See these definitions for some common DEI-related terms.
Category: Ability
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Resource Library
The STFM’s Resource Library provides different activities in multiple formats and on various topics (hint: enter key terms such as ‘racism’ or ‘LGBTQ’ in the search field in the top right of the page and refine from there)
Integrating Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Into a Research Course
See this recent publication on ways to integrate DEI into a research methods course:
O’Connor R.(2019). Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Topics Into an Undergraduate Nursing Research Course. J Nurs Educ. 58(8) 494. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20190719-13.
Power, Privilege, & Difference Activities
Check out these in-class activities from the University of Texas-Austin.
Activities for Change
Check out Training for Change’s ‘energizers and games’ and ‘teamwork’ tool boxes for in-class activity ideas.
Interactive Activities to Explore Difference
This booklet from Stockton University provides additional ideas for in-class activities.
Guide to Discussing Identity, Power, and Privilege
From the University of Southern California, this guide includes activities to use in class with students.
Sample Activities & Templates for Exploring Privilege, Power, and Oppression
From the University of Michigan, these sample in-class activities will help students explore privilege, power, and oppression
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and provides a wealth of resources related to teaching social justice and anti-bias, including lesson plans and opportunities for professional development online and in person. The site is geared towards K-12, but many of the resources are applicable to higher education as well.
Book Lists
Check out these various book lists:
- Mahogany Books & Very Smart Brothas Book Club includes a reading list of Black authors and opportunities to engage in monthly book discussions
- So you want to be woke: a reading guide for White people from Book Riot, the largest independent editorial book site in North America
- 24 books for White people to read beyond Black History Month
- The best LGBT novels of all time
- Book lists on a variety of topics from the Jewish Book Council. JBC, founded in 1944, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature
- 21 Must-read Asian Pacific American books from Book Riot, the largest independent editorial book site in North America
- Recommended readings by First Nations Development Institute
- Recommended readings on Latinx communities in the US by the New York Times
- Recommended readings about the experiences of folks with disabilities from the Chicago Public Library
- A reading list on health equity by the American Public Health Association
- Recommended readings on ageism from Changing the Narrative Colorado
- A reading list on poverty in the US from This Appalachia Life
Nonfiction & Novels To Consider
Here are some books to consider:
- A Clinician’s Guide to Gender-Affirming Care by Chang, Singh, & dickey
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- *SEATTLE AUTHOR: White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley
- killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- *SEATTLE AUTHOR: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Whistling Vivaldi: And other clues to how stereotypes affect us by Claude Steele
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue
- Why are all of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
- Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright
- Claiming Disability by Simi Linton
Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
About this blog: “Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and community organizer for disability justice and transformative justice. She is a queer physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependency and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love. As her work for liberation evolves and deepens, her roots remain firmly planted in ending sexual violence.”
Crip For A Day: The Unintended Negative Consequences of Disability Simulations
Nario-Redmond MR, Gospodinov D, Cobb A. Crip for a day: The unintended negative consequences of disability simulations. Rehabilitation Psychology. 2017; 62(3): 324-333.
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of disability simulations on mood, self-ascribed disability stereotypes, attitudes about interacting with disabled individuals, and behavioral intentions for improving campus accessibility.
DESIGN: Experiment 1 evaluated disability-awareness simulations by randomly assigning undergraduates (N = 60) with and without disabilities to stations simulating either dyslexia, hearing or mobility impairments. Experiment 2 extended the field study into the lab where undergraduates (N = 50) with and without disabilities each completed low vision, hearing impairment, and dyslexia simulations. Both studies incorporated pretest-posttest measures of mood, self-ascribed disability stereotypes, and attitudinal measures.
RESULTS: In both experiments, disability simulations made participants feel more confused, embarrassed, helpless, and more vulnerable to becoming disabled themselves compared to baseline. Following the simulations, empathetic concern (warmth) toward disabled people increased in both studies, but attitudes about interacting did not improve. In Experiment 1, post-simulation anxiety, embarrassment, and helplessness were highest for those who used wheelchairs or simulated dyslexia. In Experiment 2, participants judged themselves less competent, expressed more pity, expressed more interaction discomfort, and were not more willing to interview disabled students for an accessibility project following the simulations compared to baseline. In addition, Experiment 2 found frustration, guilt, anxiety, and depression were most pronounced among those who interacted with disabled people less than once per month.
CONCLUSIONS: Simulating disabilities promotes distress and fails to improve attitudes toward disabled people, undermining efforts to improve integration even while participants report more empathetic concern and “understanding of what the disability experience is like.”
Universities Lose Students With Disabilities Before They Even Finish High School
Read this story from the University of Washington’s student newspaper The Daily.
I Am Disabled: On Identity-First Vs. People-First Language
Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements
Check out this site for some examples of inclusive disability access statements.
I Am Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much!
“Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn’t, she’d like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society’s habit of turning disabled people into ‘inspiration porn’.”
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