The Center for Equity, Inclusion, and Title IX offers a variety of workshops and training to suit your audience’s needs. We are available to come present to your department, your club or your class. We strive to make all of our sessions educational, interactive and meaningful. Below is a list of some of the topics we cover. We are an innovative staff who pride ourselves on being up-to-date with the latest trends and issues surrounding equity, inclusion and Title IX and are happy to work directly with you to create a workshop or training for your group.
Don’t Cancel That Class!
If you find yourself unable to teach your class due to illness, professional development other conflicts—don’t cancel that class! Contact us. We can come in and run a 50-90 minute workshop in lieu of cancelling class. We also collaborate with other departments to offer this service. For more details or to set up a workshop, email us at inclusion@alfredstate.edu.
Workshop Topics
- Body Image and Leadership
- Bullying
- Empower Alfred--Bystander Education (student and staff versions)
- Media and Mixed Messages
- Privilege Walk
- Safe Zone Training
- Social Justice
- Title IX and Consent
- Title IX Workshops and Trainings
- Various Films and Discussions
- What is Leadership?
- Who Am I? Identity Exploration and Diversity
- Women in Leadership
- And more
Resources
Anti-Racist Resources
Books
- A Kids Book About Racism
- Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism: Bell Hooks
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States: Paul Ortiz
- Assata: An Autobiography: Assata Shakur
- Bad Feminist: Essays: Roxane Gay
- Becoming: Michelle Obama
- Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Perspectives on Gender): Patricia Hill Collins
- Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years: D.L. Hughley
- Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership: Ed Gordon
- Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court 1st Edition: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower: Brittney Cooper
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf: Ntzoke Shange
- How To Be An Antiracist: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: Austin Channing Brown
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose: Alice Walker
- : Bryan Stevenson
- Killing Rage(Ending Racism): Bell Hooks
- Me and White Supremacy: Layla F. Saad
- Meaty: Essays: Samantha Irby
- On the Come Up: Angie Thomas
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series): Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race: Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America: Ibram X. Kendi
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley: Alex Haley
- The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin
- The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl: Issa Rae
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Michelle Alexander
- The Origin of Others: Toni Morrison
- The Vanishing Half: A Novel: Brit Bennett
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: Isabel Wilkerson
- This Book is Anti-Racist: Tiffany Jewell
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America: Morgan Jenkins
- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays: Samantha Irby
- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays: Damon Young
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race: Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD*
- Women, Race, & Class: Angela Davis
- Wow, No Thank You.: Essays: Samantha Irby
Articles/ Journals
- "How Did We Get Here?" 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America: The Atlantic Newspaper
- New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html?smid=em-share
- My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest: Lori Lakin Hutcherson
- The 1619 Project: The New York Times
- The Intersectionality Wars: “The Highlight” by Vox: Jane Coaston
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups: Craig Elliott PhD
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: Peggy McIntosh
Videos
- 7 Last Words of the Unarmed (choir piece, *trigger warning*): Joel Thompson
- American Kids & The School-To-Prison Pipeline: AJ+
- Cuomo: America a tale of 2 cities in wake of Floyd's death: Chris Cuomo
- George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show: Trevor Noah
- Systemic Racism Explained: Act.tv
- The History of the Green Book & Sundown towns: The Vox
- The massacre of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street": The Vox
Movies/Documentaries
- 13th | Full Feature | Netflix: Ava DuVernay
- Do the Right Thing (based on the death of Michael Stewart)
- Freedom Writers Diary (book AND movie about children of color finding their voices in their English class)
- Fruitvale Station (story of Oscar Grant, a man who was killed on New Years Eve from police brutality)
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (book AND movie about black love in Harlem)
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (movie AND book about lawyer Bryan Stevenson representing Walter McMillian’s murder charge to prove his innocence)
- Malcolm X on Netflix
- Selma (Civil Rights and Selma March)
- The Banker (about 2 of the first Black bankers in the US who fought housing segregation)
- The Great Debaters (true story of an HBCU that beat Harvard at a debate competition)
- The Hate U Give (movie and book by Angie Thomas story about being black in America)
Series
- Explained:The Racial Wealth Gap on Netflix (episode in season 1)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story on Netflix (true crime docuseries about the story of a black teenager who was wrongfully imprisoned)
- When They See Us on Netflix (central park five)
- Who Killed Malcolm X, a docuseries on Netflix
Guides/Packets/Links
- Anti-Racist Allyship Starter Packet: Tatum Dorrell, Matt Herndon, Jourdan Dorrell
- Education Resources: Various Attributors
If you have a request, or would like to see a specific resource added to our Intercultural Library, please contact us at Inclusion@alfredstate.edu.