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Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
The resources listed here cover diversity and related topics. Some of the items are streaming videos available online; other materials are available for interlibrary-loan throughout all the Ivy Tech campuses.
Books
Books
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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by ISBN: 9781483308012Publication Date: 2014The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning. -
More Courageous Conversations about Race by ISBN: 9781412992664Publication Date: 2012Use courageous conversations to build racial equity in your schools and districts! -
Say Her Name by ISBN: 9781368045247Publication Date: 2020Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. -
Culturally and Linguistically by ISBN: 9781425817312Publication Date: 2017Written to address all grade levels, this K-12 classroom resource provides teachers with strategies to support their culturally and linguistically diverse students. -
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by ISBN: 9781506351681Publication Date: 2017Researchers and practitioners are, for the most part, in agreement that the greatest instructional gaps exist between white, female teachers and their black, male students. -
All American Boys by ISBN: 9781481463331Publication Date: 2015-09-29A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tensions. -
The Dreamkeepers by ISBN: 9780470408155Publication Date: 2009In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. -
Deacon King Kong by ISBN: 9780735216723Publication Date: 2020In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. -
The Black and the Blue by ISBN: 9780316440080Publication Date: 2018Ex cop talks about racism in the police force. -
The Hate U Give by ISBN: 9780062498533Publication Date: 2017Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the white school she attends. -
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by ISBN: 9780998799940Publication Date: 2018These short, vibrant tanka poems about Black boys and young men depict thirteen views of everyday life: dressed in Sunday best, running to catch a bus, growing up to be teachers, and much more. -
Between the World and Me by ISBN: 9780812993547Publication Date: 2015Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race" -
Why We Can't Wait by ISBN: 9780807001127Publication Date: 2011Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 -
Lovecraft Country by ISBN: 9780062292070Publication Date: 201The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. -
Shades of Black by ISBN: 9780439802512Publication Date: 2006-01-01Using simple poetic language and stunning photographs, Sandra and Myles Pinkney have created a remarkable book of affirmation for African-American children. -
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Making All Black Lives Matter by ISBN: 9780520292703Publication Date: 2018An account of the making of the Black Lives Matter movement -
Five Days by ISBN: 9780525512363Publication Date: 2020-06-23Riots over Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore -
I Am Alfonso Jones by ISBN: 9780606403948Publication Date: 2017Alfonso is killed by police and lives as a ghost with others killed by police. -
What's Racism? by ISBN: 9781534524385Publication Date: 2017-12-15Racism is a difficult issue to face, but people must confront it if they hope to move beyond it. -
Me and White Supremacy by ISBN: 9781728209807Publication Date: 2020This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. -
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by ISBN: 9780385537070Publication Date: 2019In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. -
When They Call You a Terrorist by ISBN: 9781250171085Publication Date: 2018From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity about the BLM movement. -
Pushout by ISBN: 9781620970942Publication Date: 2016How black girls are misunderstood within the school system. -
Stamped from the Beginning by ISBN: 9781568584638Publication Date: 2016-04-12The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. -
You Should See Me in a Crown by ISBN: 9781338503265Publication Date: 2020Liz Lighty has always believed shes too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed mid-western town. But its okayLiz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor. -
Ghost Boys by ISBN: 9780316262262Publication Date: 2019-09-10A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history. -
White Fragility by ISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. -
How to Be an Antiracist by ISBN: 9780525509288Publication Date: 2019An approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves.
Children's Books
Children's Books
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We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) by ISBN: 9781524770563Publication Date: 2017Who better than Sesame Street to teach us that we may all look different on the outside--but it's important to remember that deep down, we are all very much alike. -
On the Playground by ISBN: 9781459820913Publication Date: 201Introducing children to the complex topic of prejudice. -
Antiracist Baby Picture Book by ISBN: 9780593110508Publication Date: 2020-07-14Antiracist picture book for kids -
All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel by ISBN: 9781605540795Publication Date: 2014The essential resource for 20 years! Celebrate the essence of one way we are all special and different from one another--our skin color!
DVDs
Online Films Purchased with Diversity Grant
Streaming Videos
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Just Mercy
Synopsis: American biographical legal drama about world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson who works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Actors: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson
2019; 2 hours, 17 minutes; Rated PG-13
Access to this video was made possible through the Advancing Racial Equity Collection Grant with support from Lilly Endowment INC. & Indiana Humanities.
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Harriet
Synopsis: The incredible true story of Harriet Tubman, and her quest to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Actors: Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom, Jr.
2019; 2 hours, 6 minutes; Rated PG-13
Access to this video was made possible through the Advancing Racial Equity Collection Grant with support from Lilly Endowment INC. & Indiana Humanities.
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Precious
Synopsis: Precious Jones, an inner-city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant... again. Naive and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative-school teacher. She is faced with the choice to follow opportunity and test her own boundaries.
Director: Lee Daniels
Actors: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Sherri Shepherd
2009; 1 hour, 49 minutes; Rated R
Access to this video was made possible through the Advancing Racial Equity Collection Grant with support from Lilly Endowment INC. & Indiana Humanities.