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Welcome to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resource Hub! This page is the home for all DEI resources and is currently focused on anti-racism content, which contributes to a more informed and inclusive athletics department.

Included below are resources and materials organized in two sections: Education and Action. The order of these sections is intentional; UC Davis Athletics believes the commitment to anti-racism is, first and foremost, a commitment to lifelong learning that leads to personal action and advocacy in our communities.

Even though the UC Davis Athletics community can access (and is encouraged) to utilize the resources listed below, suggested content for student-athletes, coaches, and community is organized by respective categories to help direct one's search. We hope these resources serve to support and enhance discussions with teammates, colleagues and peers, as well as provide opportunities to become more educated on the underlying issues that led to ongoing protests nationwide.

Since the Resource Hub is a living medium that will include updated and time-specific materials, please visit this page on a frequent basis. As a learning community, we welcome feedback and suggestions. Please e-mail AggieDEI@ucdavis.edu if you have a recommendation or are unable to find specific content.

Terms and Definitions: As you navigate the resources on this page, please refer to this comprehensive glossary compiled by Racial Equity Tools.
Campus and Community Resources: The UC Davis Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion developed a list of campus and community resources for anti-racist engagement and racial trauma healing which you can view HERE.
 

Anti-Racism Resources

Education 

Student-Athletes

Read

• The Black Athlete and Sports - A Brief Reading Guide (Academia)  
• Dear Black Athlete (The Undefeated)
• Microaggressions and the Student-Athlete (Jen Fry)
• Racial Justice and Mental Health Resource List (Association for Applied Sports Psychology)
• Black Mental Health Matters (Sunshine Behavioral Health)
• Student Athlete Activism (NCAA)
• Athletes Using Their Power (NCAA/A4)
   

Watch

• Systemic Racism Explained (act.tv)
• Sports Racism and the Myth of Meritocracy (Only A Game // NPR)
• LeBron James: I Promise (Quibi)
• Athletes Using Their Power (NCAA/A4)

Listen

• Champions of Change: The RISE Podcast
• The Black Athlete Podcast
• Scene on Radio Series: Seeing White
• The End of Sport Podcast
• Athletes Using Their Power (NCAA/A4)

Coaches

Read

• Microaggressions and the Student Athlete (Jen Fry)
• The Centrality of Whiteness in Modern Sports (AAIHS)
• Black Lives Matter and Racial Justice: What Coaches Should Understand 
• WeCOACH Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Resources (WeCOACH)
• Race and Recruiting for the College Coach
• Coaches... You Never Know Who Is Undocumented
• Why Every Coach Needs to Talk About Racism With Their Team
• Checklist for White Allies
• Teaching for Black Lives 
• Student Athlete Activism (NCAA)
• Understanding and Navigating Prejudice (Pepperdine University GSEP)
• Racial Justice and Mental Health Resource List (Association for Applied Sports Psychology)
• Black Mental Health Matters (Sunshine Behavioral Health)

Watch

• Systemic Racism Explained (act.tv)
• The Intersection of Race, Student Athletes, and College Athletics in America (NACDA)
• Sports Racism and the Myth of Meritocracy (Only A Game // NPR)
• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them (Verna Myers, TEDx)
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion (Peggy McIntosh, TEDx)
• Color Blind or Color Brave (Mellody Hobson, TEDx)

Listen

• Why the History of Racism was Kept Out of Textbooks (Jeffery Robinson, The Ross Files)
• Let's Talk About Supporting Your Black Athlete (Lets K12 Better)
• The Kansas City Chiefs Name: Racist Or "Just Sports?"
• NFL Pro Bowler Michael Bennett on the Power of Protest
• Supporting Kids of Color in the Wake of Racialized Violence 
• Racism's Persistence in Sports  (Edge of Sports) 
• Only A Game (NPR)
• The Black Athlete Podcast

The Community

Suggested Book List

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Taking Up Space by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga
• When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in the Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katz-Nelson
• Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne M. Brown
• The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
• Blink by Malcom Gladwell
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debbie Irving

Articles

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack 
• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture Which Show Up in our Organizations
• Four Uncomfortable Thoughts You May Have When Facing Your Privilege
• Cycle of Socialization
• My Vasser College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
• Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America
• Understanding and Navigating Prejudice (Pepperdine University GSEP)
• Microaggressions and the Student Athlete (Jen Fry, Medium)
• The Case for Reparations -- Ta Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
• Greater Good Anti-Racism Catalogue
• The 8 Rs of Talking About Race
• YWCA Racial Equity Resources
• Student Athlete Activism (NCAA)
   

Watch

• Talking About Race - Resources (The Smithsonian)
• The Event: How Racist Are You? with Jane Elliott
• Jane Elliott on the Oprah Winfrey Show (1992), Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Exercise
• Jane Elliott Brown Eye, Blue Eye Social Experiment
• Staceyann Chin: All Oppression Is Connected
• Why we Should all be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Video on Intersectionality: Kimberly Crenshaw
• Black Lives Matter Collection (Netflix)
• Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS)
• Black in 2020 — A Virtual Lecture Series via Duke Alumni Association x Duke Black Alum:
  • Wealth and the Black Middle Class
  • Color Codes: When and Where They Matter
  • Race, Protest and Sports
  • African Responses to COVID-19: Precaution Rather than Mitigation in the Effort at Collective Care
  • The Power of Protest Music

Listen

• Revisionist History Presents: Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment
• Radiolab Presents: More Perfect
• NPR: White Lies
• The New York Times: The 1619 Project
• Made of Human with Sofie Hagen: Your Fat Friend #2 – We Talk About Whiteness (Parts 1 and 2)
• It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders: Not Just Another Protest
• NPR: Code Switch
• Duke University Center for Documentary Studies: Seeing White
• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
• The Breakdown with Shaun King
• Bound for Justice
• PushBlack Presents: Black History Year
• Ben Franklin's World
• Led By Her: Intentional Conversations about Inclusion and Athletic Activism (B.L.A.A.C.)
• The Killing of George Floyd and the Origins of American Racism (The New Yorker)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on George Floyd, Police Protests and Hope (Vox, from the Ezra Klein Show)

Action 

Student-Athletes

• Starter Guide for Thoughtful Allyship
• 21 Day Racial Equity Challenge
• RISE Pledge 
• CADSA
• Athletes Igniting Action
• Student Athlete Activism (NCAA)

Coaches

• Starter Guide for Thoughtful Allyship
• 21 Day Racial Equity Challenge
• Coaches 4 Change
• RISE Pledge 
• NAACP
• Color of Change
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
• Better Allies
• United We Dream
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
   

The Community

• 26 Ways to be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Better Allies
• Understanding and Navigating Prejudice (Pepperdine University GSEP)
• Color of Change - End Injustice Now
• NAACP
• The Innocence Project 
• 8CANTWAIT Campaign
• Grassroots Law Project
• Know Your Rights Camp
• Showing Up for Racial Justice - Sacramento Chapter