The current global movement to eradicate systemic and institutional racism signals a momentous opportunity to learn from and engage with one another; to reflect deeply on the trauma, grief, and fear experienced in Black communities and other communities of color on a daily basis; to strengthen our resolve to combat racism at the University of Michigan and beyond; and to plan for actions to carry forward. Below is a list of resources for those seeking to increase their knowledge, awareness and understanding of DEI and anti-racism frameworks.
- Anti-Racism Primer: What Can I Do? (UM Human Resources)
- Young, Gifted, @ Risk and Resilient: A Video Toolkit to Support the Well-Being of Students of Color
- U-M Campus DEI Resources
- U-M Micro Consulting
- U-M Messages of Outrage & Hope
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- Understanding Implicit Bias
- 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now
- Showing Up for Racial Justice’s Educational Toolkits
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality
- Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
- Washtenaw County United Way 21 Day Equity Challenge
- More Anti-Racism Resources
Teaching and Learning
- Decolonizing the Music Room: https://decolonizingthemusicroom.com/
- Update: The applications of research in music education
- Teaching Whiteness in Music Class by Ethan Hein
- Equity and Music Education: Euphemisms, Terminal Naivety, and Whiteness by Juliet Hess
Troubling Whiteness: Music education and the “messiness” of equity work by Juliet Hess - The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in US Schools and Departments of Music by Loren Kajikawa
- Six Easy Ways to Immediately Address Racial and Gender Diversity in Your Music History Classroom by Kira Thurman and Kristen Turner
- An Open Letter on Racism in Music Studies: Especially Ethnomusicology and Music Education by Danielle Brown
- Journal of Music History Pedagogy – Special Issue: Decolonization (vol. 10 no. 1)
Books and Articles
- U-M Library Anti-Racist Reading List
- An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi (New York Times)
- Understanding and Dismantling Racism: A Booklist for White Readers
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander - The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs - This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe
Organizations
- U-M Prison Creative Arts Project
- U-M Carceral State Project
- Black Lives Matter Detroit Chapter
- #shutdownSTEM and #shutdownacademia
- Notimeforsilence.org
- #strikeforblacklives
- Minnesota Freedom Fund
Videos and Podcasts
- “George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper,” Daily Show with Trevor Noah
- The Racial Wealth Gap, produced by Netflix
- American Segregation, Mapped at Day and Night, produced by Vox
- The Problem with America’s College Entrance Exam, produced by Vox
- Code Switch (NPR)
- About Race
- 1619 (New York Times)
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- White Lies (NPR)
- Seeing White
- The Breakdown with Dr. Earl: A Mental Health Podcast
- The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema
Apps and More
- Liberate is the number one meditation app for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community. Listen to dozens of guided meditations to ease anxiety, find gratitude, heal internalized racism and microaggressions, and celebrate Blackness.
- The Safe Place: a Minority Mental Health App geared towards the Black Community to bring awareness, education, and hope.
- Black Lives Matters Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma by Dr. Candice Nicole
- Soulfulness 4 Life
Music
- Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by U-M Men’s Glee Club
- Songs Giving Us (Much Needed) Life by Code Switch (NPR)
