Diversity | Equity | Inclusion Resources at Truman College

• Coastson, J. (2019, May 28). The intersectionality wars. Vox. When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.
• Cooper, T. (2021, February 23). Spotlighting the Intersection of Black and Transgender Identities. Human Rights Campaign. This post is the second of a two-part series focusing on Black History Month through the lens of Black trans women. Read Part One here.
• HRC Staff. (2021, February 22). HRC Honors Frances Thompson, a Black Transgender Hero. Human Rights Campaign. This post is the first of a two-part series focusing on Black History Month through the lens of Black trans women. Read Part Two here: https://www.hrc.org/news/spotlighting-the-intersection-of-black-and-transgender-identities
• Human Rights Campaign. (n.d.) Resources: Tools for Equality and Inclusion. Human Rights Campaign. Our goal at the Human Rights Campaign is to ensure that every LGBTQ+ person is free to live their life openly, with their equal rights ensured. We know that goal requires that we keep educating, supporting and inspiring ourselves and each other. In the spirit of that continual growth, we’ve compiled information and advice on a range of topics, including resources from the HRC Foundation.
• The Learning Network. (2020, June 10). Over 60 New York Times Graphs for Students to Analyze. The New York Times. A collection of graphs, maps and charts organized by topic and graph type from three years of “What’s Going On in This Graph?”
• Lebron, C. (2016, January 15). The Invisibility of Black Women. Boston Review. Black women go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.
• Lewis, J. A., et al. (2018, September 18). Intersectionality Theory and Microaggressions: Implications for Research, Teaching, and Practice. In Gina C Torino, et al. (Eds.), Microaggression Theory: Influence and Implications (pp. 48-64). John Wiley & Son This chapter highlights intersectionality theory and ways to apply an intersectional analysis to research on microaggressions. It focuses on microaggressions with special attention to intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, and religion. Given the importance of making the "invisible visible" in the study of microaggressions, the chapter reviews on research that highlights the impact of intersectional microaggressions on the health of historically marginalized groups. It also highlights directions for future microaggression research that centers an intersectional analysis in the psychological study of people with intersecting identities. The chapter also provides recommendations for educators to engage in intersectional pedagogy. It ends with recommendations for practitioners to better understand intersectional microaggressions to become more culturally competent in their clinical work. The chapter argues that the provided recommendations for research, teaching, and clinical practice are helpful as psychologists seek to apply intersectionality theory to experiences of microaggressions.
• Morris, C. (2021, July 28). Intersectionality, the key to effective DEI initiatives. Includr. Understanding race and intersectionality is critical to building DEI.
• Palmer, B.J. (2018, November 8). The Crossroads: Being Black, Immigrant, and Undocumented in the Era of #Blacklivesmatter. Race, Racism and The Law. Excerpted from: Breanne J. Palmer, The Crossroads: Being Black, Immigrant, and Undocumented in the Era of #Blacklivesmatter, 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 99 (Spring, 2017) (Note) (133 Footnotes) (Full Document: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/gjmodco9&div=9&id=&page=)
• Rainey, et al. (2018). Race and gender differences in how sense of belonging influences decisions to major in STEM. International Journal of STEM Education, 5(10). Abstract Background: Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in most STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed 201 college seniors, primarily women and people of color, who either majored in STEM or started but dropped a STEM major. Here we discuss one section of the longer interview that focused on students’ sense of belonging, which has been found to be related to retention. In our analysis, we examine the intersections of race and gender with students’ sense of belonging, a topic largely absent from the current literature. Results: We found that white men were most likely to report a sense of belonging whereas women of color were the least likely. Further, we found that representation within one’s STEM sub-discipline, namely biology versus the physical sciences, impacts sense of belonging for women. Four key factors were found to contribute to sense of belonging for all students interviewed: interpersonal relationships, perceived competence, personal interest, and science identity. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that students who remain in STEM majors report a greater sense of belonging than those who leave STEM. Additionally, we found that students from underrepresented groups are less likely to feel they belong. These findings highlight structural and cultural features of universities, as well as STEM curricula and pedagogy, that continue to privilege white males. Keywords: Gender, Race, Belonging, Intersectional, Retention, Representation
• Gamio Cuervo, A. B. (2016, Summer). Latinx: A Brief Handbook. Princeton LGBT Center. Princeton LGBT Center Online Resource -- adopted by LGBT+ and cultural organizations nationally.

• Crenshaw, K. (n.d.). The Urgency of Intersectionality [Video]. TED. (TED Talk) Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
• Crenshaw, K. Intersectionality Matters! [Podcast]. (n.d.). Apple. Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

• Chaplin, L.N. (2021, March 8). How to Disrupt a System That Was Built to Hold You Back. Harvard Business Review. In almost every industry, women of color receive less support, and experience double standards, microaggressions, and unconscious bias.