Common Read 2021: The Fire This Time

A curated sampling of books in the Mount Holyoke Library collection that illuminate the complex issues and history of racism

A selection of ebooks available in the Mount Holyoke Library collection.

Reading guides to accompany Mount Holyoke College's Common Read program

2021 Building On Our Momentum (BOOM!) Community Day keynote address by Clint Smith, including a dialogue with Professor Lucas Wilson

"The Danger of Silence" August 2014 and "How to Raise a Black Son in America" April 2015

"In these short, streaming films, historians and scholars explore the undertaught history of African and Indigenous enslavement, explain critical concepts, and share recovered narratives that can help students better understand the individual and collective impact—and the damaging legacy—of hundreds of years of American slavery."

A guide to general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion and social justice issues from the Simmons University Beatley Library. See especially the guide's Anti-racism page which has sections on What does racism look like?, Support Resources for People of Color and Native Folks, and Informational Resources for Allies.

"At Mount Holyoke, promoting “a beloved community“ by cultivating an inclusive and socially just campus environment for all is a priority. The office of Community and Belonging provides programs that support social justice education, dialogue, celebration and identity development including intersectionality, as well as increasing understanding of the role that liberatory consciousness, religion, ethics and spirituality play when working toward reconciliation, racial healing and transformative justice."

The fifth annual BOOM!, Mount Holyoke College’s annual community day of learning, featured an unprecedented lineup of authors, artists and activists who came to present, perform and engage in dialogue about the work of diversity, equity and inclusion on Mount Holyoke’s campus and beyond

Links to Mount Holyoke campus resources for building a "healthy mind, a healthy body, a healthy community and a healthy life."