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.

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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