Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do
Claude M. Steele offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. Shedding new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities
Navigating Conflict in Movement Organizations
AORTA’s Theory of Change is a working document that defines our shared vision for working towards equity and justice for all.
How microaggressions are like mosquito bites
For people that still don’t think microaggresions are a problem: just imagine that instead of being a stupid comment, a microaggression is a mosquito bite.
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
In Deep Diversity, award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that everyone can understand.
Wisahkotewinowak: An urban Indigenous garden collective in the Waterloo-Wellington region.
Author: Wisahkotewinowak Wisahkotewinowak is an urban Indigenous garden collective building Land-based relationships across the Grand River Territory. View Website
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race
Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues? View Book
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Author: Peter Levine Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? View Book
Unnatural causes: Is inequality making us sick?
Author: Larry Adelman Unnatural Causes is an acclaimed documentary series broadcast by PBS and now used by thousands of organizations around the country to tackle the root causes of our alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health. Watch Video
The boy who was raised as a dog: What traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing
Author: Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery. View Book
Supporting Success: Aboriginal Students in Higher Education
Today, higher education is recognized as an important tool for capacity building and assisting Aboriginal communities to achieve their goals of self-determination and self-government. This paper presents some of the findings of a qualitative study conducted in a midsized Canadian postsecondary institution
Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
Social class on campus: Theories and manifestations
This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class.