Diversity at Edmonds Community College
DIVERSITY RESOURCES
 Edmonds CC Library Anti-Racism Collection As recipients of the 2006-07 Echelbarger-Sherman Award, we were given two unique opportunities. First, we were able to consider our internal working collaborations as others may view them from outside our department and ponder the reasons for our successes. Second, we have the enviable responsibility of using the departmental stipends provided through the award in a way that will benefit the college and reflect our perspectives in a meaningful way. Because we believe that our own diverse characteristics, both individually and collectively, serve to inform and enrich the work of these monies to create an “anti-racism” library collection. We are doing this because the three of us believe the diversity work in which the college is engaged is, perhaps, its most important undertaking.
As guidelines for the purchase of materials for this collection, we have adopted the Anti-Racism Principles for Effective Organizing and Transformation developed by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Our vision is to provide a variety of resources, both print and electronic, so all students, employees and community members can engage in the important work of diversity. We hope this initiative will help to support the Undoing Racism training on our campus as well as the work of the Diversity Council, the Teaching and Learning Diversity Committee, the Diversity Studies Department, the Equity & Diversity Center, ODET, the Arts, Culture and Civic Engagement Initiative and all the other initiatives and efforts related to creating an awareness of and developing methods to combat personal, cultural and institutional racism at the college and beyond. Dale Burke, Johnetta Moore and Monica Tobin _____________________________________ “The trouble around difference is really about privilege and power – the existence of privilege and the lopsided distribution of power that keeps it going. The trouble is rooted in a legacy that we all inherited, and WHILE WE’RE HERE IT BELONGS TO US. It isn’t our fault. It wasn’t caused by something we did or didn’t do. But now that it’s ours, it’s up to us to decide how we’re going to deal with it before we collectively pass it along to the generations that will follow ours.” Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power, and Difference. 2006
“Many people of color understand the power differential inherent in the three manifestations of racism: personal, cultural and institutional. They view racism not as an individual issue but as a systemic problem. However, many people still characterize racism as a virulent form of individual prejudice…They are unschooled in the systemic ways that racism has been institutionalized and are oblivious to the reality of privilege given automatically and invisibly to white people very single day.”
24 Reasons Why African Americans Suffer Achieving Faculty Diversity: Debunking the Myths Bad blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Banished Black Demons: Media's Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype Buried in the bitter waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation The Color of Wealth : The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide Destruction of Black civilization: Great Iissues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. Diversifying the Faculty: a Guidebook for Search Committees Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees Diversity Blueprint: A Planning Manual for Colleges and Universities Diversity Mosaic Participant Workbook: Developing Cultural Competence Every night & Every Morn: Portraits of Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, African-American, and Native-American recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor Ex Mex: from Migrants to Immigrants Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. Immigration Solution: A Better Plan than Today's In Search of the Promised Land: A Black Family and the Old South Life in Prison Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change Minorities in Higher Education: Twenty-Second Annual Status Report Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America Poetics of Anti-Racism Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Privilege, Power, and Difference Racial and Ethnic Relations Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism Talking Race in the Classroom Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom To be a slave Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry Where We Stand: Class Matters "Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations About Race
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