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Inclusive Excellence: Resources

Posted by on Thursday, September 22, 2016 in VLA Resources.

As part of the Inclusive Excellence workshop the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has prepared for the Vanderbilt Leadership Academy, we would like to offer some useful resources that illustrate and explore concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion.

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Selected Readings

Cultural Competency Training for Public Health Students

Survey finds big differences between black HBCU graduates, those who attended other institutions

To Diversify the Faculty, Start Here – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position

Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program

Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions

Non-Academic Readings to Consider

“Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/opinion/of-lions-and-men-mourning-samuel-dubose-and-cecil-the-lion.html?_r=0)

“How Racism Is Bad for Our Bodies” (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-racism-is-bad-for-our-bodies/273911/)

“Why blacks see Dylan Roof as a terrorist and whites don’t” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/03/why-blacks-see-dylann-roof-as-a-terrorist-and-whites-dont/)

“Racism affects black girls as much as boys. So why are girls being ignored? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/02/25/racism-in-schools-affects-black-girls-even-more-than-boys-so-why-dont-they-get-as-much-attention/?utm_term=.f3c3905d2e58)

 

Want to learn even more about these concepts? Here are some academic readings to consider.

Chou, Rosalind and Joe Feagin. 2015. The Myth of the Model Minority (2nd edition). Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.

Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1991. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43 (6): 1241–1299.

Feagin. Joe. 2013. The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing (2nd Edition). New York: Routledge.

Henslin, James. 2000. Social Problems 5th edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Sue, Wing 2010. Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.

Sue, Wing. 2010a. Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.

West, Cornel. 1993. Race Matters. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.