Resources For Studies of Race in Postsecondary Education

• Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Julie R. Posselt, 2016)
• Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs (Lauren A. Rivera, 2015)
• Academic Racism: The Repression of Marginalized Voices in Academia (Article, Miguel A. DeLaTorre, 2018)
• Toxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty (Ruth Enid Zambrana, 2018)
• American Sociological Association (ASA) Contexts, In Brief (Journal, June 2018)

• Student Demands
  • University of North Carolina November 19, 2015
  • Abolish the Racist Seal, UNM April 29, 2016
  • Black Liberation Collective

Ethnic Studies Suggested Readings

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire
• The Revolt of the Cockroach People. Oscar Zeta Acosta
• Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander
• Parable of the Sower. Octavia E. Butler
• A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 1: Columbus to the Spanish-American War. Howard Zinn
• A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 2: Class Struggle to the War on Terror. Howard Zinn
• A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki
• Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw et al
• Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Online Classroom. Rhodes, C. M., & Schmidt, S. W.

Keys to a Successful Dialogue

• AERA Knowledge Forum - Children From Underserved Minority Backgrounds Have Strengths for Learning
• AfroMundo- Utilize Arts and the Humanities to shift dominant narratives, build radical solidarity, and promote the diversity of Afro-Latinx, Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Asian, and beyond, cultures, histories and identities
• American Educational Research Association (AERA) Statement in Support of Anti-Racist Education
• The Aspen Institute - to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues
• About RACE: A Public Education Project
• American Anthropological Association (1998) Race Statement
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1996) Race Statement
• Casa Xelaj - offers classes and programs that are designed to promote cross-cultural understanding
• Center for Anti-Oppressive Education - works to prepare resources for members of educational communities interested in creating and engaging in forms of education that challenge multiple oppressions
• Center for Reducing Health Disparities at Case Western Reserve University - Working to reduce health disparities through research, education, and community partnerships
• Center for Social Inclusion - For nearly a decade, the Center for Social Inclusion has worked to translate America's changing demographics into a new source of power and prosperity
• Compendium of Cultural Competence Initiatives in Health Care - prepared by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in response to the many requests from the media and others to define cultural competency and identify efforts underway in this emerging field. Included are brief definitions for major terms, organizational descriptions of initiatives and a list of experts in the field
• Courageous Conversation Academy- A new online learning platform designed to offer differentiated opportunities to learn, practice, and apply the Courageous Conversation Protocol and Framework in environment-specific contexts across organizational sectors. The Courageous Conversation Academy™ is also a vehicle for creating expanded networks in a global community of racial equity leaders and practitioners
• Cross Cultural Health Care Program - serves as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate. The website contains definitions, tools and other resources
• Cultural Competence Training Template - is a suggested outline for a half-day training that teaches the basics about cultural competency to health professionals, whether they are students or experienced clinicians, developed by the UCSF Center for the Health Professions
• Cultural Diversity: A Guide for Health Professional - published by Queensland Health, this guide features community profiles on Australian South Sea Islander, Bosnian Muslims, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatians, Greeks, Hmong, Italian, Latin Americans, Muslims from West Africa, Philippines, Samoans and Tongans, Serbians, Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, Vietnamese, Child and Youth, Torture and Trauma and Women
• Cultural Profiles - provide generalized profiles on African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Middle Easterners and Russians
• Division for Equity and Inclusion at UNM Statement on Combating Race & Sex Stereotyping Executive Order
• Ethnomed - contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. Culture-specific resources address such diverse cultures as Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Mexican, Somali and Vietnamese, among others
• Equity and Inclusion Effective Practices and Responsive Strategies:Guidebook for College and University Leaders
• Hablamos Juntos - is an $18.5 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded program committed to improving health care access for Latinos with limited English proficiency.
• Improving Public Education in New Mexico: How the Yazzie/Martinez Ruling Presents an Opportunity
• Intersectionality Primer
• The Kirwan Institute partners with people, communities, and institutions worldwide to think about, talk about, and engage issues of race and ethnicity in ways that create and expand opportunity for all
• Knapsack Institute out of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs is a summer institute focused on inequality and social justice
• The Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse
• Latinoisnotarace.info
• The Long, Bloody Strike for Ethnic Studies (National Public Radio, August 2020)
• "Measuring the Diverging Components of Race in a Multiracial America" conference
• National Council on Interpreting in Health Care - is a multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to promote culturally competent professional medical interpreting as a means to support equal access to health care for individuals with limited English proficiency
• New Mexico CARES Health Disparities Center - The New Mexico Center for the Advancement of Research Engagement and Science on Health Disparities (NM CARES Health Disparities Center) is a National Institutes of Health and National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities funded center at the University of New Mexico
• The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond -- Focuses on understanding what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone. Our workshops utilize a systemic approach that emphasizes learning from history, developing leadership, maintaining accountability to communities, creating networks, and undoing internalized racism
• Providers Guide to Quality & Culture - this web site is designed to assist health care organizations in providing high quality, culturally competent services to multi-ethnic populations. It contains definitions, self-assessment tools and other resources
• Race and Racism in the United States: A Sociological Guide for the Public by the American Sociological Association January 2023
• Stranding Together Against Racism: Building on Our Common Heritage
• Tolerance.org - encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance" by providing resources for parents, teachers, and kids.
• Understanding Prejudice - has more than 2,000 prejudice-related links, searchable databases of social justice organizations and prejudice researchers, teaching resources, and interactive exercises
• What Is Cultural and Linguistic Competence? - this Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website contains definitions and links to guides on Planning Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services and Providing Oral Linguistic Services
• What is "Street Race"?
• William T. Grant Foundation Can Ethnic Studies Courses Reduce Racial Inequality as They Scale?