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 Program Coordinator Alicia Sprague at Alicia.Sprague@colostate.edu. Any bias in the resources represented are not intentional nor representative of the Office of 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
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
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
- 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