Administration

Administration Equity Council Book Reports

• How to be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive opens a new window by Jennifer Brown 
• Inclusive leadership in complex times: Leading with vulnerability and integrity opens a new window, by  I.C. Wasserman

Books

• An Antiracist Reading List opens a new window - Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
• An in-depth list of books  opens a new windowon E&I's Read, Watch, Listen 
• Racism in America - A Reader opens a new window. Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed. Harvard University Press
• Dismantling Racism One Book at a Time opens a new window. Fordham Press
• Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List for Adults opens a new window Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• 14 Books for a More Inclusive Look at American History. opens a new windowBook Riot
• 8 Historical Books to Understand Current Social Justice Movements opens a new window Book Riot
• How to Be an Antiracist  opens a new windowby Ibram X. Kendi 
• Stamped From the Beginning opens a new window by Ibram X. Kendi
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 opens a new window - Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
• Caste. The Origins of Our Discontents opens a new window by Isabel Wilkerson 
• The Warmth of Other Suns. The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration opens a new window by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Sum of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together  opens a new windowby Heather McGhee
• Racing to Justice. Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society opens a new window by john a. powell
• The Color of Law opens a new window by Richard Rothstein
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness opens a new window by Michelle Alexander
• Just Mercy. The Story of Justice and Redemption opens a new window by Bryan Stevenson
• The Fire Next Time opens a new window by James Baldwin
• Their Eyes Were Watching God opens a new window by Zora Neale Hurston
• Between the World and Me opens a new window by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Beautiful Struggle  opens a new windowby Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Heavy. An American Memoir opens a new window by Kiese Laymon
• Women Race & Class opens a new window by Angela Davis
• White Fragility. Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism opens a new window by Robin Diangelo 
• Mediocre. The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America  opens a new windowby Ijeoma Oluo
• So You Want to Talk About Race opens a new window by Ijeoma Oluo
• Whistling Vivaldi. How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do opens a new window by Claude M. Steele
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States opens a new window by Paul Ortiz
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States opens a new window By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. Native America From 1890 to the Present  opens a new windowby David Treuer
• Lakota America. A New History of Indigenous Power opens a new window by Pekka Hamalainen
• A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement  opens a new windowby Ken Blansett
• How We Go Home. Voices from Indigenous North America opens a new window Edited by Sara Sinclair
• The Making of Asian America. A History opens a new window by Erika Lee
• The Dead Are Arising. The Life of Malcolm X opens a new window by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X opens a new window: As Told to Alex Haley
• The Yellow House opens a new window by Sarah M. Broom
• “Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification opens a new window,” by David Waldstreicher
• “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, opens a new window” by Gerald Horne
• “Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution opens a new window,” by Jack N. Rakove
• “A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic opens a new window,” by George William Van Cleve
• “The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution opens a new window,” by Michael J. Klarman
• “The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763 to 1789, opens a new window” by Robert Middlekauff
• “Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia opens a new window,” by Woody Holton
• “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789 to 1815 opens a new window,” by Gordon S. Wood
• “Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation opens a new window,” by Nicholas Guyatt
• “The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution opens a new window,” by Robert G. Parkinson
• “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution opens a new window,” by Bernard Bailyn
• “The Radicalism of the American Revolution opens a new window,” by Gordon S. Wood
• “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World opens a new window,” by Maya Jasanoff
• “Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 to 1788, opens a new window” by Pauline Maier
• “Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America opens a new window,” by Linda K. Kerber
• “American Taxation, American Slavery opens a new window,” by Robin L. Einhorn
• “Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age opens a new window,” by Sylvia R. Frey
• “The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788 to 1828 opens a new window,” by Saul Cornell
• “Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation opens a new window,” edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash and Ray Raphael

Articles and Other Writings

• Reparations are gaining mainstream support, and are a solution opens a new window
• Why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope opens a new window
• 5 things people still get wrong about slavery opens a new window
• Ex-Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA opens a new window
• Breaking Down The 1619 Project & History of Slavery in America w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones opens a new window
• How the legacy of slavery affects the mental health of black Americans today opens a new window
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD? opens a new window
• The US medical system is still haunted by slavery opens a new window
• Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre opens a new window
• Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, Featuring Michelle Alexander opens a new window
• The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain opens a new window
• The Power of Black Lives Matter - How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next opens a new window
• The Great Fire opens a new window – Guest Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair
• Asians must be a part of our story, too opens a new window by john a. powell
• Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All opens a new window by Viet Thannh Nguyen, Time Magazine
• The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence  opens a new windowby Hua Hsu; The New Yorker 
• The time James Baldwin told UC Berkeley that Black lives matter opens a new window  Ivan Natividad, Berkeley News
• Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism opens a new window. Inside Higher Ed
• Don’t Rely on Black Faculty to Do the Antiracist Work opens a new window. Inside Higher Ed
• Combating Anti-Blackness in the AI Community opens a new window by Devin Guillory
• The Case for Reparations opens a new window by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic
• “Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge opens a new window,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
• Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How opens a new window by Michelle Kim | Medium (November 10, 2019)
• We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope opens a new window by john a. powell | Othering & Belonging Institute (June 2, 2020)
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” opens a new window by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• Letter From Oakland: Black Motherhood in Sleepless Times opens a new window by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili. Literary Hub
• The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it opens a new window by Bryan Massingale
• To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must Be Willing to Give Up Their Power opens a new window by Alicia Sheares 
• 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice opens a new window by Corinne Shutack (August 2017)
• Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism (PDF) opens a new window (June 13, 2019 ) 
• Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism opens a new window - Inside Higher Ed
• 5 Powerful Ways to take REAL Action on DEI opens a new window. Center for Creative Leadership