Creative Writing and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color | Jamila Lyiscott

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.
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).
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.
Chaves, Alicia Fedelina, and Susan Diana Longerbeam. Teaching Across Cultural Strengths: A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching.

DeGruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
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.
Grande, Sandy. Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought.
Kailin, Julie. Antiracist Education: From Theory to Practice.
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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