Middlebury Antiracism Resources
Middlebury Institute, Monterey
To learn more about antiracism initiatives at the Institute, please visit:
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Office of the Chief Diversity Officer
- BiblioDiversity library initiative
We also encourage you to visit the Institute’s event calendar for information on guest speakers, workshops, and more.
Middlebury College, Vermont
To learn more about antiracism initiatives at the College, please visit:
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Practices for Teaching Diversity and Social Justice
- Action Plan for Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Inclusive Practitioners Program
- Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research
We also encourage you to visit the College’s event calendar for information on guest speakers, workshops, and more.
Antiracist Practices & the DLINQ Online Course Design Rubric
DLINQ has developed the Middlebury Online Course Design rubric to articulate the core components of good online course design, as well as specific elements to attend to while creating an online course. We have updated the rubric to incorporate antiracist practices and resources into the six different components of the rubric. The newly added practices specific to antiracism include:
- Add a Diversity & Inclusion statement to your syllabus.
- Include learning outcomes aimed at asking students to interrogate their own biases.
- Learn and share how bias is embedded in design decisions.
- Ensure content reflects diverse viewpoints. Diverse content should take an asset-based approach to marginalized communities.
- Raise awareness about the potential for implicit biases.
- Develop strategies for checking microaggressions.
- Model constructive, respectful feedback for peer review.
- In community building exercises, be attuned to cultural, socioeconomic, and other differences when asking students to reveal information about themselves.
- Encourage self-assessment and provide opportunities for students to give you feedback throughout the course.
- Ensure students have access to all the required technology and use Open Educational Resources (OER) as often as possible.
- Create awareness of bias in tech design, data, and algorithms.
DLINQ Studios
DLINQ’s Studios offer opportunities for students and faculty to critically engage with and research emerging digital practices and technology for the purpose of social impact. Studios are designed to be exploratory, project-oriented, and to provide opportunities within and outside of the formal curriculum.
As they work with DLINQ’s Studios, students and faculty develop digital literacies and practices that prepare them to shape their worlds, even as technologies and their impacts change. Mentorship and guidance as part of Studio projects are key to this outcome. Mentorship and guidance are provided by the DLINQ Studio lead, though members/fellows are also key contributors to ongoing learning in the Studio.
The below two studios specifically explore issues of social justice and inclusivity.
Online Teaching and Learning Antiracism Resources
Online learning and digital spaces can perpetuate social inequities and biases. We feel it is necessary to highlight antiracist pedagogical resources broadly and to emphasize the importance of antiracist practices in online learning specifically.

- Critical data literacy tools for advancing data justice: A guidebook from the Data Justice Lab (June 2020)
- Student-generated, Annotated List of Resources on Trauma-Informed, Antiracist Pedagogy and Remote Teaching and Learning, Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, Created by Bryn Mawr and Haverford College TLI Student Partners, Summer 2020
- Anti-Racist Critical Design
- Design Justice
- Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 6 Quick Ways to Be More Inclusive in a Virtual Classroom
- Cameras Optional, Please! Remembering Student Lives As We Plan Our Online Syllabus
- Unmasking Racism: Students of Color and Expressions of Racism in Online Spaces by Rob Eschmann published in Social Problems
- Racism in a networked world: How groups and individuals spread racist hate online

- Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton McIlwain
- Race after Technology by Ruha Benjamin
- Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy by Cathy O’Neil
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
- Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Marie Hicks
- Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard

- Safiya Noble: Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression (length: 12 minutes, 18 seconds)
- Ruha Benjamin in conversation about “The New Jim Code” (length: 24 minutes, 35 seconds)