Our library has build a specific collection for multiculturalism and diversity training. Following are some books and videos that you can borrow from the library.

Books

• Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression. Bishop, Anne. 1994. Haliax: Frenwood Publishing.
  Abstract: This book attempts to answer questions like: Where does oppression come from? Has it always been with us, just "human nature"? What can we do to change it? What does individual healing jave to do with struggles for social justice? What does social justice have to do with individual healing? Why do members of the same oppresssed group fight each other, sometimes viciously than they fight their oppressor? Why do some who experience oppression develop a life-long commitment to fighting it while others turn around and oppress others?

• Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. Walker, Rebecca. 2001. New York: Riverhead Books.
  Abstract: Rebecca Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol--and offers a new look at the cjhallenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.

• Developing Intercultural Awareness: A Cross-Cultural Training Handbook. Kohls, L. Robert and John M. Knight. 1994. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press Inc.
  Abstract: The women on this volume provide critical and personal examinations of the racism embedded in health care and other structures of power, and in feminism.

• Racism in the Lives of Women: Testimony, Theory, and Guides to Antiracist Practice. Adkenabm, Jeanne.1995. New York, London: Harrington Park Press.
  Abstract: This book, presented in twenty--one "Resource" sections, is still given over to the training materials themselves, including simulation games, case studies, and ice-breaking, values, communications, and other exercises. This is a rich, new resources for intercultural educators and trainers working in virtually and setting.

• Respecting Our Differences: A Guide to Getting Along in a Changing World. Duvall, Lynn. 1994. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit publishing Inc.
  Abstract: This book invites you to become more tolerant of others and enjoy the rich variety of our changing culture. You'll meet students from across the country who are working to promote tolerance in their schools and communities.

Videos

• A Class Divided.
      This film revisits a group of adults who, as third-graders, were featured in the 1970 documentary. 'The Eye of the Storm', and exceptional exercise in discrimination. The dynamics, prevalence and effects of discrimination are brought home in a chilling manner through the actions of children who turn against their friends within fifteen minutes of being divided in to blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups. As adults, they discuss how this exercise has affected their lives.

• Difference, Yet the Same: A Look into Canadian Cultures Today.
      The video explores the diversity of Canada's multicultural mosaic through immigrant eyes. As the title of the series suggests, each of the nine documentaries focuses on the uniqueness of Chinese, Chilean, Filipino, Indian, Iranian, Jamaican, Lebanese, Polish and Somali cultures, but at the same time reveals the shared aspirations of culturally diverse people to make Canada their home.

• Valuing Diversity
    The program is meant to be self-contained, a valuable experience when viewed "off the shelf" by audiences without a trainer or teacher. The films are rich with contenct that may be more fully developed in a classroom or training program. A teacher or trainer can help viewers deal constructively with their reactions to the films.
      part 1: Managing Differences
      Part 2: Diversity at Work
          This part is specifically for employees - including managers - who are concerned with their own advancement and their relationships with peers and superiors. Managers will also benefit by gaining greater insight into the issues facing employees who are striving to make a contribution and advance within the organization.
      Part 3: Communicating Across Cultures
          This part if for everyone. Good communication among managers and employees is essential to all enterprise. It also can be shown to all those involved in sales, customer service, community relations, and any other contract outside the organization.
      Part 4: You Make the Difference
      Part 5: Supervising Differences
  

• What's Offensive
     Short excerpts from a number of people who describe how they are repeatedly offended in society with respect to issues of racism, sexual discrimination, stereotypes and phsical appearance.