Racism in Higher Education

  • Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. 
  • Ahmed, Sara. "Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism." Borderlands 3.2 (2004).
  • Case, Kim A., ed. Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom. 
  • Case, Kim A. Intersectional Pedagogy: Complicating Identity and Social Justice. ​
  • Chaves, Alicia Fedelina, and Susan Diana Longerbeam. Teaching Across Cultural Strengths: A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching. 
  • Feagin, Joe, Hernan Vera and Nikitah Imani. The Agony of Education: Black Students in White Colleges and Universities.
  • Grande, Sandy. Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought. 
  • Kailin, Julie. Antiracist Education: From Theory to Practice.
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More Books on Racism and Colonialism

The following books address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ways that are immediately relevant to the creative writing classroom. 
  • Adams, Maurianne, et al., Readings for Diversity and Social Justice.
  • Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
  • Ani, Marimba. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior.
  • Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States.
  • Brown, Michael K. et al. Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society.
  • DeGruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
  • DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism.
  • DiAngelo, Robin. What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy. 
  • Doane, Ashley W. and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds. White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism.
  • Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist.
  • Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning.
  • Khan-Cullors, ​Patrisse, and Asha Bandele. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.
  • Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
  • Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness.
  • Lubiano, Wahneema. The House that Race Built.
  • Oluo,Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race.
  • Ortiz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States.
  • Perea, Juan, ed. Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States.
  • Rifkin, Mark. ​Settler Common Sense.
  • Sensoy, Ozlem, and Robin DiAngelo. Is Everyone Really Equal?
  • Sue, Derald Wing. Microaggressions in Every Day Life.
  • Sue, Derald Wing. Race Talk: Conspiracy of Silence.
  • Takaki, Ron. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.​


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