The recent murder of George Floyd and the resulting protests against racism and police brutality not only in the USA but also throughout Europe has been an important reminder of how discrimination, systemic racism and violence against different parts of the population is still present. These are issues that we as higher music education institutions also have to face and talk about. We from the Working Group on Diversity, Inclusion and Identity have compiled a list of some useful resources which might help in moving the conversation forward within your institutions:

Texts dealing with music, arts and racism

• Brown, Danielle. 2020. An Open Letter on Racism in Music Studies. My People Tell Stories. https://www.mypeopletellstories.com/blog/open-letter (accessed 13.06.2020).
• Ermolaeva, Katya. 2019. Dinah, Put Down Your Horn: Blackface Minstrel Songs Don’t Belong in Music Class. Medium – Gen. https://gen.medium.com/dinah-put-down-your-horn-154b8d8db12a (accessed 13.06.2020).
• Nwonka, Clive. 2019. The arts were supposed to champion diversity. What went wrong? The Guardian, 15.02., https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/15/arts-diversity-arts-council-england-inequality (accessed 13.06.2020).
• Miller, Monica R. 2016. Black Lives Matter & The Mo(ve)ment of Black Life in America. In: fiph Journal Nr. 28/Oct.2016
  https://fiph.de/veroeffentlichungen/journale/cover-downloads/fiph_026_RZ_Journal_Ausgabe_28_Monica_Miller.pdf?m=1570630394& 

Online resources dealing with music

• We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence (NPR) – https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883334741/we-insist-a-century-of-black-music-against-state-violence
• Decolonizing the Music Room – https://decolonizingthemusicroom.com
• Black Lives Matter Capsule (Berklee) – https://berkleecdei.com/black-lives-matter-capsule

Online resources

• 8 Ways Teachers Can Address White Supremacy in the Classroom –https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/8-ways-teachers-can-address-white-supremacy-in-the-classroom 
• Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education – https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/white-students-multicultural-ed/ 
• A Look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions – https://www.edutopia.org/article/look-implicit-bias-and-microaggressions 
• Curriculum for White Americans – http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/ 
• How Should I Talk about Race in My Mostly White Classroom? https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/how-should-i-talk-about-race-in-my-mostly-white-classroom 
• Experiences with Race and Racism – https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/lesson-plans/experiences-with-race-and-racism 
• After Charlottesville: Teaching about Racism, Antisemitism and White Supremacy – https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/after-charlottesville-teaching-about-racism-antisemitism
• Avoiding Microaggressions in Classrooms and Online – https://collegeeducated.com/resources/avoiding-microaggressions-in-classrooms-and-online/ 

Videos

• Systemic Racism Explained – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO\_bdQ 
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on words that don’t belong to everyone – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO15S3WC9pg 
• What is Systemic Racism? Videos – https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism
• Intersectionality explained – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDtnfQ9FHc
• Teaching Tolerance Interviews Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility in the Classroom – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxNjdewAAA

General Books and text

• Ahmed, Sara. 2012. On Being Included – Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham, London: Duke University Press.
• Ataman, Ferda. 2019. Ich bin von hier. Hört auf zu fragen! Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag.
• Aydemir, Fatma, and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, eds. 2019. Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum. 7. ed. Berlin: Ullstein.
• Hasters, Alice. 2019. Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen: aber wissen sollten. 4. ed. Berlin: hanserblau.
• Ogette, Tupoka. 2017. Exit Racism: rassismuskritisch denken lernen. 2nd revised ed. Münster: Unrast.
• Vassiliou-Enz, Konstantina, Ferda Ataman, Alice Lanzke, Sina Laubenstein, and Shion Kumai, eds. 2019. NdM-Glossar Wörterverzeichnis der Neuen deutschen Medienmacher*innen (NdM) mit Formulierungshilfen, Erläuterungen und alternativen Begriffen für die Berichterstattung in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. 8th revised ed. Berlin: Neue deutsche Medienmacher e.V. – https://www.neuemedienmacher.de/Glossar_Webversion.pdf 
• Wolf, Gisela, and Jutta Goltz, eds. 2015. Woher komme ich? Reflexive und methodische Anregungen für eine rassismuskritische Bildungsarbeit. Diakonisches Werk der evangelischen Kirche in Württemberg e.V. – www.diakonie-wuerttemberg.de/rassismuskritische-bildungsarbeit
• Miller, Monica. 2016. Black Lives Matter & the Mo(ve)ment of Black Life in America. fiph-Journal 28 (Schwerpunktthema Rassismus): 15-23, https://fiph.de/veroeffentlichungen/journale/cover-downloads/fiph_026_RZ_Journal_Ausgabe_28_Monica_Miller.pdf?m=1570630394& (accessed 13.06.2020).
• The Guardian: Racism in universities is a systemic problem https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/23/racism-in-universities-is-a-systemic-problem-not-a-series-of-incidents
• Book: Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319746296

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This article is a part of the publication titled How are diverse cultures integrated in the education of musicians across Europe? Other chapters can be found here.