Diversity Toolkit
DACA and Immigration
- Building Undocumented Student Support in Higher Education Through a Culturally-Responsive Lens
- Working with Undocumented, Dreamer, and Immigrant Students
- Mydocumentedlife
- Supporting DACA Students on College Campuses
- Undocumented Students Guide
- NACAC Best Practices for working with undocumented students
- Financial Aid and Undocumented students
- DACA Phase Out: What it Means for Undocumented Students & What to Do Now
Race/Ethnicity/Nationality
Asian Identities
Black/African American Identities
- Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?
- The Untold Story of Emmett Till
- The Case for Reparations
Middle Eastern Identities
Native American Identities
- Natalie Diaz: When My Brother Was an Aztec
- Rebecca Roanhorse: Trail of Lightning
- Joy Harjo: Crazy Brave
- Layli Long Soldier: Whereas
- Tommy Orange: There There
- Podcast: Well for Culture
- Podcast: This Land
- Podcast: All my Relations
- Rebel Music Native America: 7th Generation Rises
White Allies
- White People-MTV Documentary
- Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls
- Alice Goffman: How we’re priming some kids for college—and others for prison
Other Identity Resources
Sex and Gender
- Meera Vijayann: Find your voice against gender violence
- Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we all “have it all”?
- Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?
- Lee Mokobe: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
- Jessica Herthel: I Am Jazz
- Transgender Coming Out Live-University Presentation
- Norman Spack: How I help transgender teens become who they want to be
- The girl effect: The clock is ticking
- “Hir” Poem about transgendered youth
- Brave New Voices: That Girl
- Tony Porter: A Call to men
- PBS Hawaii: A Place in the Middle
- Webpage – R U Coming Out
- Webpage – Human Rights Campaign
- Webpage – Gender Equity Resource Center
- Webpage – The Trevor Project
- Webpage – GLAAD
- Webpage – PFLAG National
Sexuality/Sexual Orientation
- LGBTQ Student Resources & Support
- Sexuality Research Guide: Sexuality Research Home
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, & Intersex Studies: LGBQI Studies Home
- iO Tillet Wright: 50 shades of gay
- LZ Granderson: The myth of the gay agenda
- Yoruba Richen: What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement
- LGBTQ: Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities
- Documentary: For the Bible Tells Me So (full documentary for purchase)
- Documentary: Trans*
- Documentary: How to Survive a Plague
- Webpage – R U Coming Out
- Webpage – Human Rights Campaign
- Webpage – Gender Equity Resource Center
- Webpage – The Trevor Project
- Webpage – GLAAD
- Webpage – PFLAG National
Religion/Spirituality
- Alaa Murabit: What My Religion really says about women
- On Common Ground: America’s Religious Diversity
- Webpage – American Atheists
- Webpage – Pew Research Center
Socioeconomic Status
- I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized-the 30 Minute Version
- Inequality for All
- The One Percent
- Face of Poverty: Life at the Breaking Point
- American Story: Tent City USA
- Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream
The following are courtesy of Lindsey Krinks at Open Table Nashville
Ability
- Aimee Mullins: The Opportunity of adversity
- Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (movie)
- Disability: Move to Include with Caroline Casey and Mark Pollock
- Daniel Kish: How I Use Sonar to Navigate the World
- Rosie King: How Autism Freed Me to Be Myself
- Stella Young: I’m Not Your Inspiration Thank You Very Much
- Ron McCallum: How Technology Allowed Me to Read
- Phil Hansen: Embrace the Shake
- Sue Austin: Deep Sea Diving in a Wheelchair
- Andrew Solomon: Love No Matter What
- Caroline Casey: Looking Past Limits
- Keith Nolan: Deaf in the Military
- The Debut of the British Paraorchestra
- Alix Generous: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger’s
- Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
- America’s Largest Mental Hospital is a Jail
- The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities (University of Delaware)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?
- Learning Disabilities Association of America
- National Center for Learning Disabilities
Books recommended by the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities
Other Diversity Issues
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
- Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality
- Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong
- Rachel Rostad-Names
- Eddie Huang: Racial Identity in New America
- Gone With The Wind (movie)
- When the Levees Broke Part I&II, Parts III & IV
- Waiting for Superman (full documentary for purchase)
- NEA Diversity Resources
- Diversity Central
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces
