DEI and Racism Readings and Resources

DEI READING LIST AND RESOURCES

Books Recommended by Ruby Joy White:

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy

• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit, by Mary-Frances Winters

• Books Written by Clint Smith

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, by Eve L. Ewing 

Additional Readings:

• Article on White Supremacy Culture, by Tema Okun

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

• The Color of the Law, by Richard Rothstein

• A racist history shows why Oregon is still so white, by Tiffany Camhi 

• Various Articles, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Videos and Webinars:

• Cracking the Codes

• https://www.healingequityunited.com/resources

• https://www.racialequitytools.org/

• https://jenbokoff.com/2020/05/31/13-lists-of-ways-to-learn-and-show-up-as-antiracist-in-this-world/amp/

Local Groups:

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) PDX https://www.surjpdx.com/ 

HISTORICAL AND ONGOING RACISM IN OUR SOCIETY          READING LIST AND RESOURCES

• America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice, by Treva B. Lindsey 

• Killing the Black Body, by Dorothy E. Roberts

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh

• A Personal Journey from Women's Rights to Civil Rights to Human Rights, by Loretta J. Ross