Social Justice Work and Resources
SOLES for Social Justice
Why This Work is Important and Urgent
Social justice is the belief that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities. SOLES enacts that belief at the intersection of scholarship and praxis. As we educate and train our students, we are responsible for contextualizing how resources, privileges, and opportunities have not been equitable in our society. It is only then that we can authentically prepare our students to work toward a more socially just world.
This website is a space for studying intersecting forms of oppression that exist across our nation and the globe. Honoring the present moment, our current theme will focus on race and anti-racism in higher education. It houses a variety of curated resources around this theme including readings, videos, book club selections, podcasts, and initiatives for and led by faculty in order to elevate critically conscious understandings and practices in this area.
Current Opportunities
STARS Training
Resources
SOLES understands that we are all entering this work from different places. Below are resources for those different areas. This section will be updated periodically. If you have suggestions to include for others to review, please fill out this google form.
Resources for Self-Study
- McIntosh, P. White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack.
- Ibram X. Kendi’s TED talk - The difference between not racist and anti-racist
- Podcast - 1619 Project
- Grad School Confidential Podcast
Resources for Understanding Power, Privilege, and Racism in Higher Education/K-12
- Grosfoguel, R. (2013). The structure of knowledge in westernized universities: Epistemic racism/sexism and the four genocides/epistemicides of the long 16th century. Human architecture: Journal of the sociology of self-knowledge, 11 (1), 73-90.
- Harper, S. (2012). Race without racism: How higher education researchers minimize racist institutional norms. The review of higher education, 26 (1), 9-29.
- Spencer, Joi PhD and Ullucci, Kerri A. PhD, "A Resource Guide for Schools and Districts: Addressing Racism in the Education System" (2020). School of Leadership and Education Sciences: Faculty Scholarship. 6.
Resources for Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Resources for Having Dialogue on Race with Students
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James Baldwin’s A Talk to Teachers