan Goodley
- The Disability Studies Reader, by Lennard J. Davis
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown
- The Feminist Philosophy Reader, edited by Alison Bailey and Chris Cuomo
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, by bell hooks
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Y. Davis and Frank Barat
- Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, by Derald Wing Sue
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
- Privilege, Power, and Difference, by Allan G. Johnson
- The Racial Contract, by Charles W. Mills
- Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, by Maurianne Adams (Editor), Warren Blumenfeld (Editor), Carmelita Castaneda (Editor), Heather W. Hackman (Editor), Madeline L. Peters (Editor), Ximena Zuniga (Editor)
- The Stonewall Reader, edited by The New York Public Library
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, edited by Laura Erickson Schroth
- The Transgender Studies Reader 2, by Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene Carruthers
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude Steele
Whiteness and White Privilege
- Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, by Tim Wise
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad
- Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race, by Frances Kendall
- Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving
- White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, by Tim Wise
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson
Fiction
Children’s:
- We Are Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom
- Love in the Library, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- Berry Song, by Michaela Goade
- Not My Idea, by Anastasia Higginbotham
Middle Grade:
- Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
- The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
- Go With the Flow, by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann
- Celebrate Your Body (And its Changes, Too!) by Sonya Renee Taylor
- Ghost (Track #1) by Jason Reynolds
- Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
Young Adult:
- Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
- Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
- The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika L. Sanchez
- Juliet Takes a Breath, by Gabby Rivera
- Dear Martin, by Nic Stone
Adult:
- All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders
- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Antelope Wife, by Louise Erdrich
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
- The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henríquez
- Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
- Good Kings, Bad Kings, by Susan Nussbaum
- Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
- The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- So Far from God, by Ana Castillo
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Memoirs
- Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain, by Abby Norman
- The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist, by Ben Barres
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui
- Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, by Emily Bernard
- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, by Elyn R. Saks
- The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
- Hunger, by Roxane Gay
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
- Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, by Misty Copeland
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, by Nelson Mandela
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
- Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream, by Ibtihaj Muhammad with Lori Tharps
- Rain of Gold/Lluvia de Oro, by Victor Villaseñor
- Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, by Samantha Allen
- The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism, by Naoki Higashida
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock
- Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, by Temple Grandin and Oliver Sacks
Podcasts
- We Believe You, produced by Colorado State University’s Women and Gender Advocacy Center and 90.5 KCSU
- Do You Even Lift Bro: Men Exercising Social Justice, produced by Colorado State University’s Women and Gender Advocacy Center and 90.5 KCSU
- 1619, produced by The New York Times
- All My Relations, produced by All My Relations
- Code Switch, produced by NPR
- Ear Hustle, produced by Radiotopia
- Good Ancestor Podcast, produced by Layla F. Saad
- Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast, produced by Ebony Donnley and Ericka Hart
- Latino USA, produced by NPR
- Nancy, produced by WNYC Studios
- Parenting is Political, produced by Jasmine and Mo
- Seeing White, produced by Scene On Radio
- The Sexually Liberated Woman, produced by Ev’Yan Whitney
- SunStorm, produced by the National Domestic Workers Alliance
- This Land, produced by Crooked Media
- UnErased, produced by Focus Features, Stitcher, and Limina House
Videos
- America’s Forgotten Working Class (J.D. Vance)
- An Artist’s Unflinching Look at Racial Violence (Sanford Biggers)
- The Danger of a Single Story (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- How We Talk About Sexual Assault Online (Ione Wells)
- Immaculate Perception (Jerry Kang)
- Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Higher Education (Russell McClain)
- An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter (Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors)
- Islamophobia Killed My Brother. Let’s End the Hate (Suzanne Barakat)
- It’s Time for Women to Run For Office (Halla Tomasdottir)
- Microaggressions in Everyday Life (Derald Wing Sue)
- A Prosecutor’s Vision for a Better Justice System (Adam Foss)
- The Urgency of Intersectionality (Kimberlé Crenshaw)
- We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- What If Gentrification Was About Healing Communities Instead of Displacing Them? (Liz Ogbu)
- What Would You Do: Bike Theft
Documentaries
- 13th
- Cracking the Codes
- Dawnland
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
- Dolores
- Hale
- The Hunting Ground
- Resistance at Tule Lake
- Strong Island
- When They See Us
Conferences
- The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE)
- The Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI)
- The White Privilege Conference