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Welcome

The Leonard Lief Library Diversity and Inclusion Working Group invites you to Library Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion. This is a chance to come together as a group and discuss writings, film, video, and the arts devoted to diverse and inclusive conversations.

Selections

[Abolitionist Teaching] Love. (2019). We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Beacon Press.

[Culturally Sustaing Pedagogy] Love, B. (2019). We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Beacon Press.
[Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy] Caraballo, Martinez, D. C., Paris, D., Alim, H. S., Caraballo, L., & Martinez, D. C. (2020). Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in the Current Moment: A Conversation With Django Paris and H. Samy Alim. Journal of Adolescent
[Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy] Paris, D., & Alim, H. S. (2017). Culturally sustaining pedagogies : teaching and learning for justice in a changing world /. Teachers College Press.
[Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy] Paris. (2012). Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: A Needed Change in Stance, Terminology, and Practice. Educational Researcher, 41(3), 93–97. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X12441244
[Diversity, Inclusion and Information Literacy] Leung, S. (2022). The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What? College & Research Libraries, 83(5), 751–764.
[Diversity, Inclusion and Information Literacy] Nataraj, N. & Siqueiros, A. (2022). “Slow Your Roll”: Making Time for Reflection and Diverse Epistemic Practices in Library Instruction. College & Research Libraries, 83(5), 819–832.
[Diversity, Inclusion and Information Literacy] “Slow Your Roll”: Making Time for Reflection and Diverse Epistemic Practices in Library Instruction | Nataraj | College & Research Libraries

Reading | CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS BY ISABEL WILKERSON

Part Two: The Arbitrary Construction of Human Divisions

p. 39 Chapter 4: A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America
p.54 Chapter 5: The Container We Have Built for You
p.62 Chapter 6: The Measure of Humanity
p. 73 Chapter 7: Through the Fog of Delhi to the Parallels in India and America
p.79 Chapter 8: The Nazis and the acceleration of Caste
p.89 Chapter 9: The Evil of Silence

Supplementary Reading

p. 167 Brown Eyes versus Blue Eyes
p.181 Quote by W.E.B Dubois

[FILM - AVON Database] A Class Divided
On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused and upset. They recently had made King their "Hero of the Month," and they couldn't understand why someone would kill him. So Elliott decided to teach her class a daring lesson in the meaning of discrimination. She wanted to show her pupils what discrimination feels like, and what it can do to people.
[FILM] Eye of the Storm Jane Elliot 1970
[FILM] Jane Elliott's "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" Anti-Racism Exercise | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous [NYPL Overdrive]
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
Good Americans
"Good Americans." , directed by Anonymous , produced by S. Leo Chiang. , Public Broadcasting Service, 2020. Alexander Street, https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/good-americans.

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The Revolution Has Come by Robyn C. Spencer
ISBN: 9780822362753
Publication Date: 2016-12-02
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leadership, Spencer draws on interviews with rank-and-file members, FBI files, and archival materials to examine the impact the organization's internal politics and COINTELPRO's political repression had on its evolution and dissolution. She shows how the Panthers' members interpreted, implemented, and influenced party ideology and programs; initiated dialogues about gender politics; highlighted ambiguities in the Panthers' armed stance; and criticized organizational priorities. Spencer also centers gender politics and the experiences of women and their contributions to the Panthers and the Black Power movement as a whole. Providing a panoramic view of the party's organization over its sixteen-year history, The Revolution Has Come shows how the Black Panthers embodied Black Power through the party's international activism, interracial alliances, commitment to address state violence, and desire to foster self-determination in Oakland's black communities.

Video: The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution

Directed by: Stanley Nelson

Produced by :Stanley Nelson, Laurens Grant (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2016)

Video: The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution, Directed by Stanley Nelson, Produced by Stanley Nelson, Laurens Grant (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2016)

"This is an old story and it's used in various cultures where a group of blind men approach an elephant and try to describe him. The first man approaches the elephant, touches its side and says, "It feels like a wall." The next man touches the tusk and says, "The elephant must be like a spear." Another blind man touches the trunk and says, "It feels like a snake."

That is quite often what happens with our descriptions of the Black Panther Party. We know the party we were in and not the entire thing. We were making history and it wasn't nice and clean, it wasn't easy, it was complex."

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution | Directed by James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham
Keywords for Disability Studies | Written by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin
Read the following essays:
Essay # 1 Disability
Essay # 2 Ability
Essay # 3 Access
Essay # 5 Accomodation

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
eBook available at New York Public Library.
13th Directed by Ava DuVernay
Film available on Netflix and free via DuVernay’s website.

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