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Welcome to the CCNY Architecture Library page on diversity, equity, and inclusion! This guide includes resources on race, gender, justice within the built environment, and cultural competence in the hiring process. A portion of the content was Adapted from Columbia University’s Race and the Built Environment guide and Dr. Cris Clifford Cullinan’s manual on Hiring for Cultural Competence.
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Browse, Borrow, and Read more! Topics range from race relations to social justice, antiracism, and cultural diversity in hiring practices. The resources are selective and include both electronic and print materials. For similar titles, Explore: City College OneSearch. Contact the Architecture Librarian at any time with suggestions or recommendations.
Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives by 
The Equity Myth by 
Black Faculty in the Academy by 
Written/Unwritten by 
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From Equity Talk to Equity Walk by
A practical guide for achieving equitable outcomes From Equity Talk to Equity Walk offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes.
Critical Perspectives on International Education by
The book represents important epistemic interventions that analyze and critique the institutional, socio-economic, linguistic and pedagogical platforms of international education.
Putting Diversity to Work by
This book focuses on the business case and best practices for bringing the best out of all kinds of people. It is written for people who manage people and care for the places in which people work.
Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs by
This edition introduces an updated model of student affairs competence that reflects the professional competencies identified by ACPA and NASPA (2015) and offers a valuable approach to dealing effectively with increasingly complex multicultural issues on campus. To reflect the significance of social justice, the updated model of multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills now includes multicultural action and advocacy and speaks directly to the need for enhanced perspectives, tools, and strategies to create inclusive and equitable campuses.
Tearing down the Gates by
Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of American education that shows how schools, colleges, and universities exacerbate inequality by providing ample opportunities for advantaged students while shutting the gates on the poor--and even the middle class.
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders by
In this timely study, a team of political scientists examines how the arrival of these newcomers has affected the efforts of long-standing minority groups---Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Pacific Americans---to gain equality through greater political representation and power.
Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: from the Radical Right to Globalization by
Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political interests of dominant groups.
The Black Skyscraper by 
Race and Modern Architecture by
Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism.
Race in Play by
James takes the reader on an edifying walk through the structural and institutional communities that support and sustain sports, while also examining individual links between sport, schooling, and the educational and career aspirations of youth.
How to Be an Antiracist by
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas--from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities--that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Mismatch by
In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods--designing objects with rather than for excluded users--can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all.
