Diversity Pillar Resources

To support the IMPACT 2025 Diversity Pillar the DIO encourages the UMass Chan community to Read, Watch, Listen and Engage with books, film, art, essays and more. The resources presented here cover a wide variety of topics from history to social justice, memoir to medicine. This curated collection includes own-voices first-person narratives as well as insights from researchers, educators and experts. They also include a variety of media options and activities to make your personal learning more accessible, and to support our growth as an equitable and inclusive organization. 

The Diversity Pillar covers 5 key priority areas, use this color key to see how these resources apply to the domains highlighted by the pillar

• Culture and Climate
• Curriculum
• Education and Engagement
• Recruitment, Retention and Advancement
• Improvement and Accountability

Read

Books (Non-Fiction - General) ●●●●●

• The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones (2021)
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz (2018)
• Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble (2018)
• All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke (1999)
• All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of Colonialism by Tanya Talaga (2020)
• America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)
• American Like Me edited by America Ferrera (2018)
• As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2017)
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt (2019)
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony Greenwald (2013)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
• Citizens But Not American: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials by Nilda Flores-Gonzalez (2017)
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (2018)
• The Conversation by Robert Livingston (2021)
• De Colores Means All of Us by Elizabeth Martinez (2017)
• Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong (2020)
• Dog Whistle Politics by Ian Haney-Lopez (2014)
• Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Wilder (2014)
• The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin (2020)
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, Big Business Re-Create Race In the 21^st Century by Dorothy Roberts (2012)
• Finding Latinx by Paola Ramos (2020)
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi (2019)
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)
• Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez (2020)
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2015)
• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts (2017)
• The Little Book on Race and Restorative Justice by Fania E. Davis (2019)
• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee (2015)
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad (2020)
• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo (2020)
• This Muslin American Life: Dispatches From the War on Terror by Moustafa Bayoumi (2015)
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (2012)
• Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty by Peter Edelman (2017)
• Our History is the Future by Nick Estes (2019)
• The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez (2017)
• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack (2019)
• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh (2019)
• Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2018)
• Say Their Names by Curtis Bunn et. al. (2021)
• Silver, Sword and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana (2019)
• Slaves of the State by Dennis Childs (2015)
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (2019)
• Speaking of Race by Celeste Headlee (2021)
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi (2017)
• The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee (2021)
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand (2020)
• Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi (2019)
• Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro (2017)
• Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice by Myisha V. Cherry (2019)
• Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered (2021)
• Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn and Save as a Force for Change by Tanja Hester (2021)
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2011)
• We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer (2015)
• White But Not Equal by Ignacio M García (2009)
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum (2017)
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu (2003)
• Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement by Carlos Muñoz (2007)

Books (Non-Fiction – Science, Health and Medicine) ●●●●

• Becoming Dr. Q by Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa (2011)
• Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy, MD (2016)
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2020)
• Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl (2020)
• Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology by Robert W. Guthrie (2004)
• Flatlining: Race, Work and Healthcare in the New Economy by Adia Harvey Wingfield (2019)
• Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew (2018)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2011)
• A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell (2020)
• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington (2006)
• The Political Determinants of Health by Daniel E. Dawes (2020)
• Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias by Augustus A. White III, MD (2019)
• The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Marita Golden (2021)

Books (Non-Fiction - Memoir and Autobiography) ●●●

• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (2020)
• Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (2020)
• Autism in Heels by Jennifer Cook O’Toole (2018)
• Bad Fat Black Girl by Sesali Bowen (2021)
• Becoming Dr. Q by Alfredo Quinones-Hinojsa (2011)
• Being Heumann by Judith Heumann (2020)
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (2017)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates (2015)
• Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy, MD (2016)
• Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter (2021)
• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas (2019)
• Good Talk by Mira Jacob (2019)
• Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma (2019)
• Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer (2021)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
• A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell (2020)
• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantu (2019)
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (2020)
• My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegria Hudes (2022)
• Native Country of the Heart by Cherrie Moraga (2019)
• Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa (2020)
• The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown (2019)
• Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias by Augustus A. White III, MD (2019)
• Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig (2021)
• You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson (2016)

Books (Fiction) ●●

• All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds (2015)
• Americanah by Chimamande Ngozi Adichie (2014)
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez (2014)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (2018)
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (2020)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
• Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe García McCall (2022)
• Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester (2018)
• The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (2021)
• Grown by Tiffany Jackson (2020)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2017)
• The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea (2018)
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (1991)
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez (2017)
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2017)
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (2021)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2020)
• Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera (2020)
• Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami (2020)
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012)
• Salvage Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2012)
• Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (2020)
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (2019)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2018)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (2022)
• What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (2021)
• Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed edited by Saraciea J. Fennell (2021)
• With Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (2019)

Books for Children & Families ●●

• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold (2018)
• Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal (2018)
• Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang (2019)
• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X Kendi (2020)
• Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller (2018)
• Between Us and Abuela by Mitali Perkins (2019)
• The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates (2018)
• Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids by Arlisha Norwood (2021)
• Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson (2021)
• Brown: The Many Shades of Love by Nancy Johnson James (2020)
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (2018)
• Dim Sum for Everyone by Grace Lin (2009)
• Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring by Matthew Burgess (2020)
• Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard (2019)
• Grandpa’s Stories by Joseph Coelho (2019)
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée (2019)
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry (2019)
• Hats of Faith by Medeia Cohan (2018)
• I Am Human by Susan Verde (2018)
• It Feels Good to Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn (2019)
• It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr (2001)
• Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (2018)
• Just Ask by Sonia Sotomayor (2019)
• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (2015)
• Layla’s Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (2019)
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (2005)
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison (2017)
• Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison (2019)
• A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Tang (2019)
• Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung (2018)
• My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith (2018)
• Nana Akua Goes to School by Tricia Elam Walker (2020)
• Natsumi’s Song of Summer by Robert Paul Weston (2020)
• A New Home by Tania de Regil (2019)
• New Kid by Jerry Craft (2019)
• Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham (2018)
• The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad (2019)
• Say Something! By Peter H. Reynolds (2019)
• Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh (2014)
• So Many Smarts by Michael Genhart (2017)
• Someone New by Anne Sibley O’Brien (2018)
• Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano (2018)
• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o (2019)
• Tea with Milk by Allen Say (1999)
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (2019)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (1997)
• We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell (2018)
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (2020)
• We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands by Rafael López (2018)
• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff (2019)
• Wild Berries by Julie Flett (2013)
• Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales (2017)
• You Matter by Christian Robinson (2020)

Books for BIPOC and URM ●●●

• Be Mighty by Jill A. Stoddard
• Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Renee Cox
• For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
• The Healing Otherness Handbook by Stacee L. Reicherzer
• What Would Frida Do? By Arianna Davis
• You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case For Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce

More Booklists ●●●●●

• NYT Anti-Racist Books for Kids

Articles & Essays ●●●●●

• “Allyship is Not Enough – We Need Accomplices” by Dr. Akilah Cadet
• “Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites” by Robin DiAngelo (2016)
• “The Bitter Pill: Harvard and the Dark History of Birth Control” by Drew C. Pendergrass and Michelle Y. Raji (2017)
• “The Case for Considering Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Dear White People”
• “Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Medicine”
• “Don’t Talk About Implicit Bias Without Talking About Structural Racism” by Kathleen Osta and Hugh Vasquez
• “From Diversity and Inclusion to Antiracism in Medical Training Institutions”
• “How Racism Against Native People Is Normalized, From Mascots to Costumes” by Heather Davidson in Teen Vogue (2018)
• ProPublica Reporting on Racial Justiceand Health Care
• “Reclaiming the White Coat for Black Lives” by Amy Garvey, Denzel R. Woode and Charlotte S. Austin (2016)
• “Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement – Here’s What You’ve Missed” by Ijeoma Oluo (2017)
• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh (1989)

White Papers & Reports

• Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity by The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
• Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror from Equal Justice Initiative
• Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education from American Council on Education
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (2002)

 

 

Watch

Video Shorts ●●

• 26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity with Students produced by The New York Times
• Crash Course: Black American History produced by Complexly (2021)
• Hyphen Nation produced by The New York Times (2017)
• Origin of Everything: Black History produced by PBS and Complexly (2018)
• PBS Voices: Celebrating Black History produced by PBS (2021)
• PBS Voices: Latino’s Are Essential produced by PBS (2021)
• PBS Voices: A People’s History of Asian America produced by PBS (2021)
• PBS Voices: Prideland produced by PBS (2020)
• PBS Voices: Race, Civil Rights and the American Justice System produced by PBS (2020)

Documentaries ●●

• The 13^th directed by Ava DuVernay, produced by Netflix (Film - 2020)
• Asian Americans produced by PBS and WETA
• Crip Camp (Film – 2020)
• I Am Not Your Negro (Film -
• Jim Crow of the North (Film – 2019)
• Latino Americans produced by PBS (Series - )
• Native America produced by PBS (Series - )
• Pacific Heartbeat from PBS Hawai'i and Pacific Islanders in Communications (Shorts - )
• Priced Out (Film – 2020)
• Slavery by Another Name produced by PBS (Film – 2012)
• White People a documentary from MTV and Jose Antonio Vargas (Film -

 

Films & TV ●●

• Abbott Elementary (Series – 2022-)
• Atlanta (Series - )
• Black-ish
• Black Klansman (Film –
• A Black Lady Sketch Show (Series - )
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Dear White People (Film - )
• Dear White People (Series - )
• Do the Right Thing (Film - )
• Encanto (Film – 20)
• Fruitvale Station (Film -
• Gentefied (Series –
• Get Out (Film -
• Grown-ish
• The Hate U Give (Film -
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Film -
• Just Mercy (Film – 2019)
• Kim’s Convenience (Series -
• Lovecraft Country (Series -
• Loving (Film -
• Malcom X (Film –
• Mixed-ish (
• Pose (Series -
• Reservation Dogs (Series -
• Selma (Film –
• Us (Film -
• When They See Us (Series – 2019)
• Woke (Series –
• The Wonder Years (Series -

Theatre & Performing Arts ●●

• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
• AXIS Dance Company
• BalletX
• Ballet Hispanico
• Black Theatre Matters
• Dorrance Dance
• The Front Porch Arts Collective
• JAG
• National Black Theatre
• Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.
• New Federal Theatre
• New Heritage Theatre Group
• Rights and Reason Theatre at Brown University

TikTok & YouTube Creators ●●●●

• Access UMass
• Black Men in White Coats
• Garrison Hayes
• Joel Bervell
• Khadiga Mbowe
• Learning for Justice
• The Root
• Say It Loud
• Victoria Alexander

 

Listen

Podcasts ●●●●

• 1619 Project produced by The New York Times
• All My Relations
• Latino
• Anything for Selena
• Be Antiracist
• The Black Doctors Podcast
• Black History for White People
• Black History Year
• Blackademia
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• Code Switch produced by NPR
• The Cuts with Sterlin Harjo
• Desi American Life
• The Diversity Gap
• Intersectionality Matters! With Kimberlé Crenshaw
• It’s Been a Minute from NPR
• Latino USA from NPR
• Latinos Who Lunch
• Momentum produced by Race Forward
• Native Stories
• Pod Save the People
• Rough Translation
• Still Processing from The New York Times
• The Stoop
• Southern Fried Asian
• Teaching Hard History from Learning for Justice
• That Desi Spark
• There Goes the Neighborhood
• Throughline from NPR
• The United States of Anxiety from WNYC Studios
• The Untold Story: Criminal Injustice from Lemonada Media
• What Would Our Ancestors Think?!
• Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America from Vox
• Witness History: Witness Black History from BBC World Service
• Young and Indigenous

Podcast Episodes ●●

• Radiolab Presents: Border Trilogy, WNYC Studios (2018)

StoryCorps and More ●●

• Equal Justice Initiative’s Lynching in America Audio Stories
• StoryCorps American Pathways Project
• StoryCorps Stonewall Outloud
• StoryCorps Justice Project
• StoryCorps Historias

 

 Engage

Museums & Exhibitions ●●●

• 12 SoCal Public Art Projects That Explore Race and Marginalized Histories
• Art Against Racism
• Commonwealth Museum: Fire and Thunder – Massachusetts Blacks in the Civil War
• Commonwealth Museum: Reclaiming Black Faces
• Facility Chicago: Amends Public Art Project
• MassArt Art Museum: Chinese Dreams
• MassArt Art Museum: Legacy of Cool
• MassArt Art Museum: Sensácional! – Mexican Street Graphics
• Massachusetts Historical Society: 54^th Regiment
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: The African Origin of Civilization
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of Native America
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Before Yesterday We Could Fly – An Afrofuturist Period Room
• Museum of Fine Art Boston: Art of the Americas
• Museum of Fine Art Boston: Fabric of a Nation – American Quilt Stories
• Museum of Fine Art Boston: The Mural Project
• Museum of Fine Art Boston: Paper Stories, Layered Dreams – The Art of Ekua Holmes
• Museum of Fine Art Boston: Writing the Future – Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation
• National Gallery of Art: Afro-Atlantic Histories
• National Gallery of Art: Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: Cultural Expressions
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: Latinx Collection
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: LGBTQ+ Collection
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: Racism is Bad For Your Health
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: Stories
• National Museum of African Art
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Smithsonian Latino Center
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: African Americans and World War II
• Worcester Black History Project
• Worcester Historical Museum: Standing in Solidarity

Conferences

• ABRCMS
• AMEC
• LMSA

Workshops

Advocacy & Mutual Aid ●●●●

• American Civil Liberties Union
• The Antiracist Research and Policy Center
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice
• Asian American Justice Center
• Asian Americans for Equality
• Audre Lorde Project
• The Bail Project
• Be the Bridge
• Black Lives Matter
• Campaign Zero
• Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health
• Change Works
• Color of Change
• The Conscious Kid
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Fair Fight
• Families Belong Together
• The King Center
• Latino Medical Student Association
• The Marshall Project
• Massachusetts Bail Fund
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• National Hispanic Medical Association
• National Medical Association
• National Urban League
• New England Innocence Project
• Restorative Justice Project
• SACNAS
• The Sentencing Project
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
• Student National Medical Association
• Teaching Tolerance
• United Negro College Fund
• We Need Diverse Books
• White Coats for Black Lives

Other Events

Toolkits & Websites ●●●●●

• AAMC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• AAMC’s Trustworthiness Toolkit
• Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Institution
• GARE
• Guide to Allyship
• Learning for Justice
• Living Room Conversations
• MedEd Portal Anti-Racism Resources
• National SEED Project
• Office of Minority Health
• Purdue OWL guide to Critical Race Theory
• Racial Equity Tools

Support Minority Creators & Entrepreneurs ●

• Boston Black- and Brown-Owned Businesses
• Black-Owned Businesses in Worcester
• Black Business App?

UMass Chan Initiatives ●●●●●

• Affinity Groups
• Anti-Racist Challenge
• Campus Read
• Centering the Margins Series
• CEOD
• Diversity and Health Library Resource Guide
• Diversity Pillar Strategic Plan Goals
• DRIVE Initiative and Curriculum Appraisal Tool
• LMSA at UMass Chan
• SACNAS at UMass Chan
• SNMA at UMass Chan
• Upcoming DIO Events at UMass Chan
• White Coats for Black Lives at UMass Chan