Anti-Racism Resource Center

Create a Safe and Inclusive Classroom Environment For All Students

• Creating an Inclusive College Classroom- University of Michigan
• Helping Students Discuss Race Openly-Julie Landsman

Confront Your Personal Biases 

•  Can We Challenge And Overcome Our Biases?- Kevin Kruse of Forbes Magazine interviews Tiffany Jana
• Confronting Prejudice Isn't Enough-George Yancy
• How White Fragility Supports Racism and How Whites Can Stop it - Robin DiAngelo
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh

Learn from the Examples of Other Fisher Professors

• Professor Natalie Sforza: Learning from My Students - Natalie Sforza, Professor of English

Diversify Your Curriculum by Sharing Untold History 

• Black Achievements in Space Exploration-Black women at NASA launched  astronaut John Glenn into orbit 7 years before the first moon landing.
• Black Americans in Leadership Positions Pre-Jim Crow-Black Americans served leadership positions in congress between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Jim Crow
• Black Wall Street-The story of one of the wealthiest, most successful black communities in the United States own and how it ended in the brutal violence of the Tulsa Massacre.
• Henrietta Lacks-A Black woman whose cells were used to make great strides in cancer research---without her permisison.
• Tuskeegee Experiments-A 40-year medical experiment in which black men were infected with Syphilis for medical research and deliberately left untreated.  Learn more about the devastating impact of this experiment.
• Seneca Village- A thriving and independent black community in New York City whose land was seized by the city to help the creation of Central Park.

This is not a complete list. Continue your research by reading, listening to, or watching some of the Anti-Racist Education resources below. 

Student Groups to Join

Black and Latinx Student Alliance (BLSA),  For more information about joining and how the group plans to conduct meetings during the fall of 2020 and beyond, email studentactivities@fisher.edu

Staff to Reach Out To For Support

Arthur Asbury-Director of the Academic Advising and Support Center

Fisher is committed to creating a safe environment for students, faculty, and staff members of color, and we mean to continually grow this list as our Task Force on Racial Equity and Social Justice continues to brainstorm ideas for new resources.

You can find a list of anti-racist education resources below, such as books, movies, and podcasts, which is a great start, but by no means an exhaustive list of resources. 

Do you and a group of friends want to hold each other accountable? Watch one of the movies together or start a monthly anti-racist book club with one of the books below. The more you take the initiative to learn and encourage other white people to learn, the less of a burden you put on people of color to play the role of educator. 

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States - Paul Ortiz
• How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Rad American History A-Z - Kate Schatz 
• White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism - Robin DiAngelo
• White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White - Daniel Hill
• Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People - Benjamin Crump
• The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege - Ken Wytsma
• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
• Why are All the Black kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Hidden Colors v.1-v.5
• The Hate U Give
• Fruitvale Station
• In the Heat of the Night
• Just Mercy