Resources
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Here are a collection of diverse resources to get you started!
Morgain MacDonald has no affiliation or partnership with the resources below.* This page is for informational and educational purposes only.
Current Reading List
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Author: Adrienne Maree Brown
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live.
You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (An Anthology)
Editors: Tarana Burke & Brene Brown
Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.
Critical Race Theory Matters: Education and Ideology
Authors: Margaret Zamudio, Christopher Russell, Francisco Rios, Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman
Over the past decade, Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholars in education have produced a significant body of work theorizing the impact of race and racism in education. Critical Race Theory Matters provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of this influential movement, shining its keen light on specific issues within education.
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Authors: Regina Jackson & Saira Rao
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen.
Favorites to Revisit
Divorcing White Supremacy Culture
Author: Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify. This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations.
Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks
Author: The Centre for Global Inclusion
The Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards for Organizations Around the World (GDIB) were developed to support organizations globally in the development and implementation of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) best practices.
Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools
Author: Glenn E. Singleton
COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION™ is our award-winning protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining and deepening interracial dialogue.
Leadership & Management
Managing Transitions: Making The Most Of Change - William Bridges
StrengthsFinder 2.0 - Tom Rath
Empowering Workers & Clients for Organizational Change - Edited by Marcia B. Cohen & Cheryl A. Hyde
Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing - Joseph L. Badaracco
DEI & Culture
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics - Lisa Lowe
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Time of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
Critical Multicultural Social Work - Jose Sisneros, Catherine Stakeman, Cathryne L. Schmitz
College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for All Students - Terrell L. Strayhorn
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love - Sonya Renee Taylor
Novels & Anthologies
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images - Edited by M. Evelina Galang
American Deaf Culture: An Anthology - Edited by Sherman Wilcox
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*”Black Sister, White Sister” is a partnership for which Morgain writes.