Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources for Adults, July 2023
prepared by Alvin R. Blount
Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
-Craig Steven Wilder
-paperback $16.99
-Kindle $9.99
-hardcover $22.00
-432 pages
-Bloomsbury Press
-2013
-description: A scholar on race in America, Craig S. Wilder, a professor of American history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former professor at Williams and Dartmouth colleges, respectively, presents the uncomfortable truths regarding race, slavery, and some of America’s most celebrated institutions. Schools such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of North Carolina would not exist today without labor, tears, and blood of people of color. Wilder shows how some of these leading academies garnered the support of slave owners and slave traders while perpetuating breeding grounds for racist ideology that sustained them.
Wilder, C. S. (2013). Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. Bloomsbury Press.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
-Alice Wong, editor
-Kindle $13.99
-paperback $10.99
-309 pages
-Vintage Books
-2020
-description: This anthology by disability rights activist, Alice Wong, shares tough realities told by contributors who lived these experiences. These disabilities are visible and many less so, but all of them appear underrepresented in the media and popular culture.
Wong, A. (2020). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Vintage Books.
all about love
-bell hooks
-hardcover $45.00
-paperback $9.99
-272 pages
-William Morrow Paperbacks
-2018
-description: bell hooks was an author, educator, and theorist, and known for her writings on race, sexuality, feminism, capitalism, and love. A native of Hopkinsville, KY, she taught at Oberlin College, University of Southern California, Stanford, and Yale before joining the faculty at Berea College as a Distinguished Professor in Residence and later founded the bell hooks institute at the College. A writer of numerous books, poems, and essays, she wrote all about love, an affirmation of how her revelations can spark change in our hearts and minds for a better society. Her path to love is not only sacred and redemptive, but also healing.
hooks, b. (2018). all about love. William Morrow Paperbacks.