Common Read 2021: The Fire This Time

A guide to provide context and support for Mt. Holyoke's 2021 Common Read

LITS Anti-Racism Research Guide
A curated sampling of books in the Mount Holyoke Library collection that illuminate the complex issues and history of racism
LITS anti-racism ebooks
A selection of ebooks available in the Mount Holyoke Library collection.
Other LITS Common Read Guides
Reading guides to accompany Mount Holyoke College's Common Read program
How the Word is Passed
2021 Building On Our Momentum (BOOM!) Community Day keynote address by Clint Smith, including a dialogue with Professor Lucas Wilson
Clint Smith's TED Talks
"The Danger of Silence" August 2014 and "How to Raise a Black Son in America" April 2015
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery (Learning for Justice)
"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."
Anti-Opression guide (Simmons University)
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.

MHC Resources & Self care

Office of Community and Belonging
"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."
BOOM! 2021
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
Be Well at Mount Holyoke
Links to Mount Holyoke campus resources for building a "healthy mind, a healthy body, a healthy community and a healthy life."