Readings in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.
  • Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
  • Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
  • Ani, Marimba. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior.
  • Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well.
  • 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.
  • Carruthers, Charlene A. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.
  • Case, Kim A., ed. Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom. 
  • Davis, Bonnie M. The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy.
  • Degruy-Leary, 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.
  • Feagin, Joe, Hernan Vera and Nikitah Imani. The Agony of Education: Black Students in White Colleges and Universities.
  • Kailin, Julie. Antiracist Education: From Theory to Practice.
  • Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Equity.
  • Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness.
  • Lubiano, Wahneema. House that Race Built.
  • 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?
  • Steele, Claude. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do.
  • 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.
  • Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
  • Taylor, Gary. Buying Whiteness: Race, Class and Identity from Columbus to Hip-Hop.
"[S]ocial justice is both a process and a goal. The goal of social justice is full and equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.

We envision a society in which individuals are both self-determining (able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of interacting democratically with others).

Social justice involves social actors who have a sense of their own agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward and with others, their society, and the broader world in which we live. These conditions we wish not only for our own society but also for every society in our interdependent global community."
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-Lee Anne Bell, "What Is Social Justice?"

Online Resources

 artEquity

Racial Equity Tools
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Showing up for Racial Justice Advocates Resource Page

Teaching Tolerance

Assessment / Self-Study Tools

Assessing Organizational Racism
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Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit

Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment

​Moving a Racial Justice Agenda: Organizational Assessment

“In short, if creative writing is to have meaning in the academy of the future, it needs to partake of those very qualities and purposes best representative of true scholarship—namely, broad, informed, intensive reading, thinking, and writing and a commitment to social betterment of a troubled world.”
​—David Radavich

From Creative Writers 

Ben-Oni, Rosebud, ed. On Poetics, Identity, and Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out. Essay Press. 2017.
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Danticat, Edwidge. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Princeton UP, 2010. 

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. Routledge, 1990.

Gordimer, Nadine. Writing and Being. Harvard UP, 1995. 

McCullough, Laura, ed. A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race. U of Georgia P, 2015.

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Vintage, 1992.

Muller, Lauren, and June Jordan. June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. Taylor & Francis, 1995. 

Lee, Sherry Quan, ed. How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Modern History Press, 2007.

Oliver, Stephanie Stokes. Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing. 37 Ink, 2018.

Philip, M. NourbeSe. Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture. Mercury P, 1992.

Rankine, Claudia, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap, eds. The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Fence, 2015.
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Verduyn, Christl, ed. Literary Pluralities. Broadview Press, 1998.




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