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Biddle, Catharine

College of Education and Human Development Diversity and Difference Committee

Erhardt, Faith

Flanagan, Sara

Hakkola, Leah

Mills, Tammy

Sezen-Barrie, Asli

Silverman, Bryan

Yanagi, Kazuhiko

English

Reading list of resources compiled by members of the College of Education and Human Development Diversity and Difference Committee to promote  reflection and deep thinking...to help us all reflect on what we can do to dismantle white supremacy, in and outside the academy

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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Special Collections 6-12-2020 Diversity and Difference Committee Reading List College of Education and Human Development Diversity and Difference Committee Asli Sezen-Barrie University of Maine Catharine Biddle University of Maine Faith Erhardt University of Maine Sara Flanagan University of Maine See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice  Part of the Higher Education Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the United States History Commons Repository Citation College of Education and Human Development Diversity and Difference Committee; Sezen-Barrie, Asli; Biddle, Catharine; Erhardt, Faith; Flanagan, Sara; Hakkola, Leah; Mills, Tammy; Silverman, Bryan; and Yanagi, Kazuhiko, "Diversity and Difference Committee Reading List" (2020). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 5. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/5 This Correspondence is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact um.library.technical.services@maine.edu. Authors College of Education and Human Development Diversity and Difference Committee, Asli Sezen-Barrie, Catharine Biddle, Faith Erhardt, Sara Flanagan, Leah Hakkola, Tammy Mills, Bryan Silverman, and Kazuhiko Yanagi This correspondence is available at DigitalCommons@UMaine: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/5  June 12, 2020   Dear colleagues,   We are writing to you as your representatives to the COEHD’s Diversity and Difference committee. Like Chancellor Malloy, President Ferrini-Mundy and our colleagues representing us in the Faculty Senate, we stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter at this time of national mourning for the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and too many others. Summer is often a time of reflection and deep thinking for those of us in the academy, and to that end, we want to offer you a list of resources that are available at Fogler Library (with thanks to Amber Gray for her assistance in putting together this list) to help us all reflect on what we can do to dismantle white supremacy, in and outside the academy.   Please feel free to reach out to us with questions or requests for support in this work.   Your Diversity and Difference Committee Representatives  Asli Sezen-Barrie Catharine Biddle Faith Erhardt Sara Flanagan Leah Hakkola Tammy Mills Bryan Silverman Kazuhiko Yanagi  Online resources for reviewing your curricula and syllabi through an anti-racist lens:   Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/ EdChange: http://www.edchange.org/  Diversity, inclusion, and equity resources available through Fogler Library and the UMaine system:   Books owned by Fogler (some are currently checked out):  A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (also available as an ebook)  The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (also available as an ebook) A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Evicted by Matthew Desmond Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen (also available in a more recent edition as an ebook) Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (an older edition is also available as an ebook) The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Killing Rage, Ending Racism by bell hooks Becoming by Michelle Obama Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins  Ain't I a Woman: Black women and feminism by bell hooks Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper In Search of our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis  Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (ebook only) Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lord The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Native Son by Richard Wright  Beloved by Toni Morrison  The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates    Books owned by other libraries in Maine:  Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Real Life by Brandon Taylor   Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Curruthers No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, edited by E. Patrick Johnson  Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. Moore  The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi  Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams    

Diversity and Difference Committee Reading List

 June 12, 2020   Dear colleagues,   We are writing to you as your representatives to the COEHD’s Diversity and Difference committee. Like Chancellor Malloy, President Ferrini-Mundy and our colleagues representing us in the Faculty Senate, we stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter at this time of national mourning for the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and too many others. Summer is often a time of reflection and deep thinking for those of us in the academy, and to that end, we want to offer you a list of resources that are available at Fogler Library (with thanks to Amber Gray for her assistance in putting together this list) to help us all reflect on what we can do to dismantle white supremacy, in and outside the academy.   Please feel free to reach out to us with questions or requests for support in this work.   Your Diversity and Difference Committee Representatives  Asli Sezen-Barrie Catharine Biddle Faith Erhardt Sara Flanagan Leah Hakkola Tammy Mills Bryan Silverman Kazuhiko Yanagi  Online resources for reviewing your curricula and syllabi through an anti-racist lens:   Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/ EdChange: http://www.edchange.org/  Diversity, inclusion, and equity resources available through Fogler Library and the UMaine system:   Books owned by Fogler (some are currently checked out):  A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (also available as an ebook)  The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (also available as an ebook) A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Evicted by Matthew Desmond Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen (also available in a more recent edition as an ebook) Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD (an older edition is also available as an ebook) The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Killing Rage, Ending Racism by bell hooks Becoming by Michelle Obama Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins  Ain't I a Woman: Black women and feminism by bell hooks Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper In Search of our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis  Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (ebook only) Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lord The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Native Son by Richard Wright  Beloved by Toni Morrison  The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates    Books owned by other libraries in Maine:  Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Real Life by Brandon Taylor   Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Curruthers No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, edited by E. Patrick Johnson  Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. Moore  The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi  Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams    

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