Diversity and Inclusion

Sinclair's Diversity Office offers many resources for staff, faculty and students. Visit the Diversity Office webpage for additional information including a list of movies and books.

Watch Sinclair's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Virtual Event

Enjoy this recording of Sinclair's 2021 Virtual MLK Program featuring Sinclair Poet Laureate Furaha Henry-Jones and other performers ad they connect with quotes from Dr. King's final speech. Passcode: Mr3=bR0V.

Ebooks

• At The Hands Of Persons Unknown - by Philip Dray; The lynching of Black America
• Beautiful Boy - by David Sheff; A father's journey through his son's addiction
• Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman - by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant; Drawing on Black feminist scholarship, cultural studies, and women’s history, this book traces the historical and social influences of normative Black femininity, looking at how notions of self-image and strength create a distraction from broader forces of discrimination and power.
• Beneath A Ruthless Sun - by Gilbert King; A true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - by Trevor Noah
• Boy Erased - by Garrard Conley; A Memoir of identify, faith, and family
• Building a More Inclusive Workplace. Diversification isn't all about hiring, but it's a good place to start – click on Connect to the This Resource. On the Pick Your Library, choose Not Listed.  Enter Your Sinclair email address and follow prompts to create an account.
• Crazy Rich Asians - by Kevin Kwan; A novel introducing a contemporary Asia to a North American audience
• Dog Whistle Politics - by Ian Haney Lopez; How coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class
• Hidden Figures - by Margot Lee Shetterly; Three brilliant African-American women at NASA serve as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glen
• If Beale Street Could Talk - by James Baldwin; A love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s
• In The Company Of Women - by Grace Bonney; Inspiration and advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
• Insane - by Alisa Roth; America's criminal treatment of mental illness
• Lies My Teacher Told Me - by James W. Loewen; Everything your American History textbook got wrong
• Mexicans in the Making of America - by Neil Foley; A sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America
• Mudbound - by Hillary Jordan; A novel about the Jim Crow south immediately following World War II
• Overcoming Educational Racism in the Community College - by Angela Long
• Reading with Patrick - by Michelle Kuo; A teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship
• Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion and Collaboration in the workplace - by Frederick A Miller
• So you want to talk about race - by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped From The Beginning - by Ibram X. Kendi; The definitive history of racist ideas in America
• Teaching Across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission - by Jim Plueddemann
• The ABC's of LGBT+ - by Ashley Mardell; A detailed look at all things LGBT+
• The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urbana America by Alan Mallach
• The Myth of Equality - by Ken Wytsma; Uncovering the roots of injustice and privilege
• The Other Slavery - by Andres Resendez; The uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America
• Tigerland - by Wil Haygood; 1968-1969: A city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing
• We Were Eight Years in Power - by Ta-Nehisi Coates; A collection of essays written by the author during Obama's presidency
• Why? - by Peter Hayes; Explaining the Holocaust

Videos/TedTalks

• Rx Racial Healing by Dr. Gail Christopher
• Black Bruins (spoken word) by Sy Stokes
• Community College Women Succeed Stories video series
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
• On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion
• Why I work to remove access barriers for students with disabilities
• What do we know about the Generation after Millennials?
• How to Get Serious about Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace by Janet Stovall
• Why Diversity Matters by Katherine Phillips
• Humanize Diversity and Inclusion by Damien Hooper-Campbell

Podcasts

• Queery
• Seeing White
• NPR:  Code Switch
• Latinos who Lunch
• Identity Politics
• Women's Hour Daily on BBC

Websites

• Anti-Defamation League
• Talking About Race from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Sinclair Diversity and Inclusion website
• YWCA and 21 Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge
• The Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University
• Hispanic Heritage Foundation
• Appalachian Outreach at Sinclair

Articles

• Let’s Get It Right: Using Correct Pronouns and Names
• Low-Income Students Are Disproportionately Hurt by the Pandemic. Here’s a Glimpse of the Toll.
• Unexpected Minority
• Building an Anti-Racist Workplace
• Why Diversity Matters: Five Things We Know About How Black Students Benefit From Having Black Teachers
• Talking About Race: Whiteness
• What Does a Traffic Jam in Atlanta have to do with Segregation?
• The Neglected Issue of Neurodivergence in Learning
• How do We Move Forward (interracial marriage): Exploring Bias and Privilege
• Shaping a college-bound life not as easy as it sounds (case study of 3 male students of color and how they pursued higher education)
• What Is White Privilege, Really?
• It should have always bothered me (White privilege) 
• Universities should support their most vulnerable students to champion education equity
• Don’t Weed Out Students.  Help Them Flourish
• Countering the Adultification of Black Girls
• The University We’re Losing (decreasing diversity due to budget cuts)
• Unveiled: What Keeps Black Male Students from Success?
• A Second Chance (reentry students)
• Remediating Campus Climate: Implicit Bias Training is Not Enough
• How to be More Empathetic
• Restoring to Wholeness: Racial Healing for Ourselves, Our Relationships and Our Communities
• The 10 Commitments Companies Must Make to Advance Racial Justice
• Study Finds More Low-Income Students Attending College
• For Black Youth, a time of upheaval takes a toll on mental health
• Far Reaching Consequences (Supreme Court ruling about employment discrimination against LGBTQ people)
• Community Colleges Use of the Term “Latinx”
• Challenging Deficit Views of Latinx Students: A Strength-based Perspective
• New Grads Say Discrimination on Campuses Not Taken Seriously
• Disabled students already faced learning barriers, then coronavirus forced an abrupt shift to online classes
• Implicit Association Test
• Fostering Historically Underserved Students' Success: An Embedded Peer Support Model that Merges Non-cognitive Principles with Proven Academic Support Practices
• Faculty Members are the Key to Solving the Retention Challenge
• The Impact of Faculty Attitudes about Intelligence
• I was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren't the Hard Part.
• Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here's How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive  Advice Guide
• Research Tool for Articles in Gender, Identity, & Sexuality Scholarly Research
• The benefits of diversity

Movies

The following movies are available through the Sinclair Library. When signing in to view a movie, if asked, all employees should click “Faculty” for full access. 

• Blindspotting - While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend. Stream the film Blindspotting through Swank
• Boy Erased - The son of a small-town Baptist pastor must overcome the fallout after being outed as gay to his parents. Stream the film Boy Erased through Swank
• Certain Women - Three strong willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the plains of the American Northwest. Stream the film Certain Women through Swank
• Fences - A working class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life. Stream the film Fences through Swank
• Moonlight - A look at three defining chapters in the life of a young black man growing up in Miami. Stream the film Moonlight through Swank
• North Dixie Drive - A portrait of businesses and people residing in the Northridge section of Dayton, Ohio. Stream the film North Dixie Drive from Sinclair's Library. Under Links, click on Connect to Resource (Sinclair users only), then click SAML. You will be prompted to login my.sinclair.edu and the movie will begin playing.
• Roman J. Israel, Esq. - An African-American lawyer with Asperger's Syndrome. Stream the film Roman J. Israel, Esq. through Swank
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - A drama symbolizing the terror and brutality that defined the Holocaust. Stream the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas through Swank
• Zookeepers Wife - 1939 Poland.  A true story of a family who rescued hundreds of Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War II. Stream the film Zookeepers Wife from Swank