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Again, we are faced with horrific violence in our society, this time with escalating attacks on people of Asian descent and a hate-driven murderer targeting Asian and Asian American women in Atlanta. We at the UMD Libraries hope that, for those of you experiencing shock, sadness, and fear over this latest tragedy, you will find solace with loved ones and will join with others in taking action to counter racism, misogyny, and violence in our world.
It is critical that white people recognize that the United States was founded in white supremacy, and that anti-AAPI racism and violence are one painful part of our legacy. Read about a select handful of this history. For more in-depth analysis of anti-Asian racism, see this reading list, and for information on Asian history, solidarity, and feminism, see this reading list. We must learn from the past, acknowledge what is going on today, and collectively act to bring about change for a better tomorrow. For those outside the AAPI community, please see opportunities for bystander intervention and financial support below.
UMD Bias Incident Support Services
In alignment with the overarching missions and goals of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Bias Incident Support Services (BISS) is charged with responding, educating and reporting to the campus about hate-bias incidents. The director for BISS oversees bias reporting and response, the coordination of campus support services to individuals affected by hate-bias incidents, and prevention programming and efforts.
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Training opportunities
Reading Resources
Mental Health Resources for the AAPI Community
Organizations to Donate to
Justice Advocacy Organizations
Asian American Community Resource and Donation List - this document includes organizations to support by state, volunteer opportunities by state, small business and individual mutual aid opportunities, and upcoming vigils and rallies
Read about substance use prevention in the BIPOC community:
| All of us at the UMD Libraries join in solidarity with campus and community members who are saddened and angered by the brutal killing of George Floyd and other Black people by the police. We join with those who rise up to protest these injustices and who hope to counter Anti-Black racism and other damaging ideologies and systems that dehumanize and oppress people. We affirm the importance of our work together as a higher education community, of creating new knowledge and learning from one another, and doing all we can to create a better society, free from violence, hate, and fear. |
Black Lives Matter: 80 Years of Black Americans’ Public Opinion and How the U.S. Public Views Black America - a historical overview provided by Roper Center For Public Opinion Research |
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These selected readings are based on the "An Antiracist Reading List" by Ibraham X. Kendi and include some background information and additional material for learning more about antiracism from different perspectives. Additional books from the UMD Libraries' collections are being added regularly.
Diversity regimes: Why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities by
"In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities' commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called "Diversity University," Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices"-- Provided by publisher.
How to be an antiracist by
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind."--The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * Time * NPR * The Washington Post * Shelf Awareness * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism--and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it's core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas--from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilites--that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their posionous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society. Praise for How to Be an Antiracist "Ibram X. Kendi's new book, How to Be an Antiracist, couldn't come at a better time. . . . Kendi has gifted us with a book that is not only an essential instruction manual but also a memoir of the author's own path from anti-black racism to anti-white racism and, finally, to antiracism. . . . How to Be an Antiracist gives us a clear and compelling way to approach, as Kendi puts it in his introduction, 'the basic struggle we're all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.' "--NPR "Kendi dissects why in a society where so few people consider themselves to be racist the divisions and inequalities of racism remain so prevalent. How to Be an Antiracist punctures the myths of a post-racial America, examining what racism really is--and what we should do about it."--Time
Biology
Fatal Invention by
A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial. Moving from an account of the evolution of race--proving that it has always been a mutable and socially defined political division supported by mainstream science--Roberts delves deep into the current debates, interrogating the newest science and biotechnology, interviewing its researchers, and exposing the political consequences obscured by the focus on genetic difference. Fatal Invention is a provocative call for us to affirm our common humanity.
Ethnicity
West Indian Immigrants by
West Indian immigrants to the United States fare better than native-born African Americans on a wide array of economic measures, including labor force participation, earnings, and occupational prestige. Some researchers argue that the root of this difference lies in differing cultural attitudes toward work, while others maintain that white Americans favor West Indian blacks over African Americans, giving them an edge in the workforce. Still others hold that West Indians who emigrate to this country are more ambitious and talented than those they left behind. In West Indian Immigrants, sociologist Suzanne Model subjects these theories to close historical and empirical scrutiny to unravel the mystery of West Indian success. West Indian Immigrants draws on four decades of national census data, surveys of Caribbean emigrants around the world, and historical records dating back to the emergence of the slave trade. Model debunks the notion that growing up in an all-black society is an advantage by showing that immigrants from racially homogeneous and racially heterogeneous areas have identical economic outcomes. Weighing the evidence for white American favoritism, Model compares West Indian immigrants in New York, Toronto, London, and Amsterdam, and finds that, despite variation in the labor markets and ethnic composition of these cities, Caribbean immigrants in these four cities attain similar levels of economic success. Model also looks at "movers" and "stayers" from Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana, and finds that emigrants leaving all four countries have more education and hold higher status jobs than those who remain. In this sense, West Indians immigrants are not so different from successful native-born African Americans who have moved within the U.S. to further their careers. Both West Indian immigrants and native-born African-American movers are the "best and the brightest"--they are more literate and hold better jobs than those who stay put. While political debates about the nature of black disadvantage in America have long fixated on West Indians' relatively favorable economic position, this crucial finding reveals a fundamental flaw in the argument that West Indian success is proof of native-born blacks' behavioral shortcomings. Proponents of this viewpoint have overlooked the critical role of immigrant self-selection. West Indian Immigrants is a sweeping historical narrative and definitive empirical analysis that promises to change the way we think about what it means to be a black American. Ultimately, Model shows that West Indians aren't a black success story at all--rather, they are an immigrant success story.
Body
The Condemnation of Blackness by
Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
Culture
Their Eyes Were Watching God by
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick "A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." --Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years--due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist--Hurston's classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
Behavior
Chapter 12: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn Mitchell explains in her introduction the importance for those "within the circle" of African American literature to examine their own works and to engage this critical canon. The essays in this collection--many of which are not widely available today--either initiated or gave critical definition to specific periods or movements of African American literature. They address issues such as integration, separatism, political action, black nationalism, Afrocentricity, black feminism, as well as the role of art, the artist, the critic, and the audience. With selections from Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, W. E. B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Barbara Smith, Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and many others, this definitive collection provides a dynamic model of the cultural, ideological, historical, and aesthetic considerations in African American literature and literary criticism. A major contribution to the study of African American literature, this volume will serve as a foundation for future work by students and scholars. Its importance will be recognized by all those interested in modern literary theory as well as general readers concerned with the African American experience. Selections by (partial list): Houston A. Baker, Jr., James Baldwin, Sterling Brown, Barbara Christian, W. E. B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, Sarah Webster Fabio, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. Lawrence Hogue, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Deborah E. McDowell, Toni Morrison, J. Saunders Redding, George Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Robert B. Stepto, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Mary Helen Washington, Richard Wright
| The Bright IDEAs blog series is a recurring resource of all things inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA)-oriented. This series is brought to you by the IDEA Committee and is intended to jumpstart and/or supplement your exploration of social justice issues. Happy learning! |
There has recently been an escalation in anti-trans legislation being introduced to state legislative bodies, much of it focused around sports and trans athletes. Proposed laws have also attacked healthcare for trans people, especially trans children, even going so far as to categorize gender-affirming medical care as child abuse. Explore the links below for more information on what is happening and how you can help.
This week has been an emotional flood of good and bad news. Before we look into the future to the battles against racism that we have yet to face and the systems of oppression we have yet to tear down, it’s important to remember to pause in the present, process our feelings and thoughts, and practice a moment of self-care. Please use the resources below to take a moment for yourself, and, should you need further help, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Counseling Center here on campus.
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We’ve already had a great post on microaggressions (#2) with tips for identifying and confronting racial microaggressions. But this is such an important and pervasive topic that we thought it might be a good idea to post again, with new resources, to help understand how microaggressions affect colleagues here at UMD and within the Libraries.
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April is National Poetry Month! Let’s celebrate poets of color by exploring some of the resources below. I highly recommend the Youtube videos of Rudy Fransisco and Amanda Gorman! The videos aren’t long and they are amazing performances. Amanda Gorman also performed her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration this year.
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The International Transgender Day of Visibility occurs annually on March 31. It’s a day set aside for celebrating the achievements and the voices of transgender individuals, while raising awareness of the barriers and discrimination trans people face worldwide.
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The UMD Libraries’ Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee, in partnership with the Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA) is very excited to announce the Second Annual Black History Month Read-a-Thon, to be held virtually on Tuesday, February 16th from 11AM-2PM. The theme of this year’s Black History Month events is “Black Joy” and we look forward to celebrating historical moments of joy across the African diaspora.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members are all invited to sign up as a reader at this event!
Learn more at go.umd.edu/bhmreads
This Zoom event will be live-streamed via the UMD Libraries YouTube page, and is open to all members of the community. We are looking to host a variety of readers to highlight speeches, quotes, and other works by inspiring Black leaders, innovators, authors, entertainers, scientists, and scholars, and more. We also look forward to fostering a *Brave space (see below) where participants and audience members can engage in lively discussions and reflection.
Bring your favorite books or poems to read! If you need reading recommendations and/or access to free, online texts, please refer to HathiTrust:
https://umd.libcal.com/event/7507753
This Black History Month, UMD is celebrating Black Joy, and the IDEA Committee invites you to participate! Learn more about why Black Joy is important and what can you do to celebrate Black Joy or uplift someone else’s Joy without co-opting or appropriating. And don’t forget to celebrate Black Joy with us at this year’s Black History Month Read-a-Thon! Sign up for a reading spot, check out recommended readings, or just listen in! We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
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The LGBT Equity Center will be facilitating a Zoom event titled: Data Utilization for the LGBTQ+ Community on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 5-6:30PM EST. This event consists of a panel discussion with several different sectors represented by Jay Davis, Stephanie Lampkin, and M Pease about how data is utilized for advocacy and allyship within the LGBTQ+ community.
Panelists’ Bios:
RSVP to attend here: https://linktr.ee/UMDLGBTEquity
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As many of you know, Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and, while the University gives us the day as a holiday, we invite you to join us in celebrating King's Legacy. Traditionally a day of service, it's difficult to go out during COVID (and we encourage you to stay in lockdown!), so here are a few ways you can celebrate from home.
The human body is not perfect—it may be perfect at birth but over time it tears off. Many hidden disabilities happen over time and one should focus on the positive side of the issue. Don’t focus on the negative! Offer opportunities and push talent forward!
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“White people and people of color each have work to do separately and together” (Racial Equity Tools, n.d.). As 2020 winds down, and we look to 2021, there are so many opportunities to re-commit ourselves and grow into our anti-racist work together. The resources below highlight only a few of many entry points into anti-racist work.
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“White people and people of color each have work to do separately and together” (Racial Equity Tools, n.d.). As 2020 winds down, and we look to 2021, there are so many opportunities to re-commit ourselves and grow into our anti-racist work together. The resources below highlight only a few of many entry points into anti-racist work.
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The racial wealth gap has significant impacts on all levels of society. It's a complicated issue and stems from classism to racism. But what is the racial wealth gap? Are there ways to improve the gap? And where did it come from? Check out the resources below to learn more!
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It's important to take care of yourself - not just your body, but also your mind. Check out these resources for tips on how to take care of yourself and keep yourself healthy. If things are a little too much and you're struggling with your mental health, consider reaching out to a medical professional. Your health is important; you are worthy of feeling happy, healthy, and loved!
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The work environment is not always equitable when it comes to employees of color. Learn more about how to build an anti-racist workplace and how to be an advocate for your BIPOC Women colleagues and friends. Check out these resources to find out how to be an advocate and why being an advocate is so important!
“The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc worldwide, but its disproportionate impact on specific communities and groups of people follow along familiar lines, reflecting existing societal inequalities.” ~ Lucy Erickson, PhD
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When we look at someone and perceive a disability, we start to make assumptions about a person’s ability to do something. When we don’t perceive a disability, we make different assumptions and are more tolerant of a person’s needs. Either way, be open-minded and receptive of all people with disabilities (visible and invisible).
Additional Resources: 2020 UMD Disability Awareness month (recordings of virtual events)
What can it look like for educators to unpack discrimination from a combined racial and dis/ability lens? How do we begin to confront our internalized ableism (i.e., attitudes/beliefs and behaviors/actions), while interrogating its ties to anti-Blackness?
“One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist.There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism.” — Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
“Implicit bias refers to the process of associating stereotypes or attitudes toward categories of people without conscious awareness” (Center for Urban Education, 2020).
Are racial microaggressions really all that micro? While the “micro” prefix could imply otherwise, microaggressions, or: “everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership” (Sue, 2010) often take a significant emotional and/or psychological toll on the people who are subjected to them.
While many of us may feel intimidated to broach high-emotion topics such as racial identity with our friends, family, or colleagues, we hope these tools will offer insight on how to prepare for such important and necessary conversations. Happy learning!
These selected readings include some background information and additional material for learning more about ableism, disability culture, and other disability issues. Let us know if you have suggestions for additional resources by filling out the Library Diversity Fund Form.
Ableism: the Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice by
The first comprehensive volume to integrate social-scientific literature on the origins and manifestations of prejudice against disabled people Ableism, prejudice against disabled people stereotyped as incompetent and dependent, can elicit a range of reactions that include fear, contempt, pity, and inspiration. Current literature--often narrowly focused on a specific aspect of the subject or limited in scope to psychoanalytic tradition--fails to examine the many origins and manifestations of ableism. Filling a significant gap in the field, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice is the first work to synthesize classic and contemporary studies on the evolutionary, ideological, and cognitive-emotional sources of ableism. This comprehensive volume examines new manifestations of ableism, summarizes the state of research on disability prejudice, and explores real-world personal accounts and interventions to illustrate the various forms and impacts of ableism. This important contribution to the field combines evidence from multiple theoretical perspectives, including published and unpublished work from both disabled and nondisabled constituents, on the causes, consequences, and elimination of disability prejudice. Each chapter places findings in the context of contemporary theories--identifying methodological limits and suggesting alternative interpretations. Topics include the evolutionary and existential origins of disability prejudice, cultural and impairment-specific stereotypes, interventions to reduce prejudice, and how to effect social change through collective action and advocacy. Adopting a holistic approach to the study of disability prejudice, this accessibly-written volume: Provides an inclusive, up-to-date exploration of the origins and expressions of ableism Addresses how to resist ableist practices, prioritize accessible policies, and create more equitable social relations with pages earmarked for activists and allies Focuses on interpersonal and intergroup analysis from a social-psychological perspective Integrates research from multiple disciplines to illustrate critical cognitive, affective and behavioral mechanisms and manifestations of ableism Suggests future research directions based on topics covered in each chapter Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice is an important resource for social, community and rehabilitation psychologists, scholars and researchers of disability studies, and students, activists, and academics across political, sociological, and humanistic disciplines.
Academic Ableism by
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved. The ethic of higher education encourages students and teachers alike to accentuate ability, valorize perfection, and stigmatize anything that hints at intellectual, mental, or physical weakness, even as we gesture toward the value of diversity and innovation. Examining everything from campus accommodation processes, to architecture, to popular films about college life, Dolmage argues that disability is central to higher education, and that building more inclusive schools allows better education for all.
Privilege, Power, and Difference by
Privilege, Power, and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, the 3rd edition links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This program has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments. McGraw-Hill Connect® is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the following: * SmartBook® - an adaptive digital version of the course textbook that personalizes your reading experience based on how well you are learning the content. * Access to your instructor's homework assignments, quizzes, syllabus, notes, reminders, and other important files for the course. * Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement. * The option to purchase (for a small fee) a print version of the book. This binder-ready, loose-leaf version includes free shipping. Complete system requirements to use Connect can be found here: http://www.mheducation.com/highered/platforms/connect/training-support-students.html
Culture - Theory - Disability by
What can disability studies gain by opening itself up to the larger field of cultural studies, and which theoretical frameworks of contemporary cultural criticism can it employ to rethink disability? At the same time, what can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully as an object of inquiry and as a framework for critical analysis? This collection of essays enriches the thriving discourse of cultural disability studies. In order to contour the various »contact zones« between the two fields, the volume works transdisciplinary, drawing on fields such as sociology, literary studies, art history and philosophy.
Building Access by
"All too often,"wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, "designers don't take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account."Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly understood in terms of curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille signs, and flexible kitchens, Universal Design purported to create a built environment for everyone, not only the average citizen. But who counts as "everyone,"Aimi Hamraie asks, and how can designers know? Blending technoscience studies and design history with critical disability, race, and feminist theories, Building Access interrogates the historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts for these questions, offering a groundbreaking critical history of Universal Design. Hamraie reveals that the twentieth-century shift from "design for the average"to "design for all"took place through liberal political, economic, and scientific structures concerned with defining the disabled user and designing in its name. Tracing the co-evolution of accessible design for disabled veterans, a radical disability maker movement, disability rights law, and strategies for diversifying the architecture profession, Hamraie shows that Universal Design was not just an approach to creating new products or spaces, but also a sustained, understated activist movement challenging dominant understandings of disability in architecture, medicine, and society.Illustrated with a wealth of rare archival materials, Building Access brings together scientific, social, and political histories in what is not only the pioneering critical account of Universal Design but also a deep engagement with the politics of knowing, making, and belonging in twentieth-century United States.
Disability, Culture and Identity by
CHAPTER ONE Disability, Culture and Identity: Introduction; Introduction; The social model of disability and culture; What is culture?; Culture and disability; Disability and identity; Structure and content of the book; Conclusion; References;
CHAPTER TWO A culture of participation?; 'Dependent children'; 'Troubled adolescents'; 'Needy disabled people'; Defined as 'the other'?; Is it possible to have a culture of participation?; References.
CHAPTER THREE Daily denials: The routinisation of oppression and resistanceIntroduction; The importance of interaction: reclaiming social interaction; Prejudice; The daily experience of oppression; Oppression as patronage and the denial of agency; Oppression as the product of charity; Becoming the centre of attention; Engaging with non-disabled people; Oppression as ignorance; Conclusion; References;
CHAPTER FOUR 'It's like your hair going grey', or is it?: impairment, disability and the habitus of old age; Introduction; Thinking about disability and old age.
Talking about older disabled peoplePreoccupations with the body and physical function; Biography and identity; Older disabled people, same or different?; References;
CHAPTER FIVE Challenging a 'spoiled identity': mental health service users, recognition and redistribution; Introduction; Challenging a 'spoiled identity'; Patient; Customer; User; Survivor; Client; Member; Person with the diagnosis; Madperson; No suitable term; Towards a mental health identity?; A positive identity?; A permanent identity?; Social construct or immanent condition?; A shared identity?; Rethinking identity?
Conclusion: the limits of differenceReferences;
CHAPTER SIX Deafness/Disability -- problematising notions of identity, culture and structure; Introduction; Deaf studies: the structural penetration of culture; Disability studies: the cultural penetration of structure; Conclusion; References;
CHAPTER SEVEN Against a politics of victimisation: disability culture and self-advocates with learning difficulties; Introduction; Disabling and disability cultures; Researching self-advocacy; Embracing cultures and resilient identities; Resilience in the family; Identity formation and institutionalisation.
Disabled identities and self-advocacy cultureSelf-advocacy and the disability movement; Conclusion; References;
CHAPTER EIGHT Now I Know Why Disability Art is Drowning in the River Lethe (with thanks to Pierre Bourdieu); Introduction; The development of Disability Art in the UK; Commercial sponsorship of art and Disability Art; State sponsorship of Disability Art; The domestication of Disability Art and Disability Artists; Conclusion; References;
CHAPTER NINE Mainstreaming disability on Radio 4; Introduction; Media, power and disability; Inclusion, exclusion and mainstreaming.
Dis/ability Studies by
In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology, education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes the most topical and important issues in critical disability theory, and pushes them into new theoretical territory. Goodley argues that we are entering a time of dis/ability studies, when both categories of disability and ability require expanding upon as a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism. Divided into two parts, the first section traces the dual processes of ableism and disablism, suggesting that one cannot exist without the other, and makes the case for a research-driven and intersectional analysis of dis/ability. The second section applies this new analytical framework to a range of critical topics, including: The biopolitics of dis/ability and debility Inclusive education Psychopathology Markets, communities and civil society. Dis/ability Studies provides much needed depth, texture and analysis in this emerging discipline. This accessible text will appeal to students and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners working directly with disabled people.
Contours of Ableism by
Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.
Privilege by
Innovative and thought-provoking, this timely anthology expands the concept of privilege in America beyond the traditional limiters of being white and male. In addition to readings from well-known authors in the field, this edition includes pieces from contemporary scholars breaking new ground in superordinate studies. Seventeen carefully selected essays explore the multifaceted aspects of privilege: how race, gender, class, and sexual preference interact in the lives of those who are privileged by one or more of these identities. Written from a variety of viewpoints, personal and analytic, the essays in this volume help students understand that 'race' can mean white people, 'gender' can mean men, and 'sexuality' can mean heterosexuals.
Nothing about Us, Without Us by
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book. Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement.
The UMD Libraries Diversity Fund improves access to resources related to diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and equity. We welcome your suggestions for purchasing materials to diversify our collections. All members of the UMD community may nominate materials for purchase using the Request for Purchase Form. Eligible items: One-time purchase with a fixed price.
Recent Purchases
Antiracism (June 2020)
How to be an antiracist by
"The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. In this book, Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society."-- Provided by publisher.
White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism by
"Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively."--Provided by publisher.
30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (June 2020)
Being Heumann: an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist by
Being Heumann Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy's struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a "fire hazard" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples' rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann's memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.
Black History Month (Feb. 2020)
Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents by
"PREJUDENTIAL is a concise, authoritative exploration of America's relationship with race and black Americans through the lens of the presidents who have been elected to represent all of its people."-- Amazon.
Binti : the complete trilogy by
"Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. There is more to the history of the Medusae--and their war with the Khoush--than first meets the eye. If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace."--Provided by publisher.
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by
"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of freedom' in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The book will be accompanied by a new PBS documentary series on the same topic, with full promotional support from PBS"-- Provided by publisher.
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A collection of scholarly articles related to antiracism, diversity, and inclusion in the field of public policy. |
Language embodies values and perspectives, some of which are rooted in systems that discriminate against certain groups of people. Over time, specific terms and ways of using language become established parts of the lexicon, and although their association with discriminatory ideas might no longer be obvious, they continue to be harmful. EDUCAUSE is committed to starting and sustaining a dialogue about the ways in which we can uncover and understand the harm that language can cause and to developing a common set of guidelines to help us use language inclusively.
Caveat: Although these discussions are deeply important, many of the questions won’t be answered with a single solution that is acceptable to everyone. One person’s sense of inclusive language can be another person’s definition of thin-skinned hypersensitivity. Writers and editors should approach these issues with curiosity and use discretion when choosing words.
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