EDI Voices Additional Resources

This guide is intended for educators who want to create an LGBTQ+ inclusive classroom. The "General Background" section contains articles and resources applicable to all disciplines. For discipline-specific lessons and classroom materials, see the "Teaching Resources by Discipline" Tab.

The myth of the “model minority” is pervasive. It does real damage. And Asian American students aren’t the only ones it harms.

This article from Community College Daily seeks to answer the question "What are some ways community colleges can work to support their AAPI students?"

This paper by Samuel D. Museus and Peter N. Kiang deconstructs the Model Minority Myth and its implications in higher education.

This quick video from the Center for Prevention MN covers a definition of white privilege.

University Chancellor, Susan E. Borrego, reflects on her life as an emancipated minor and dissects the emotionally charged conversation surrounding race relations in the United States. This raconteur uses her powerful first-person account of "White Privilege" and "Black Lives Matter" to underscore the responsibility each one of us has to bring about change.

For the last few weeks, we've talked about the origins of the racial wealth gap. This week, we're turning our attention to one of the first major efforts to create more economic opportunity for Black Americans: Affirmative action in education. Kelsey Butler takes us to California, a place that for decades had strong, successful affirmative action measures, until one day, it didn't. She explains what getting rid of the policy meant for Black and white graduates, and why reinstating it isn't enough to close the wealth gap.

Article about affirmative action then vs. now in The New Yorker.

Article from the American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity about Affirmative Action history.

A history.com article about how throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work.

“Reverse racism” has haunted the fight for job equity for generations. How’d this bizarre idea become such a bugbear? One Supreme Court case, 50 years ago helps explain. This week, our reporter Marianne McCune tells the story of that case -- and its aftermath -- to help explain why the American workplace is still so segregated. It’s the story of an affirmative action program at an aluminum plant on the banks of the Mississippi River. Marianne introduces us to a Black family that finally found economic opportunity through the plant’s affirmative action program -- and to a white man who argued that the program violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. The outcome will surprise you.

Wikipedia article about the US v. Weber supreme court case.