Diversity & Inclusion

Washington Campus Compact ( WACC Conference) 

• Native Cases Project - The mission of the Enduring Legacies Native Cases Initiative is t develop culturally relevant curriculum and teaching resources in the form of case studies on key issues in Indian Country.
• Naming the Moment: A Participatory Process of Political Analysis for Action. At its best, Naming the Moment combines a critical (and dialogic) understanding of both the structures of our world (political, economic, environmental cultural, etc.) and the fluid movement of forces that act to sustain those structures in hegemonic equilibrium.
• Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education - By offering a framework to integrate projects and people working under the umbrella of equity, diversity and inclusion with those working under the umbrella of community, public, and civic engagement, they aim to integrate both of these change agendas with efforts on campus to address the access and success of traditionally underserved students.
• Reconsidering the Inclusion of Diversity in the Curriculum - Students who have access to an educational experiece, but who feel excluded from the full experience struggle to lear as well as those who feel included. To create an inclusive learning environment throughout the curriculum and in all fields, all faculty members should consider how they are incorporating diversity into their courses and how they can be more inclusive in their teaching. This article offers a guide for faculty seeking ways to integrate diversity into their teaching.
• Diversity Assessment, Accountability, and Action: Going Beyond the Numbers  - The purpose of this article is to highlight approaches to and uses of diversity assessments with implications for organizational learning.
• The Diversity Scorecard - is an ongoing initiative designed to foster institutional change in higher education by helping to close the achievement gap for historically underrepresented students.
• Teaching for Diversity & Social Justice  - For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice.  Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice presents a well-constructed foundation for enaging the complex and often daunting problems of discrimination and inequality in American society. 

Activist-in-Residence (AiR) Workshops, Winter 2015 

• AiR Workshop I: "I Did Time - The Stories of the Impact of Our Expensive, Ineffective, and Unfair Criminal Justice Sysytem" - Come hear the real-life experiences of I Did The Time leaders and other supporters of Smart Justice Spokane - from addiction, mental illness, and the collateral consequences of conviction record to glimmers of hope for reforming the system!
• When: Thusday, January 29th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm
• Where: Monroe 205
• AiR Workshop II: "Criminal Justice Reform in Spokane: Our Smart Justice Vision" - As we see a national wave of organizing to end mass incarceration, Smart Justice Spokane is calling for racial equality, non-arrest & non-jail solutions, culturally apropriate mental health and chemical dependency treatment, restructuring the system and employment solutions. Panelists will present problems in our expensive, ineffective and unfair criminal justice system and key solutions to make our communities safe and healthy. 
• When: Thursday, February 12th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm
• Where: Monroe 205
• AiR Workshop III: "Crime, Injustice, and the Growing Police State" - Who is considered criminal in the US, and how has this changed throughout the US history? This interactive workshop examines the histoy of repressive policies aimed at poor and working-class communities in the US - especially communities of color - with regard o genocide, slavery, and social control. We will discuss attacks on activists and the many prisoners jailed for protesting or resisting opression, as well as the growth of the prison industry from prison consruction to privitization to prison labor. 
• When: Thursday, February 26th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm
• Where: Monroe 205 
• AiR Workshop IV: "Approaches to Activism: Making the Road by Walking" - Activism and organizing are how we shift the balance of power to change policy, culture, and structures. Seasoned community orgabnizers will discuss challenges and strategies including working in coalition across identity, mobilizing people experiencing oppression, being resonsible allies across privelege, and navigating for long-term transformation while achieving shorter-term victories. 
• When: Thursday, March 5th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm
• Where: Monroe 205

Justice System

Justice & Incaceration

Human Rights of the Incarcerated at Cal - HRI increases awareness of cycles of incarceration and the PIC in the UC Berkeley community and supports a netwrk of campus resources.

'Underground Scholars' reverse School-to-Prison Pipeline

New AC Big Ideas Course: 'Prison'

Go to Trial: Cash the Justice System - The New York Times, Sunday Review

Open Minds: Shared Inquiries, Shared Hope

Books & Articles

Smart Justice Spokane - The Smart Justice Program promotes a fair, efficient and safe public justice system and advocates for proven and efficient alternatives to concentration.

• Executive Summary: Recommendations for Administrative Structure of Spokane Regional Criminal Justice System
• Smart Justice Policy Recommendations 

Procedural Justice Resoures - Center for Court Innovation

• Why It Matters So Much (Video) - Yale Law Professor Tom Tyler on Procedural Justice 

Transformative Justice Strategies for Addressing Police/Vigilante/Hate/White Supremacist Violence - Andrea, Feb. 8, 2014

Against Carceral Feminism, Victoria Law - Jacobian Magazine, Oct. 17, 2014

The New Jim Crow, Introduction - Michelle Alexander (highly recommended by everyone)

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better - Interview with the author, Maya Schenwar, Nov. 14, 2014

• Introduction

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap - Matt Taibbi

Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice - Paul Butler

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

Responsibility for Justice - Iris Young

Videos

Brave New Films (with ACLUS & The Nation) - Overcriminalized Video Series focusing on alternatives to incarceration. Videos so far include discussion on Substance Abuse, Mental Illness and Homelessness.

Prison - John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, July 20, 2014 

Bill Moyers Interview with Michelle Alexander, Dec. 2013

System Failure - Ella Baker, Center for Human Rights

Learning from Our Mistakes: Transforming Juvenial Justice in CA - Ella Baker, Center for Human Rights 

Chescaleigh: 5 Tips for Being an Ally (Nov. 5, 2014)

Organizations

Procedural Justice Resources - Center for Court Innovation

Women's Prison Association 

• Recommended Reading from WPA

Black & Pink - LGBTQ prisoners and free world allies working toward abolition of Prison Industrial Complex 

Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

INCITE! - INCITE! works with groups of women of color and our communities to develop political projects that address the multiple forms of violence women of color experience in their lives, on their bodies and in their communities. They identify "violence against women of color" as a combination of "violence directed at communities," such as police violence, war, and colonialism, and "violence within communities," such as sexual and domestic violence.