Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources

Learning Resources - Books, Articles & Websites

If you’re interested in learning more about the history of inequity, fighting racism, and being more inclusive, here are a few ideas to help you get started. The Siuslaw Public Library District can help you find additional resources.

Books/Audiobooks

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program

How to be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program

So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program

Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World
By Jack Weatherford
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program

People’s History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
By James W. Loewen
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program

Book Lists

Eugene Weekly Essential Reading list

BookBub’s List of Educational Books on Fighting Racism

NPR list of recommendations

Elizabeth’s Bookshop + Writing Centre is an innovative literacy center designed to amplify and celebrate marginalized voices. The catalog highlights, promotes, amplifies, celebrates, and honors the work of writers who are often excluded from traditional cultural, social, and academic canons.

Internet resources

LaneKids Talking About Race – LaneKids staff have compiled a number of resources on race and racism, with the intent of giving you ways to educate yourself, teach the children in your life, and act locally.

Talking About Race – Resource from the National Museum of African American History and Culture that provides tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.

Zinn Education Project offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.

New York Times A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters
Timeline and book list

Looking Back In Order to Move Forward: An Often Untold History Affecting Oregon’s Past, Present and Future
Timeline of Oregon and U.S. Racial, Immigration and Education History from 8,000 BCE to 2010

Podcasts

5 Podcasts To Listen To If You Really Want To Know About Race In America

Code Switch, on NPR – a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown – Recommended episodes include conversations with Dr. Clint Smith, Tarana Burke and Jason Reynolds, Dr. Yaba Blay, Ibram X. Kendi and Austin Channing Brown on the topics of antiracism and race.

NPR list of recommendations

For children & families

Creating Compassionate Kids: Essential Conversations to Have with Young Children
By Shauna Tominey
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program

What Do You Stand For? For Kids: A Guide to Building Character
By Barbara A. Lewis
Available free through The Ford Family Foundation’s Select Books program

The Hate You Give (young adult fiction)
By Angie Thomas
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
Available through the Siuslaw Public Library District ebook program

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (young adult)
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
In Siuslaw Public Library collection and available through their ebook program

Antiracist Baby (board book for babies and toddlers)

How to explain racism to kids – CNN’s Van Jones and Erica Hill partner with “Sesame Street” for Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, a town hall for kids and families. Watch the town hall in its entirety

Children’s Book Lists

Huffington Post Instagram list

Nonprofit EmbraceRace offers a comprehensive list of diverse books for children, as well as links to blogs and other resources.

Recommendations from a preschool teacher

Video

Simple video explaining systemic racism – YouTube

Just Mercy

13th – Available through Netflix

Recommendations for family movie night

NPR list of recommendations

Equity Tools & Lenses for Planning

An equity lens is a tool to help organizations and businesses look at their policies, planning, decision-making, and resource allocation leading to more equitable policies and programs. Equity lenses can help an organization reflect on its core values and look at diversity, equity, and inclusion from individual, institutional, and systemic perspectives. Here are a few that might be helpful.

Siuslaw Vision's Impact of Education in the Siuslaw Region

Siuslaw Vision’s Impact of Education in the Siuslaw Region – Though not designed as an equity project, our evaluation showed us where there are inequities in the way people in our community learn and gives some ideas for welcoming and including more people in events and educational opportunities.