DEI Resources

Consider “listening sessions”, reading, and watching documentaries to educate yourself.

New Streaming Media Guide: Anti-racist Films

The UCI Libraries stand firmly in opposition to racism and racial violence. In an effort to highlight marginalized voices, the UCI Libraries created a new streaming media guide on anti-racist films highlighting many film and documentary resources. This streaming content explores issues of civil rights and unrest, mass incarceration, racism and white privilege, and policing in the United States. To stream movies and documentaries, login with your UCInetID.

In addition, the UCI Libraries continue to add to the ebook collection in OverDrive: Understanding and Combatting Racism. To access this collection, login with your UCInetID to read ebooks online, download titles to your device or read on your Kindle or e-reader. Click here for more information.

The UCI Libraries are dedicated to purchasing a wide variety of award-winning titles that relate to the topic of diversity. Click here to explore the diversity of UCI Libraries’ collections.

Questions or comments? Please contact Jenna Dufour, Research Librarian for Visual Arts at dufourj@uci.edu, or Scott Stone, Research Librarian for Performing Arts at stonesm@uci.edu.

Podcasts

• UCI Podcast: How the LEAD-ABC program gives black medical students a ‘powerful’ voice
• Ibram X. Kendi·TED2020: The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist
• The Praxis Podcast with Edwin Lindo, JD 
• EmbraceRace seeks to gather the resources to meet the challenges they face raising children in a world where race matters. 
• See the Hair Love read-aloud video. 
• #ReadTogether video of Peter Reynolds reading Say Something! Is about being kind and encouraging children to say something when they see behavior that they don’t like.

Programs

• Office of Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program and Summer allyship program
• Terrance Mayes, our Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion provided a truly outstanding session on implicit bias and the holistic review. 

News

• The 1619 Project (New York Times)
• UCI Humanities Center
  • The 1619 Project
  • Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow (October 15, 2020) 
  • Please be aware that the above materials will contain content related to slavery, racial violence, sexual assault, and other sensitive topics. If you have never experienced these issues personally or engaged with them in an academic setting, please sit with your discomfort and process these narratives with empathy and an open mind for those who have experienced them and continue to do so.
• Nature Medicine: How to better support Black trainees in the biomedical sciences
• Latinos Need to Stay in Their Place: Differential Segregation in a Multi-Ethnic Suburb
• Moving Toward Anti-Racist Praxis in Medicine
• Henrietta Lacks and Her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback
• Impact of race on post-surgery outcomes
• Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns
• American Academy of Pediatrics article: Traumatic Impact of Racism on Young People 
• American Academy of Pediatrics’ news release condemning racism here. 
• American Academy of Pediatrics Statement: Dismantle Racism at Every Level 
• Healthy Children: Talking to Children About Racial Bias 
• American Public Health Association: Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue 
• Pediatrics: Police, Equity and Child Health 
• Campaign Zero: Policy Solutions to End Police Violence 
• Teaching Tolerance: Six Steps to Speak Up
• Office of Inclusive Excellence: UCI Black Thriving Initiative website
• Los Angeles Times: Only 3% of UC Irvine Students are Black: “Black Thriving Initiative” Aims to Change That (article also attached if you have access issues)
• Instagram @soyouwanttotalkabout: Critical Race Theory
• What College Activists Want  by Katherine Mangan and Marc Parry
• University of California Advocacy Network
• Academic Medicine Collection on Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education: Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in dismantling racism. A collection of previously published articles in the journal is now available and all articles are free to view and download. The collection was curated to help readers engage in necessary conversations about race and to inform strategies to eliminate structural racism in their institutions. Read more about the collection’s creation.
• Ibram X. Kendi on the solution for America's "metastatic" racism

Antiracism books

• Hair Love, by Matthew A. Cherry tells a beautiful story about a dad and daughter. 
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Georgia authors Ann Hazard, Marianne Celano and Marietta Collins Good Reads 
• George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? USA TODAY 
• Talking to children after racial incidents Penn GSE 
• How to talk to kids about racism, protests and injustice Today 
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race Amazon 
• Homegoing Amazon 
• White Fragility Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism Penguin Random House 
• Scholastic, All About Books, Workman Publishing and Star Bright Books have wonderful selections of books with a great range of diversity. 
• Participation in Barnes & Noble holiday book drives and establish diverse book titles as a priority 
• Partnerships like reading clubs (e.g., the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club in Atlanta which includes African American protagonists and local landmarks and sites). 
• The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Penguin Random House

Newborn-Toddler

• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara 
• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
• Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
• Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison 
• I Am Strong: A Little Book About Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer
• We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi Jane Kates
• Hey Black Child by Useni Eugene Perkins
• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 
• Saturday by Oge Mora 
• I Am Enough by Grace Byers 
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander 
• Where Are You From? by Jaime Kim
• Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America by Emily Easton 
• Lullaby (For a Black Mother) by Langston Hughes 
• The Colors of Us by Karen Katz 
• I Can Do Hard Things, Mindful Affirmations for Kids by Gabi Garcia 
• You Matter by Christian Robinson  

School Age

• Hair Like Mine by Latashia M. Perry
• Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark- Robinson
• She Persisted, 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton 
• Skin Like Mine by Latashia M. Perry 
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson 
• Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed 
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson 
• Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison 
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry 
• Anti-Racism Starts With Me! A Coloring Book for Kids by Kadeesha Bryant 
• Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford 
• Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe 
• Malcolm Little, The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison 
• Trombone Shorty by Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews 
• Listening With My Heart by Gabi Garcia 
• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña

Teen

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Ibram X. Kendi
• Black Women in Science by Kimberly Brown Pellum, PhD
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia 
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
• Civil Rights Then & Now by Kristina Brooke Daniele 
• The Story of Harriet Tubman by Christine Platt