Resources important to our mission are suggested from various sources, including posts to our mailing list and brown bag event discussions. To suggest a resource, send us a message or post to the DiversifyIT team in Microsoft Teams. Additional resources mentioned in Brown Bag lunches are available.
Duke’s Office for Institutional Equity (OIE) is also a good source of information and resources. DiversifyIT is not affiliated with the OIE.
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Articles/Documents/Reports
- Richard Powell on Where Black Art Goes from Here (Duke Today, Feb. 23, 2021)
- What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America (New York Times Opinion, Feb. 21, 2021)
- Student Team Quantifies Housing Discrimination in Durham (Duke Research Blog, February 9, 2021)
- Are Your Diversity Efforts Othering Underrepresented Groups? (Harvard Business Review, Feb. 5, 2021)
- Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can’t Figure Out (Wired, January 11, 2021)
- Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I. (New York Times, Dec. 3, 2020)
- These Teen Ballerinas Are Advocating for Social Justice and Inclusion, and Ballet Is Their Medium (Popsugar, Nov. 17, 2020)
- Most men believe their workplace empowers women, according to a study. Their female counterparts don’t agree. (The Lily, Nov. 13, 2020)
- Why Hospital Desegregation Did Little to Close the Black-White Infant Mortality Rate Gap (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Nov. 9, 2020)
- Research: Small Wins Can Make a Big Impact on Gender Equality (Harvard Business Review, Nov. 6, 2020)
- In North Carolina, Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots Much More Likely to be Rejected Than Any Other Race (ProPublica, Sept. 23, 2020)
- Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote (The Players’ Tribune, Sept. 14, 2020)
- The Race and Barbecue Edition: On cooking, COVID, and anti-Black violence (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com, Sept. 16 2020)
- Ava DuVernay Interviews Angela Davis on This Moment – and What Came Before (Vanity Fair, Aug. 26, 2020)
- Orientation Program Highlights a Moment for Racial Justice (Duke Today, Aug. 24, 2020)
- Research Suggests Bias Against Natural Hair Limits Job Opportunities for Black Women (Fuqua School of Business, Aug. 12, 2020)
- A Roadmap to Our Four-Part Series on Diversity in the Triangle Tech Ecosystem (GrepBeat, Triangle Tech News, Aug. 6 2020)
- At 88, he is a historical rarity – the living son of a slave (Washington Post, July 27, 2020)
- EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: The CIO’s Role in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (EDUCAUSE, July 17, 2020)
- Little white lies: Insights from my first year as #BlackIntheIvory (Medium, July 15, 2020)
- Beyond the KKK: Understanding White Supremacy as a System of Power (Pocket, July 10, 2020)
- What is Owed (The New York Times Magazine, June 30 2020)
- ‘I’m leaving, and I’m just not coming back’: Fed up with racism, Black Americans head overseas (USA Today, June 26 2020)
- How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America (The Atlantic, June 16 2020)
- The History of Redlining (ThoughtCo.com, June 16 2020)
- Justice in June (Google Doc, May 30 2020)
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re OK — Chances Are They’re Not (Refinery29, May 28 2020)
- #Angry – #ugly – #black #women! (Dr. Rochelle Newton on LinkedIn, April 29 2020)
- Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide (Institute for Policy Studies, 2019)
- Visualizing Racism: Nine Photographers Take On the Challenge of Depicting Bigotry (The Washington Post Magazine, Nov. 25 2019)
- Banning ethnic hairstyles ‘upholds this notion of white supremacy.’ States pass laws to stop natural hair discrimination (USA Today, Oct. 14 2019)
- The 1619 Project (The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 14 2019)
- Being Black in America Is a Health Risk. It’s Time for Reparations. (Vice, June 19 2019)
- Bill Gates Said Warren Buffett Helped Him Define Success In a New Way (Inc., June 10 2019)
- New mom Serena Williams had to talk her hospital staff through saving her life
(Quartz, Jan. 10 2018) - The Story Behind ‘Forty Acres and a Mule’ (NPR, Jan. 12 2015)
- Strivings of the Negro People (The Atlantic, Aug. 1897)
Books
- Sensuous Knowledge and recommended reading, by Minna Salami (2020)
- From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by Duke Professor William (Sandy) A. Darity (2020)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
- The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker PhD (2020)
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (2019)
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (2019)
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safina Umoja Noble (2018)
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (2018)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
- Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks (2017)
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil (2016)
- Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson (2004)
- Cape Fear Rising by Philip Gerard (1997)
- Race Matters by Cornel West (1993)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
- Black Boy by Richard Wright (1945)
- Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
- Imitation of Life by Fannie Hurst (1933)
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
Duke University/Health System
- Diversity and Inclusion at Duke University Hospital: Lunch and Learn Sessions (Duke Health; requires NetID/password)
- . Lunch and Learn Sessions Resources for Understanding and Confronting Racism and Its Impact (OIE)
- Equality Can’t Wait Challenge (ended September 1; Duke University Research Funding)
Films
(See also The Best Movies About Race recommended by Greg Garrett, on FiveBooks, undated.)
- Da 5 Bloods (2020)
- Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020)
- Flipped (YouTube; 2020)
- Miss Juneteenth (2020)
- Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
- Native Son (2019)
- Blindspotting (2018)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
- The Hate You Give (2018)
- Hidden Figures (2017)
- 13th: From Slave to Criminal with One Amendment (2016)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
- Zootopia (2016)
- Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
- The Butler (2013)
- Dark Girls: Real Women. Real Stories. (2011)
- The Help (2011)
- Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
- Durham: A Self-Portrait (2009)
- Gran Torino (2009)
- The Blind Side (2009)
- Meeting David Wilson (2008)
- Beauty Shop (2005)
- Ray (2004)
- Bringing Down the House (2003)
- Undercover Brother (2002)
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2001)
- Finding Forrester (2000)
- From Swastika to Jim Crow (2000)
- Amistad (1997)
- Buffalo Soldiers (TV; 1997)
- Rosewood (1997)
- Volcano (1997)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
- Pocahontas (1995)
- The Tuskegee Airmen (TV; 1995)
- Corrina, Corrina (1994)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Separate But Equal (TV miniseries; 1991)
- The Long Walk Home (1990)
- Glory (1989)
- Clara’s Heart (1988)
- Hairspray (1988)
- Mississippi Burning (1988)
- Cry Freedom (1987)
- Native Son (1986)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- A Soldier’s Story (1984)
- The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
- The Jerk (1979)
- The Wiz (1978)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Buck and the Preacher (1972)
- Brian’s Song (1971)
- Shaft (1971)
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- To Sir, With Love (1967)
- Black Like Me (1964)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959)
- The Defiant Ones (1958)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
- Pinky (1949)
Non-Profit Organizations, Professional Societies, Programs, and Projects
- 8Can’tWait
- Anti-Racism in Academia: A Learning Journey
- The Association for Computers and the Humanities: Toward anti-racist technical terminology
- Zinn Education Project: Teaching People’s History
Podcasts/Audio
- The Michelle Obama Podcast – Higher Ground (Spotify)
- Imminent Teachnology with Dr. Rochelle Newton and Drew Stinnett (Listen Notes)
- “Not Just a Black Body:” How COVID-19 Hit Home for One Doctor (The Commonwealth Fund, February 12, 2021)
- California Workplace Discrimination System Sheds Light on Caste System (NPR, Oct. 12, 2020)
- Throughline: America’s Caste System (NPR, Aug. 6, 2020)
- Scene on Radio
- Brené Brown
- Brené with Aiko Bethea on Inclusivity at Work: The Heart of Hard Conversations (Nov. 9, 2020)
- With Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Anti-Racist (June 3, 2020)
- With Austin Channing Brown on I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (June 10, 2020)
- With Laverne Cox on Transgender Representation, Advocacy + the Power of Love (June 17, 2020)
Retail
- Books
- Household Goods
Videos
- Can’t Cry No More (Rhiannon Giddens, September 30, 2020)
- Diversity in Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Sept. 30, 2020)
- Who Could Understand the Plight of the Black Man? (Trina Rodriguez, September 2020)
- Diversity and Inclusion Playlist (BizLibrary)
- “Let’s talk about how you can create change without being in the street….” (Beau of the Fifth Column, July 10, 2020)
- Black Lives Matter (Duke Basketball, June 26, 2020)
- ACLU Tears Down Confederate Monument Myths (NowThis Politics on Facebook, June 19 2020)
- Living While Black: A University-Wide Event (Duke University, June 16, 2020)
- Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” Anti-Racism Exercise | The Oprah Winfrey Show (OWN on YouTube, June 5 2020)
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (Emmanuel Acho, June 3, 2020)
- Hair Love | Oscar-Winning Short Film (Sony Pictures Animation, Dec. 5, 2019)
- “Black sounding” names and their surprising history (Say It Loud on YouTube, June 27 2019)
- A Conversation on Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott (University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work on YouTube, Sept. 6 2018)
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’ (Seattle Channel on YouTube, July 3 2018)
- Hell You Talmbout (YoungArts, Nov. 25, 2016)
- The unknowns about the Tuskegee syphilis study (Newsy on YouTube, Aug. 25 2016)
Zoom Backgrounds
- DiversifyIT – white
- DiverifyIT – gray
- Black Lives Matter
- Anti-Racism
- Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racism
Miscellaneous
- FaceBook group: Rednecks for Black Lives
- Black Music History Library
Updated Mar. 12, 2021
