ASMP Colorado DEI Resources

DEI Resources: 

This list is by no means exhaustive. There are many other comprehensive lists available. 

Racial Bias Test – helping to understand implicit bias via Harvard University

Books

• How to Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin J. DiAngelo
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
• Breathe, by Imani Perry
• Inside Seperate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews, and Latinos, by David Shoem
• The Image of Whiteness, Edited by Daniel C. Blight
• The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
• Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson

Podcasts

• The 1619 Project – The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
• Scene on Radio – Seeing White

Movies, Documentaries and TedTalks

• Netflix
  • 13th
  • When They See Us
• PBS
  • Slavery By Any Other Name
  • Eyes On the Prize
  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
  • PBS’ Race and Racism in America Streaming Content

• TedTalks
  • How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them – Verna Myers
  • We Need to Talk About an Injustice – Bryan Stevenson
  • The Urgency of Intersectionality – Kimberle Crenshaw
  • Color Blind or Color Brave – Mellody Hobson
  • The Danger of Silence – Clint Smith
  • How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion – Peggy McIntosh