Race and Diversity in America

This guide supports the Dickinson Law Faculty Resolution to become antiracists, to end racism, and to support the learning necessary to banish injustice, inequality, racism, and sexism.

Articles and Essays

Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations About Race and Racism, by Tsedale M. Melaku and Angie Beeman. Harvard Business Review (June 25, 2020)
Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement by Courtney Martin
Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good Magazine
Blue-on-Black Violence: A Provisional Model of Some of the Causes by Devon Carbado
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, June 2014)
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics by Kimberlé Crenshaw
The First White President by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, October 2017)
A House Still Divided by Ibram X. Kendi (The Atlantic, October 2018)
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Change by Barack Obama
The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston (Vox, May 28, 2019)
Law School in a Different Voice by Melissa Murray
On Charlottesville by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Performing Refuge/Restoration: The role of libraries in the African American Community – Ferguson, Baltimore and Dorchester by Dr. Myron M. Beasley
The Psychology of Rioting: The Language of the Unheard by Joe Pierre, MD (Psychology Today, May 30, 2020)
Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women (African American Policy Forum, Columbia Law School, Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies)
There’s Overwhelming Evidence That the Criminal Justice System is Racist. Here’s the Proof, by Radley Balko. The Washington Post (June 20,2020)
Thinking, Talking and Teaching on Race: Derrick Bell’s Space Traders by Kathryn Russell-Brown
The Trauma of the Routine: Lessons on Cultural Trauma from the Emmett Till Verdict by Angela Onwuachi-Willig
U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism by Laura Morgan Roberts and Ella F. Washington (Harvard Business Review, June 1, 2020)
Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (The Atlantic, May 12, 2020)
Being Antiracist is Work, Even for Ibram X. Kendi, by Donovan X. Ramsey (The Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2020)
On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities, by Rhea W. Boyd (Health Affairs, July 2, 2020)

Federal Government Hearings and Reports

Community Dialogue Guide : Conducting a Discussion on Race.
J 23,8:C 73. [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Community Relations Service, [2003]. 36 p. : digital, PDF file.
Racism in the 21st Century : Understanding Global Challenges and Implementing Solutions
Y 4.SE 2:110-2-17. Hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 16, 2008. Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2012. 1 online resource (iii, 105 pages)
Police Use of Force : An Examination of Modern Policing Practices
CR 1.8/2:P 75. Briefing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, held in Washington, DC. November 2018. Washington, DC : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2018. 1 online resource (iv, 220 pages) : color illustrations.
The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.113-895. Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, December 9, 2014. Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2018. 1 online resource (v, 691 pages).
Ending Racial Profiling in America
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.112-944. Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, April 17, 2012. Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2016. 1 online resource (vi, 622 pages) : illustrations.
"Stand Your Ground" Laws : Civil Rights and Public Safety Implications of the Expanded Use of Deadly Force
Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.113-626. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, Tuesday, October 29, 2013. Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2015. 1 online resource (v, 384 pages) : illustrations.
Examining the Race Effects of Stand Your Ground Laws
CR 1.8/2:L 44. Briefing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, held in Orlando, FL. February 2020. Washington, DC : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2020. 1 online resource (various pagings) : color illustrations.
Are Rights a Reality? : Evaluating Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
2019 Statutory Enforcement Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States
2018 Statutory Enforcement Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
A 1968 report on racial unrest, commonly know as the Kerner Commission Report.