Books
Books by recent Diversity Symposium Speakers
Come Hell or High Water (Perseus Publishing, 2006) by Micheal Eric Dyson
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998) Anne Fadiman
The Shame of the Nation (Crown Publishing Group, 2006) by Jonathon Kozol
Classics
Black Like Me – 35th Anniversary Edition (Signet, 1996) by John Howard Griffin
Invisible Man (Knopf Publishing Group, 1995) by Ralph Ellison
The Fire Next Time (Knopf Publishing Group, 1993) by James Baldwin
Racial Identity
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Perseus Publishing, 2002) by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Can We Talk About Race? (Beacon Press, 2007) By Beverly Daniel Tatum
I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla (Jossey-Bass Inc Publishers, 1998) Marguerite Wright
White Like Me (Soft Skull Press, 2007) by Tim Wise
White Privilege (Worth Publishers, Inc, 2004) by Paula Rothenburg
Uprooting Racism (New Society Publishers, 2002) by Paul Kive
Independent School Issues
Black Ice (Knopf Publishing Group, 1992) by Loraine Carey
The Fall of Rome (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 2003) by Martha Southgate
Teaching/Classrooms
We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know, 2nd ed. (Teacher College Press, 2006) by Gary Howard
Affirming Diversity (Allyn & Bacon, 2004) by Sonia Nieto
Sexual Orientation
Setting Them Straight (Penguin Publishers, 1996) by Betty Berzon
Middlesex (Publisher: Picador USA, 2007) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Schools and Segregation
Amazing Grace (HarperCollins Publishers, 1996) by Jonathon Kozol
The Shame of the Nation (Crown Publishing Group, 2006) by Jonathon Kozol
There Are No Children Here (Knopf Publishing Group, 1992) by Alex Klotiwitz
Hip Hop
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The History of Hip Hop (Publisher: Picador USA, 2005) by Jeff Chang
Black Noise: Rap music and black culture in Contemporary America (Wesleyan University Press, 1994) by Tricia Rose
Hmong Culture
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998) Anne Fadiman
Bamboo Among The Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans
(Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002) by Mai Neng Moua
Religion
The History of God (Random House, Inc, 1994) Karen Armstrong
When Religion Becomes Evil (HarperCollins Publishers, 2003) by Charles Kimball
Class
Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2005)by Alfred Lubrano
Nickled and Dimed (Henry Holt & Co, Inc., 2002) Barbara Ehrenreich
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Knopf Publishing Group, 2005) David K. Shipler
Miscellaneous
Blink (Little, Brown, & Company, 2007) by Malcolm Gladwell
Materials from recent Diversity Symposium Speakers
Dyson, Michael Eric. “Come Hell or High Water” (Perseus Publishing, 2006)
Fadiman, Anne. “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998)
Kozol, Jonathon. “The Shame of the Nation” (Crown Publishing Group, 2006)