Education Materials
Articles to Read
- ”The 1917 Project.” Nikole Hannah Jones, The New York Times.
- “Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites.” Robin DiAngelo, 2016.
- “A Critique of ‘Our Constitution Is Color-Blind.’” Neil Gotanda, 1991.
- “The Case for Reparations.” Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989.
- Harvard’s Implicit Bias Test
- “Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought.” Patricia Hill Collins, 1986.
- “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory.” Angela P. Harris, 1990.
- Racism Defined. Dismantling Racism.
- “Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law’s Response to Racism.” Patricia Williams, 1987.
- “The Subtle Linguistics of White Supremacy.” Yawo Brown, 2015.
- “Welcome to The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed.” Ijeoma Oluo, 2017.
- “White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement.” Robin Diangelo, 2015.
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Peggy McIntosh, 1989.
- “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?”, Derrick A. Bell, 1995.
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” Ibram X. Kendi
- “The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to my White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn.” Rachel Ricketts, 2019.
Books to Read
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- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander.
- Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. Barbara Applebaum.
- I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing. Maya Angelou
- The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin.
- Giovanni’s Room. James Baldwin.
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements. Charlene A. Carruthers.
- Queenie. Candace Carty-Williams.
- Other Side of Paradise. Staceyann Chin.
- Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Brittney Cooper.
- Women, Race, & Class. Angela Y. Davis
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race. Robin DiAngelo
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Bad Feminist. Roxane Gay
- Homegoing. Yaa Gyasi.
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Patricia Hill Collins.
- Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Bell Hooks.
- Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Bell Hooks.
- No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies. E. Patrick Johnson.
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America. Ira Katznelson
- Stamped from the Beginning. Ibram X Kendi.
- How to be an Anti-Racist. Ibram X Kendi.
- Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond. Marc Lamont Hill
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong. James Loewen.
- Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde.
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography. Audre Lorde.
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- The Summer We Got Free. Mia Mckenzie.
- Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. Jonathan Metzel.
- Coming of Age in Mississippi. Anne Moody
- No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America. Darnell L. Moore.
- Beloved. Toni Morrison.
- The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Khalil Gilbran Muhammad
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
- Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston.
- Half of a Yellow Sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
- Becoming. Michelle Obama.
- So You Want To Talk About Race. Ijeoma Oluo
- Since I Laid my Burden Down. Brontez Purnell.
- Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses. Lawrence Ross.
- The Color of Law. Richard Rothstein.
- Me and White Supremacy. Layla F. Saad
- Assata, an Autobiography. Assata Shakur.
- Just Mercy. Bryan Stevenson
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki.
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum.
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Real Life. Brandon Taylor.
- The Hate You Give. Angie Thomas.
- In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. Alice Walker.
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. Anders Walker.
- The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel Wilkerson
- Native Son. Richard Wright.
- A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn.
Videos to Watch
- The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberle Crenshaw
- Danger of Silence, Clint Smith III
- Ibram X Kendi on the Solution for America’s “Metastatic” Racism, Ibram X. Kendi
- Black Bruins, Sy Stokes
- How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at A Time, Baratunde Thurston
- “Cuz He’s Black” Spoken Word, Javon Johnson
- Three Myths About Racism, Candis Watts Smith
- Let’s Get to The Root of Racial Injustice, Megan Ming Francis
- What Beyoncé Taught Me About Racism, Brittany Baron
- “How the Hood Loves You Back” Steven Willis
- Being Black by Jane Elliot
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion, Peggy McIntosh
TV Shows and Movies to Watch
- The 13th (Documentary) — Netflix
- American Son (Movie) — Netflix
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Documentary) — Rent
- Dear White People (TV Show & Movie) — Netflix & Rent
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Documentary) — Netflix
- Do the Right Thing (Movie) — Rent
- Fruitvale Station (Movie) — Rent
- The Hate U Give (Movie) — Hulu
- I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary) — Rent
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Movie) — Rent
- The Kalief Browder Story (Documentary) — Netflix
- Loving (Movie) — Hulu
- Moonlight — Netflix
- Mudbound (Movie) — Netflix
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (Documentary) — Rent
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series) — PBS
- Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story — Rent
- Selma (Movie) — Rent
- Teach Us All (Documentary) — Netflix
- When They See Us (Television Series) — Netflix
- Whose Streets? (Documentary on Ferguson Uprising) — Rent
Podcasts to Listen To
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Afropunk Solution Sessions
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- The Nod
- Pod for The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Putting Racism on the Table
- Race Traitor
- Seeing White
- Speaking of Racism
- There Goes the Neighborhood
- The United State of Anxiety
- The Wilderness (Crooked Media)