AN UNUSUAL ROUTE: DIALOGUES AROUND SYSTEMIC REPRESENTATIONS
PLEASE NOTE: Live Virtual Events must be viewed from your computer/smartphone/tablet and are not available on your Apple TV or Roku Apps.
Join us for a thoughtful conversation about diversity, inclusion, and equity in America. Are you ready to discuss what equity could look like in America? We invite you to bring your questions for the Q&A and your vulnerability in this discussion.
Panelists include
Alina Luna
Professor of English and Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Internationalization Committee
Salif Mahamane
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Elizabeth Cobbins
Activist
Arvin Ramgoolam
Short Story Writer
Chloe Bowman
Activist and Educator
James Mills
Journalist
Steven Dunn
Author/Creative Writing Professor
Film List
These films compliment this discussion and we recommend watching them prior to the panel.
MOSSVILLE: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL
THAT'S WILD (plays as part of Outdoor Adventure Program 1)
THE USUAL ROUTE (plays at part of Narrative Shorts Program 1)
Resources
At Crested Butte Film Festival we believe that film can change lives. Every year we strive to create opportunities for participants to learn and have the opportunity to act during the festival. To accompany our panel “An Unusual Route: Dialogues Around Systemic Representations” and the films exploring race in America, we’ve developed a list of resources to support your journey toward anti-racism. This is not comprehensive by any means, but we hope this helps.
Five Ways You Can Support Equity:
- Join a local group working on these issues
- Read some of the texts below to educate yourself
- Donate to groups working to promote equity and justice
- Give your time, volunteer with advocacy groups
- Listen, learn, and be an advocate
Consultants:
Looking for help to improve your nonprofit or business approach to equity? Here’s a list of consultants who can support you. Here are a few consultants that can support you.
Regan Byrd Consulting (DENVER)
Advocacy Guides from other organizations:
BLM has several toolkits to help here.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has a Race, Equity, and Inclusion guide here.
Anti-Racism Texts:
Visit your local bookstore to find these titles. And, there are so many great lists out there. For instance, the author Ibram X. Kendi created this comprehensive list. Do your own search based on the information you are most interested in to find the books right for your journey.
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Notes of a Native Son
By James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
Me and White Supremacy
By Layla F. Saad
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
By Damon Young
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
By Saeed Jones
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
By Trevor Noah
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5)
By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
By Dána-Ain Davis
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
By Harriet A. Washington
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
By Alexis De Veaux
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
By The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Angelou, Maya
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By Danez Smith
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By Toni Morrison
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By Mikki Kendall
Antiracist Baby Board Book
By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia
AN UNUSUAL ROUTE: DIALOGUES AROUND SYSTEMIC REPRESENTATIONS
PLEASE NOTE: Live Virtual Events must be viewed from your computer/smartphone/tablet and are not available on your Apple TV or Roku Apps.
Join us for a thoughtful conversation about diversity, inclusion, and equity in America. Are you ready to discuss what equity could look like in America? We invite you to bring your questions for the Q&A and your vulnerability in this discussion.
Panelists include
Alina Luna
Professor of English and Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Internationalization Committee
Salif Mahamane
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Elizabeth Cobbins
Activist
Arvin Ramgoolam
Short Story Writer
Chloe Bowman
Activist and Educator
James Mills
Journalist
Steven Dunn
Author/Creative Writing Professor
Film List
These films compliment this discussion and we recommend watching them prior to the panel.
MOSSVILLE: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL
THAT'S WILD (plays as part of Outdoor Adventure Program 1)
THE USUAL ROUTE (plays at part of Narrative Shorts Program 1)
Resources
At Crested Butte Film Festival we believe that film can change lives. Every year we strive to create opportunities for participants to learn and have the opportunity to act during the festival. To accompany our panel “An Unusual Route: Dialogues Around Systemic Representations” and the films exploring race in America, we’ve developed a list of resources to support your journey toward anti-racism. This is not comprehensive by any means, but we hope this helps.
Five Ways You Can Support Equity:
- Join a local group working on these issues
- Read some of the texts below to educate yourself
- Donate to groups working to promote equity and justice
- Give your time, volunteer with advocacy groups
- Listen, learn, and be an advocate
Consultants:
Looking for help to improve your nonprofit or business approach to equity? Here’s a list of consultants who can support you. Here are a few consultants that can support you.
Regan Byrd Consulting (DENVER)
Advocacy Guides from other organizations:
BLM has several toolkits to help here.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has a Race, Equity, and Inclusion guide here.
Anti-Racism Texts:
Visit your local bookstore to find these titles. And, there are so many great lists out there. For instance, the author Ibram X. Kendi created this comprehensive list. Do your own search based on the information you are most interested in to find the books right for your journey.
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Notes of a Native Son
By James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
Me and White Supremacy
By Layla F. Saad
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
By Damon Young
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
By Saeed Jones
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
By Trevor Noah
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5)
By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
By Dána-Ain Davis
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
By Harriet A. Washington
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
By Alexis De Veaux
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
By The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Angelou, Maya
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By Danez Smith
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By Toni Morrison
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By Mikki Kendall
Antiracist Baby Board Book
By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia