Virtual Voices: Resources for Further Learning

The conversations that have taken place during the Virtual Voices webinars have provided a space for leaders to share their knowledge, perspectives and leadership lessons. These webinars have included discussions on technology, redlining, the history of race and racism in the United States and more. You can view recaps and recordings of previous Virtual Voices events here, and we hope you join us for an upcoming Virtual Voices webinar. We’ve also compiled a list of to help frame this and future discussions at Virtual Voices. You can read and download that list here.

We encourage you as leaders to stay curious and continue to expand your knowledge on the topics we cover during Virtual Voices webinars. These resources have been provided by our speakers and attendees for further learning.

Items that are new to the list from the most recent Virtual Voices session are bolded and italicized.

Read

• Investing for Economic Justice by Akasha Absher (LD ’15)
• Philanthropy Needs to Rise to the Moment of the Racial Justice Movement by Alana Petraske
• The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
• What Your Privilege Has To Do With Your Leadership by Andréa Ranae
• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh
• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
• Communication Guidelines for a Brave Space by AWARE-LA
• My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
• killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
• Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions by Bianca C Williams
• Cultivating Inclusive Leadership for the 21st Century by Dr. Brenda J. Allen
• Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
• White Rage by Carol Anderson
• Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White by David R. Roediger
• Jim Crow Philanthropy by Emily Masghati
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi
• How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
• Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
• A Letter to My Son by Imani Perry
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
• Lifting the White Veil by Jeff Hitchcock
• Raising White Kids in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
• How White People Can Talk To Each Other About Disrupting Racism, A Guide to Starting Anti-Racist Conversations with Friends and Family by Maddy Allison
• Resistance to Diversity and Inclusion Change Initiatives: Strategies for Transformational Leaders by Maria Velasco and Chris Sansone
• Latin@ identity politics in higher education: unveiling representations of whiteness in Latin@ culture by Michael Benitez Jr.
• Presentation by Dr. Michael Benitez at Virtual Voices on March 18, 2021
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Blinded by Race: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind by Osagie Obasogie
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• Timeline: A Century of Philanthropy’s Engagement with Race and Racism by Rachel Wimpee
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
• If Critical Race Theory Is A 'Political Football,' Some Mountain West Officials Are Running With It by Savannah Maher
• Responding to Crisis by Syntrinsic Investment Committee
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Hidden Cost of Being African American by Thomas Shapiro
• Beyond hegemony: Reappraising the history of philanthropy and African-American higher education in the 19^th century by Tyrone McKinley Freeman
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
• They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lower

Listen

• Seeing White Podcast
• Code Switch Podcast
• 1619 Podcast

Watch

• "In Honor of George" by Adan Bean
• Amend: The Fight for America
• Race: The Power of Illusion
• Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
• Race Forward
• The Social Contract with Black America is BROKEN! (systemic racism SIMPLIFIED) by Kimberly Jones
• Color Blind or Color Brave - TED Talk by Mellody Hobson
• Diversity isn't about do-gooderism — it's about the bottom line – Interview with Mellody Hobson
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race – TED Talk by Jay Smooth
• Segregated by Design Video

Do

• Alexandra Bell Exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
• Beyond Inclusion Webinars
• Equity Labs
• Inclusive Economy
• Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In, adapted from the "School Reform Initiative Pocket Guide to Probing Questions" and Oregon Center for Educational Equity's "What Did You Just Say? Responses to Racist Comments Collected from the Field"
• Native Lands Map
• Prosper CO
• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
• Righteous Rage Institute for Social Justice and Community Organizing
• University of Denver's Diversity Summit