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Summer Diversity Programs for Undergraduates in Philosophy are accepting applications now!Want some ideas for your 2022 reading list?
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
- (New series!) Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophy. Includes African, Maori, Sikh philosophy and more!
- What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views, Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer
- Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical
Canon, 1780–1830, Peter K. J. Park
- Kant and the Concept of Race, (trans., ed.) Jon M. Mikkelsen
- Race, Gender, and the History of Early Analytic Philosophy, Matt LaVine
- Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-racist Future, Zahi Zalloua
- Charles W. Mills
- John H. McClendon & Stephen C. Ferguson
- The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology, Shay Welch
- Latin American and Latinx Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction, (ed) Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.
- Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad, Jonathan Rosa
- Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro
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Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity: Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics, (ed) Iván Jaksić
- The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations, José Medina
- Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, (eds) Andrea J. Pitts, Mariana Ortega, and José Medina
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne
- Sex, Love and Gender: A Kantian Theory, Helga Varden
- Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
- Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Martha C. Nussbaum
- The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes
- Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, Shelly L. Tremain
- Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions via Disability Studies, (ed.) Jennifer Scuro
- Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy, Josef Fulka
- Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins, David Patterson
- German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses, Michael Mack
- The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion, Adrian Bardon
- Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age, Nancy S. Jecker
Some Other Great Resources
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
- So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo.
- "So you want to talk about race"| Talks at Google
- Ibram X. Kendi
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, Harriet A. Washington
- Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Christopher J. Lebron
- Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Monique W. Morris
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin
- The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes you Blacker, Damon Young
- White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism, Robin J. DiAngelo
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz
"Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors Group letter to Minneapolis
Police regarding George Floyd". dated May 27th, 2020
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality, Luana Ross
- The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, Andrés Reséndez
- Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, Daniel Wildcat
- The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America, Sarah Deer
- The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, Paulette F. C. Steeves
- Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture, Ed Morales
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
- Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Eduardo Galeano
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
- Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos, Mark D. Ramirez and David A. M. Peterson
- Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, by Laura E. Gómez
- Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States, Lon Kurashige
- They Called Us Enemy, George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
- Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin
- A New History of Asian America, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
- But I Don't See You as Asian: Curating Conversations about Race, Bruce Reyes-Chow & Ryan Kemp-Pappan
- American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, Khaled A. Beydoun
- Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics, Naia Kazi
Gender
- The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri, Liz W. Faber
- Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot, Mikki Kendall
- Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley, Emily Chang
- Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, Ellen Pao
- The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, Jackson Katz
- That’s So Gay! Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community, Kevin L. Nadal
- Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, Sheila Jeffreys
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez
- Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing, Mar Hicks
Ability
- The Disability Studies Reader, Lennard J. Davis
- Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism, Dan Goodley
- Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond
- Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies, Elizabeth DePoy & Stephen Gilson
- The Collected Schizophrenias, Esme Weijun Wang
- How I Fail at Being Disabled (TED talk), Susan Robinson
- Why Design Should Include Everyone (TED talk) Sinéad Burke
Class
- The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class, Jim Tankersley
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O'Neil
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks
- Evicted! Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
- Busted! America’s Poverty Myths (audio podcast), On the Media
Want to know more about this call to "defund the police"?
- The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale
- "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)
Yes, WSU offers classes and research programs in these areas! Some of the books above are actually textbooks used in WSU courses. If you want to take a deeper dive into these issues or take them on as a vocation, contact us. We'll help you find the right fit.