Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources
This guide contains materials and resources on the topic of DEI at Robert McKinney and is meant to serve as a resource for faculty, adjuncts, students, staff, and librarians.
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DEI Resources
The IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law is committed to diversity, equity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. This guide contains materials and resources on the topic of DEI at the Ruth Lilly Law Library, the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and is meant to serve as a resource for faculty, adjuncts, students, staff, and librarians. This guide will continue to evolve as new resources become available. We welcome feedback and suggestions on improvements and additions.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action by Call Number: Z711.8 DS77 2020ISBN: 9780838947593Publication Date: 2020-09-02This book offers thought-provoking ideas and actionable advice from librarians who have implemented replicable and scalable initiatives that have helped their institutions understand and address issues surrounding the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Dare to Lead by Call Number: HD57.7 .B764 2018ISBN: 0399592520Publication Date: 2018-10-09Brown has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. This book is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership.
Better Allies by Call Number: HD6955 .C38 2019ISBN: 9781732723313Publication Date: 2019-01-14This is a guidebook for actionable steps you can take to fill your pipeline with candidates from underrepresented groups and ensure you have an inclusive interview process that paves the way to a more diverse workforce.
Contemporary Leadership and Intercultural Competence by Call Number: HD57.7 .C6665 2009ISBN: 9781412954525Publication Date: 2008-10-29This book examines the evolving role of cultural diversity in the workplace, the application of cultural comprehension to organizations, and the measurement of various aspects of intercultural competence.
Unequal Profession by Call Number: KF272 .D47 2018ISBN: 9781503604308Publication Date: 2019-02-05This book is the first intersectional, empirical investigation into how race and gender affect law professors' lives. Meera E. Deo examines hiring, teaching, tenure, and more, bringing the experiences of diverse faculty to life while proposing mechanisms to increase diversity and improve legal education.
White Fragility by Call Number: HT1521 .D486 2018ISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018-06-26In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage constructively in overcoming racism.
Diversity in Practice by Call Number: K120 .D58 2016ISBN: 9781107123656Publication Date: 2016-04-01The goal of proportionate representation for people of color and women remains unrealized. This book analyzes the disconnect between expressed commitments to diversity and practical achievements, revealing the often-obscure systemic causes that drive persistent professional inequalities.
Biased by Call Number: BF575.P9 E34 2019ISBN: 9780735224933Publication Date: 2019-03-26This book explains how unconscious bias affects our perception, attention, memory, and behavior, and demonstrates its impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. The book also offers practical suggestions for organizations and individuals on how to address unconscious bias.
Automating Inequality by Call Number: HC79.P6 E89 2018ISBN: 9781250074317Publication Date: 2018-01-23“The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, food stamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate”. Eubanks shows how automated systems, rather than humans, control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor .” -adapted from the back cover
Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law by Call Number: KF384 .I48 2012ISBN: 9781107010956Publication Date: 2012-04-23This book explores how hidden biases shape different areas of the law, including IP law, corporate law, torts, and property law.
Intercultural Communication Competence by Call Number: HM1211 .I584 2014ISBN: 9781443854900Publication Date: 2014-03-15The authors argues that in recent decades, considerable progress has been made in the research of intercultural communication competence. However, due to its complexity, many problems remain unanswered and need to be addressed.
Microaggressions and Modern Racism by Call Number: HT1521 .L42 2018ISBN: 9783319703312Publication Date: 2018-03-15This book provides a comprehensive analysis of modern racism on college campuses, in workplaces, and in various media.
Microaggressions and Marginality by Call Number: BF575 .A3 M445 2010ISBN: 9780470491393Publication Date: 2010-07-26A landmark volume exploring covert bias, prejudice, and discrimination with hopeful solutions for their eventual dissolution.
Microaggression Theory by Call Number: BF575 .P9 M53 2019ISBN: 9781119420040Publication Date: 2018-10-02This book examines the sociopolitical context behind microaggressions and delves into how the often-invisible nature of microaggression prevents perpetrators from realizing and confronting their own complicity in creating psychological dilemmas for marginalized groups. It also discusses how prejudice, privilege, safe spaces, and cultural appropriation have become themes in our contentious social and political discourse.
The Short Bus by Call Number: HV1568.25.U5 M66 2008ISBN: 9780805088045Publication Date: 2008-05-27This book offers powerful discussions on disability and stigma.
What If I Say the Wrong Thing? by Call Number: KF300 .M944 2013ISBN: 9781614389712Publication Date: 2014-04-07This short and accessible guide introduces us to 25 simple steps for creating a more inclusive environment.
Moving Diversity Forward by Call Number: KF300 .M94 2011ISBN: 9781614380061Publication Date: 2012-04-16Written for the legal community, this book provides an introduction to diversity and inclusion, plus guidance on cultural competence, bias, privilege, and allyship.
Algorithms of Oppression by Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018ISBN: 9781479849949Publication Date: 2018-02-20Through an analysis of textual and media searches, as well as extensive research on paid online advertising, Noble exposes a culture of racism and sexism in the way discoverability is created online. An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppression contributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century.
Out and About by Call Number: KF3467.5 .O938 2015ISBN: 9781634251280Publication Date: 2016-04-07This book will educate the legal profession and the general public about the LGBT community, its contributions and its ongoing struggles for equality. Out and About serves as a resource for identification, inspiration, and education to the LGBT legal community on how to deal with situations they may face.
Power Legal Education and Law School Cultures by Call Number: K100 .P69 2020ISBN: 9780367199401Publication Date: 2019-11-05Based on original, empirical research, this book investigates the myth that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit) use their expertise to train those students to become lawyers. This book investigates this myth from myriad perspectives, diverse settings, and in different nations, revealing that hierarchies of power and cultural norms shape and maintain inequities in legal education.
Presumed Incompetent by Call Number: LB2332.3 .P74 2012ISBN: 9780874218695Publication Date: 2012-09-21This book exposes the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often-hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators.
Raising the Bar by Call Number: KF318 .R25 2019ISBN: 9781620974964Publication Date: 2019-08-06This book is an important read for law students interested in law firms, as it explores what law firms and law schools need to consider when thinking about diversity in the legal profession.
Everyday Bias by Call Number: BF575 .P9 R67 2020ISBN: 9781442258655Publication Date: 2020-07-30Intended for a broad audience, this book explains unconscious bias and how we can learn to minimize it.
Whistling Vivaldi by Call Number: HM1096 .S74 2011ISBN: 9780393339727Publication Date: 2011-04-04Through dramatic personal stories, Steele shares the researcher's experience of peering beneath the surface of our ordinary social lives to reveal what it is like to be stereotyped based on our gender, age, race, class, or any of the ways by which we culturally classify one another. What he discovers is that this experience of "stereotype threat" can profoundly affect our functioning: undermining our performance, causing emotional and physiological reactions, and affecting our career and relationship choices.
Transgender 101 by Call Number: HQ77.9 .T45 2012ISBN: 9780231157124Publication Date: 2012-03-13This well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination.
They/Them/Their by Call Number: HQ77.9.Y67 2020ISBN: 9781785924835Publication Date: 2019-09-19In this insightful and long-overdue book, Eris Young explores what it is like to live outside of the gender binary and how it can impact on one's relationships, sense of identity, use of language and more.
If you would like to provide feedback on this guide, recommend that a resource be added, please email Larissa Sullivant; or contact your library liaison. Library Liaison will be emails of all reference librarians.
White Fragility by ISBN: 9780807047422Publication Date: 2018-06-26In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage constructively in overcoming racism.
Academic Ableism by ISBN: 9780472073719Publication Date: 2017-11-22Dolmage argues that disability is central to higher education, and that building more inclusive schools allows better education for all.
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by ISBN: 9780735224940Publication Date: 2019This book explains how unconscious bias affects our perception, attention, memory, and behavior, and demonstrates its impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. The book also offers practical suggestions for organizations and individuals on how to address unconscious bias.
"You're in the Wrong Bathroom!" and 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People by ISBN: 9780807033883Publication Date: 2017This book unpacks the most common myths and misconceptions about transgender and gender-nonconforming people, bringing together medical, social, psychological, and political aspects.- Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law by ISBN: 9781107010956Publication Date: 2012-04-23This book explores how hidden biases shape different areas of the law, including IP law, corporate law, torts, and property law.
- Intercultural Communication Competence byISBN: 9781443859950Publication Date: 2014-01-01The authors argues that in recent decades, considerable progress has been made in the research of intercultural communication competence. However, due to its complexity, many problems remain unanswered and need to be addressed.
Overcoming Bias by ISBN: 9781626567252Publication Date: 2016-11-01This book discusses the importance of identifying hidden biases and help understand how they arise from our histories and cloud our perceptions.
Erasing Institutional Bias by ISBN: 9781523097579Publication Date: 2018-10-23This book offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization.
Trans* in College by ISBN: 9781620364574Publication Date: 2016-11-29The book gives voice to the students within a broad understanding of sexuality and identity that people have tended to look at from a binary perspective (gay/straight, male/female). Such an oversimplification ignores the lives of those who are most directly affected. Because the book specifically considers how Trans* individuals function within a college setting, it is especially recommended as a must-read resource for higher education administrators, faculty, and those providing support services.
So You Want to Talk About Race by ISBN: 9781541619234Publication Date: 2019Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word.”
If you would like to provide feedback on this guide, recommend that a resource be added, please email Larissa Sullivant; or contact your library liaison. Library Liaison will be emails of all reference librarians.
- American Council on Education, Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate (2018). Lessons and insights on how to address racist incidents on college campuses. https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Speaking-Truth-and-Acting-with-Integrity.pdf
- Anastasia M. Boles, The Culturally Proficient Law Professor: Beginning the Journey, 48 New Mexico L. Rev. 145 (2018). Offers advice on how law professors can teach more inclusively and help their students become more culturally proficient. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmlr/vol48/iss1/5/
- Anastasia M. Boles, Seeking Inclusion from the Inside Out: Towards a Paradigm of Culturally Proficient Legal Education, 11 Charleston L. Rev. 209 (2017). Explains the concept of “cultural proficiency” and how we can use it to create a more inclusive law school environment. https://www.aals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18AMBolesSeekingInclusion.pdf
- Nancy Chi Cantalupo, And Even More of Us Are Brave: Intersectionality & Sexual Harassment of Women Students of Color, 42 Harv. J. L. & Gender 1 (2019). Presents evidence that women of color in higher education report sexual harassment at disproportionately high rates and explores the importance of intersectionality in understanding the impact of harassment and violence. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3168909
- Leslie P. Culver, White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging "White Privilege" to Benefit Law Students of Color, 21 J. Gender Race & Justice 37 (2017). Calls for more mentoring relationships between white faculty members and students of color. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2878185
- Paula Gerber & Claerwen O'Hara, Teaching Law Students About Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status Within Human Rights Law: Seven Principles for Curriculum Design and Pedagogy, 68 J. Leg. Educ. 416 (2019). Provides curricular and pedagogical guidance for incorporating sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status into courses on human rights law. https://jle.aals.org/home/vol68/iss2/11/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=informz&utm_campaign=Journal%20Legal%20Education
- Liane Jackson, Minority Women Are Disappearing from BigLaw--and Here's Why, ABA Journal, March 1, 2016. Discusses the challenges that women of color face at large law firms, and offers suggestions on how firms can improve the working environment. https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/minority_women_are_disappearing_from_biglaw_and_heres_why
- Erin C. Lain, Racialized Interactions in the Law School Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to Creating a Safe Learning Environment, 67 J. Leg. Educ. 780 (2018). Offers guidance on how law school instructors should navigate issues of race in the classroom. https://jle.aals.org/home/vol67/iss3/7/
- NALP Foundation, Women of Color: A Study of Law School Experiences (2020). Based on student surveys at 46 law schools nationwide, this report examines the challenges women of color navigate in law school and how their law school experiences impact their legal careers. https://www.nalpfoundation.org/uploads/products/WomenofColor-AStudyofLawSchoolExperiencesReport.pdf
- James A. Sonne, Cross-Cultural Lawyering and Religion: A Clinical Perspective, 25 Clinical L. Rev. 223 (2018). Awareness of religious differences is an important but often overlooked factor in cultural competence. This article describes how Stanford Law School has approached religion in its clinical program. https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sonne-Cross-Cultural-Lawyering-and-Religion.pdf
- Abigail J. Stewart & Virginia Valian, Recruiting Diverse and Excellent New Faculty, Inside Higher Ed, July 19, 2018. Explains how search committees can attract a broad and diverse pool of candidates. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/07/19/advice-deans-department-heads-and-search-committees-recruiting-diverse-faculty
- Alina Tugend, How Serious Are You About Diversity Hiring?, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2018. An in-depth look at efforts to improve diversity in hiring at a wide range of institutions in higher education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-serious-are-you-about-diversity-hiring/
If you would like to provide feedback on this guide, recommend that a resource be added, please email Larissa Sullivant; or contact your library liaison. Library Liaison will be emails of all reference librarians.