Window on the World

As an organization whose goal it is to eliminate hate crimes and hate speech from our Tampa Bay area, we stand in solidarity with the victims of hate crimes around the globe.

A recent report entitled “Minorities under Siege: the Case of St. Petersburg, Russia” by Human Rights First documents extremely serious incidents of hate-motivated violence – including murder – against the full array of Russia’s minorities, including people from the Caucasus, Central Asians, Africans, the Jewish community, people practicing “non-traditional” religions, the Roma, and sexual minorities.

On March 25, nine year old Lilian Sisoko, a Russian citizen of mixed heritage (her mother is Russian and her father is African) was stabbed in the neck and ear three times by two skinheads as she was entering her apartment building.

Anti-racism activists have also increasingly become targets of hate crimes. On November 13, 2005, 20 year old student, musician and anti-racism activist, Timur Kacharava, was attacked by a group of 10 young people and stabbed five times in the neck. He died shortly thereafter. He was well known for his activism against xenophobia and racism.

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We at Community Tampa Bay invite you to read up on our mission. Challenge yourself with a book from the list below to learn more about racism, ageism, sexism, religion, class, and other issues of diversity.

Diversity for Children

It’s Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr

The Different Dragon by Jennifer Bryan

A Day's Work by Eve Bunting

Be Boy Buzz by Bell Hooks

The Family Book by Todd Parr

Mother Earth by Nancy Luenn

Children of Native America Today by Yvonne Wakim Dennis

And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell

My Name Is Bilal by Asma Mobin-Uddin

All Kinds of Friends, Even Green! by Ellen B. Senisi

One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads by Johnny Valentine

It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte (Young Reader Fiction) by Pansie Hart Flood

Age

What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World by William H. Thomas

Failing Grades: How Schools Breed Frustration, Anger, and Violence, and How to Prevent It by H. Roy Kaplan

Ability

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

Disability, Society, and the Individual by Julie Smart

From Disability to Possibility: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms by Patrick Schwarz

Reflections from a Different Journey : What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew by Stanley Klein and John Kemp

Race/Race Relations

Brown: The last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriquez

Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for the 21st Century by Stedman Graham

Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation  by Tobin Miller Shearer

The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro

The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture by Bakari Kitwana

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races by Lena Williams

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by Bell Hooks

Living In Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America by Ed Morales

The Race Myth by Joseph Graves

The State of Black America, by the Urban League. To download the report, please click here.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America  by Paula J. Giddings

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist

Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Tag: The

International Bestseller by Nelson Mandela

It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races by Lena Williams

Religion

The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby

Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust  by Immaculee Ilibagiza

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Mere Christianity  by C. S. Lewis

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity by Ronald J. Sider

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter

Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History by Joseph Telushkin

What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam by John Esposito

Crescent, a Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber

Reel Bad Arabs, How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack Shaheen

Class/Privilege

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell

The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro

The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson

Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences by Charles E. Hurst

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son  by Tim Wise

Gender

Always My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter by Kevin Jennings and Pat Shapiro

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti

Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey by Betty Degeneres

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas

Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack

Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America  by Paula J. Giddings

Mass Atrocities

Night  by Elie Wiesel

Bent: The Play by Martin Sherman

"A Problem From Hell” – America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence In East Timor by Joseph Nevins