Banaji, M., & Greenwald, A. (2013). Blindspot: Hidden biases of good people. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
Sparking meaningful conversations that sharpen our thinking, challenge our assumptions, and foster solidarity and equity is central to our mission. Words create worlds. These resources provide us with tools to navigate the dynamics of differences, blow past stereotypes and unconscious biases and create mindsets for new ways of knowing and being.
Books
Baradaran, Mehrsa, (2019). The Color of Money: Black Banks and The Racial Wealth Gap. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Benedict, M. & Christopher Murray, V. (2023), The First Ladies, NY, New York: Berkley.
Bonilla-Silva, E. (2003). Racism without “racists.” In Race and Racism (pp. 91-97). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Boykin, Keith (2024). Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? NY, New York: Bold Type Books.
Brown, Brene (2021). Atlas ofthe Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, New York, NY: Random House.
Brown, Dorothy (2022). The Whiteness of Wealth, New York, NY: Crown.
Chugh, Dolly (2022). A More Just Future. New York, NY, Atria Books.
Darling-Hammond, L. (2010). The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future. New York: Teachers Colege Press.
Desmond , Matthew. (2016) Evicted: Poverty in the American City. New York, NY, Crown Books.
Gladwell, M. (2019). Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know aboutthe People We Don’t Know. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Grant, A. (2021) Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. NY, New York: Viking.
Hannah-Jones, N., Roper, C., Silverman, I., and Silverstein, J. (Eds.) The 1619 Project. New York, NY: One World.
Harriot, Michael. (2023). Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers.
Hill, L. A, Brandeau, G., Truelove, E. & Lineback, K. (June, 2004) Collective Genius. Harvard Business Review.
Holvino, E. (2012). The “simultaneity” of identities: Models and skills for the twenty-fist century. In New perspectives on racial identity development: Integrating emerging frameworks. Wijeyesinghe, C.L. & Jackson, B.W. (Eds.) New York: New York University Press. 164-191.
Hoyt, C. (2016). The Arc of a Bad Idea. New York: Oxford Press.
Jones-Rogers, S.E. (2019). They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kendi, Ibram, X. (2016). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of RacistIdeas in America. New York, N.Y: Nations Books.
Kendi, Ibram X. (2019). How to be an Anti-Racist. New York, NY: One World.
Klein, Ezra, (2020). Why We’re Polarized. New York, NY, Avid Reader Press.
Knight, J. L. (2021). Heart: A Journey Toward Cultural Humility, Cleveland, OH: Leading with Humility, LLC.
Lieberman, M. (2013). Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. New York, NY: Crown Publisher.
Livingston, R. (2021). The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations. NY, NY: Penguin Random House.
Love, B.L. (2019). We Wantto Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Lukianoff, G. & Haidt, J. (2015). The coddling of the American mind. The Atlantic. September.
Loden, M. (1996). Implementing diversity (p. 16). Chicago, IL: Irwin.
Mann, C. (2006, 2011) 1491: New revelations aboutthe Americas before Columbus. NY, NY Vintage Books.
Maurer, R. (2010). Beyond the wall of resistance. Austin, TX: Bard Press.
March, J., Mendoza-Denton, R., Smith, J. A. (2010). Are we born racist? Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
McGhee, Heather, (2021). The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and Who We Can Prosper Together. New York, NY. One World Press.
Meyer, E. (2014). The Culture Map. NY, NY: Public Affairs.
Mounk, Y. (2018). The People vs Democracy: Why our freedom is in danger and how to save it. Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press.
Neiman, S. (2019). Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Pittinsky, T. L. (2012). Us + Them: Tapping the positive power of difference. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
Plummer, D. (2004). Race talk in the workplace: Unraveling intention and impact. OD Practitioner, 36(2), 35-39.
Plummer, D. (2017). Racing across the lines: Changing race relations through friendship (Third Edition) Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press; Westborough, MA: Half Dozen Publications.
Plummer, D. (2015). Advancing Inclusion: A guide to effective diversity council and employee resource group membership. Westborough, MA: Half Dozen Publications.
Plummer, D. (Ed) (2018). Handbook of Diversity Management: Inclusive Strategies for Driving Organizational Excellence. Boston, MA: Half Dozen Publications.
Plummer, D. (2019). Some of My Friends Are…The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Potential of Cross-Racial Friendships. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Putman, R.D. & Feldstein, L.M. Better Together: Restoring the American community. (2003). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Rea, P, Stoller, J.K., & Kolp, A. (2023). Better Humans Better Performance. New York, NY, McGraw Hill.
Ripley, A. (2021). High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Seashore, C.N., Shawver, M.N, Thompson, G. & Mattare, M. Doing good by who you are: The instrumental self as an agent of change. OD Practitioner, 36,(3), 42-46.
Schein, E. H. (2009). Helping: How to offer, give, and receive help. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Schein, E. H. (2013). Humble inquiry. San Francisco: CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Scientific American, The Science of Overcoming Racism: What Research Shows and Experts Say About Creating a More Just and Equitable World. Special Collector’s Edition, Summer 2021. Volume 30, Number 3.
Sokatch, D. (2021). Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Stevenson, Bryan, author. (2014). Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau.
Winters, M.F. (2017). We can’t talk about that at work! How to talk about race, religion, politics, and other polarizing topics. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Woodard, C. (2011). American Nations: A history ofthe eleven rival regional cultures of North America. NY, NY: Penguin Books.
