Updated regularly, our staff and faculty will recommend their favorite DEI content on selected topics.
Resources for Continued Learning
Staff and Faculty Picks for Antiracism
- Marlon Riggs, Black is … Black Ain't (1995). Streaming on Kanopy, Vimeo, and the Criterion Channel. An epic scrapbook/documentary/music video/home movie/editorial ringing changes on Zora Neale Hurston’s There is no The Negro here at the apex of the AIDS crisis. The rough edges are definitely not smoothed over, but, in the end, it leaves you exhilarated, ready to face 2021.
— Kevin McMahon, Kappe Library Manager
- Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric jumps out from the page. Her poetry captures the “everyday” violence of being Black in America, the cumulative stresses and slights in interactions and daily rituals that go unseen or unacknowledged by white society.
— Mimi Zieger, M.Arch ‘98, Visiting Faculty
- The Origin of Race in the US: You can’t understand antiracism without first understanding race and racism. Given SCI-Arc's large international population, I love that this video gives us a starting point for understanding how both phenomena have existed in the US and changed over time.
— Zahida Sherman, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Reading List for Equity and Representation in Architectural Thinking
- Resources on African American Architects/Designers/Urbanists in Southern California
- Women’s History Month Reading List Foregrounds Figures Shifting Practice and Culture
- Kappe Library December Reading List Highlights Imago Mundi, Indigenous Cultures
- Race and Architectural Solidarity: Reading List and Resources compiled by SCI-Arc faculty and staff
- Shareable Anti-Racism Resource Guide, Tasha K. Ryals
- Anti-Racism Guide (For white people)
- Black Lives Matter, Meredith TenHoor and Jonathan Massey, Aggregate (Architecture History and Theory)
- SPACE/RACE, Ana Maria Leon and collective of architecture and urbanism thinkers/historians
- #StandingRockSyllabus
- A Thought Starter for Transgender Inclusion
Gender Inclusion
- Interrupting Sexism at Work (report)
- What is Mansplaining? (3:25 min video)
- Non-binary pronouns and they/them (2:51 min video)
- Gender Identity & Pronouns (3:41 mins video)
- Pronoun Guide (FAQ’s)
- Using Pronouns: Tips for Faculty
Challenging Bias
- Culturally Responsive Teaching (1:25:00 mins recording, SCI-Arc lecture by Kendall Nicholson, EdD, Assoc. AIA, NOMA)
- Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In (PDF)
- How to counteract 3 types of bias and run inclusive meetings (article)
- 50 Ways to Fight Bias (12 sets of digital cards curated for different audiences and workplace interactions)
- How do you create psychological safety at work? (3:25 mins video)
Antiracism
- Becoming an Antiracist Educator (faculty guide, Wheaton College)
- Shareable Anti-Racism Resource Guide
- Anti-Racism Guide (For white people)
- Resources on African American Architects/Designers/Urbanists in Southern California (Kappe Library Reading List)
- Women’s History Month Reading List Foregrounds Figures Shifting Practice and Culture (Kappe Library Reading List)
- Kappe Library December Reading List Highlights Imago Mundi, Indigenous Cultures
- Race and Architectural Solidarity: Reading List and Resources compiled by SCI-Arc faculty and staff
- SPACE/RACE (reading list)
Skills for Active Listening & Empathy
- Empathetic Listening (2:02 mins video)
- How To Improve Your Listening Skills (4:50 mins video)
- Active Listening (1:26 mins video)
- Communication Skills: Empathetic Listening - Inside Out, 2015 (1:44 mins video
- The Big Bang Theory Active Listening (1:55 mins video)