Resources
Below you can find the following categories:
2019-2020 Series: How to be an Antiracist
Articles by and about Dr Kendi
2018-2019 Series: Despite the Best Intentions
Race and Education
Data and Studies
2019-2020 Series: How to be an Antiracist
Articles by and about Dr Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi Has a Cure for America’s ‘Metastatic Racism’ by Jennifer Schuessler in the NY Times
Am I an American? President Trump’s tirade against four minority congresswomen prompts the question: Whom does he consider to be American? by Dr Kendi in The Atlantic
How to Be an Antiracist Author Ibram X. Kendi on What We Get Wrong About Racism by Lily Rothman in Time
Live at Politics and Prose (audio)
2018-2019 series: Despite the Best Intentions
Race and Education
White progressive parents and the conundrum of privilege written by Margaret A Hagerman
The Real Reason Black Kids Benefit From Black Teachers written by David Jackson
How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism written by Joe Pinsker
Are Private Schools Immoral?: A conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones about race, education, and hypocrisy by Dianna Douglas
Data and Studies
Substantial racial stereotyping toward young children of color found among white adults who work with them published by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Government Watchdog Finds Racial Bias in School Discipline written by Erica L Green
General resources
Books
Non-Fiction
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Colony in a Nation - Chris Hayes
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittany Cooper
Heavy - Kiese Laymon
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays - Eula Biss
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present - Howard Zinn
Thick - Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
What Does It Mean to Be White - Robin DiAngelo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel-Tatum
Fiction
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Poetry
Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
Electric Arches - Eve L. Ewing
Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith (U.S. Poet Laureate)
Brown - Kevin Young
Films
13th
America to Me
Dear White People
Fruitvale Station
Get Out
I Am Not Your Negro
Sorry to Bother You
Audio and Video
“School Segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones” on Chris Hayes’s podcast, “Why Is This Happening?” 7/31/2018
Why are American schools resegregating? Over 60 years since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling forced schools to integrate, the nation is witnessing schools become increasingly segregated. So how did we get to this point? Nikole Hannah-Jones has firsthand knowledge of the system. Beginning in second grade, she was bussed to a wealthy, majority white school as part of a desegregation initiative in her home town. Now, she’s an award-winning investigative reporter writing for The New York Times magazine, doing extensive work on school segregation. In this episode Nikole Hannah-Jones explains why we continue to see segregation in the classroom and how, if at all, the education system can truly desegregate. [She also talks about resource hoarding and the inequities that exist in supposedly integrated schools.]
“The Personal Is Political with Brittany Cooper” on Chris Hayes’s podcast, “Why is This Happening?” 5/15/2018
Talking about the politics of identity, particularly in the age of Donald Trump, can feel like you’re walking through a minefield. Whether it’s the President’s immigration policy or two black men arrested in a Starbucks, Chris Hayes argues that all the political debates we’re having are wrapped up in personal politics. But when it comes to confronting those personal politics and examining the power struggles that they invoke, conversations tend to get tense and defensive. Author and Professor Brittney Cooper’s story is compelling and traumatic and illuminating and she uses these pieces to explore how the personal becomes political within her own life in her new book, “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower”. If there’s anyone who can talk about the politics of identity, feminism, and how we can understand those ideas through the lens of Beyoncé, it is Brittney Cooper.
“Let’s Talk About Whiteness”
Writer Eula Biss interviewed by Krista Tippett on radio program “On Being”
“If you can’t talk about something, you can’t think about something. I've worked with students who could barely let themselves think, they were so scared of thinking the wrong thing.”
This conversation was inspired by Eula Biss’s stunning New York Times essay “White Debt,” which had this metaphor at its core: ”The state of white life is that we’re living in a house we believe we own but that we’ve never paid off.” She spoke with us in 2016 and we aired this last year, but we might just put this conversation out every year, as we’re all novices on this territory. Eula Biss had been thinking and writing about being white and raising white children in a multi-racial world for a long time. She helpfully opens up words and ideas like “complacence,” “guilt,” and something related to privilege called “opportunity hoarding.” To be in this uncomfortable conversation is to realize how these words alone, taken seriously, can shake us up in necessary ways — and how the limits of words make these conversations at once more messy and more urgent.
The Loving Generation - web documentary series
In 1967, the Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia overturned all laws outlawing interracial marriage. The Loving Generation tells the story of a generation of Americans born to one black parent and one white parent. Their narratives provide a fascinating and unique window into the borderland between “blackness” and “whiteness”, and, in some cases, explode fixed ideas about race and identity.
Black Experiences in White America
Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People written by Kelsey Blackwell for The Arrow
The Case for Reparations written by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’ written by Claudia Rankine in The New York Times
'I am drowning in whiteness' written by Ijeoma Oluo for KUOW
What Can White People Do?
Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism written by Margaret A Hagerman for Time
How Marginalized Families Are Pushed Out of PTAs written by Casey Quinlan for The Atlantic
Are We Raising Racists? an op-ed written by Jennifer Harvey for The New York Times
Becoming an Anti-Racist White Ally: How a White Affinity Group Can Help published by Perspectives On Urban Education
4 ways white parents can support black parents in times of injustice written by Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez for Mashable
Thinking About Whiteness
White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed — and what can never be repaid — for racial privilege written by Eula Biss for The New York Times
White people are still raised to be racially illiterate. If we don't recognize the system, our inaction will uphold it written by Robin DiAngelo
How White Americans’ Hatred of Racism Actually Supports Racism Instead of Solves It written by Jon Greenberg
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