Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources for Adults, March 2023
prepared by Alvin R. Blount
Diocese of East Tennessee
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
-Maya Angelou
-Kindle $8.99
-hardcover $21.49
-paperback $20.49
-spiral-bound $43.93
-240 pages
-Random House Trade Paperbacks
-2007
-descriptions: In this cookbook, Angelou states that the preparation and sharing of good food played a central role in life from childhood to her travels and work. The best-selling author’s kitchen became a social center for her generous circle of friends as they ate her meat pies, beef Wellington, bread pudding, caramel cake, and much, much more!
Angelou, M. (2007). Hallelujah! The Welcome Table. Random House Trade Paperbacks.
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
-Valerie Boyd, ed.
-paperback $18.22
-256 pages
-Lookout Books
-2022
-description: This anthology of Black resilience and reclamation explores comfort, compromise, and challenge with contributions from greats such as Alice Walker, Pearl Cleage, Imani Perry, and many others. It has been referred to as a “survival guide” for navigating through the intersecting pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism.
Boyd, V. (Ed.). (2022). Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic. Lookout Books.
We Are Owed
-Ariana Brown
-paperback $20.00
-100 pages
-Grieveland
-2021
-description: Brown’s debut collection about her childhood in Texas and a pilgrimage to Mexico, We Are Owed explores Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces and confronts anti-Black erasure.
Brown, A. (2021). We Are Owed. Grieveland.
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
-Sheryll Cashin
-Kindle $2.99
-hardcover $14.99
-paperback $16.12
-312 pages
-Beacon Press
-2021
-description: Cashin, a daughter of civil rights activists, author, and Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law at Georgetown University, calls us to change the lens through which society sees residents of poor Black neighborhoods and develop a relationship from punitive to caring. Her scholarship is civil rights, social justice, poverty, and race, and she calls for the end of state-sanctioned processes, and for a new infrastructure of opportunity in poor Black neighborhoods such as richly resourced schools, public transit, neighborhood centers, and more.
Cashin, S. (2021). White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation In the Age of Inequality. Beacon Press.
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
-Sandra Cisneros
-Kindle $12.99
-hardcover $14.99
-paperback $14.99
-400 pages
-Vintage
-2016
-description: Chicago and Mexico have provided Sandra Cisneros with much inspiration for her works of fiction and poetry. She comes home at last with A House of My Own, an autobiography made up of essays spanning three decades and written with her trademark lyricism. This is a celebration of a life lived to the fullest.
Cisneros, S. (2016). A House of My Own: Stories from My Life. Vintage.
In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South
-Cynthia Griggs Fleming
-Kindle $40.84
-paperback $10.40-$38.94
-320 pages
-Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
-2004
-description: One of the most publicized civil rights demonstrations in American history took place on March 7, 1965, as demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL. Little has been written about the surrounding counties next door to Selma and other sections of the rural south. A graduate of Knoxville College, Fleming has written extensively regarding civil rights. She became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in history from Duke University and is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Fleming, C. G. (2004). In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Of Women and Salt: A Novel
-Gabriela Garcia
-hardcover $9.52
-paperback $14.49
-224 pages
-Flatiron Books
-2021
-description: This novel is a portrait of political, personal, and self-inflicted betrayals and some done by others as well. This diaspora story is also a meditation on choices, and the tenacity of women who tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them.
Garcia, G. (2021). Of Women and Salt: A Novel. Flatiron Books.
Podcasts
Othering & Belonging Institute. (2021, November 5). White Space, Black Hood
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/live/ldxvujY397A?feature
Politics and Prose. (2021, September 17). Sheryll Cashin-White Space, Black Hood-
with Paul Butler [Video]. YouTube.
The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah. (2021, February 23). Sharon
McMahon-The Important Distinction Between Bias and Lies [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/sZOh-As5mOQ