Where to Start: Anti-Racist Allyship and Advocacy
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus (JSTOR Daily)
158 Resources to Understanding Systemic Racism in America (Smithsonian Magazine)
Anti-Racist Resource Guide (Victoria Alexander, MEd)
Racial Justice Resource Guide (Black Student Union at Johns Hopkins University)
Coping Strategies and Resources for Racial Trauma (Office of Student Health and Well-Being, Johns Hopkins University)
Aspiring Ally Identity Development by Dr. Keith Edwards (Princeton University)
Examples of Racial Microagressions (School of Public Health, University of Minnesota)
Interrupting Bias: Calling Out v. Calling In (Seed the Way)
Articles
What is Allyship? (The Anti-Oppression Network)
Counterproductive Allyship (Everyday Feminism)
Did you really just say that? Advice on how to confront microaggressions, whether you’re a target, bystander or perpetrator (Rebecca Clay, American Psychological Association)
White Family Facebook Drama Over Police Racism (Captain Awkward)
White Academia: Do Better (Jasmine Roberts, Medium)
29 Movies, Shows, and Documentaries to Watch to Educate Yourself on Racial Injustice (Ashley Aselleke, The Every Girl)
Black History and Anti-Racist Media Recommendations (JHU Sheridan Libraries)
Books
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Jennifer Eberhardt)
How to be an Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)
Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Roots (Alex Haley)
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege (Robert Jenson)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
Podcasts
1619 (New York Times)
Code Switch (NPR)
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Videos
Netflix Culture: Allyship (WeAreNetflix)
Video Playlist: TEDx Talks to Help Educate on Racism and Actions to Eliminate It (via Live with Lyfe)
Training and Education
Diversity Education Opportunities
JHU Learning and Development Diversity and Inclusion Recommended Curriculum
JHU myLearning: Unconscious Bias Awareness
JHU Program: LGBTQ Life Safe Zone Training
JHU Program: mySupport Crisis Webinars
JHU Offices and Initiatives
- Center for Diversity & Inclusion
- Center for Social Concern
- Community Impact Partnerships Program
- Diversity and Inclusion Information for Graduate Students
- Diversity at JHU website
- Diversity Leadership Council
- Faculty Diversity Initiative
- Homewood Council on Inclusive Excellence
- HopkinsLocal
- LGBTQ Life
- Office of Institutional Equity
- Office of Multicultural Affairs
- Student Disability Services
- Transgender Resources
- Women & Gender Resources
- Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts
- Equal Access in Science & Medicine
- GradPath Collaborative
Departmental Diversity Champions
The primary role of the diversity champion is to help facilitate cultural transformation around issues of equity and inclusion. As critical thought leaders, diversity champions work with their chairs to advance departmental diversity and inclusion goals.
Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion
JHU's Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion was drafted in early 2016 to capture the university’s priorities and ambitions, and to state in explicit and concrete terms its institutional commitments in this area. The document was revised with input from the university community in forums, meetings, emails, and conversations, and approved by the university board of trustees in October 2016.
Affinity Groups and Committees
Across the University, Johns Hopkins students, faculty, postdocs, and trainees have founded a vast range of affinity groups and committees concerned with diversity, to bring individuals with similar backgrounds, cultures, interests, and ambitions together in community or common purpose. These groups have helped our institution foster diversity, whether through advocacy, programming, or other endeavors.