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Philosophers and folks from a broad range of backgrounds have been writing about race, gender, ethnicity, and the whole human spectrum for a long time now. We may have a long way to go, but we're not starting from scratch. The resources for critical reflection listed below are just a few of the many resources available to help us understand what's happening now, how we got here, and what we can do to make our world better for the full human spectrum.
In Philosophy
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- Bardon, Adrian The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion
- Barnes, Elizabeth The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability
- Brown, Lydia X. Z. Ableist Words and Terms to Avoid
- Cepollaro, Bianca Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values
- Chemhuru, Munamato Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
- Chimakonam, Jonathan O. and Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Lu
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s (eds.) African Ethics: A Guide to Key Ideas - D'Ignazio, Catherine and Klein, Lauren F. Data Feminism
- Fulka, Josef Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy
- Glasgow, Joshua, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views
- Jaksić, Iván (ed) Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity: Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics
- Jecker, Nancy S. Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age
- LaVine, Matt Race, Gender, and the History of Early Analytic Philosophy
- Mack, Michael, German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
- Manne, Kate Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
- McClendon, John H. & Ferguson, Stephen C.
- Medina, José The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations
- Mikkelsen, Jon M. (trans., ed.) Kant and the Concept of Race
- Mills, Charles W.
- Nussbaum, Martha C. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
- Patterson, David Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins
- Park, Peter K. J. Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830
- Pitts, Andrea J., Mariana Ortega, and José Medina (eds) Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance
- Rosa, Jonathan Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
- Sanchez, Jr., Robert Eli (ed) Latin American and Latinx Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction
- Scuro, Jennifer (ed.) Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions via Disability Studies
- Shoemaker, David Responsibility from the Margins
- Tremain, Shelly L. Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
- Welch, Shay The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology
- Varden, Helga Sex, Love and Gender: A Kantian Theory
- Zalloua, Zahi Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-racist Future
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, (eds) Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, D. Chase J. Catalano, Keri Dejong, Heather W. Hackman, Larissa E. Hopkins, Barbara Love, Madeline L. Peters, Davey Shlasko, Ximena Zuniga
Explorations in Diversity: Examining the Complexities of Privilege, Discrimination, and Oppression, (eds) Sharon K. Anderson & Valerie A. Middleton
Race
- Alexander, Michelle The New Jim Crow
- Anderson, Carol White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Anzaldúa, Gloria Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
- Benjamin, Ruha Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Beydoun, Khaled A. American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
- Borrows, John and McNeil, Kent, eds. (2022) Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues (eds.)
- Brown, Austin Channing I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Chou, Rosalind S. and Feagin, Joe R. Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi Between the World and Me
- Deer, Sarah The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
- DiAngelo, Robin J. White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne An Indigenous People's History of the United States
- Freire, Paulo Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Galeano, Eduardo Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- Gómez, by Laura E. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
- Kazi, Naia Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics
- Kendi, Ibram X.
- Kurashige, Lon Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
- Lebron, Christopher J. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
- Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee A New History of Asian America
- Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Mason, Sheena Michele (2022)Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism)
- Morales, Ed Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
- Morris, Monique W. Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
- Morrison, Toni The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- Noble, Safiya Umoja Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- Oluo, Ijeoma (2018) So You Want to Talk About Race
- "So you want to talk about race"| Talks at Google
- Ortiz, Paul An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- Ramirez, Mark D. and Peterson, David A. M. Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos
- Reséndez, Andrés The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Reyes-Chow, Bruce and Kemp-Pappan, Ryan But I Don't See You as Asian: Curating Conversations about Race
- Ross , Luana Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
- Saad, Layla Me and White Supremacy
- Steeves, Paulette F. C. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
- Takei, George , et al They Called Us Enemy
- Washington, Harriet A. (2019) A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
- Wildcat, Daniel Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge
- Young, Damon What Doesn’t Kill You Makes you Blacker
- (film) Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
- "Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors Group letter to Minneapolis Police regarding George Floyd". dated May 27th, 2020
Gender
- Chang, Emily Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- Faber, Liz W. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
- Hicks, Mar Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- Jeffreys, Sheila Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
- Katz, Jackson The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
- Kendall, Mikki Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot
- Nadal, Kevin L. That’s So Gay! Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender CommunityPao, Ellen Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
- Perez, Caroline Criado Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Wachter-Boettcher, Sara Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Ability
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Burke, Sinéad Why Design Should Include Everyone (TED talk)
- Davis, Lennard J. The Disability Studies Reader
- DePoy, Elizabeth and Gilson, Stephen Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies
- Goodley, Dan Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism
- Ladau, Emily Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally
- Ladd, Paddy Seeing Through Deaf Eyes: Deaf Culture and Deaf Pedagogies - The Unrecognized Curriculum
- Nario-Redmond, Michelle R. Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice
- Robinson, Susan How I Fail at Being Disabled (TED talk)
- Wang, Esme Weijun The Collected Schizophrenias
- Wong, (ed.) Alice Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- National Center on Disability and Journalism Disability Language Style Guide
Class and Poverty
- Desmond, Matthew Evicted! Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Edin, Kathryn J. and Shaefer, H. Luke $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
- Eubanks, Virginia Automating Inequality: How High-Tech tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- O'Neil, Cathy Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- Tankersley, Jim The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class
- Busted! America’s Poverty Myths (audio podcast), On the Media
AI, Big Data, and Algorithmic Justice
- Benjamin, Ruha (2019) Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
- Brayne, Sarah (2020) Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing. Oxford.
- Broussard, Meredith (2019) Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. MIT Press.
- Crawford, Kate (2022) Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale.
- Eubanks, Virginia (2018) Automating Inequality: How High-Tech tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. MacMillan.
- Faber, Liz W. (2020) The Computer's Voice: From Start Trek to Siri. University of Minnesota Press.
- Hicks, Mar (2018) Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. MIT Press.
- Jefferson, Brian (2020) Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age. Minnesota Press.
- McIlwain, Charlton (2019) Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter. Oxford.
- Noble, Safiya Umoja (2018) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press.
- O’Neil, Cathy (2017) Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Penguin Random House.
- Pasquale, Frank (2020) New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI. Harvard.
- Perez, Caroline Criado (2019) Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Abrams Press.
- Wachter-Boettcher, Sara (2018) Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech. Norton.
- Wu, Tim (2017) The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. Penguin Random House.
- Zuboff, Shoshana (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs.
Want to know more about this call to "defund the police"?
- Vitale, Alex S. The End of Policing
- "What does 'Defund the Police' Mean?" KPBS Midday Edition, June 8, 2020
- "Defund the Police? Here's what that really means", Christy Lopez (interviewed on Midday Edition)
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