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For Staff: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) in Libraries

This guide includes content & readings from Library Juice's Diversity and Inclusion Skills Certification Program

Racism, Antiracism, Diversity

Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Between the World and Me

Robin DiAngelo

  • (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism. Beacon Press.
  • (2012). What does it mean to be White?: Developing White racial literacy. NY: Peter Lang.
  • Espinal, I., Sutherland, T., & Roh, C. (2018). A holistic approach for inclusive librarianship: Decentering whiteness in our profession. Library Trends, 67(1), 147–162.

Ibram X. Kendi 

  • How to be an Antiracist
  • Stamped From the Beginning

Lyla Saad

  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (foreward by Robin DiAngelo)

Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned, is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama.

Ronald Wheeler, Director of Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries

  • Wheeler, R. (2015). We all do it: Unconscious behavior, bias, and diversity. Law Library Journal, 107(2), 325–331

 

LGBTQIA+

CN Lester. 2018. Trans Like Me : Conversations for All of Us. New York, NY: Seal Press.