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Bias & Discrimination
- "Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?"Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic, May 12, 2020
Algorithms of Oppression by Publication Date: 2018
The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy by Call Number: HT1521 .H285 2018Publication Date: 2018
Systemic Racism
- Racism 101: Understanding Race and RacismShowing Up For Racial Justice
- The Costs of Racism to White PeoplePaul Kivel
- Social Identities and Systems Of OppressionNational Museum of African American History & Culture
- White Supremacy CultureShowing Up For Social Justice
- "Abolition Suite Vol. 4: Robin D.G. Kelley"
Interview w/ Robin D.G. Kelley, PhD, "Abolition Suite" podcast series, AirGo, July 13, 2020. - "A Response to Michael Walzer"[on theorizing about racial capitalism]. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Bright, Dissent Magazine, August 7, 2020
- "Black and Indigenous Liberation Through Abolition"
Lou Cornum, Mohamed Shehk, Tynetta Muhammad, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Sheila Nezhad, Haymarket Books, "AbolitionNOW Teach-in," Oct 1, 2020 - "Currency, Colonialism and Monetary History From Below"P.J. Hudson, Just Money.com, Jul 28 2020
- "In New Documentary, Stacey Abrams Probes The State Of Voter Suppression In 2020"
Interview w/ Stacey Abrams, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR, Sept 5, 2020. - "The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism"Alberto Toscano, Boston Review, 28 Oct 2020
- "Marking: Race, Race-making, and the Writing of History"Thomas C. Holt, The American Historical Review 100, no. 1 (1995): 1-20.
- "Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not."Imani Perry, The Atlantic, Jun 15, 2020
- "The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership"Barbara Ransby, The Nation, July 2, 2020
- "What Does It Really Mean to Invest In Black Communities?"Destin Jenkins, The Nation, June 29, 2020
- "What is Racial Capitalism?"Interview w/ Whitney Pirtle, PhD, "Flip the Script with Max" podcast, Yale University
- "Study and Struggle: Abolition as Study and Deconstructing Racial Capitalism"Rachel Herzing, Rukia Lumumba, Derecka Purnell and Stevie Wilson, Haymarket Books "Critical Conversations" series, Sept 1, 2020
- "Who Gets to Feel Secure?"Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò, Aeon, October 30, 2020
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Publication Date: 2017
One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally by Publication Date: 2019
The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian-Americans Facing Racism by Call Number: E184.A75 C515 2016Publication Date: 2014
Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Call Number: HN90.I56 B46 2019Publication Date: 2019
The Wages of Whiteness by Call Number: HD4903.5.U58 R64 1991ISBN: 978-1844671458Publication Date: 2007Also online.
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today by Publication Date: 2006
Systemic Racism in the United States: Scaffolding as Social Construction by Publication Date: 2018
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations About the Development of Racial Identity by Call Number: E185.625 .T38 1997 and online.Publication Date: 1997
White Privilege
- Seeing White
Series from podcast Scene on Radio. "Just what is going on with white people?...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?" - White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsackby Peggy McIntosh
- White Fragility Self-Test [Twitter thread]posted by @thearmchaircom
- White Privilege and Benefitsfrom Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Grieving the White Voidby Abraham Lateiner
- Detour Spotting for White Anti-Racistsby Jona Olsson
- From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Lifelong Journeyby Tema Okun, dRworks
- "Whiteness As Property."by Cheryl I. Harris, Harvard Law Review 106, no. 8 (1993): 1707-1792.
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Call Number: E185.615 .D97 2017Publication Date: 2017
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by Call Number: E184.A1 L56 1998 and onlinePublication Date: 2006
Waking up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Call Number: E185.615 .I778 2014Publication Date: 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Call Number: HT1521 .D486 2018Publication Date: 2018
White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance, Empathy and Justice by Publication Date: 2019
White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-racism: How Does It Feel to Be A White Problem? by Publication Date: 2014
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Publication Date: 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Call Number: E185.61 .A5438 2016Publication Date: 2016
White Privilege by Publication Date: 2019
Understanding White Privilege by Publication Date: 2012
Intersectionality
Activism
- "Abolition Suite Vol. 4: Robin D.G. Kelley"Interview w/ Robin D.G. Kelley, PhD, "Abolition Suite" podcast series, AirGo, July 13, 2020.
- "The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast Program: Feeding a Movement"Elizabeth Garner Masarik, PhD and Averill Earls, PhD, Dig podcast, Jul 19, 2020
- Hidden Herstory: "The Leesburg Stockade Girls"Tulani Salahu-Din, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
- "The Long Hot Summer"Throughline, NPR, Jul 9, 2020.
Related: "NPR Podcast 'Throughline' Delves Into The Kerner Commission's Findings," Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah, Morning Edition, NPR, Jul 27, 2020. Link. - "Saidiya Hartman on Insurgent Histories and the Abolitionist Imaginary."ArtForum, July 14, 2020
- "Technology's Storytellers: Black Self-Armament and the Civil Rights Movement" [YouTube]
Interview w/ Dr. Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, on the history of black self-defense and self-armament in America. - “The Unknown Origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class"William P. Jones, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 7, no. 3 (2010): 33-52.
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence & Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Call Number: E185.615 .H66 2021Publication Date: 2021
Black Marxism by Publication Date: 2000
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Call Number: E185.86 .T367 2016 and onlinePublication Date: 2016
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Publication Date: 2015
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Publication Date: 2017Read at Pressbooks.com.
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South by Call Number: HX84.H8 P34 and onlinePublication Date: 1979
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Call Number: 185.61 .C633 2014 and onlinePublication Date: 2014- White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance, Empathy and Justice by Publication Date: 2019
History of Racism in the U.S.
- Historical Foundations of RaceDavid R. Roediger, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
- "How Did We Get Here? 163 Years of The Atlantic’s Writing on Race and Racism in America"Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, June 16, 2020
- "A 'Forgotten History' of How the U.S. Government Segregated America"Interview w/ Richard Rothstein, Fresh Air, NPR, May 3, 2017
- "The Case for Reparations"Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014
- "Marking: Race, Race-making, and the Writing of History"Thomas C. Holt, The American Historical Review 100, no. 1 (1995): 1-20.
- "Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights"Charisse Burden-Stelly, Monthly Review, Jul 1, 2020
- "Tearing Down Black America"Brent Cebul, Boston Review, Jul 22, 2020
Racism in America: A ReaderPublication Date: 2020
Black Reconstruction in America by Call Number: E185.2 .D8 2007Publication Date: [1935]Online at the Internet Archive.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Call Number: E185.61 .R77 2017Publication Date: 2017
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Call Number: E441 .B337 2014 and online.Publication Date: 2014
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Call Number: E76.8 .D86 2014 and onlinePublication Date: 2014
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-War Detroit by Call Number: F574.D49 N4835 1996 and online.Publication Date: 2005
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Call Number: E184.A1 B597 2003 and onlinePublication Date: 2017
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Call Number: E449 .J695 2013Publication Date: 2013
Saltwater Slavery : A Middle Passage From Africa to American Diaspora by Call Number: E441 .S6358 2007 and onlinePublication Date: 2009
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2017Publication Date: 2016
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States by Call Number: E184.A75 K87 2016ISBN: 9781469629438Publication Date: 2016
Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Call Number: KF4755.A75 C7 1995Publication Date: 1996
Critical Race Theory: An introduction by Call Number: KF4755 .D454 2001 and onlinePublication Date: 2001
Health Equity
- Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? [Video Series]
Access through Kanopy. A seven-part documentary series which "provides a deeper exploration of how social conditions affect population health and how some communities are extending their lives by improving them." Access transcripts and more information through the official documentary site. - Unnatural Causes database of health equity resourcesExplore by topics such as childhood / early life, race/racism, social inclusion, policy and change, among others.
- "Race and COVID" [Podcast series, Big Picture Science]Five-part series on the podcast Big Picture Science, produced at the SETI institute. Features interviews with Marcella Nunez Smith ("Racial Disparity"), Utibe Essien ("Racial Data"), Nina Jablonski ("Skin Color"), Robert Sapolsky ("Us vs. Them) and Harold Frazier ("COVID checkpoint").
- "America is Failing its Black Mothers"Amy Roeder, Harvard Public Health, Winter 2019
- "Hidden in Plain Sight -- Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms"Darshali A. Vyas, M.D., Leo G. Eisenstein, M.D., and David S. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine, published online June 17, 2020. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2004740
- "Harvard Researcher Discusses Why COVID-19 Is Devastating Communities of Color"Interview w/ Dr. Jose Figueroa, Weekend Edition Sunday,NPR, Sept 6, 2020
- "Opinion: The Way We Ration Ventilators Is Biased."Harald Schmidt, New York Times, April 15, 2020.
- "Racial Disparity in Healthcare"Interview with Juliette Blount, NP about racial disparities in healthcare and how clinicians can respond.
Health Disparities: Weaving a New Understanding Through Case Narratives by Call Number: [E-Book]Publication Date: 2019
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Publication Date: 2011
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Call Number: RA418.5.P6 M385 2019Publication Date: 2015
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care by Call Number: [E-Book]Publication Date: 2002
Race, Policing & Prisons
- Prison Abolition and Alternatives to Incarceration Starter Resourcescompiled by Elly Belle, with help from K & Micah Herskind
- Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice Systempublished April 19, 2018
- "American Police"Throughline, NPR, June 4, 2020
- "COINTELPRO and the History of Domestic Spying"News and Notes, NPR, Jan 18, 2006
- "Policing Without the Police: Race, Technology and the New Jim Code" [YouTube]Virtual "teach in" on police, surveillance, and technology with Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts.
- "Race, Policing, and Mass Incarceration in times of COVID 19"Interview w/ Elizabeth Hinton, PhD, Slavery and Its Legacies podcast, Yale University
- "Study and Struggle: Abolition as Study and Deconstructing Racial Capitalism"Rachel Herzing, Rukia Lumumba, Derecka Purnell and Stevie Wilson, Haymarket Books "Critical Conversations" series, Sept 1, 2020
- "The Problem Isn't Just Police—It's Politics."Interview with sociologist Alex Vitale about the political origins of the current policing model in the U.S. , Boston Review, July 1, 2020
- "Yes, American Police Act Like Occupying Armies. They Literally Studied Their Tactics."Stuart Schrader, The Guardian, Jun 8, 2020
- "Police Reform Won’t Fix a System That Was Built to Abuse Power."Stuart Schrader, The Nation, Jun 12, 2020
- "The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New."Garrett Felber, Boston Review, Jun 9, 2020
- “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History"Heather Ann Thompson, Journal of American History 97, no. 3 (December 2010): 703-734.
- America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence & Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Call Number: E185.615 .H66 2021Publication Date: 2021
Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing by Call Number: U241 .S37 2019ISBN: 9780520295629Publication Date: 2019
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Call Number: HV9950 .H56 2016Publication Date: 2016
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Call Number: HV9475.C2 G73 2007 and onlinePublication Date: 2007
Media, Crime and Racism by Publication Date: 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Call Number: HV9950 .A437 2010 and onlinePublication Date: 2012
Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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This guide has been developed in an effort to offer support and resources to our community, as a starting point for ongoing discussions, self-reflection and education, and acts for change. We feel it is important to disclose that the creators of this guide are themselves allies acting from positions of racial privilege. We have endeavored to create a collection of materials, both in the Libraries and elsewhere, which will be as supportive, relevant and comprehensive as possible, but we recognize the limitations of our perspectives and privileges.
We also acknowledge that this work could not have been accomplished without the support of the Office of Diversity, Office of Multicultural Education, and the Chaplains' Office, as well as the intellectual and emotional labor of countless people of color who have taken the time to write down their experiences, develop guiding materials and curate and share hundreds of resources on social media and elsewhere which have formed the foundation for this guide. Our goal is not to take credit for their work, but to make their work more visible to members of our community.
We welcome and greatly appreciate any feedback, including criticisms, and recommendations, particularly from the perspectives and experiences of the marginalized groups listed and not listed here. This is a work-in-progress, and we will continue to develop and expand this resource.