USITT EDI Resources
Where to Start:
Awareness
- We See You - Letter to White American Theater *statement and accompanying website
- Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matters for Nonprofits
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo *book
- The Diversity Movement Resources and Seminars *website
- DEIA Resources for Professionals and Nonprofits *website
Education
- Scene On Radio: Seeing White *podcast series
- 13th *documentary film
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, episode 1 *youtube series
- Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person *article
- NPR Code Switch *podcast series
- Smithsonian Magazine: Why Black, Indigenous and POC Experience Greater Harm during Pandemic *article
- White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of “Post-Racial” Higher Education *book
- Whiteness in the Ivory Tower: Why Don’t We Notice the White Students Sitting Together in the Quad? *book
- Precious Knowledge *documentary
Self Interrogation
- Me and White Supremacy (with guided journal) *available in print or as an audiobook
- So You Want to Talk About Race *available in print or as an audiobook
- White Supremacy Culture *list with definitions and antidotes
- The 7 Circles of Whiteness *online learning tool
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack *article
Community Action
- We Buy Black *marketplace
- White Accomplices in the Fight for Racial Justice *action items and opportunities
- Support Black Owned Businesses *directory
- Create a Culture of Inclusion *example
Continuing Education:
Awareness
- The Case for Reparations *article
- Black Men and Women on Being Set Up to Fail *article
- Why ‘Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’ Is Obsolete *series of short interviews
- The American Theatre Was Killing Me: Healing from Racialized Trauma in the Workplace *article
- The Danger of a Single Story *TED Talk
Education
- The 1619 Project *audio series
- Resources for Anti-Racism *extensive lists of resources
- Race and Policing in America: An Atlantic Reader *article
- Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw *ted talk
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander *available in print or as an audiobook
- The Color of Law *available in print or as an audiobook
- Theatre Work, Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production by Bridin Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin *book
Self Interrogation
- Decentering Whiteness *academic paper
- Becoming An Anti-Racist – the work of Ibram X. Kendi
- The Racial Healing Handbook *available in print or audiobook -guided reflection
- Check Your Bias (Harvard Project Implicit) *online assessment
Community Action
- Showing Up for Racial Justice Chapters *national network for social justice
- Black Business Green Book *black owned business directory
- Why America's Attitude Towards Racism Hasn't Really Changed *article
- Decolonizing American Theater Design *video