Building Cultural Competency Skills:
Strategies that Address Systemic Bias in the Classroom
2014 ATL Conference Workshop
Resources (a sampling) for Classrooms and Professional Development events to build the
intercultural competence of students, faculty and staff; based on some of the “Target”
areas of systemic bias from Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment by Leticia Nieto,
Margo Boyer, et. al. Please share your additional resources with us as we continue to
build our list and expand to include more of the 9 Target areas from the book.
Ethnicity – Books
1. The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide by Meizhu Lui,
et.al.
2. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
3. The Grace of Silence – A Family Memoir by Michele Norris (see the Race Card
Project at www.theracecardproject.com/ )
4. The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White by Doug Merlino
5. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle
Alexander
6. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
7. White Like Me: Reflections on Race by a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
8. All books by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker
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Films and Websites
Aspirations to Achievement: Men of Color in Community Colleges from the Center
for Community College Student Engagement (available on youtube)
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity by Shakti Butler (see
crackingthecodes.org)
How Was the Ride? From www.Accelerationincontext.net , Capacity tab – Part 2
African American students in an “accelerated” English class (African American
students only class entitled Daraja Learning Community) are interviewed
RACE -The Power of an Illusion, a three episode series from PBS
Gender - Books and articles
1. Men and Feminism by Shira Tarrant
2. Privilege Power and Difference by Allan Johnson
3. Gender, Race, and Class, An Anthology edited by Margaret L. Andersen and
Patricia Hill Collins
4. “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” also titled “White Privilege and Male
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Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work
in Women Studies” by Peggy McIntosh
Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Asian Men and Women by Yen Le Espiritu
Films and Websites
1. Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (on youtube)
2. Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom (see
www.therepresentationproject.org)
Social Class Culture – Books
1.
See Poverty…Be the Difference by Donna M. Beegle (includes activities that
can be used in the classroom and recommendations for faculty)
2.
Missing Class – Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class
Cultures by Betsy Leondar-Wright
Films & Websites
1. Enough: A Kid’s Perspective by Zoe Greenberg (available at www.classism.org)
2. Class Action: Building Bridges Across the Class Divide website has a wealth of
resources available, including the film and Missing Class book mentioned above, at
www.classism.org
National Origin – Books
1.
The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands by
Margaret Regan
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Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Journey to Reunite with his
Mother by Sonia Nazario
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The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Films and Websites
1. The Danger of a Single Story TED Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Define American: Jose’s Story by Jose Antonio Vargas (on youtube; also has a
website www.definamerican.com )
Compiled by Betty Williams, with input from the Beyond Inclusion Faculty Learning Community,
NSCC, April 29, 2014