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“Just once I want to speak to a room of white people who know they are there because they are the problem. Who know they are there to begin the work of seeing where they have been complicit and harmful, so they can start doing better.” |
― Ijeoma Oluo, Author of So You Want to Talk About Race? |
 | So You Want to Talk About Race?, Ijeoma Oluo"Oluo gives us--both white people and people of color--that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases." – National Book Review R.E.A.D.: Reading for Equity and Diversity, July 29: Chapters 14-17 at the SMRC The Provost Office, in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Equity, is sponsoring an inaugural reading series, R.E.A.D. The group is currently discussing “So You Want to Talk About Race” to spark conversation and engage in a dialogue on ways to improve our university community. Even if you haven’t read through all the chapters, please join in the conversation! EBooks are available through KU Libraries: |
 | White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism, Robin DiAngelo“A vital, necessary, and beautiful book, a bracing call to white folk everywhere to see their whiteness for what it is and to seize the opportunity to make things better now.” – Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University |
 | When They See Us, Ava DuVernay“[A] dense, fast-moving series that examines not just the effects of systemic racism but the effects of all sorts of disenfranchisement … Ava DuVernay pulls no punches in this urgent, astonishing retelling of an assault case that opened a window on injustice in America.” – Lucy Mangan, The Guardian |