About
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Resources
The following titles provide background and information on these topics:
Ability & Disability
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
Child Development
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Class & Socio-Economic Status
Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Culture & Heritage
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries by Sherine Hafez
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History by Massoud Hayoun
Muslims and the Making of America by Amir Hussain
The Other Americans: A Novel by Laila Lalami
Hidden Recipes: A Holocaust Memoir by Eva Moreimi
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds by David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Reken, and Michael V. Pollock
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden Turner
Gender
The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich by Victoria Bateman
The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes by Diane Ehrensaft
Identity
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Appiah
Immigrant & Refugee Experiences
Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 by Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Invasive Species by Marwa Helal
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
The Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia
Inclusion
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
LGBTQ+
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics by Brett Krutzsch
Microaggressions & Bias
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Recognizing Microaggressions by Nadra Nittle
Recognizing Microaggressions by Nadra Nittle
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation by Derald Wing Sue
Politics
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture by Ed Morales
Religion
Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras by Diana L. Eck
A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly
Why did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-faith World by Brian D. McLaren
Race
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Robert Takaki
A People’s Story of the United States by Howard Zinn
Robinson’s Bookshelf
Robinson’s Bookshelf features recommendations on various DEI topics from Jason Robinson, Head of School.
By David Blight
In studying the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Race and Reunion identifies a pattern of thought that impeded racial progress at the time and still does so today. We have a tendency to submerge and avoid difficult conversations about race because of concerns that doing so will be divisive and undermine unity. Advocates of racial justice, both during Reconstruction and today, value unity as well, but see unity as something we can only achieve — in a true and lasting sense — if we work “through” racial issues, rather than avoiding them. As Dr. King said: “True peace is not the absence of tension but the presence of justice.”
Children’s Corner
Children’s Corner features books on various DEI topics for school-aged children.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
St. Albans School
Phone: 202-537-6435
Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.