Explore these resources for further learning.
Equity and inequity impact everyone—no exceptions. For this reason, each of us has a responsibility to learn the history and ramifications of injustice and bias. Everyone has a different learning style, and the resources listed below exist in diverse formats to meet varied needs, interests, and abilities. This list is necessarily non-exhaustive, and will reflect different viewpoints or ways of thinking. For even more resources, or to explore these resources in alternative formats, visit the Vermont Department of Libraries and the ABLE Library catalogue.
For Everyone
- Action & Allyship Guide
- Language Access Information
- Impact Assessment Tool and accompanying Webinar
For State of Vermont Leaders & Employees
- 2023 ORE Recommendations for State Advisory Bodies - Guidance on how to create and support equitable workgroups.
- SOV - Racial Equity Team in MS Teams: Join the team for daily discussion posts, resources, and professional development opportunities.
- Cultural Observances Calendar: View the shared calendar in Outlook to see upcoming cultural observances.
For Local and Community Leaders
Suggested Media
Resources on Age-Appropriate Learning
- “Ten Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Sexism and Racism” from Teaching Tolerance
- “Beyond the Golden Rule” from Teaching Tolerance
- Inclusive children’s holiday books: See the following list of holiday books. This list will be occasionally updated.
TITLE
AUTHOR
HOLIDAY(S)
December's Gift
Smith-Santos; Bitton
Multiple
Hanukkah Bear
Kimmel
Hannukah
Maple Syrup Season
Purmell
Secular
The Snow Day
Sakai
Secular
Tree of Cranes
Say
Christmas
The Christmas Truck
Blankenship
Christmas
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
Sidman; Allen
Secular
The Shortest Day
Cooper
Solstice
Sky Sisters
Waboose
Secular
Grandma's Gift
Velasquez
Christmas
Shubh Diwali
Soundar
Diwali
Together for Kwanzaa
Ford
Kwanzaa
Under the Christmas Tree
Grimes
Christmas
A World of Cookies for Santa
Furman
Christmas
The Best Eid Ever
Mobin-Uddin
Eid
Media by topic
Topic
Title
Format
Advanced Analysis & White Allyship
“White Fragility” by Robin Diangelo
Book
“How to be an Anti-Racist” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Book
“Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book
“So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
Book
“The Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
Thought / Discussion Activity
“The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson”
Film
Indigenous History & Culture
“The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600–1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People” by Colin Calloway
Book
“The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation” by Frederick Matthew Wiseman
Book
“An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Book
Culture / International
“Rough Translation”
Podcast
Housing & Segregation
“Evicted” by Matthew Desmond
Book
“The Color of Law”
Book
“A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America”
Podcase episode
Film
“The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power” by Dierdre Mask
Book
Criminal Justice
“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander
Book
“Caught” by Marie Gottschalk
Book
“The House I Live In”
Film
Civil Rights Movement
“March” series by John Lewis
Comic / Graphic Novel
“Selma”
Film
Historical Figures
“Hidden Figures”
Film
“Loving”
Film
“The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle”
Film
“The Legacy Of Civil Rights Leader Fred Korematsu”
Podcast episode
Slavery & its Economic Legacy
“Chronology: Who Banned Slavery When?”
Article
“13th”
Film
“Roots”
Film
“12 Years a Slave”
Film
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Article
U.S. History
“The 1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Web series
“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn
Book
Personal Stories
“The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
Book
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book
#RealizedIWasBlack
Hashtag
“American Born Chinese” by Gene Luen Yang
Comic / Graphic Novel
“The White Flight of Derek Black”
Article
“How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time”
TEDTalk
Vermont-specific
“The History Of Slavery In Vermont, Across New England”
Article
“A Stranger in the Kingdom”
Film
“Green Mountains racial history isn’t black and white”
Article
Education / Youth
"Culturally Responsive School Leadership" by Muhammad Khalifa
Book
“The Hate U Give”
Book; Film
“Teaching to Transgress” by bell hooks
Book