UofL Libraries: Diversity & Inclusion: Race & Ethnicity

Race & Ethnicity

The following lists of resources are continuously being reviewed and updated as necessary. If there is something we should add or you see something that needs our attention, please contact Sarah Frankel at s.frankel@louisville.edu

Libraries' Resources

VanScoy, A. & Bright, K. (2019, October). Articulating the Experience of Uniqueness and Difference for Librarians of Color. The Library Quarterly, 89(4), 285-297.
Kendrick, K. & Damasco, I.T. (2019). The Low-Morale Experience of Minority Academic Librarians: A Review. Presentation delivered at IDEAL 2019.
Davis-Kendrick, K.D. (2009). The Kaleidoscope concern: An annotated chronological bibliography of diversity, recruitment, retention, and other concerns regarding African American and ethnic library professionals in the United States. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.
Botnick, J. (2019). Archivists as Amici Curiae: Activating Critical Archival Theory to Confront Racialized Surveillance. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 5.
Hateful Conduct in Libraries: Supporting Library Workers and Patrons from ALA
Disrupting Whiteness in libraries and librarianship: reading list University of Wisconsin-Madison

Subject Guides

Civil Rights Films
by Andy Huff Last Updated Jan 15, 2021 3 views this year
Classical & Modern Languages
by Terri Holtze Last Updated Mar 13, 2023 40 views this year
Latin American and Latino Studies
by Terri Holtze Last Updated Mar 10, 2023 53 views this year
Latin American Studies Films
by Matthew Goldberg Last Updated Mar 10, 2023 3 views this year
Library of African Cinema
by Andy Huff Last Updated Jan 15, 2021 2 views this year
Native American Research Guide
by Latisha Reynolds Last Updated Mar 10, 2023 49 views this year
Pan-African Studies
by Terri Holtze Last Updated Mar 10, 2023 154 views this year

Campus Resources

Louisville Groups/Organizations

Black Lives Matter Louisville
Showing Up For Racial Justice Louisville
American Civil Liberties Union Kentucky
The Bail Project (people can donate directly to the bail project and request the funds go to Louisville: https://bailproject.org/)
Louisville Community Bail Fund
The Marshall Project: Breonna Taylor

Other Anti-racism resources

"Talking About Race" (National Museum of African American History & Culture): https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43 (6), 1241-1299.
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
The Link between Racism and PTSD: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culturally-speaking/201509/the-link-between-racism-and-ptsd
Black Lives Taken: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery: What's Happening and What You Can Do: https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/black-lives-taken
More Anti-Racism Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcn09nII*1BjsmqbSoQY6-Rc5UpyLww&fbclid=IwAR1n7jQIm497CVAVtTMa8omYk-UkgUzSxdyttRwWlyouZcWaRmLf2I72Isc

Anti-Racist Resources for Parents

Anti-Racism Readings

Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
ISBN: 9781442220553
Publication Date: 2013-07-29
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
ISBN: 9781580058827
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781620971932
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
White Rage by Carol Anderson
ISBN: 9781632864130
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780525509288
Publication Date: 2019-08-13