Are you interested in diving deeper and learning more about the largely untold stories within the United States? Below you can find a sample of books, websites, podcasts, social media accounts, and more to engage in this summer and beyond. Additional recommendations around a broader range of DEIB-related topics can be found online at www.thewindwardschool.org/DEIB. Thank you to Windward’s DEIB Office, SEED facilitators, and librarians who helped compile resource lists for both children and adults.

For Children 

BOOKS 

• Worm Loves Worm by J. J. Austrian 
• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianna Celano 
• Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child 
• Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari 
• Eyes that Kiss in the Corner by Joanna Ho 
• Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race by Megan Madison 
• Beautifully Me by Nabela Noor 
• Made by Raffi by Craig Pomranz and Margaret Chamberlain 
• You are Enough: A Book About Inclusion by Sofia Sanchez 
• Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate 

MOVIES AND TV SERIES 

• Eyes on the Prize (TV-PG) 
• Hidden Figures (PG) 
• Worth It (YouTube series)

For Teens

BOOKS

• Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger 
• A High Five for Glen Burke by Phil Bildner 
• The Pants Project by Cat Clarke 
• The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by María Garcia Esperón 
• Starfish by Lisa Fipps 
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham 
• Stamped (YA version) by Ibram X. Kendi 
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram 
• I’m OK by Patti Kim 
• Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion by Jessica Tatiana Long 
• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff 
• Someday Birds by Sally Pla 
• The Raven Steals the Light by Bill Reid & Robert Bringhurst  
• Two Grooms on a Cake: The Story of America’s First Gay Wedding by Rob Sanders 
• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan 
• Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith 
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon 
• Flying Lessons and Other Stories by various authors 

GRAPHIC NOVELS 

• El Deafo by Cece Bell 
• New Kid by Jerry Craft 
• Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner 
• Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte   
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi   
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei  

MOVIES AND TV SERIES 

• CODA (PG-13) 
• Explained documentary series (TV-MA) 
• The Hate U Give (PG-13) 
• Invictus (PG-13) 
• On the Basis of Sex (PG-13)

For Adults 

BOOKS 

• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho 
• Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 
• Manzanar by John Armor and Peter Wright 
• Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army during World War II (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Sandra M. Bolzenius 
• Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 
• A Dry White Season by André Brink 
• I’m Still Here, Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower by Brittney Cooper 
• Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz 
• How to think like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke 
• Voices of Freedom by Eric Foner 
• Chilies to Chocolate by Nelson Foster & Linda S. Cordell 
• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow 
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 
• Lest Innocent Blood be Shed by Philip Hallie 
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 
• When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through edited by Joy Harjo 
• Race and Ethnicity in Society by Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen 
• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong 
• Being Alive by Tim Ingold 
• Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debbie Irving 
• Listening is an Act of Love by Dave Isay 
• White Trash by Nancy Isenberg 
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger 
• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall 
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi 
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 
• Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau 
• The Promise Land by Nicholas Lemann 
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen 
• X-marks: Native Signatures of Assent by Scott Richard Lyons 
• The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and the Fierce edited by Angie Manfredi 
• 1491 by Charles C. Mann 
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 
• Benevolent Assimilation by Stuart Creighton Mills 
• The Origins of Others by Toni Morrison 
• The Geography of Thought by Richard E. Nisbett 
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein 
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad 
• The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman 
• Don’t Call us Dead by Danez Smith 
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 
• Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff 
• Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone 
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele 
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 
• The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other by Tzvetan Todoro 
• From Red Earth by Denise Uwimana 
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

GRAPHIC NOVELS 

• Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler 
• Paying the Land by Joe Sacco  

MOVIES AND TV SERIES 

• 13th (TV-MA) 
• Public Trust: Fight for America’s Public Lands 
• Rise: Standing Rock [Parts I & II] (TV-MA) 
• When They See Us (TV-MA) 

PODCASTS 

• 99% Invisible  
• Code Switch (NPR) 
• The Disability Visibility Podcast 
• Included: The Disability Equity Podcast (Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center) 
• LGBTQ&A (The Advocate and GLAAD) 
• Lynching in America (Equal Justice Initiative) 
• Momentum (Race Forward) 
• The Moth 
• One From the Vaults 
• Queerology 
• Rethinking 
• Seeing White (Scene on Radio)

SOCIAL MEDIA 

• Bold Culture (@getbold). For professionals, solutions on building more inclusive teams.  
• Densho Project (@denshoproject). Documents the Japanese American past to promote justice and equity today 
• Dr. Hannah Gadsby (@Hannah_Gadsby). Australian comedian who explores topics of neurodiversity, homophobia, xenophobia, and sexism. 
• IllumiNative (@illuminative). A Native woman-led racial and social justice organization building power for Native people. 
• LiberatED (@liberated_sel). Conceived by Dr. Dena Simmons, a liberation-based approach to social emotional learning. 
• National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (@NIWRC) 
• See Us Unite (@seeusunite). A cultural campaign to accelerate impact and expand support for the AAPI community. 
• Them (@them). Through the lens of today's LGBTQ community, them provides news and commentary on topics ranging from culture and politics to style and entertainment. 

WEBSITES AND BLOGS 

• The Anti-Racist Daily 
• Better Allies (corporate and tech culture etiquette, such as inclusive language) 
• Crutches and Spice (written by Imani Barbarin, a Black woman with cerebral palsy) 
• Disability in KidLit (reviews children/teen books that have representations of various disabilities)  
• Your Fat Friend (written by author Aubrey Gordon about “the social realities of life as a very fat person”)