Mission:
NVCC’s Center for Racial Dialogue and Communal Transformation supports the college’s mission to facilitate courageous conversations and promote positive change and healing in our community by providing opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community members to engage in respectful dialogue and learning opportunities concerning diversity and equity.
Vision:
To serve as a vehicle for dialogue and action.
Professor Kathy Taylor, JD
Founding Co-Chair
A Message from the Founding Co-Chair
"The brilliant intellectual and civil rights icon, James Baldwin reminds us that 'not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' Here, at the Center for Racial Dialogue and Communal Transformation, we boldly face and have deep and meaningful dialogue around issues of race, injustice, systemic racism, power, hierarchy, and the multitude of ways that race shapes our experiences, interactions, and informs our perspective. In this space, we develop concrete plans of action, and offer intellectually challenging workshops that help people challenge and transform their thinking about race. We host book discussions, faculty forums, and community workshops - all in furtherance of one goal - making NVCC and our community more inclusive, equitable, and just. And I invite you to join us!"
- Professor Kathy Taylor, JD, Founding Co-Chair
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro.
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald.
Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System, Douglas S. Massey.
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, Andrew Pham.
Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activists, Betsy Leondar-Wright.
Growing Up Latino, Harold Augenbraum.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen.
Racial Divide: Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Criminal Justice System, Michael J. Lynch, E. Britt Patterson and Kristina K. Childs.
Talking Race in the Classroom, J. Bolgatz.
The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues, Wendy Lesser.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander.
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, Paisley Rekdal.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Kate Pickett
Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell.
Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference, Howard C. Stevenson.
Privilege, Power, and Difference, Allan Johnson.
Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education, Michael Ali.
Waking Up White in the Story of my Race, Irving Debbie.
“How to Talk About Race”: http://www.intergroupresources.com/rc/Race%20Matters.pdf
Intergroup Resources’ “Talking about Race”: http://www.intergroupresources.com/talking-about-race/
Lowery’s “Bridging the Racial Divide Through CrossRacial Dialogue: Lessons and Reflections from My Experience as a Facilitator” in Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=jctp
“Flipping the Switch: White Privilege and Community Building, Maggie Potapchuk, Sally Leiderman, Donna Bivens and Barbara Major”: http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/potapchuk1.pdf
Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-full-film/
Cracking the Codes: https://www.world-trust.org/cracking-the-codes
I am Not Your Negro: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/i-am-not-your-negro/
Race the Power of Illusion: http://newsreel.org/video/race-the-power-of-an-illusion
13th (is currently free on Youtube – updated 7/2/20): http://www.avaduvernay.com/13th/
The House I Live In: http://www.thehouseilivein.org/
*If Beale Street Could Talk (2018): http://bealestreet.movie/
*Just Mercy (2019): https://www.justmercyfilm.com/
*Selma (2015): http://www.avaduvernay.com/selma
The Hate U Give (2018): https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-hate-u-give
When They See Us (TV series based on a true story): https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549
Cracking the Codes: https://crackingthecodes.org/
Race the Power of Illusion: http://newsreel.org/video/race-the-power-of-an-illusion
Thirteenth: http://www.avaduvernay.com/13th/
The House I Live In: http://www.thehouseilivein.org/
* [note: these titles are coming soon through our library’s Swank account: https://digitalcampus-swankmp-net.nvcc.idm.oclc.org/naugatuckvalley364150#/digitalCampus/browse]
The Freedom Archives: http://freedomarchives.org/
Timeline: http://www.pbs.org/race/003_RaceTimeline/003_01-timeline.htm
Timeline: https://racialinjustice.eji.org/timeline/
Boston Fair Housing Timeline: http://www.bostonfairhousing.org/timeline/
Timeline of Landmark Court Cases: https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice
1619: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
Code Switch: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
Note: Code Switch also offers a “Guide to Race and Policing”: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/09/873066989/the-code-switch-guide-to-race-and-policing
Good Ancestor Project: http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast
Throughline’s June 4, 2020 episode on “American Police”: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/869046127
ADL: Fighting Hate for Good: https://www.adl.org/
Resources from the Annie E. Casey Foundation:https://www.aecf.org/resources/advancing-the-mission-tools-for-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/
Tools from Racial Equity: https://www.racialequitytools.org/home#
Standing Rock Syllabus:https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/
Resources from the Catalyst Project, Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation: https://collectiveliberation.org/
Interfaith Toolkit for Challenging Racism:http://www.uujustice.org/Interfaith_Toolkit_on_Challenging__Racism_-_Final.pdf
Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/
Tolerance.org: https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/texts
BGD: Amplifying the Voices of Queer and Trans People of Color:http://www.bgdblog.org/
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society: https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/
Racial Equity Alliance: https://www.racialequityalliance.org/
Zinn Education Project: Teaching People’s History: https://www.zinnedproject.org/
Hispanic Research Center’s Cultural Competence Guide for Community Based Organizations: http://www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cultural-Competence-Guide.pdf
W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity Resource Guide:http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/Racial_Equity_Resource_Guide.pdf
Establishing an Equity Team: https://seagrant.noaa.gov/Portals/1/Network%20Visioing/EstablishingEquityTeam.pdf
National Association for Multicultural Education: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=jctp
Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/
