EDI Learning Materials

Self-education on matters of EDI is encouraged in the Physical Sciences Division. We invite all PSD members to educate themselves on the importance of understanding different voices and points of view. We have compiled a list of suggested readings and films that address topics of race, identity, and equity.

We recommend PSD members join the PSD Community Conversation Slack workspace to further engage and share more resources. This independent workspace is intended to be an open forum and safe space for individuals to discuss their thoughts and ideas.

Articles and Toolkits

• Faculty Accountability for Culturally Inclusive Pedagogy and Curricula by Quaye, S.J. & Harper, S.R. (2007)

• A Feminist Digital Humanities Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom by Despain, J. (2016)

• The Global American Classroom: International students and critical pedagogy by Owens, C. & Boggs, A. (2016)

• How Do You Achieve Inclusive Excellence in the Classroom? by Considine, J.R., Mihalick, J.E., Mogi-Hein, Y.R., Penick-Parks, M.W., & Van Auken, P.M. (2017)

• Race Pedagogy: Faculty preparation matters by Williams, S.A.S. & Addrian, C. (2016)

• When Black people are in pain, white people just join bookclubs by Tre Johnson (2020)

• Evidence-Based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practices by Stephanie J. Creary, PhD; Nancy Rothbard, PhD; Jared Scruggs (2021)

• Inclusive Meeting Practices Presentation Slides by Susan Popa, UChicago Leadership Development & Strategy (2022)

Film and Television

• When They See Us (Netflix)

• Just Mercy (Just Watch)

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Just Watch)

• Clemency (Just Watch)

• Fruitvale Station (Just Watch)

• I Am Not Your Negro (Just Watch)

• Disclosure (Just Watch)

Race, Ethnicity, and Anti-Racism

• “A Letter to My Nephew” by James Baldwin

• “White Debt” by Eula Biss

• Anti-Racism Resources for White People compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May 2020

• White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

• Understanding America’s “racial contract” by Adam Serwer

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F. Saad

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Tears We Cannot Stop: A sermon to white America by Michael Eric Dyson

• Sister Outsider: Essays and speeches by Audre Lorde

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

• How We Show Up: Reclaiming family, friendship, and community by Mia Birdsong

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Ability, Disability, and Ableism

• Including Disability in Diversity Conversations in Science: How to advocate for and include people with disabilities, a narrated PowerPoint by the GRIT Disabilities Team

• Beauty is a Verb, edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen (2011)

• El Deafo by Cece Bell, illustrated by David Lasky (2014)

• Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee (2018)

• Depresso: Or: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace being bonkers by Brick (2010)

• A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen (2012)

• Exile and Pride by Eli Claire (2015)

• Marbles by Ellen Forney (2012)

• Recovering Bodies by G. Thomas Couser (1997)

• The Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney (2007)

Age, Aging, and Ageism

• Beauty is a Verb edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen (2011)

• El Deafo by Cece Bell, illustrated by David Lasky (2014)

• Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee (2018)

• Depresso: Or: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace being bonkers by Brick (2010)

• A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen (2012)

• Exile and Pride by Eli Claire (2015)

• Marbles by Ellen Forney (2012)

• Recovering Bodies by G. Thomas Couser (1997)

Country of Origin, Immigration, and Nativism

• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu (2008)

• Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez (2018) 

• Cosmopolitanism by Anthony Appiah (2006)

• The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2012)

• Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight for the American Dream by Eileen Truax (2015)

• From the Land of Ghandi, documentary film by Prakash Wadhwa (2016)

• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (2011)

• Heart Berries: A memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot (2018)

• If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar (2018)

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (2017)

• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (1997)

• Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora (2017)

• The Undressing by Li-Young Lee (2018)

• Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (2017)

Faith, Religious Identity, Secular Worldview, and Sectarianism

• America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity by Robert Wuthnow (2011)

• Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How racial discrimination shapes religious convictions by Michael O. Emerson and Jason E. Shelton (2012)

• Infidel by Aaron Campbell (Artist), Jose Villarrubia (Artist), and Pornsak Pichetshote (2018)

• Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash (2017)

• The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by Martha C. Nussbaum (2013)

• The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious persecution and conflict in the twenty-first century by Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke (2010)

• The Prophet & the Messiah: An Arab Christian's perspective on Islam & Christianity by Chawkat Moucarry (2002)

• Religious Identity and Renewal in the Twenty-First Century edited by Simone Sinn and Michael Reid Trice (2016)

• What Do the Religions Say About Each Other?: Christian attitudes towards Islam, Islamic attitudes towards Christianity by William Stoddart (2008)

LGBTQIA and Heterosexism

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015) 

• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman (2007)

• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (2017)

• Movement in Black the collected poetry of Pat Parker, 1961-1978 by Pat Parker (1978)

Sex, Gender, Gender Identity, and Gender Discrimination

• Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin (2018)

• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

• Rage Becomes Her: The power of women's anger by Soraya Chemaly (2018)

• Sister Outsider: Essays and speeches by Audre Lorde (2007)

• Excluded: Making feminist and queer movements more inclusive by Julia Serano (2013)

• Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate politics by Bell Hooks (2015)

• Full Frontal Feminism: A young woman's guide to why feminism matters by Jessica Valenti (2014)

• Gender Outlaws: The next generation by Kate Bornstein (2010)

• Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (2017)

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (2014)

• Missoula: Rape and the justice system in a college town by Jon Krakauer (2015)

• Muxes (short film)

• Redefining Realness: My path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more by Janet Mock (2014)

• The Riddle of Gender: Science, activism, and transgender rights by Deborah Rudacille (2005)

• The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the broken narrative of black women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris (2015)

• Stone Butch Blues: A novel by Leslie Feinberg (1993)

• Stuck in the Middle with You: A memoir of parenting in three generations by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2013)

• Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the myths of our gendered minds by Cordelia Fine (2017)

• Transparent: Love, family, and living the T with transgender teenagers by Cris Beam (2007)

• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)

• Whipping Girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity by Julia Serano (2007)