Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Resources for Faculty: Background Materials

The resources below are a non-comprehensive list of books, articles, and other sources that professors can use (1) to prepare for teaching with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind and (2) to assign to students to introduce discussions about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom.

Selected Books & eBooks

• Arthur D. Austin, The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education (1998) (KF272 .A93 1998)
• Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System (2004) (KF272 .K46 2004)
• Nicole Dyszlewski, Raquel J. Gabriel, Suzanne Harrington-Steppen & Genevieve B. Tung, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom (2021) (KF273 .I58 2021)
• Myriam E. Gilles & Risa L. Goluboff, Civil Rights Stories (2007)
• Carole E. Goldberg, Kevin K. Washburn & Philip P. Frickey, Indian Law Stories (2011)
• Paul Kahn, The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing Legal Scholarship (1999) (KF382 .K33 1999)
• David A. Martin & Peter H. Schuck, Immigration Law Stories (2005)
• Rachel F. Moran & Devon Wayne Carbado, Race Law Stories (2008)
• Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Students: A Critical Reader (Soc'y of Am. L. Tchrs. & Golden Gate Univ. Sch. of L. eds., 2011) (KF336 .V85 2011)

Selected Articles

• Anthony V. Alfieri, Educating Lawyers for Community, 2012 Wis. L. Rev. 115.
• Margalynne J. Armstrong & Stephanie M. Wildman, Teaching Race/Teaching Whiteness: Transforming Colorblindness to Color Insight, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 635 (2008).
• Tiffany D. Atkins, Amplifying Diverse Voices: Strategies for Promoting Inclusion in the Law School Classroom, 31 Second Draft 10 (2018).
• Faisal Bhabha, Towards a Pedagogy of Diversity in Legal Education, 52 Osgoode Hall L.J. 59 (2014).
• Jeffrey Blumberg, Sitting by the Well: The Case for Intercultural Competency Training in International Experiential Learning, 43 U. Balt. L. Rev. 395 (2014).
• Anastasia M. Boles, Seeking Inclusion from the Inside Out: Towards a Paradigm of Culturally Proficient Legal Education, 11 Charleston L. Rev. 209 (2017).
• Anastasia M. Boles, The Culturally Proficient Law Professor: Beginning the Journey, 48 N.M. L. Rev. 145 (2018).
• Susan Bryant, The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence in Lawyers, 8 Clinical L. Rev. 33 (2001).
• Devon W. Carbado, Critical What What?, 43 Conn. L. Rev. 1593 (2011). 
• Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati, The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory, 112 Yale L.J. 1757 (2003). 
• Robert S. Chang, Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space, 81 Calif. L. Rev. 1241 (1993). 
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Foreword: Toward a Race-Conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education, 11 Nat'l Black L.J. 1 (1988).
• Andrea A. Curcio, Teresa E. Ward & Nisha Dogra, A Survey Instrument to Develop, Tailor, and Help Measure Law Student Cultural Diversity Education Learning Outcomes, 38 Nova L. Rev. 177 (2013).
• Sean Darling-Hammond and Kristen Holmquist, Creating Wise Classrooms to Empower Diverse Law Students: Lessons in Pedagogy from Transformative Law Professors, 25 La Raza L.J. (2015).
• M. Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber & Joe Bandy, Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors, 4 Race & Pedagogy J. 1 (2019).
• Erin C. Lain, Racialized Interactions in the Law School Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to Creating a Safe Learning Environment, 67 J. Legal Educ. 780 (2018).
• Palma Joy Strand, We Are All on the Journey: Transforming Antagonistic Spaces in Law School Classrooms, 67 J. Legal Educ. 176 (2017).
• Jennifer Akamine Phillips, Nate Risdon, Matthew Lamsma, Angelica Hambrick & Alexander Jun, Barriers and Strategies by White Faculty Who Incorporate Anti-Racist Pedagogy, 3 Race & Pedagogy J. 1 (2019) (discussing undergraduate education).
• Bonny L. Tavares, Changing the Construct: Promoting Cross-Cultural Conversations in the Law School Classroom, 67 J. Legal Educ. 211 (2017).
• L. Danielle Tully, The Cultural (Re)Turn: The Case for Teaching Culturally Responsive Lawyering, 16 Stan. J. Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 201 (2020).
• Christina A. Zawisza, Teaching Cross-Cultural Competence to Law Students: Understanding the "Self" as "Other", 17 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. 185 (2016).

Selected Other Resources:

• Building Inclusive Classrooms, Cornell University Center for Teaching Innovation
• Cases and Supporting Materials for 1L Courses, Stanford Law School Clearinghouse on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Research
• Difficult Dialogues, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching

Critical Legal Studies (CLS) is a scholarly movement that emerged in the 1970s that argues the law is not neutral or objective. From CLS sprang several other critical theories, including Critical Race Theory (CRT), feminist legal theory, LatCrit, TribalCrit, AsianCrit, and DisCrit. The resources below, while not necessarily related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, may be useful for individuals wanting to learn more about these theories. 

Selected Books & eBooks

• David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri & Subini A. Annamma, DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education (2016) (LC4031 .D57 2016)
• Martha Chamallas, Introduction to Feminist Legal Theory (2003) (K349 .C49 2003)
• Critical Race Feminism: A Reader (Adrien Katherine Wing ed., 2003) (HQ1154 .C75 2003)
• Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado ed., 1995) (KF4755 .C74 1995)
• The Derrick Bell Reader (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., 2005) (KF4755 .B45 2005)
• Nancy Levit & Robert R. M. Verchick, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer (2006) (KF478 .L48 2006)
• Sabina E. Vaught, Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy: A Critical Race Ethnography (2011)

Selected Articles

• Derrick A. Bell, Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?, 1995 U. Ill. L. Rev. 893.
• Derrick A. Bell, Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma, 93 Harv. L. Rev. 518 (1980).
• Roy L. Brooks & Mary Jo Newborn, Critical Race Theory and Classical-Liberal Civil Rights Scholarship: A Distinction Without a Difference?, 82 Calif. L. Rev. 787 (1994).
• Dorothy E. Roberts, BlackCrit Theory and the Problem of Essentialism, 53 U. Mia. L. Rev. 855 (1998). 

The resources included below discuss diversity, equity & inclusion.

Selected Books & eBooks

• Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012) (LC212.4 A398 2012)
• Vernā Myers, Moving Diversity Forward: How to Go from Well-Meaning to Well-Doing (2011) (KF300 .M94 2011)
• Vernā Myers, What If I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People (2013) (KF300 .M944 2013)
• Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (2012) (BF637.C45 S78 2010)
• Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (2002)

Selected Articles:

• Debra Chopp, Addressing Cultural Bias in the Legal Profession, 41 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 367 (2017).
• Andrea A. Curcio, Addressing Barriers to Cultural Sensibility Learning: Lessons from Social Cognition Theory, 15 Nev. L.J. 537 (2015).

The resources below discuss issues of race and racism, focusing on the United States.

Selected Books & eBooks

• Bruce Ackerman, We the People, Vol. 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (2014) (KF4541 .A82 1991)
• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) (HV9950 .A437 2010)
• Akhil Reed Amar, America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (2012) (KF4541 .A875 2012)
• Derrick Bell, And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987) (E185.615 .B39 1987)
• Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992) (E185.615 .B395 1992)
• Derrick Bell, Race, Racism, and American Law (5th ed. 2004) (KF4757 .B35 2004)
• Derrick Bell, Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) (KF4155 .B38 2004)
• Richard Brooks & Carol Rose, Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms (2013) (KF662 .B76 2013)
• Kevin Brown, Race, Law, and Education in the Post-Desegregation Era (2005) (KF4155 .B678 2005)
• Gloria Browne-Marshall, Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (2007) (KF4755 .B76 2007)
• Robert S. Chang, Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State (1999) (KF4757.5.A75 C48 1999)
• James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017) (HV9950 .F655 2017)
• Igancio García, White but Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury Discrimination, and the Supreme Court (2009) (KF224.H468 G37 2009)
• Ariela Gross, What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (2008) (KF4755 .G76 2008)
• Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson & Anthony C. Thompson, A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law (2018)
• Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (2011) (E185.615 .K376 2011)
• Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (1997) (KF9223 .K43 1997)
• Charles Lawrence & Mari Matsuda, We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action (1997) (HF5549.5.A34 L38 1997)
• Ian Haney López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (2006) (KF4755 .H36 2006)
• Ian Haney López, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2014) (E185.615 .H278 2014)
• José Luis Morín, Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States: Perspectives and Approaches (2d ed. 2009) (E184.S75 M675 2009)
• Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018) (ZA4230 .N63 2018) (also available as an eBook)
• Jennifer Pierce, Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action (2012) (HF5549.5.A34 P54 2012)
• Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (Annette Gordon-Reed ed., 2002) (KF385.A4 R33 2002)
• A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (Timothy Davis, George Martinez & Kevin Johnson eds., 2001) (KF4755 .R43 2001)
• Daria Roithmayr, Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage (2014) (E184.A1 R4467 2014)
• Carlos R. Soltero, Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases (2006) (KF4757.5 .L38 S64 2006)
• What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision (Jack Balkin ed., 2001) (KF228.B76 W48 2001)
• Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (2018) (KF4757 .W53 1991)

Selected Articles:

• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics, 1989 U. Chi. Legal F. 139.
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law, 12 German L.J. 247 (2011). 
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, 43 Stan. L. Rev. 1241 (1991).
• Peggy Davis, Law as Microaggression, 98 Yale L.J. 1559 (1989). 
• Richard Delgado, Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2411 (1989).
• Neil Gotanda, A Critique of "Our Constitution Is Color-Blind", 44 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (1991).
• Angela P. Harris, Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 571 (1990).
• Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness as Property, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1707 (1993).
• Charles R. Lawrence III, The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism, 39 Stan. L. Rev. 317 (1987). 
• Charles R. Lawrence III, If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, 1990 Duke L.J. 431.
• Nancy Leong, Racial Capitalism, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 2151 (2013).