VIDEOS
The 2%: Navigating UCI as a Black Student
An original documentary created by UC Irvine undergraduate student Iyanna Blackburn in association with Anteater TV. This film exudes the interpersonal stories of what it is like to navigate the UCI campus as a Black student, given that the Black demographic on campus is less than two percent.
[Anteater TV | 21:44]
‘We want our freedom and we want it now.’ — Watch the historic words of 23-year-old John Lewis at the March on Washington.
[NowThis News | 7:03]
Rapper Kanye West faced backlash for comments he made to TMZ about slavery. Here are the facts about the enslavement of Africans in U.S. history.
[Washington Post | 2:00]
In partnership with Vox Media Studios and Vox, this enlightening explainer series will take viewers deep inside a wide range of culturally relevant topics, questions, and ideas. In this episode: Cory Booker and others discuss how slavery, housing discrimination and centuries of inequality have compounded to create a racial wealth gap.
[Netflix | 16:12]
Stereotype Threat: A Conversation with Claude Steele
One only has to turn on the television to view a plethora of stereotypes about people based on gender, race, religion, physical appearance, intelligence—the list goes on. Claude Steele, Dean for the School of Education at Stanford University, and his colleagues discovered that even when stereotypes are not uttered aloud, the phenomenon of stereotype threat, or the fear of confirming a negative stereotype, can be a stigma that affects attitudes and behaviors…
[Not In Our School | 8:18]
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards.
[Netflix | 1:40:02]
UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence
Vice Chancellor Doug Haynes: Black Thriving Pledge
[UCI Media | 2:24]
ARTICLES
Here are seven things you probably didn’t know were connected to slavery
Amir Vera, CNN
July 19, 2020
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument
The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?
Caroline Randall Williams, New York Times
June 26, 2020
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
Americans don’t see me, or Ahmaud Arbery, running down the road—they see their fear.
Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic
May 12, 2020
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh, Seed (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity), Wellesley Centers for Women
2020 Vision: The Importance of Focusing on Accompliceship in the New Decade
Tai Harden-Moore, Diverse, Issues in Higher Education
February 6, 2020
John Lewis’ Last Words: In Posthumous Essay, He Remembered His Final Days & Dreamed of Tomorrow
Sean Neumann, People.com
July 30, 2020
Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization
Kathleen Osta and Hugh Vasquez, National Equity Project
The sanctification — and sanitization — of Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK was murdered more than 50 years ago. His legacy has been distorted ever since.
P.R. Lockhart, Vox.com
Updated Jan 21, 2019
‘Dear Professor’: On Anti-Blackness and Learning
A group of non-Black scholars, Learning Scientists for Racial Justice, invites other professors to work together to strengthen teaching and take concrete actions in support of Black lives.
Learning Scientists for Racial Justice, Inside Higher Ed
November 18, 2020
The Souls of Black Professors
Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely.
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed
October 21, 2020
Say Their Names, But Not the N-Word
Douglas M. Haynes, Diverse, Issues in Higher Education
September 30, 2020
Public Safety at UCI
Chancellor Howard Gillman, UCI Office of the Chancellor
August 6, 2020
Introducing the UCI Black Thriving Initiative
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Douglas Haynes
June 2020
Final Report of the Task Force on Ensuring a Positive Climate for the Campus’ Black Community
The University of California Irvine
June 2015
We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start
There are vast regions of Black life that are filled with joy, romance and beauty. Here are some favorite examples.
John Blake, CNN
January 24, 2021
Financial Literacy in the Black Community
Closing the racial wealth gap isn’t a simple fix. But many experts say education and financial literacy can help. In this article, we identify the impact this knowledge gap has on the African American community – and explore how Black educators and financial advisors are working to close it.
Rachel Christian & Lee Williams, Annuity.org
June 11, 2022
BOOKS
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine).
March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
Book One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
March: Book Two
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
“With March, Congressman John Lewis takes us behind the scenes of some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. In graphic novel form, his first-hand account makes these historic events both accessible and relevant to an entire new generation of Americans.” — LeVar Burton
March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one ofthe key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today’s world.
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love
Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.
Afropessimism
Frank B. Wilderson
Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Blackness.
Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery—in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms—continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the United States but around the world? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III’s seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness.
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin
In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwin’s oeuvre to compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.
A More Beautiful and Terrible History,
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. And it is used perniciously in our own times to chastise present-day movements and obscure contemporary injustice.
In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light. We see Rosa Parks not simply as a bus lady but a lifelong criminal justice activist and radical; Martin Luther King, Jr. as not only challenging Southern sheriffs but Northern liberals, too; and Coretta Scott King not only as a “helpmate” but a lifelong economic justice and peace activist who pushed her husband’s activism in these directions.
ALLYSHIP
What is Allyship?
Allyship is a proactive, ongoing, and incredibly difficult practice of unlearning and re-evaluating, in which a person of privilege works in solidarity and partnership with a marginalized group of people to help take down the systems that challenge that group’s basic rights, equal access, and ability to thrive in our society.
Rochester Racial Justice Toolkit
When you’re tempted to turn off and tune out, read this.
Jennifer Brown | Feb 3, 2017
Ally vs. Co-Conspirator: What it means to be an Abolitionist Teacher
Bettina Love explains the difference between being an Ally and being a co-conspirator.
C-SPAN | January 8, 2020
2020 Vision: The Importance of Focusing on Accompliceship in the New Decade
Tai Harden-Moore | February 6, 2020
Dear Anti-Racist allies: Here’s how to respond to microagressions
Kristen Rogers, CNN | June 6, 2020
UC IRVINE PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES
UCI Diversity Resources
UCI is committed to excellence through diversity and to the goal of reflecting diversity in our faculty, student and staff populations, as well as our teaching, research and public service endeavors.
UCI Division of Career Pathways – Diversity Career Resources
Find career-related resources from the UCI community and beyond. The site provides career and industry related resources based on race that includes race specific job websites, professional organizations, and scholarship opportunities.
UCI End Racism Initiative
Dismantling Systemic Racism on Campus and Beyond
UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence
Introducing the Black Thriving Initiative
Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program
Modules
Anti-Blackness in the United States: Black Protest Tradition
Anti-Blackness in the United States: Structures and Mechanisms of De-Valuing Black People
Anti-Blackness in the United States: Change the Culture through Personal, Professional and Institutional Accountability
Report:
Black Thriving Initiatve: A Whole University Approach to Building a University Culture Where Black People Thrive
Final Report of the Task Force on Ensuring a Positive Climate for the Campus’ Black Community
The University of California Irvine
June 2015
UCI CARE Narrative Project
The Narrative Project’s purpose is to create a virtual space for the diverse voices of the UCI community to explore topics of intersectionality, culture, power, community care, allyship and restorative justice through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic. These narratives will support the development of empathy, a protective community factor. Empathy is a core component of active listening and allows others to address behavior as a bystander and prevent acts of violence before they happen.
Listen to the Podcast
Samueli School’s Initiatives in Diversity and Inclusiveness Recognized
UCI California Alliance for Minority Participation – CAMP
UCI CARE, Campus Assault Resources & Education
UCI CARE Linktree
Black Management Association (BMA) – UCI Paul Merage School of Business
UCI Athletics
Big West Undivided – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Big West Conference Announces Social Justice Initiatives
Rams Players share what they’ve learned from RISE virtual discussions (Video)
UCI Center for Black Cultures, Resources and Research
National Society of Black Engineers – NSBE / UC Irvine Chapter
STEW – Science Technology Education Workgroup UCI
UCI Office of Campus Social Work
UCI Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion
UCI Public Safety Advisory Council
UCI Student Housing-Academic Excellence Black Scholars House (video)
UCI LGBTRC – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center
ASEE MIND-Minorities in Engineering Division
This division works to increase all forms of diversity at all levels of engineering education and the engineering profession. The division is concerned with programs to improve preparation, recruitment and retention of students at pre-college, undergraduate and graduate levels in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and with the need to increase the number of minority STEM faculty. The division also works to increase diversity in the STEM workforce.
NAMEPA-National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates
The National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA) is the nation’s leading community of change agents, cultivating diversity, access, equity, and inclusion in engineering. We are a network of university administrators, faculty, deans, pre-college educators and industry professionals all committed to implementation of programs, policies, and institutional changes to broaden participation in STEM.
WEPAN-Women in Engineering ProActive Network
WEPAN is a catalyst for change to enhance the success of Women in Engineering in academia and the professions.
WEPAN was founded as non-profit educational organization in 1990. It is the nation’s first network dedicated to advancing cultures of inclusion and diversity in engineering higher education and workplaces. WEPAN connects people, research and practice. It offers power initiatives, projects and professional development that equips advocates with the tools to create sustainable, systems-level changes that allow ALL in engineering to thrive.
WIED-Women in Engineering Division
This division works to increase the participation of women at all levels of engineering education and the profession. The division is concerned with programs to improve preparation, recruitment and retention of women students at undergraduate and graduate levels in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, (STEM) fields, with the need to increase the number of women STEM faculty, and with the re-entry of women into the profession. The division sponsors sessions at the ASEE Annual Conference and administers the WIED Awards. We welcome people with interest in promoting these goals.
The Women in Engineering Division is committed to promoting the inclusion and education of diverse individuals and embracing diverse ideas in the professions of engineering and engineering technology. The Women in Engineering Division recognizes that diversity is strength in creativity, broadness of new ideas, and embracing new perspectives to arrive at the most truly innovative, resource-smart solutions possible.
