Diversity Video & Book Lending Library

The following videos and books are available for loan at the C.A.D. Office (104 SW Second Street, Corvallis, OR 97333)

That's a Family
Discussion/teaching guide. A highly entertaining half-hour documentary that breaks new ground in helping kids see and understanding many of the different shapes that families take today. Designed especially for children in elementary school. Explains concepts like "birth mom", "mixed race", "guardian", "gay and lesbian", and "step parent". Read more at www.womedia.org

The Way Home
Conversation guide. Over the course of eight months, sixty-four women, representing a cross-section of cultures in America, came together to share their experiences of oppression through the lens of race. Read more at www.world-trust.org

A Class Divided
Filmed 15 years after Eye of The Storm, this sequel explores what the children in Jane Elliott's daring classroom experiment learned about discrimination and how it still affects them today. Ms. Elliott meets with some of her former students to analyze the experiment in prejudice and its impact on their lives. Read more at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

The Collector of Bedford Street
A short documentary that follows Larry Selman, the film maker's 60 year old neighbor. A community activist and fundraiser with developmental disabilities, Larry raises thousands of dollars for charity every year while he lives at the poverty level. Because of Larry's 20 years of service to his neighborhood, the community created a supplemental need adult trust fund for him. This was the first time that a group, rather than an individual's family did this. The film humanizes the story behind the abstract statistics of mental retardation, revealing how a community builds tolerance and understanding. Read more at http://www.newday.com/films/CollectorOfBedfordSt.html

Starting Small
Conversation guide. Through lively classroom footage, teacher interviews, commentary from early childhood specialists, and the vivid voices of children, award-winning filmmaker Margie McGovern explores five equity education programs from Seattle to New Haven. The 58 minutes video is designed to promote staff discussion and personal reflection on effective ways of fostering respect for differences. Includes a 250 page book with chapters on real classroom communities. The stories describe in detail the rich variety of "teachable moments" that arise daily n the early childhood classroom around issues of equity, respect, and tolerance. Read more at http://www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp

Responding to Hate Crimes
A Roll Call Training Video for Police Officers. Produced by the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice. A twenty minute film covering major steps in responding to and investigating potential hate crimes.

Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice. Definitions, Causes, and Solutions
Edited by Robert Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum

Hate Hurts. How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
By Caryl Stern-LaRosa and Ellen Hofheimer Bettman.

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race.
By Beverly Daniel Tatum.

The Diversity Action Book, 143 Things to Go Do. A How-to Handbook for Everyone in Your Organization.
By Janet Crenshaw Smith.

Healing into Action. A Leadership Guide for Creating Diverse Communities.
By Cherie R. Brown and George J. Mazza.

Islam: A Way of Life
Compiled by Mohammed Siala, Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center, Corvallis, OR.

Free at Last. A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those who Died in the Struggle.
By Sarah Bullard.