At RBS, we aim for excellence in all that we do. True excellence requires that each individual be able to work and learn in an environment of acceptance, dignity, and respect. Our commitment to IDEA requires each of us to continuously ensure our interactions remain respectful and inspire academic freedom.
We encourage you to review Dean Lei’s “Call to Action” in response to the ongoing challenges our nation faces. Additional responses include:
- In Pursuit of Excellence: Our Commitment to Equity by President Jonathan Holloway
- From President and Chancellors: The Chauvin Verdict
In addition to action and resources coordinated by the RBS IDEA Office, the resources located here are designed to educate and help effect change. This is a growing repository of information and resources. Accordingly, if we’re missing anything or if you have suggestions, please email us at DiversityPrograms@business.rutgers.edu.
Rutgers Diversity Resources
- Rutgers Equity and Inclusion Office
- Educational Opportunity Fund – New Brunswick
- Educational Opportunity Fund – Newark
- Rutgers Office of Disability Services – New Brunswick
- Rutgers Office of Disability Services – Newark
- Center for Women in Business
Student Groups and Organizations
- Black Business Association - BBA
- National Association of Black Accountants - NABA
- Rutgers Undergraduate Women in Business - RUWIB (NB)
- Rutgers Undergraduate Women in Business - RUWIB (NWK)
- Association for Latino Professionals for America - ALPFA (NB)
- Association for Latino Professionals for America - ALPFA (NWK)
Repository of Diversity and Anti-Racist Resources
Books
- Black Faces in High Places: Ten Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay There – Randal D. Pinkett and Jeffrey A. Robinson (2022)
- The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism – Nancy DiTomaso (2013)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Racecraft - Barbara J. Fields and Karen Fields (2012)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Daniel Tatum (2017)
- A Dream Called Home - Reyna Grande (2018)
- So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (2019)
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All - Martha S. Jones (2020)
- Letters to My Mother - Teresa Cárdenas (2016)
- Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism - Allissa V. Richardson (2020)
- Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- A Nation of Women - Luisa Capetillo (2021)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander (2010)
- How to be Less Stupid About Race - Crystal M. Fleming (2020)
- Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor - Cyndi Kernahan (2019)
- Medical Apartheid - Harriet A. Washington (2006)
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America - Melissa Harris-Perry (2011)
- The Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools - Monique W. Morris (2015)
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Edward E. Baptist (2016)
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race - Derald Wing Sue (2016)
- Divided Sisters - Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell (1995)
- Finding Latinx - Paola Ramos (2020)
- They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement - Wesley Lowery (2016)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (1969)
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century - Dorothy E. Roberts (2012)
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - James Forman Jr. (2018)
- The Miner's Canary - Lani Guinier, Geral Torres (2002)
- The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon (1961)
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin (1963)
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2019)
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on The American Mind - Harriet A. Washington (2019)
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America - Elizabeth Hinton (2016)
- Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin (1953)
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor - Virginia Eubanks (2018)
- Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy - Darryl Pinckney (2014)
- Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class - Ian Haney López (2013)
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology - Deirdre Cooper Owens (2017)
- Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination - Alondra Nelson (2011)
- Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin (1955)
- Breathe: A Letter to My Sons – Imani Perry (2019)
- The Mothers – Brit Bennett (2016)
- How We Fight for Our Lives – Saeed Jones (2019)
- Trap Door - Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (2017)
- White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue… and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation – Lauren Michele Jackson (2019)
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Kiese Laymon (2013)
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy - Carol Anderson (2018)
- Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks - Jason Reynolds (2019)
- Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Audre Lorde (2017)
- Unapologetic - Charlene A. Carruthers (2018)
- Transcending Racial Barriers: Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach - Michael O. Emerson and George Yancey (2011)
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Safiya Umoja Noble (2018)
Journals and Articles
- Jasmine Roberts - "White Academia: Do Better" Medium, (2020)
- Jenny Rickard - "What Does an Anti-Racist College Admissions Process Look Like?" Diverse Issues in Higher Education, (2021)
- Sarah Schwartz and Madeline Will - "15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing, and Protest" Education Week, (2020)
- Jesse Popp - "Want to reach out to an Indigenous scholar?" The Conversation, (2021)
- Berkley Carnine, Dylan Cooke, Scott Davis, Rog Drew, Z! Haukeness, Griffen Jeffries - "Indigenous Solidarity Nework: Rethinking "Thanksgiving: Toolkit" Indigenous Solidarity Network
- Janel George - "A Lesson on Critical Race Theory" American Bar Association, (2021)
- Eduardo Contreras, Maraina Montgomery, Hernando Sevilla-Garcia - "An Antiracist Framework for Education Abroad"NAFSA, (2021)
- J. Nwando Olayiwola, Joshua J. Joseph, Autumn R. Glover, Harold L. Paz, Darrell M. Gray, II "Making Anti-Racism A Core Value In Academic Medicine" Health Affairs (2020)
- Ethel L. Mickey, Ember Skye Kanelee and Joya Misra - "10 Small Steps for Department Chairs to Foster Inclusion" Inside Higher Ed, (2020)
- Marianne Mychaskiw - "13 Mental Health & Wellness Resources For Asian-American Communities" Bustle, (2021)
- Hailey Branson-Potts and Matt Stiles - "All Black Lives Matter March Calls for LGBTQ Rights and Racial justice" LA Times, (2020)
- Mari Matsuda, "Mari Matsuda: Critical Race Theory is not Anti-Asian" Reappropriate, (2021)
- Francie Diep - "‘I Was Fed Up’: How #BlackInTheIvory Got Started, and What Its Founders Want to See Next", The Chronicle of Higher Education (2020)
- Mari Uyehara – “A Brief History of Anti-Asian Racism Pretending It’s Not Racist” Bustle, (2021)
- David B. Green, Jr. - "Hearing the Queer Roots of Black Lives Matter" Medium, (2020)
- Keisha N. Blain - "The Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment" The Atlantic, (2020)
- Ibram X. Kendi - "The American Nightmare" The Atlantic, (2020)
- Michelle Alexander - "America, This is Your Chance" The New York Times, (2020)
- Mari Matsuda, "Becoming Asian in America" Reappropriate, (2021)
- Sarah Kim - "Black Disabled Lives Matter: We Can't Erase Disability in #BLM" Teen Vogue, (2020)
- Ernest Owens - "White People, I Still Don't Believe You're Serious About Anti-Racism" Philadelphia, (2020)
- Shailaja Neelakantan - "As Hundreds of Students Join George Floyd Protests, Some Black Students Become Targets of Police" Diverse; Issues in Higher Education, (2020)
- Tammy E. Smithers and Doug Franklin - "The Weaponry of Whiteness, Entitlement, and Privilege" Diverse; Issues in Higher Education, (2020)
- Adrianna Kezar and Sharon Fries-Britt - "Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate" American Council on Education, (2018)
- Tsedale M. Melaku and Angie Beeman -"Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations About Race and Racism" Harvard Business Review, (2020)
- Healthline - "Racism Is a Health Crisis. Why Aren’t We Treating It Like One?", (2020)
- Anthony Rodriguez - "Amy Cooper Works in Your Academic Department", Inside Higher Ed, (2020)
- Scott Carlson and Michael J. Sorrell - "Higher Ed’s Reckoning With Race", The Chronicle of Higher Education, (2020)
- Sasha Zhou - "Breaking the Silence: Asian Pacific Islander American Mental Health in the COVID-19 Era" National Center for Institutional Diversity, (2020)
- Martha S. Jones -"For Black Women, the 19th Amendment Didn't End Their Fight to Vote" National Geographic, (2020)
- Steven Blackburn – "How 10 Colleges Are Promoting Racial Healing in Their Communities and Higher Ed" University Business, (2020)
- Sarah Brown - "Students of Color Are Not OK. Here's How Colleges Can Support Them" The Chronicle of Higher Education, (2020)
- Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur - "Everyday Words and Phrases That Have Racist Connotations" CNN, (2020)
- M. Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber, and Joe Bandy "Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors" Race and Pedagogy Journal (2019)
- Jennifer Akamine Phillips, Nate Risdon, Matthew Lamsma, Angelica Hambrick, and Alexander Jun "Barriers and Strategies by White Faculty Who Incorporate Anti-Racist Pedagogy" Race and Pedagogy Journal (2019)
- Lauren Michele Jackson "What's Missing From 'White Fragility'" Slate (2019)
- Kate Lý Johnston - "Anti-racism resources to support Asian American, Pacific Islander community", NBC News, (2021)
- Donald Earl Collins "The Weight and Pressure of American Racism" Al Jazeera (2020)
- Nancy Doyle "The Intersection of Race and Neurodivergence: “The Black Dyspraxic” Shares on Overcoming Barriers"Forbes (2020)
- Gina Ann Garcia "Antiracist Hiring Practices in Higher Education" HigerEdJobs (2020)
- Master's in Data Science "A Guide for Minorities in STEM: Increasing Workplace Diversity" (2020)
- Ashish Valentine "The Wrong Complexion For Protection. How Race Shaped America's Roadways And Cities" NPR, (2020)
- Natalie Shibley "Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry" Black Perspectives, (2020)
- N'dea Yancey-Bragg "Majority of kids who die of coronavirus are Hispanic, Black, or Native American, CDC finds" USA Today, (2020)
- Marissa Evans "The Relentlessness of Black Grief" The Atlantic, (2020)
- Cade Metz & Daisuke Wakabayashi "Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I." New York Times, (2020)
Websites
- Race Equity Tools - Education
- Teaching Tolerance - Teaching About Race, Racism and Police Violence
- New York Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Hollaback! - Bystander Intervention Training to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment
- Academics for Black Lives - Academics for Black Survival and Wellness
- The African American Policy Forum - AAPF
- Cite Black Women - Cite Black Women Collective
- The Anti-Defamation League - Race and Racial Justice
- American Association of University Professors - Racial Justice
- Association of American Colleges & Universities -Courageous Conversations: Racial Healing and Speaking across Difference
- Hack the Gates - Radically Reimage Admissions
- Maynard Institute - Structural Racism
- Everyday Health - #BlackHealthFacts Matter
TV and Video Segments
- U.S. History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Dear White People (Netflix Series)
- SpeakOut - the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture (SpeakOutNow.org)
- Raising Anti-Racist Kids - Exploring the Next Generation of Changemakers (Haymarket Books)
- How to Build an Antiracist World (TED Talk)
- The Danger of a Single Story (TED Talk)
- USC Race and Equity Center (Youtube)
- This 16-Year-Old Indigenous Activist is Fighting for Environmental Justice (NowThis News)
- Black South Rising (Vice News)
- An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matters (Ted Talk)
- The Difference Between Being "Not Racist" and Antiracist (Ted Talk)
- How We're Honoring People Overlooked by History (Ted Talk)
- Why Black Girls Are Targeted for Punishment at School (Ted Talk)
- The Problem with Race Based Medicine (Ted Talk)
- A Visual History of Inequality in Industrial America (Ted Talk)
- Why Lakes and Rivers Should Have the Same Rights as Humans (Ted Talk)
Documentaries and Movies
- 13th (Documentary)
- When They See Us (Documentary)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Documentary)
- Let It Fall: 1982 - 1992 Los Angeles (Documentary)
- Asian Americans (Documentary)
- Teach Us All (Documentary)
- Just Mercy (Movie)
- Salute (Documentary)
- #AsianAmCovidStories (Documentary)
- The Black Panthers (Documentary)
- I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary)
- American Son (Movie)
- Call Her Ganda (Documentary)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie)
- King in the Wilderness (Documentary)
- 9-MAN (Documentary)
- Moonlight (Movie)
- The Death and Life of Martha P. Johnson (Documentary)
- Free CeCe (Documentary)
- Disclosure (Documentary)
*Found on various streaming platforms
Podcast
- 1619, The New York Times
- About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Code Switch, NPR
- Self Evident, Asian America's Stories
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw, AAPF
- Momentum: A Race Forward
- Pod For the Cause: Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
- Pod Save the People, Crooked Media
- Seeing White, Scene on Radio
- Fare of the Free Child, Raising Free People Network
- Black Wallstreet 1921 (podcast)
- About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge (podcast)
- The Stacks (podcast)
*Podcasts can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and the Podcast app