Educational Resources
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- How to Integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Everyday Operations
- Breaking the Cycle to Heal: How Campus Leadership Can Center Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- You Belong Here: Making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a Mission in the Classroom
- The Key to Inclusive Leadership
- Anti-Racism College Guide for AAPI Students and Allies
Allyship Against Racial Hatred and Violence
- Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America
- Putting an end to anti-Asian hate, equity and the American Rescue Plan, the cost of lost schooling, and more, in this week’s Covid, Race, and the Revolution.
- CIVIL RIGHTS AND RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS DENOUNCE ABHORRENT RISE IN ANTI-ASIAN HATE CRIMES
- How to support Asian American colleagues amid the recent wave of anti-Asian violence
- Resources for Allyship and Fighting Anti-Asian Discrimination
- The Jed Foundation Supports Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Communities
Women are Essential
- Women Who Pioneered Health
- 53 women who made history as the first to do these extraordinary things
- 17 incredible women you have never heard of who changed the world
- 12 Women Who Change the World
- 10 times women made history in 2021
Amplfyng Women’s Voices – YouTube
- Women who changed science
- Unladylike2020: Struggle for Civil Rights
- First of Many – Women’s History Month 2021
- Women’s History Month: A Look at the history of events
- Heroines of peace – the nine Nobel women, 1901-1992
About Women’s History Month
- Women’s History Month
- Wikipedia
- Why March is National Women’s History Month
- Why is Women’s History Month in March?
- Women’s History Month Biography
Women’s Herstory Month
- 21 Female Leaders You Should Know
- The invisible women of the Civil Rights Movement
- 17 books that are essential reading for Women’s History Month
- Women’s History Month Reading Challenge
- Women’s History Month: A Children’s Book Every Day
Black History Month
- Black History Month (Complete Playlist)
- Dr. Cedric Stewart DC
- Dr. Chohnice Daniels DC
- Dr. Derrell Blackburn DC
- Dr. Brett Jones DC
- Dr. Juneau Robbins DC
- Dr. Winston Carhee DC
- Dr. Khalid Chaney DC
- Dr. Ada Suter DC
- Jamal Fruster
Inclusivity and Mindfulness
- East Bay Meditation Center Fostering liberation, personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and inclusive community building
- Inward Bound Mindfulness Education Equity and Interdependence
- Spirit Rock Dharma and Social Justice
- Vipassana Meditation The Art of Living
- Insight Meditation Society Diversity and Inclusion
Books
- Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Path of Compassion: Writings on Social Engaged Buddhism, edited by Fred Eppsteiner
- Black & Buddhist What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation & Freedom, Cheryl A. Giles and Pamela Ayo Yetunde
- Radical Acceptance Embracing Your Life With The Heart of A Buddha, Tara Brach
- Radical Dharma Talking Race, Love And Liberation by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Lams Rod Owens with Jasmine Syedullah
- Awakening Together The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, Larry Yang
- A Fierce Heart Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom In Any Moment, Spring Washam
- Love And Rage The Path of Liberation Through Anger, Lama Rod Owens
- My Grandmother’s Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem
- Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, Angel Kyodo Williams
- The Inner Work of Racial Justice Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness, Rhonda V. Magee
- Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice, Susanna Barkataki
- Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
- Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth – The Buddha’s Life and Message through Feminine Eyes (Sacred Activism), Thanissara
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Higher Education Should Lead the Efforts to Reverse Structural Racism
- Why Leadership Development Is Increasingly Critical in Higher Education
- Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others
- Diversity vs. Inclusion: Which comes first?
- Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion
PODCAST
Mental Health
- Mental Health Communities Facing the Black Community
- Microaggressions aren’t just innocent blunders – new research links them to racial bias
Activism
- Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking About Structural Racism
- Leaning through the Portal to Claim our Humanity
- Let’s Go for Broke for Black Freedom
- Divided We Fall: Solving America’s Racism Problem By Facing It
- White Women: Our Role in Racial (In) Justice
- No Right To Confront
Race
- A History: The Construction of Race and Racism
- Systems Thinking and Race
- The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging
- Is Race for Real? Race: Power of an Illus PBS
- Sociology of Racism
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge
Allyship and Action Steps
- How to Be a Better White Person in 2020, by Michael Harriot, The Root (January 9, 2020)
- Guide to Allyship. Created by Amélie Lamont, this site strives to be an ever-evolving, open-source guide to resources for becoming a more effective ally.
- Your Unconscious Bias Trainings Keep Failing Because You’re Not Addressing Systemic Bias, Janice Gassam, Forbes (Dec. 29, 2019)
- Teaching While White Podcast. Hosted by longtime educators Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, TWW’s podcast focuses on how whiteness shows up in the education sector and what anti-racist educators are doing to challenge that. Episodes feature different nationally renowned anti-racist educator guests. (any episode – times vary)
- Higher Ed Perspective: Become a Better Champion for DEI by Focusing on These Three Areas, CUPA-HR
Microaggressions, Whiteness and Implicit Bias
- 21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis.Using a series of photographs by Kiyum Kim, Heben Nigatu elaborates on the term “microaggression.” Note that Ibram X. Kendi, in his recent book How to Be an Antiracist, calls us to consider using the term “racist abuse” as a more descriptive alternative.
- Implicit Association Test (IAT)
- Higher Ed Perspective: Driving Campus Diversity One Decision at a Time, by Sharon L. Davies, Association of American Colleges and Universities
History Through the Lens of Race
- The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an “Aberration.” Michelle Alexander contextualizes the current state of racism/white supremacy in the United States as an inevitable outcome of a collective narrative steeped in denial.
- The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic (June 2014)
- Higher Ed Perspective: Leading After A Racial Crisis: Weaving a Campus Tapestry of Diversity and Inclusion, American Council on Education
Starting the Conversation
- Everyone’s an AntiRacist. Now What? A recent article in the New York Times written by Opinion Writer Erin Aubry Kaplan
- It’s Not Complicated – White People Must Do Their Part to Dismantle White Supremacy | National Equity Project
- What if … White People Took Responsibility for Our Role in this Moment? | By Kathleen Osta | National Equity Project
Videos:
- The Unequal Opportunity Race
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Open Your Mind
- Diversity and Inclusion
- To Speak Up for Inclusion, we need to Speak About Inclusion
- Inclusive Language PSA
- Staff Council Town Hall recording, Aug. 4, 2020
Life West’s Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator offers these suggestions for further education:
- What is Systemic Racism?
- Black Lives Matter resources
- Research-based solutions to stop police violence
- Equal Justice Initiative: Lynching in America
- Social Exclusion: The Decisions and Dynamics that Drive Racism
- UC-Berkely’s Haas Institute research, The Road Not Taken: Housing and Criminal Justice 50 Years After the Kerner Commission Report
- The Atlantic: The Case for Reparations
- Alto Arizona.com: History of Racist U.S. Laws
- The 8 police policies that have been shown to significantly reduce police violence
For parents looking for resources to help them talk with their children about racism, here are links designed for adolescents and younger children on the impact of racism:
- Distance learning activities and resources
- Video from Common Sense on Helping Kids Process Violence, Trauma, and Race in a World of Nonstop News
- From the American Academy of Pediatrics: The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health
- Resources for white parents to help them raise anti-racist children
Making a donation
There are also several impactful causes that are working to stop institutional and structural racism.
- Campaign Zero: Ending police violence in America
- Black Lives Matter
- Official George Floyd GoFundMe campaign
- The Marshall Project: Nonprofit journalism about criminal justice
- American Civil Liberties Union
- ActBlue Charities
Individual help
If you are a student, Life West has staff members who you can talk with about these very difficult and challenging times. Send an email to Student Life Manager Dani Lorta at dlorta@lifewest.edu for free and confidential assistance.
Life West employees may email:
- Tarsha Addison, Director of Human Resources, Campus Culture, Title IX Coordinator, Lead Civil Rights Investigator taddison@lifewest.edu
- Dr. George Casey, Ombuds gcasey@lifewest.edu