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Equity, diversity and inclusion resource list
Some of these resources were taken from UC Berkeley’s bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES.
Articles to read:
● “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
● Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
● ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
● The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
● The Combahee River Collective Statement
● “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
● Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
● “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin
(June 1, 2020)
● ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
● “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
● "Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem". Bayer, Amanda and
Cecilia Elena Rouse. 2016. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(4): 221-42.
● "The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth" resubmitted Econometrica. Hsieh, Chien-
Tai, Erik Hurst, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow. 2016.
● Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) annual reports and
newsletters
● "Promoting institutional change through bias literacy." Carnes, Molly, Patricia G. Devine, Carol
Isaac, Linda Baier Manwell, Cecelia E. Ford, Angela Byars-Winston, Eve Fine, and Jennifer
Sheridan. 2012. Journal of diversity in higher education 5 (2): 63.
Videos to watch:
● Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene
Carruthers (50:48)
● Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
● "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at
TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
Books to read:
● The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
● The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran
● The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein
● Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
● The Autobiography of Malcom X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
● The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
● Children of the Dream, Rucker Johnson
● Dr. Claudia Sahm's power point: Women in Economics: What Does the Research Say?
● The St. Louis Fed's podcast: Women in Economics
Resources for education
● Wheaton College Resources for Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
● Example Course Syllabi for Inclusive Readings, Concepts, and Instruction:
○ International Association for Feminist Economics
○ Association for Economic Research of Indigenous Peoples
Economists’ role in diversity and inclusion
● SF Fed Racial Equity Primer
● An Open Letter to Economists from Bill Spriggs
● The Race Problem in Economics, Randal Akee
● “It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose This Field” , Lisa Cook and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Relevant Economic Journals
● Review of Black Political Economy
● Feminist Economics
Creating change as an ally
● Academics4BlackLives (See “Introductory Training” tab for course materials)
Supporting organizations:
● Berkeley Division of Equity and Inclusion | UC Berkeley
Linkedin pages to follow
The Female Lead
On Colonialism
● Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in question: theory, knowledge, history (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2005), pp. 33-55.
● Postcolonialism Meets Economics, edited by Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela. (2004).
● Postcolonial economies, edited by Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan, and Alex Hughes
● Decolonization in Universities, edited by Jonathan Jansen