Antiracism is more than simply not being racist. This list is intended to provide general information about anti-oppression, racism, privilege, and inclusion, especially in terms of higher education in the STEM fields as well as information and resources for the social justice issues key to current dialogues within the University of Iowa community and beyond. This list is by no means an exhaustive list of antiracism resources nor does it capture all of the many facets of the larger conversations about the issues listed here. This list serves as an introduction to these issues and as a starting place for finding information from a variety of sources.

Definition: Anti-racism can be defined as some form of focused and sustained action, which includes inter-cultural, inter-faith, multi-lingual and inter-abled (i.e. differently abled) communities with the intent to change a system or an institutional policy, practice, or procedure which has racist effects. (Anti-racism Digital Library) 

Journals: 

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• New York Times
• NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers) Magazine 
• SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) Magazine
• SWE (Society of Women Engineers) Magazine

Articles: 

• Chotiner, Issac.  “A Black Lives Matter Co-founder Explains Why This Time is Different.” New Yorker. June 3, 2020.
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic, June 2014. Access The Atlantic. 
• Frederick, Angela, and Dara Shifrer. “Race and Disability: From Analogy to Intersectionality.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 200–214.
• Gibbs, Kenneth, Jr.  “Diversity in STEM:  What It Is and Why It Matters.”  Scientific American Blogs.  September 10, 2014.
• Harmon, Amy. 2019 “For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’.”  New York Times, February 18, 2019. Access to New York Times
• Hurtado, Sylvia, et al. “‘We Do Science Here’: Underrepresented Students’ Interactions with Faculty in Different College Contexts.” Journal of Social Issues, vol. 67, no. 3, 2011, pp. 553–579.
• Jack, Anthony Abraham.  2019. “I was a Low-Income College Student.  Classes Weren’t the Hard Part.”  New York Times, September 10, 2019.  Access to New York Times
• Lang, James M. 2019. “Do you Truly Grasp Why That Student Keeps Missing Class?” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Malcom, Shirley M, and Lindsey E Malcom-Piqueux. “Critical Mass Revisited: Learning Lessons From Research on Diversity in STEM Fields.” Educational Researcher, vol. 42, no. 3, 2013, pp. 176–178.
• Oluo, Ijeoma. “Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed.” The Establishment. April 15, 2019.
• O’Meara, KerryAnn. “Undoing the Can of Worms.” Inside Higher Ed, July 27, 2018
• O’Meara, KerryAnn , Audrey Jaeger, Joy Misra, Courtney Lennarz, and Alexandra Kuvaeva. 2018. “Undoing disparities in faculty workloads: A randomized trial experiment.” PLoS ONE 13(12): e0207316
•  Johnson, Catherine M., Carrie B. Myers,Kelly Ward, Nick Sanyal and Dusten Hollist. “American Indian/Alaska Native Graduate Students: Fostering Indigenous Perspectives in STEM” Journal of American Indian Education Vol. 56, No. 3 (Fall 2017), pp. 34-5

Electronic Books: 

• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New Press, 2010. (Online Access)
• Branche, et al. Diversity across the Curriculum : a Guide for Faculty in Higher Education. Anker Pub. Co., 2007. (Online Access)
• Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. 2018. (Online Access)
• Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. First ed., One World, 2019.
• Landreman, Lisa M. The Art of Effective Facilitation : Reflections from Social Justice Educators. First ed., Stylus Publishing, 2013. (Online Access)
• Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods Class, Race, and Family Life. 2nd ed., University of California Press, 2011. (Online Access)
• Mayhew, Matthew J., et al. How College Affects Students. Volume 3, 21st Century Evidence That Higher Education Works. First ed., Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand, 2016. (Online Access)
• Pearson, et al. Changing the Face of Engineering The African American Experience / Edited by John Brooks Slaughter, Yu Tao, Willie Pearson, Jr. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. (Online Access)
• Packard, Becky Wai-Ling, and Norman L. Fortenberry. Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented Students : a Research-Based Guide for Faculty and Administrators. Stylus, 2016. (Online Access)
• Smith, Daryl G. Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education Making It Work. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. (Online Access)
• Stewart, Abigail J., and Virginia Valian. An Inclusive Academy : Achieving Diversity and Excellence. The MIT Press, 2018. (Online Access)
• Tatum, Beverly Daniel. “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” : and Other Conversations about Race. Basic Books, 2003. (Online Access)

Print Books:

• Bell, Ella L. J. Edmondson, and Stella M. Nkomo. Our Separate Ways : Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
• Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race. Bloomsbury Circus, 2017.
• Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning : the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Nation Books, 2016.
• Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk about Race. First ed., Seal Press, 2018.
• Shukla, Nikesh, et al. The Good Immigrant : 26 Writers Reflect on America  First ed., Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

This list was created with the assistance of Dr. Jennifer Fiegel and Kristin Lang.