Let’s start by getting on the same page about what defines systemic racism. It refers to systems and practices that create and maintain racial inequality. Even though slavery was officially abolished in the 1860s, racism and discrimination have continued to persist throughout nearly every facet of American life. In the years and decades immediately following the end of slavery, certain policies sanctioned discrimination against Black people. Probably none more so than Jim Crow laws.
Here’s some of our favorite, quality Indigenous-centered content for you to stream, listen to, or check out over the coming weeks. Happy holidays to all!
The 106-page Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report released on May 11 provides a glimpse into the deliberate intention of the federal government to disrupt the Native American family structure through assimilation. The report says the government’s plan involved the permanent breaking of family ties.
It's called the "Year of Return," where people of African descent are encouraged to go to Ghana to mark 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were brought to what became the United States.
Numerous organizations are working every day to preserve, restore and elevate African-American history. Read more about their work and how it impacts our future.
If the U.S. has 35,000 museums, a writer asked in 2014, why is only one about slavery? And if the wealth of this country was built on the backs of enslaved people from Africa, why has that story been vastly under-reported in our media, in our schools and in our political discourse?
The idea of "white consciousness" is crucial. It goes beyond not saying racist things: It's being aware of your place in this world and how being white affects it.
This is the seventh year of Women in the Workplace, the largest study of women in corporate America. This effort, conducted by McKinsey in partnership with LeanIn.Org, analyzes the representation of women in corporate America, provides an overview of HR policies and programs—including HR leaders’ sentiment on the most effective diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices—and explores the intersectional experiences of different groups of women at work. The data set this year reflects contributions from 423 participating organizations employing 12 million people and more than 65,000 people surveyed on their workplace experiences; in-depth interviews were also conducted with women of diverse identities, including women of color, LGBTQ+ women, and women with disabilities.
Calvin Baker
Integration
Race Conversations
American History Revisited
A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy
Howard Zinn
December 2020
Jim Wallis
October 2021
Shane Bauer
Criminal Justice System
A reporters undercover journey into the Business of Punishment
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Indigenous History
It is the third of a series of six ReVisioning books which reconstruct and reinterpret U.S. history from marginalized peoples' perspectives.
January 2022
Kelly Lytle Hernández
American History Revisited
"Bad Mexicans" tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers―and American dissidents―to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U.S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Race Conversations
The Black experience
2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States
Jacqueline Battalora
Social Construction of Race
Drawing on history and law, Birth of a White Nation reveals how, when, where, and why a group called "white people" was first created in colonial North America. This origin story of white-body supremacy examines how a core organizing feature of U.S society came to be.
Surveying colonial North American law and history, the book interrogates the origins of racial inequality and injustice in American society, and details how the invention still serves to protect the ruling elite to the present day.
Theodore J. Karamanski
Indigenous History
Drawing on history and law, Birth of a White Nation reveals how, when, where, and why a group called "white people" was first created in colonial North America. This origin story of white-body supremacy examines how a core organizing feature of U.S society came to be.
Trevor Noah
The Black experience
Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by the South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016.
Abdi Nor Iftin
African History
Immigration
True story of the heroic survival of Abdi Nor Iftin in war-ravaged Mogadishu, Somalia and his incredible journey to America
Isabel Wilkerson
American History Revisited
Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
David Freund
Redlining
Northern whites in the post–World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of residential exclusion—away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship. Freund begins his exploration by tracing the emergence of a powerful public-private alliance that facilitated postwar suburban growth across the nation with federal programs that significantly favored whites. Then, showing how this national story played out in metropolitan Detroit, he v
Keesha Middlemass
Criminal Justice System
Convicted and Condemned is a critical assessment of how a felony conviction operates as an integral part of prisoner reentry.
Matthew Van Meter
Criminal Justice System
A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
Patrick A. Howell
Politics and racism
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice to the voiceless and about the 5th estate of power in this timely and important book.
Ian Haney Lopez
Politics and racism
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he tapped into a long political tradition that started with George Wallace and Richard Nixon, and is more relevant than ever in the age of the Tea Party and the first black president.
Reuben Jonathan Miller
Prisoner Reentry
Even those who leave incarceration are in many ways never truly free. They instead become members of the "supervised society" — and it is this uniquely disenfranchised population that is the focus of his book.
Ibram X. Kendi
Antiraciam
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
Monica Guzman
We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we're not using: our own built-in curiosity.
Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure we're right and everyone else is ignorant (or worse). But avoiding one another is hurting our relationships and our society. In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt—broken conversations among confounded people.
She shows you how to overcome the fear and certainty that surround us to finally do what only seems impossible: understand and even l
Austin Channing Brown
Racial Identity
Race Conversations
The Black experience
An illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness—if we let it—can save us all.
Bryan Stevenson
Criminal Justice System
Just Mercy is an eye-opening look at our criminal justice system through the eyes of a young lawyer who fought to overturn the conviction of an Alabama man
Claudia Rankine
Race Conversations
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.
Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.
This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuri
James W. Loewen
American History Revisited
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that "not one" does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
The first
Lama Rod Owens
Interfaith
For many Buddhists, anger is often thought of as a root cause for suffering and lasting, negative repercussions. In American culture at large, anger--particularly among people of color--is delegitimized, demonized, or "supposed to be" suppressed. Social activist and Kagyu lama Rod Owens offers a different understanding. For Owens, the coauthor of Radical Dharma, anger is one of the most important aspects of his personal identity as a Buddhist, social activist, African American, and gay man. Anger serves as a bodyguard for our personal pain and suffering. When recognized and handled with attention, love, and compassion, it can be a powerful mobilizing factor in our solidarity and commitment to enacting social change. However, too many activist communities have an ill-informed, immature, and romanticized relationship to it. What is needed, says Owens, is a relationship to the heartbreak of anger that is embodied, nondestructive, and deeply healing for all. Here he offers personal insight
December 2021
LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman
The Black experience
The award-winning creators of NPR's Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse combine their talents to focus on the Ida B. Wells housing project and their personal struggles to survive unrelenting tragedy.
James M. McClurken
Indigenous History
Our People, Our Journey is a landmark history of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, a Michigan tribe that has survived to the present day despite the expansionist and assimilationist policies that nearly robbed it of an identity in the late nineteenth century.
In his thoroughly researched chronicle, McClurken documents in words and images every major lineage and family of the Little River Ottawas. He describes the Band's struggles to find land to call its own over several centuries, including the hardships that began with European exploration of what is now the upper Midwest. Although the Little River Ottawas were successful at integrating their economic and cultural practices with those of Europeans, they were forced to cede land in the face of American settlements.
McClurken explains how the Little River Band was forced, in 1858, onto a reservation on the Pere Marquette and Manistee Rivers where they settled with a number of other Ottawa bands. However, the very treat
Dr. Joy DeGruy
Slavery
Mental Health
In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?
Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage, convict leasing, domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in yet unmeasured injury. What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these ordeals had on African Americans today?
Dr. Joy DeGruy, answers these questions
Myron Liiberman
Education System
In this blistering critique of our failing public schools and our fuzzy thinking about how to fix them, Myron Lieberman explains why public education is in irreversible and terminal decline and tells us what we must do to get American schooling back on track. No other book on educational policy or reform covers such a broad range of issues or draws upon such extensive empirical data across such diverse academic disciplines. This is a refreshingly clear analysis of our educational crisis and a rallying cry for market-system approaches to school reform. Lieberman contends that the major deficiencies of public education are inherent in the act that government provides the service: the government's role as producer of education conflicts with its role as protector of consumer interests, and the conflicts are overwhelmingly resolved in favor of its producer role. He presents a comprehensive analysis of the alternatives, concluding that the existing system must be replaced by a three-sector
Monique W Morris
Criminal Justice System
The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration—featured by The Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, and others—of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools
In a work that Lisa Delpit calls "imperative reading," Monique W. Morris (Black Stats, Too Beautiful for Words) chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Called "compelling" and "thought-provoking" by Kirkus Reviews, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the rising movement to challenge the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.
Called a book "for everyone who cares about children" by the Washington Post, Morris's illumination of these critical issues is "ti
May 2021
Douglas A. Blackmon
Slavery
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Ijeoma Olvio
Race Conversations
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair -- and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
"Oluo gives us -- both white people and people of color -- that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases." -- National Book Rev
September 2020
Ibram X. Kendi
Politics and racism
Racist thought
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrench
Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran
Microaggressions
Race Conversations
Racist thought
This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace.
Our workplaces and society are growing more diverse, but are we supporting inclusive cultures? While overt racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of discrimination are relatively easy to spot, we cannot neglect the subtler everyday actions that normalize exclusion. Many have heard the term microaggression, but not everyone fully understands what they are or how to recognize them and stop them from happening.
In this book, Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran offer a clearer, more accessible term, subtle acts of exclusion, or SAEs, to emphasize the purpose and effects of these actions. After all, people generally aren't trying to be aggressive--usually they're trying to say something nice, learn more about a person, be funny, or build closeness. But whether in the form of exaggera
November 2020
Thi Bui
Shawn D. Rochester
Race Conversations
While Black Americans have long felt the devastating effects of anti-black discrimination, they have often had great difficulty articulating and substantiating both the existence and impact of that discrimination to an American public who is convinced that it no longer exists. Professionals in academia, the media, and the business community, along with people in the general public have struggled to explain the significant and persistent gaps (in wealth, employment, achievement and poverty) between Black and White communities in what they perceive to be a post racial America.In his new book The Black Tax: The Cost of being Black in America, Shawn Rochester shows how The Black Tax (which is the financial cost of conscious and unconscious anti-black discrimination), creates a massive financial burden on Black American households that dramatically reduces their ability to leave a substantial legacy for future generations. Mr. Rochester lays out an extraordinarily compelling case which docu
May 2022
Toni Morrison
Cristina Henriquez
Richard Rothstein
Redlining
March 2022
Khalil Gibran Muhammed
David Roediger, Donald M. Shaffer, Stephen Middleton
White Identity
James Baldwin
Edward E. Baptist
Theodore E. Allen
Francisco Cantu
Michelle Alexander
March 2021
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
A remarkable novel [historical fiction] about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as White in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation
Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin
Heather McGhee
Pedro A Noguerae
Peter Temin
Economics
Race Conversations
Politics and racism
The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America, and outlines ways to work toward greater equality so that America will no longer have one economy for the rich and one for the poor.
Many poorer Americans live in conditions resembling those of a developing country—substandard education, dilapidated housing, and few stable employment opportunities. And although almost half of black Americans are poor, most poor people are not black. Conservative white politicians still appeal to the racism of poor white voters to get support for policies that harm low-income people as a who
Isabel Wilkerson
Ta-Nehisi Coates
William H. Watkins
Alex Kotlowitz
Temple Grandin
Emmanuel Acho
Race Conversations
Colson Whitehead
Debby Irving
Ta Nehisi Coates
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Ian F. Lopez
Robin DiAngelo
Carol Anderson
Kenra Ranking
Razel Jones and Daniel Abbott
Alexandra Penfold
Mary Hoffman
Ibram X. Kendi
Anabel and Barnabas Kindersley
Taye Diggs
Pat Thomas
Matthew Cherry
Grace Byers
Grace Byers
Vashti Harrison
Meg Medina
John Steptoe
Cozbi A. Cabrera
Jabari Asim
Carole Boston Weatherford
Chelsea Clinton
Lupita Nyong
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson
Jacqueline Woodson
Michael Tyler
Ezra Jack Keats
Kwame Alexander
Jacqueline Woodson
Dean Robbins
Bryan Collier
Debbie Levy
Jabari Asim
Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang
John Lewis
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Racist thought
Race Conversations
This chapter book edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America
RACE. Uh-oh. The R-word.
But actually talking about race is one of the most important things to learn how to do.
Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, this book takes readers on a journey from present to past and back again. Kids will discover where racist ideas came from, identify how they impact America today, and meet those who have fought racism with antiracism. Along the way, they’ll learn how to identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their own lives.
Pope Alexander VI issues a papal bull or decree, “Inter Caetera," in which he authorizes Spain and Portugal to colonize the Americas and its Native peoples as subjects. The decree asserts the rights of Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert, and enslave. It also justifies the enslavement of Africans.
https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/dum-diversas/
Doctrine of Discovery
Slavery
Religion
Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas on 18 June, 1452. It authorised Alfonso V of Portugal to reduce any “Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and any other unbelievers” to perpetual slavery.
https://www.breakdownwhiteness.org/
White Fragility
Whiteness
White Privilege
This website exists because Rev. Nikia S. Robert, in June 2020, took to Twitter to express her fatigue with explaining anti-Black racism to white people and her hope for a resource to share instead. As a practice of allyship and solidarity, this website is our response.
Breaking down whiteness in a U.S. context starts with a focus on anti-Black racism, particularly given the historical construction of whiteness as opposition to indigenous people and enslaved Africans. The binary of white and Black is part of the historical legal reinforcement of white supremacy requiring people in the U.S. to be recognized as one of the two.
Collected by a group of academics in religious studies, history, and ethics, the resources provided on the site lean heavily on anti-Black racism and may be seen as reinforcing the binary of white and Black to a certain degree. It is not our intention to reify the binary. Rather, we seek to show how the binary works as a necessary part of both sustaining and bre
https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org/timeline/
Native Americans
HISTORY THROUGH A NATIVE LENS
Explore this chronological timeline written by
Dr. Karina Walters, containing historically traumatic events, settler colonial policies, and Native resistance movements.
Ava DuVernay
Criminal Justice System
Netflix documentary about the
connection between US Slavery and the
present day mass incarceration system (1h 40 min)
February 2021
Spike Lee
Raoul Peck
2016 documentary film based on James Baldwin’s
unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the
history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders
Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations
of American history. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards
and won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
Criminal Justice System
full-length movie based off the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2h 17min)
Robin Bissell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQYsk-8dWg
Corporate America
Based on Joel Bakan’s bestseller The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, this 26-award-winning documentary explores a corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. One hundred and fifty years ago, a corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic, and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, a corporation is today’s dominant institution. Charting the rise of such an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals, the documentary also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.
https://www.thesentencedoc.com/
Rudy Valdez
Criminal Justice System
Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy's brother, follows her and her family over the course of ten years.
Based on interviews and current research, the documentary film White Savior explores the historic relationship between racism and American Christianity, the ongoing segregation of the church in the US, and the complexities of racial reconciliation.
Featuring interviews with Lenny Duncan, Soong Chan Rah, Jacqueline Woodson, Jim Bear Jacobs, Dominique Gilliard, and more.
An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
NPR
Race Conversations
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story. Code Switch was named Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year in 2020.
Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.
Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
Mad, glad, sad, hurt, ashamed, or afraid, no situation is unique. "This is the Situation!" shatters stigmas surrounding universal human issues. by having the uncomfortable conversations we should have, but do not!
We wanted to create a dynamic resource for our community. Each day is catalogued below to continue your self-guided learning journey.
Capture your daily reflections and actions using our activity log. Click here to download the log.
Equity Day 1 - Racial Identity
Equity Day 2 - Reflect of Bias
Equity Day 3- What is Privilege
Equity Day 4- Race is challenging
Equity Day 5 - Racial Socialization
Equity Day 6- Levels of Racism
Equity Day 7 - Opportunities
Equity Day 8 - Segregation
Equity Day 9 - Housing Inequity
Equity Day 10 - Race and Health
Equity Day 11 - Environmental Racism
Equity Day 12 - The Racial Wealth Gap
Equity Day 13 - Early Childhood
Equity Day 14 - Education
Equity Day 15 - Childhood Trauma
Equity Day 16 - Equity and LGBTQI
Equity Day 17 - Equity Culture
Equity Day 18 - Good Allies
Equity Day 19 - Tools for Equity
Equity Day 20 - Final Reflections
Equity Day 21 - Take Action in Ottawa County
https://theantiracisttable.com/
Do you want to be part of the solution? Learn how to be AntiRacist and how to incorporate AntiRacism into your life with our FREE Self-Paced, 30 Lesson Program. The journey to cultivating a life committed to being AntiRacist is a lifelong pursuit that starts and ends with you. AntiRacism is an intentional daily practice that requires willpower, truth, love, and patience.
The AntiRacist Table 30 Day Challenge is a long-form contemplative study, specifically curated to educate, to help people face and get past shame, anger, and blame, and to develop empathy–all key elements of creating an AntiRacist America.
During the Challenge you will have opportunities to cultivate mindfulness and daily practices centered around equality, justice, and humanity as you integrate The AntiRacist Table Core Principles into your life. Engaging and interactive, the daily lessons infuse videos, readings, reflection, meditation, and other disciplines. Our self-paced Challenge is composed of 30 lessons tha
“Racism in Policing” – a four-lesson series taught by our experts and sent to your inbox every week.
What Will You Learn?
In four weekly emails, you will gain a foundational knowledge around the critical issues of U.S. policing, its inseparable ties to systemic racism, and solutions for change. Here’s a lesson breakdown:
Week 1: What is police divestment?
Week 2: Why is police militarization prominent in the U.S.?
Week 3: Who disciplines police in the U.S.?
Week 4: Why are communities over-policed – and can it change?
At the end of the course, expect to come away with answers to these questions – as well as historical context, learning resources, and the insight needed to take action. Download the full syllabus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGne-tazjb8
Thomas Sugrue
Redlining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0roNqFJDS7M
Thomas Sugrue
Redlining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqKmkSagKps
Stanford Humanities Center
American History Revisited
Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this talk drawn from her new book, a groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKsDq6DOOdY
Native News Online
Native Americans
Join us with Shannon O'Loughlin for our exclusive analysis of the Department of the Interior's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.
https://youtu.be/r9UqnQC7jY4
Richard Rothstein
Redlining
April 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-_Ba_dsr8
David Freund
Redlining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IVaidCzpqA
Panel
Healthcare
Women Confronting Racism held a free webinar on November 16, 2020 to explore racism as a public health crisis in Michigan. Senator Debbie Stabenow introduced the program. Our three panelists addressed health disparities uncovered by
the current COVID-19 pandemic - the result of decades of structural, political and economic prejudices & biases which favor white persons.
Speakers:
The Honorable Senator Debbie Stabenow
Justin Onwenu: Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club
Dr. Kent Key: MSU College of Human Medicine
Tawana Nettles-Robinson: Trinity Health's Executive Director of Medical Services for Detroit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps
The main intent of this video is not to highlight racial differences. Race was only used as a metaphor.
Race is a good metaphor though and here's why. African Americans still lag behind the national average in Income level and Poverty measure. This is according to the United States Census Bureau.
Reuben Miller is a former chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. He is also a sociologist, criminologist and a social worker. His new book, “Halfway Home,” exposes the realities of life after under mass — after mass incarceration and shows that some people are never truly free even after they leave prison.
April 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URbZUEVhIqc
Panel
American History Revisited
Put together by Grand Rapids Public Museum - 3 panelists: Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, Dr. Todd Robinson and Dr. Delia Fernandez.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, UW Madison School of Education professor emerita and early critical race theory researcher, speaks to its origins alongside UW La Follette School professor emeritus John Witte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdn1Hfcb078
Dr. David Silverman
Native Americans
Presentation from Dr. David Silverman on his work "This Land is Their Land - The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving." Made possible by TCC-NE History Department.
Leaders of color given the chance to create a show about what's important to them to shape their own narratives.
https://www.pbs.org/weta/black-church/
Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Religion
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song is a moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, that traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power.
The documentary reveals how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World, while translating them into a form of Christianity that was not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for a nation whose original sin was found in their ancestors’ enslavement across the Middle Passage.
https://uncomfortableconvos.com/watch
Emmanuel Acho
Race Conversations
Racism is not a virus of the body; it is a virus of the mind, and unfortunately, it can be lethal.
But you cannot fix a problem that you do not know you have. And if “ignorance is bliss”, in this case, bliss has caused bondage and pain for others. But there is a fix. We can all access the life-saving medicine that will cure the world’s most ailing, long-lasting pandemic. But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations.