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State of affairs at UC Berkeley
++ Pauker, Madeleine. July 13, 2015. UC Berkeley’s persistent lack of faculty diversity prompts efforts to address issue. The Daily Californian.
Campus Climate Surveys: project by the Division of Equity and Inclusion to assess the student experience
++ Where do we go from here? Highlights from the Campus Climate Survey at the University of California, Berkeley 2015. UC Berkeley: Division of Equity and Inclusion
The Intersection of Campus Climate and the Student Experience. March 26, 2014. UC Berkeley: Division of Equity and Inclusion
Assessing Undergraduate Campus Climate Trends at UC Berkeley. 2013. UC Berkeley: Division of Equity and Inclusion
Using UCUES to Assess Campus Climate Trends and Current Status at UC Berkeley 2012. UC Berkeley: Division of Equity and Inclusion
Report on the UC Berkeley Faculty Salary Equity Study. Jan 2015. UC Berkeley: Office of the Provost
The Mechanics
Cognitive Bias
- ++ Project Implicit. Harvard University. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
- Take the Implicit Association Test.
- ++ Manjoo, Farhad. Sept 24, 2014. Exposing Hidden Bias at Google. New York Times
- Some companies such as Google have started requiring this test to make employees (especially managers) aware of their biases.
Stereotype Threat
- ++ Steele, Claude M. and Joshua Aronson. 1995. Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- This study measured the effects on African Americans.
- Consequences. Reducing Stereotype Threat.
- More examples of how stereotype threat can influence the behaviors of a wide range of people. It does not only affect minority or underprivileged groups.
- Peck, Tabitha, et al. 2013. “Putting Yourself in the Skin of a Black Avatar Reduces Implicit Racial Bias.” Consciousness and Cognition
Imposter Syndrome
- ++ Clance, Pauline Rose., and Suzanne Imes. 1978. The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention. Psychotherapy Theory, Research and Practice.
- This paper coined the term "imposter syndrome."
Microaggressions and the Language of EID
Microagressions
++ Kingkade, Tyler. July 9, 2015. Universities are Trying to Teach Faculty How to Spot Microaggressions. Huffington Post.
Sue, Derald Wing and David Rivera. Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Blog
- Derald Sue is a researcher at Columbia University who played a leading role in developing a list of microaggressions used at many campus diversity trainings.
Language of Equity and Inclusion
++ “30 Ways To Be a Better Ally in 2015 — Everyday Feminism.” 2015. Accessed July 23.
“Stop Being So Attached!: A Beginner’s Guide on Problematic Language — Everyday Feminism.” 2015. Accessed July 23.
Institutional Racism
- Smooth, Jay. Jan 22, 2014. Moving The Race Conversation Forward
Whiteness and White Privilege
++ McIntosh, Peggy. 1988. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
++ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. June 2014. The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic.
++ Act Two: If You See Racism Say Racism. May 15, 2015. This American Life.
- Comedian Kamau Bell describes a bad experience at Elmwood Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley.
++ DiAngelo, Robin. 2011. White Fragility. The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy.
- A common obstacle to having meaningful conversations is the defensiveness of the majority group.
Metta, John. July 10, 2015. I, Racist. Huffington Post.
Gusa, D. L. (2010). White institutional presence: The impact of whiteness on campus climate. Harvard Educational Review, 80(4), 464-490.
White Supremacy Culture
- ++ Jones, Kenneth and Tema Okun. 2001. White Supremacy Culture. ChangeWork.
Intersectionality
- ++ Edewi, Daysha. July 4, 2015. What is Privilege? Buzzfeed
- Take the privilege test.
- ++ Cambell, Ryan. July 2, 2015. UndocuQueers: How the LGBT and Immigrant Rights Movement Progress Together
- A demonstrative case.
- Ferguson, Sarah. 2012. Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality
Predictive data analysis
- ++ Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman and Dana Goldstein. AUG 4, 2015, Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?
Sexism, Classism, and More
- ++ Henn, Steve. Oct 21, 2014. When Women Stopped Coding. NPR: Planet Money.
Classism: exploitation of workers/poverty/
++ Tirado, Linda. Oct 22, 2013. Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts. Killer Martinis.
Tirado, Linda. "Linda Tirado: ‘It was insane. I got 20,000 emails in a week’." Interview by Rachel Cooke. The Guardian.
Crosley-Corcoran, Gina. Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
Xenophobia - immigrant issues
- ++ Roth, Wendy. 2012. "How Immigration Changes Concepts of Race." Pp. 1-31 in Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Ableism
- ++ Anne. Nov 19, 2010. What is Ableism? Five Things About Ableism You Should Know. Forward.
Diversity and Science
++ Gould, Stephen. 1996. Chapter 7. A Positive Conclusion: The Mismeasure of Man. New York, NY: Norton & Company
Moss-Racusin, Corinne A., et al. "Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109.41 (2012): 16474-16479.
Charles, Maria. May 20, 2011. What Gender is Science?.. Contexts.
Zuberi, Tukufu. 2000. "Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Warneke, R.B. et al. 1997. Improving question wording in surveys of diverse populations. American Epidemiology.
Diversity and Learning
++ Gurin, P., Dey, E. L., Hurtado, S., & Gurin, G. (2002). Diversity and higher education: Theory and impact on educational outcomes. Harvard Educational Review, 72(3), 330-367
Tervalon, Melanie, and Jann Murray-Garcia. "Cultural humility versus cultural competence: a critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education." Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 9.2 (1998): 117-125.