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Reading for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Sheridan Library collects books helpful to faculty, staff, and students interested in the principles and practices of EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion), with some directly suggested to us from our Inclusive Communities colleagues. Browse the selection below and contact us for further suggestions or help finding more in your area of interest.

Explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality.

Explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. 

In today's increasingly diverse, global, interconnected business world, diversity and inclusion (D&I) is no longer just "the right thing to do," it is a core leadership competency and central to the success of business. 

 Deep Diversity argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture

The standard bearing guide for multicultural counseling courses now enhanced with research-based, topical, and pedagogical refinements.

Walk a Mile facilitates the development of diversity competencies, equipping readers to work and live effectively with people from a wide variety of cultural, religious, economic, sexual, and age backgrounds.

Guides readers through the procedural, evidentiary, substantive, and discretionary legal issues that can arise when campus sexual complaints are made.

New diversity style guide helps journalists and others write with authority and accuracy about a complex, multicultural world. 

Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. 

This report examines key questions surrounding the lack of racial diversity in the academic workforce, shares key insights from campus leaders, and showcases more than a dozen institutions that have successfully diversified some aspect of their campuses.

Intersectionality and Higher Education examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences. 

Vic Satzewich's short and accessible book explores how racism operates in Canadian society, past and present. 

Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color. 

An essential toolkit for activists, community and peace groups, and students and instructors working to build dialogue, understanding, and peace as the antidote to the politics of hate and division. 

A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. 

Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers find their way forward.

For anyone addressing campus sexual violence complaints, this book will guide readers through the procedural, evidentiary, substantive, and discretionary legal issues that can arise when these complaints are made.