• Bucher, R. D. (2010). Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures and Opportunities (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Connor, J. M., & Killian, D. (2012). Connecting Across Differences: Finding Common Ground with Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Encinitas, CA: Puddledanceer Press.
• Gaertner, S. L., & Dovidio, J. F. (2000). Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
• Levin, J. (2002). The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
• Levy, S. R., & Killen, M. (Eds.). (2010). Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Oskamp, S. (2000). Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Pittinsky, T. L. (2012). Us Plus Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.
• Stern-LaRosa, C. (2000). Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice. New York: Scholastic.

• Adams, M., Bell, L. A., & Griffin, P. (Eds.). (2007). Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Aronson, E., & Patnoe, S. (2011). Cooperation in the Classroom: The Jigsaw Method (3rd ed.). London: Pinter & Martin, Ltd.
• Cuyjet, M. J., Howard-Hamilton, M. F., & Cooper, D. L. (Eds.). (2011). Multiculturalism on Campus: Theory, Models, and Practices for Understanding Diversity and Creating Inclusion. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
• Derman-Sparks, L. (1989). Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
• Dilg, M. (2010). Our Worlds in Our Words: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Multicultural Classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Fox, H. (2009). "When Race Breaks Out": Conversations About Race and Racism in College Classrooms (rev. ed.). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
• Gay, G. (2010). Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (2nd ed.). New York: Teachers College Press.
• Goodman, D. J. (2011). Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Holsinger, K. (2012). Teaching Justice: Solving Social Justice Problems Through University Education. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.
• Marshall, P. L. (2002). Cultural Diversity in Our Schools. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
• Shade, B. J., Kelly, C., & Oberg, M. (1997). Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Stephan, W. G. (1999). Reducing Prejudice and Stereotyping in Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

• Carr-Ruffino, N. (1999). Diversity Success Strategies. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
• Gallos, J. V., & Ramsey, J. (1996). Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• Gardenswartz, L., & Rowe, A. (1994). The Managing Diversity Survival Guide: A Complete Collection of Checklists, Activities, and Tips/Book and Disk. Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Professional Pub.
• Loden, M. (1995). Implementing Diversity. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• McFarlin, D., & Sweeney, P. (2013). International Organizational Behavior: Transcending Borders and Cultures. New York: Routledge.
• Mor Barak, M. E. (2011). Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Rasmussen, T. (1996). Diversity: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Ross, H. J. (2011). Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Sonnenschein, W. (1999). The Diversity Toolkit: How You Can Build and Benefit from a Diverse Workforce. New York:
• Tolbert, A. S. (2002). Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling Your Head Out of the Sand. Bloomington, MN: Nasus Publishing.

• Batson, C. D. (2011). Altruism in Humans. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Ciaramicoli, A. P., & Ketcham, K. (2000). The Power of Empathy: A Practical Guide to Creating Intimacy, Self-Understanding, and Lasting Love in Your Life. New York: E. P. Dutton.
• Davis, M. H. (1994). Empathy: A Social Psychological Approach. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark Publishers.
• Eisenberg, N., & Mussen, P. (1989). The Roots of Prosocial Behavior in Children. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Hoffman, M. L. (2000). Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Howe, D. (2012). Empathy: What It Is and Why It Matters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ickes, W. (Ed.). (1997). Empathic Accuracy. New York: Guilford Press.
• Kohn, A. (1990). The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books.
• Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (Eds.). (2010). Prosocial Motives, Emotions, and Behavior: The Better Angels of Our Nature. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Perry, B. D., & Szalavitz, M. (2010). Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered. New York: William Morrow.

• Bobo, K., & Kendall, J., & Max, S. (2010). Organizing for Social Change (4th ed.). Orange County, CA: The Forum Press.
• Bornstein, D. (2007). How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (updated ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Brown, M. J. (2007). Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World. Chicago, IL: Long Haul Press.
• Cooney, N. (2011). Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change. New York: Lantern Books.
• Dutta, M. J. (2011). Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency. New York: Routledge.
• Earl, J., & Kimport, K. (2011). Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Trigg, M. K. (Ed.). (2010). Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Zandt, D. (2010). Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Scholarly Journals:

• Action Research (forum for participative, action-oriented inquiry)
• Intercultural Education (formerly European J. of Intercultural Studies)
• International Journal of Multicultural Education (open access)
• Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (APA journal)
• Multicultural Perspectives (National Assn. for Multicultural Education)
• Social Movement Studies: J. of Social, Cultural and Political Protest

Magazines, E-Zines, and Newsletters:

 Activism and Antiracism

• Center for Community Change Newsletter (emailed free)
• CJRC Newsletter (Community Justice Resource Center)
• ColorLines Magazine (on race, culture, and organizing)
• Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (print and e-magazine)
• Education Organizing (Center for Community Change)
• Facing History and Ourselves Community Newsletter (e-letter)
• Greenlining Institute Publications (also offers e-letters)
• Mix It Up Monthly (Southern Poverty Law Center E-letter)
• Profiles in Diversity Journal (print and e-magazine)
• RazaTeca Magazine (bilingual activist magazine)
• The Multiracial Activist (social and civil liberty activist journal)
• The Multiracial Activist Newsletter (digest of news, events, and more)
• Tolerance.org Online Newsletter (email-based)

 Diversity Training

• DiversityInc.com (web guide and print-based publication)
• DiversityInc Newsletter (free e-newsletter and news briefs)
• HireDiversity.com News (online digest)

Other Publications:

• Lehrman, S. (2005). News in a New America. Miami, FL: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
• Vanderhorst, G. (2002, January). Denouncing Racism: A Resource Guide of Faith-Based Principles. Washington, DC: National Conference for Community and Justice.
• Wessler, S., & Moss, M. (2001, October). Hate Crimes on Campus: The Problem and Efforts to Confront It (monograph NCJ 187249, Hate Crimes Series 3). Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice.

Articles and Essays:

 General Overviews on Prejudice Reduction

• Aboud, F. E., & Levy, S. R.. (1999). Reducing racial prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping: Translating research into programs. Journal of Social Issues, 55.
• Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (1999). Reducing prejudice: Combating intergroup biases. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 101-109.
• Hawley, W. D., Banks, J. A., Padilla, A. M., Pope-Davis, D. B., & Schofield, J. W. (1995). Strategies for reducing racial and ethnic prejudice: Essential principles for program design. In W. D. Hawley, A. W. Jackson, et al. (Eds.), Toward a Common Destiny: Improving Race and Ethnic Relations in America. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
• Monteith, M. J., Zuwerink, J. R., & Devine, P. G. (1994). Prejudice and prejudice reduction: Classic challenges, contemporary approaches. In P. G. Devine, D. L. Hamilton, & T. M. Ostrom (Eds.), Social Cognition: Impact on Social Psychology (pp. 323-346). San Diego: Academic Press.
• Monteith, M. J., & Voils, C. I. (2001). Exerting control over prejudiced responses. In G. B. Moskowitz (Ed.), Cognitive Social Psychology: The Princeton Symposium on the Legacy and Future of Social Cognition (pp. 375-388). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 Empathy and Perspective Taking

• Batson, C. D., Polcarpou, M. P., Harmon-Jones, E., Imhoff, H. J., Mitchener, E. C., & Bednar, L. L. (1997). Empathy and attitudes: Can feeling for a member of a stigmatized group improve feelings toward the group? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 105-118.
• Galinsky, A. D., & Moskowitz, G. B. (2000). Perspective-taking: Decreasing stereotype expression, stereotype accessibility, and in-group favoritism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 708-724.
• McGregor, J. (1993). Effectiveness of role playing and antiracist teaching in reducing student prejudice. Journal of Educational Research, 86, 215-226.
• Plous, S. (2000). Responding to overt displays of prejudice: A role-playing exercise. Teaching of Psychology, 27, 198-200.
• Stephan, W. G., & Finlay, K. (1999). The role of empathy in improving intergroup relations. Journal of Social Issues, 55, 729-743.

 The Contact Hypothesis

• Desforges, D. M., Lord, C. G., Ramsey, S. L., Mason, J. A., Van Leeuwen, M D., & West, S. C (1991). Effects of structured cooperative contact on changing negative attitudes toward stigmatized social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 531-544.
• Pettigrew, T. F. (1997). Generalized intergroup contact effects on prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 173-185.
• Wittig, M. A., & Grant-Thompson, S. (1999). The utility of Allport's conditions of intergroup contact for predicting perceptions of improved racial attitudes and beliefs. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 795-812.
• Wright, S. C., Aron, A., McLaughlin-Volpe, T., & Ropp, S. A. (1997). The extended contact effect: Knowledge of cross-group friendships and prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 73-90.

 Cooperative Learning Teachniques

• Aronson, E., & Gonzalez, A. (1988). Desegregation, jigsaw, and the Mexican-American experience. In P. A. Katz & D. A. Taylor (Eds.), Eliminating Racism: Profiles in Controversy (pp. 301-314). New York: Plenum Press.
• Slavin, R. E., & Cooper, R. (1999). Improving intergroup relations: Lessons learned from cooperative learning programs. Journal of Social Issues, 55, 647-663.
• Walker, I., & Crogan, M. (1998). Academic performance, prejudice, and the jigsaw classroom: New pieces to the puzzle. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 8, 381-393.

 Cognitive Dissonance and Prejudice Reduction

• Constans, H. P. (1983). To tip the scale against prejudice: The use of the theory of cognitive dissonance in the reduction of racial prejudice. Focus on Learning, 9, 18-24.
• Hing, L. S. S., Li, W., & Zanna, M. P. (2002). Inducing hypocrisy to reduce prejudicial responses among aversive racists. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 71-78.
• Leippe, M. R., & Eisenstadt, D. (1994). Generalization of dissonance reduction: Decreasing prejudice through induced compliance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 395-413.
• Rokeach, M. (1971). Long-range experimental modification of values, attitudes, and behavior. American Psychologist, 26, 453-459.

 Reducing Implicit Attitudes and Stereotypes

• Blair, I. V. (2002). The malleability of automatic stereotypes and prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 242-261.
• Blair, I. V., Ma, J. E., & Lenton, A. P. (2001). Imagining stereotypes away: The moderation of implicit stereotypes through mental imagery. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 828-841.
• Dasgupta, N., & Greenwald, A. G. (2001). On the malleability of automatic attitudes: Combating automatic prejudice with images of admired and disliked individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 800-814.
• Rudman, L. A., Ashmore, R. D., & Gary, M. L. (2001). "Unlearning" automatic biases: The malleability of implicit prejudice and stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 856-868.

 Other Topics

• Blanchard, F. A., Lilly, T., & Vaughn, L. A. (1991). Reducing the expression of racial prejudice. Psychological Science, 2, 101-105.
• Eberhardt, J. L., & Fiske, S. T. (1996). Motivating individuals to change: What is a target to do? In C. N. Macrae, C. Stangor, & M. Hewstone (Eds.), Stereotypes and Stereotyping (pp. 369-415). New York: Guilford Press.
• Stangor, C., Segrist, G. B., & Jost, J. T. (2001). Changing racial beliefs by providing consensus information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 486-496.
• Vrij, A., Van Schie, E., & Cherryman, J. (1996). Reducing ethnic prejudice through public communication programs: A social-psychological perspective. Journal of Psychology, 130, 413-420.

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