Social Justice Resources

Language

The language of diversity is an organic one that is constantly evolving, requires awareness and understanding, and serves as a vehicle for promoting cohesion and partnership.  Alternately, it can be a tool for creating and maintaining divisions across differences that, in turn, create confusion, and inflame controversy and hostility. Words and their multiple uses and meanings, including the emotional reactions that accompany them, reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our community and society. Having a common language for talking about and across differences is essential to the well-being of every individual and our collective humanity. To that end, in the spirit Bellarmine's mission and vision, learn how we define diversity, equity and inclusion. For other terminology related to these three fundamental concepts, we offer the following published glossaries. 

• DEI eXtension: What is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)?  
• Equity vs. Equality and Other Racial Justice Definitions
• Human Rights Campaign – Definitions

Literature

Collective works included but not limited to various journals, (non-opinion) articles, anthologies, compilations, published text, novels or other peer-reviewed literary subject matter. These resources encompass areas of allyship, social justice, racial justice, historical archives, and DEI initiatives. The audience may find the works to reflect research, book genres, and other methodological points of view.

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Wilder
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race by Ian Haney López
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• Works Connecting Thomas Merton and Racial Justice

Opinion Editorials

These pieces are from a variety of periodicals relating to the subjective point of view of the author. Sources may include online journals, magazines, newspapers, or other similar sources. The views expressed are individual to the writer and may contain subject matter surrounding social justice, racial justice, allyship, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and personal circumstances relating to these areas.

• Forbes: We Must Step Up for Black People Right Now - Here's How
• Learning for Justice: Self-care Can Be Social Justice
• Medium: Violence Never Works? Really?
• Protect Your Energy: Canned Responses When Calling in Black Is Not Enough
• Refinery29: Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
• SELF Magazine: Advice for Black People from a Black Therapist
• Sojourners: For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies
• Wake Up Call by Katie Couric: A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources 

Additional Resources

The following resources were curated to provide support related to wellness, self-care, and healing for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), people of varying abilities, people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community, and more. Furthermore, this section provides resources on allyship, racial trauma response, social justice, and more, with connections to local and national community organizations.

• American Psychiatric Association: APA's Apology to BIPOC for its Support of Structural Racism in Psychiatry
• Black Lives Matter
• Black Mental Wellness, Corp.
• Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
• Change Today, Change Tomorrow Inc.
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Fairness Campaign
• Kentucky Alliance
• Kentuckians For the Commonwealth
• Learning for Justice
• Louisville Urban League
• National Museum of African American History and Culture: Talking about Race
• Root Cause Research Center
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
• Spalding University: Collective Care at the Center for Behavioral Health
• Teaching Tolerance

Do you have a resource to add to this page? Reach out to the Interim Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officers at lmaxie@bellarmine.edu and jmarie@bellarmine.edu.