Multicultural Resource List
ACSD Multicutural Scholarship Application (PDF)
ACSD Diversity Taskforce
Simulations/Games
Bafa Bafa: In BaFa' BaFa' participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person's life. It may be used to help participants prepare for living and working in another culture or to learn how to work with people from other departments, disciplines, genders, races, and ages.
The Game of Oppression: The Game of Oppression is designed to encourage and challenge individuals from different backgrounds and experiences to engage in authentic dialogue.
StarPower: The game is designed to illustrate the behavior of human beings in a system that naturally stratifies them economically or politically.
What Stands Between Us: Racism Conversation Flashcards by StirFry Seminars: Lee Mun Wah has collected over four hundred questions that people of color and EuroAmericans have always wanted to ask each other
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack; The Invisible Knapsack is a term coined by Peggy McIntosh in her essay, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, based on racial inequality." The essay includes an interactive exercise that seeks to demonstrate privilege.
Professional Organizations/Conferences
National Association for Multicultural Education www.nameorg.org
NAME supports efforts in educational equity and social justice and provides resources for students and educators and valuable links to other sites.
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education www.ncore.ou.edu
NCORE is designed to provide a significant forum for discussion, critical dialogue, and exchange of information as institutions search for effective strategies to enhance access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in culturally diverse settings.
The White Privilege Conference(s) http://www.uccs.edu/~wpc/ ,www.speakoutnow.org
The NASPA Multicultural Institute is a dynamic professional development experience designed specifically for multicultural educators in higher education. www.naspa.org/programs/multi
Conference on Christianity, Culture and Diversity in America
Conference on Christianity, Culture, and Diversity in America is an annual event that addresses the growing issues of diversity in America, which range from race, ethnicity, gender, culture to religion, age and the physically challenge all from a Christian worldview.
Race & Pedagogy National Conference, University of Puget Sound, www.pugetsound.edu/RPNC
National Multicultural Student Leaders Conference ( NCMSLC), www.ncmslc.org
SCORR The annual Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR), Biola University, www.biola.edu
Race and Pedagogy Project, rpp.english.ucsb.edu
This interactive site presents diverse scholarship regarding race and pedagogy. The site is an academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials.
The Southern Law Poverty Center/Teaching Tolerance, http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/teaching-tolerance
One of the nation’s leading providers of anti-bias education resources, reaching educators and students through the “Teaching Tolerance magazine, curricula and professional development resources.
Racialicious, Racialicious is a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture
Films/ Documentaries
- ( What’s Race Got to Do With It, Traces of the Trade, Skin Deep, True Whispers, Time of Fear, Smoke Signals, Meeting David Wilson, Eye of the Storm)
- The Color of Fear (1994)
- Directed by Lee Mun Wah
- Eight North American men, two African American, two Latinos, two Asian American and two Caucasian were gathered for a dialog about the state of race relations in America as seen through their eyes.
- Race - The Power of an Illusion (2003) California Newsreel’s 3 part documentary about race, society, science and history. Visit pbs.org/race for online curriculum support.
- Bilal’s Stand (2010) 99 minutes
- Directed by Sultan Sharrief
- Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to carry the torch. He secretly submits a college application and takes up the art of ice carving in order to win a scholarship. However, he is forced to decide whether he will continue working at the Stand - the only life he's ever known - or take a chance at social mobility
- Four Little Girls (1997) 102 minutes
- Directed and Produced by Spike Lee
- This film recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice.
- Papers (2009) 95 minutes
- Produced by Rebecca Shine and Directed by Anne Galisky
- "Papers" is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and who, upon high school graduation, find the door to their future slammed shut.
- Rabbit in the Moon (1999) 85 minutes
- Directed by Emiko Omori
- Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history
- Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) 94 minutes
- Directed by Phillip Noyce from a book by Doris Pilkington
- Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "chief protector of Aborigines," A.O. Neville, who is blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, an evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?
- Rosewood (1997) 140 minutes
- Directed by John Singleton
- Rosewood stars Ving Rhames as a man who travels to the town of Rosewood, Florida, and becomes a witness to the 1923 Rosewood massacre. The supporting cast includes Don Cheadle as Sylvester, who also became witness to the atrocities, and Jon Voight as a white store owner who inhabits a village near Rosewood. The three characters become entangled in a desperate attempt to save whomever they can from the rage of the racist whites of Rosewood. Although focused on an actual historical occurrence, much of the film is fiction.
- Students of Change Los de 68 (2009) 29 minutes
- Directed by Marta Sanchez and Mario Zavaleta
- In 1968, a group of Mexican-American youth left Yakima Valley and entered the University of Washington. This documentary is the universal story of overcoming social and economic obstacles.
- Crash (2004) 117 minutes
- Directed by Paul Haagis
- Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, that explore racial relations and the delicate balance between justice and injustice.
- The Visitor ( 2008)
- Directed by Thomas McCarthy
- The Namesake (2006)
- Directed by Mira Nair
- Grand Torino (2008)
- Directed by Clint Eastwood