CTG & IDEAs
Social and Racial Justice Workshop
Resource Sheet Compiled by Lia Kozatch, Katelyn Kendrick, Lisa Ann Gaylord, and Lisa Young
PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND ARTICLES
● 55+ Social Justice Terms ● Advance Gender Equity in the Arts ● Alicia Garza ● American Theatre Magazine-Digital Content ● Anti-Defamation League ● AntiRacism Learning + Action Space for White People in U.S. Theatre -FB group that moves beyond allyship to accomplice/co-conspirator work ● Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi ● Antiracist Checklist for Whites ● artEquity ● A.R.T. New York- #TheShowMustBePaused ● BIPOC Arts (opera group) ● BIPOC Director Database ● BIPOC Stage Managers ● BIPOC Theater Designers and Technicians Database ● Black Acting Methods: Studio and Pedagogy ● Black Lives Matter ● Colorado Refugee Connect ● Consortium of Asian-American Theaters and Artists ● DENVER EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION EVENT RESOURCES ● Diversity in the Arts: Colorado arts internships ● Emily Johnson: Decolonization rider for work ● The Equity Project ● Groundwater Arts
● Hollaback! Bystander Training ● HowlRound-Digital theatre commons ● https://www.ideastages.org/pillars ● IDEA Stages: Pillars of Inclusion 2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 1 ● Interfaith Alliance of Colorado ● Joy-Jackson Initiative ● Latinx Theatre Commons ● Michigan State University An Open Letter Regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ● MENA Arts Advocacy Coalition ● MENA Theatre Makers Alliance ● Muslim Advocates ● Muslim Public Affairs Council ● Native Land- Canada ● Nicole Brewer ● North American Drama Therapy Association ● ONE Colorado ● Pamela Hayes- “Addressing Framework” ● Patrice Cullors ● Racism Recovery Center ● Rocky Mountain Artist' Safety Alliance ● Scaffolding Anti-racism Resources ● The SEED Project- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack ● The Sikh Coalition ● System of White Supremacy and White Privilege ● Stop AAPI Hate ● Theatre Educator Pro Learning Center ● Theatre Communications Group ● Theatre for Young Audiences/USA ● U.S. Department of Arts and Culture-Land Acknowledgement processes ● We See You White American Theatre
TEACHING RESOURCES ● EduColor Resource List for pedagogy, curriculum, policy, labor, research to raise issues of equity, anti-racism, and justice ● Edutopia: Culturally Responsive Teaching
● Teacher Resource Sites for Social Justice Issues ● Many, Many Examples Of Essential Questions (teachthought.com) ● Educational Leadership: Stirring Up Justice
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 2 PLAYS AND STORIES ● 8 of the Best Plays About Social Justice | Book Riot ● The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ● Indigenous Theater and Performance of North America ● 10 Contemporary Native American Playwrights You Should Know ● Native Women Rising ● 50PP’s Best Unproduced Latinx Plays 2019 ● National Theatre of the Deaf- 2020 Playwrights’ Conference Registration ● HowlRound Theatre Commons- Deaf Playwriting: A New Art Form ● Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights
FROM THE WORKSHOP LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ● https://native-land.ca/ ● 907-312-5085- text city and state
Requesting Access Needs: A time to call into the space that the humans within each meeting may have biological, personal and capacity needs. Definition: An access need is something a person needs to communicate, learn, and take part in an activity
Below is a suggested Access Needs Script (as suggested by Nicole BrewerAnti-racist Theatre Series) ACCESS NEEDS: (Script) “My access needs are…” “My access needs are being met” (stop) “I have access needs and I an attending to them” (stop)
GENDER PRONOUNS:
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55+ Social Justice Terms from the Social & Racial Justice Workshop
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 4 Term Definition
AAVE African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English among sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the academic community.
Ableism A system of oppression that includes discrimination and social prejudice against people with intellectual, emotional, and physical disabilities, their exclusion, and the valuing of people and groups that do not have disabilities.
Accomplice An ally who directly challenges institutionalized homophobia, transphobia and other forms of oppression, by blocking or impeding oppressive people, policies and structures. Accomplices fight with oppressed peoples, and their actions are coordinated by those who are oppressed.
African American/Black/Africa ns in America Black people is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark- skinned compared to other populations.
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro- Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Africans in America- Diaspora Black or African people from the continent of Africa.
Ageism A system of oppression that works against the young and
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the old and values individuals of a particular age range.
Ally A person who is a member of an advantaged social group who takes a stand against oppression, works to eliminate oppressive attitudes and beliefs in themselves and their communities, and works to interrogate and understand their privilege.
Anti-Semitism/Anti-Je The systematic discrimination against and oppression of Jewish wish Oppression people, Judaism, and Jewish culture and traditions.
Asexual An identity term for people who either do not feel sexual attraction or do not feel desire for a sexual partner or partners. Some asexual individuals may still have romantic attractions.
Biphobia The irrational hatred or fear of people who identify as bisexual, pansexual, or fluid.
Bisexual An identity term for people who are attracted to people of two genders, usually to both men and women. Bi* is used as an inclusive abbreviation for the bi, pan, and fluid community.
BIPOC BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Pronounced “bye-pock,” this is a term specific to the United States, intended to center the experiences of Black and Indigenous groups and demonstrate solidarity between communities of color.
Birth Assigned Sex The designation that refers to a person’s biological, morphological, hormonal, and genetic composition. One’s sex is typically assigned at birth and classified as either male or female.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 6 Black Lives Matter (Concept) The ideology that seeks to affirm and assert the value of Black lives, seeking equal treatment and justice for Black people, not to the exclusion of such for people of other races, but in response to the systematic absence or denial of
equal treatment and justice for Black people across institutions and policies.
Black Lives Matter (Movement) Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black people’s humanity, their contributions to [this] society, and their resilience in the face of deadly oppression.”A political movement to address systemic and state violence against African Americans. Per the Black Lives Matter organizers: In 2013, three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometiï — created a Black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer, George Zimmerman. The project is now a member-led global network of more than 40 chapters. Black Lives Matter members organize and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
Cisgender Individuals whose gender identity and expression line up with their birth-assigned sex.
Cissexism A system of oppression that values cisgender people, upholds the gender binary, and marginalizes, oppresses, and makes invisible the lives and experiences of transgender people.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 7 Classism A system of oppression that includes institutional, cultural, societal, and individual beliefs and practices that assign value to people based in their socio-economic class. Here, members of more privileged socio-economic classes are seen as having a greater value.
Collusion Thinking and acting in ways that support dominant systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
Coming Out The process by which LGBTQ2SIA+ individuals recognize, accept, appreciate, and often celebrate their sexual orientation, sexuality, or gender identity/expression. Coming out varies from individual to individual, and across culture and community.
Cultural Appropriation A term used to describe the taking over of creative or artistic forms, themes, or practices by one cultural group from another. It is in general used to describe Western appropriations of non‐Western or non‐white forms, and carries connotations of exploitation and dominance.
Cultural Competence The ability to effectively and empathetically work and engage with people of different cultural identities and backgrounds in order to provide safe and accountable spaces for dialogue and discourse; cultural competence is relevant in all fields of work, education, and informal social interactions.
Discrimination A person discriminates when they make a distinction, (whether intentional or not), based on a characteristic, or perceived characteristic that: · has the effect of imposing burdens, obligations or disadvantages on an individual or a class of individuals not imposed upon others and/or · withholds or limits access to opportunities, benefits and advantages available to other individuals or classes of individuals in society.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 8 Empathy A learned skill that allows one to recognize and deeply listen to another’s story or experiences, and connect them to common understandings and emotions; differs from sympathy.
Ethnocentrism Judging another culture solely based on the standards and values of one’s own culture. Also, a belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own nation or ethnic group.
Equality Equality means everyone is given the same resources, in an effort to promote fairness, but it can only work if everyone starts from the same place and needs the same help.
Equity Equity means that everyone is given the resources that they need to succeed. Equity often appears unfair, but it actively moves everyone closer to success by “leveling the playing field.”
Gay Is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. Commonly an identity term specifically used for a male-identified person who is attracted to other male-identified people.
Gender a socially constructed range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
Gender Binary A social construction of gender in which there are two distinct and opposite genders: male/masculine/men and female/feminine/women.
Gender Expression A person’s presentation of their gender. These outward expressions of gender can be intentional or unintentional and involve one’s mannerisms, clothing, hair, speech, clothing, and activities (and more!).
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 9 Gender Identity A person’s innate sense of their own gender. This may include identities on either end of the gender binary, somewhere in- between or outside the gender binary.
An identity term for a person who may not identify with and/or Genderqueer/ also express themselves within the gender binary. termed Gender non Binary
Gender Non Conforming Gender variance, or gender nonconformity, is behavior or gender expression by an individual that does not match masculine and feminine gender norms. People who exhibit gender variance may refer to themselves as gender variant, gender non-conforming, gender diverse, or genderqueer, and may be transgender or otherwise variant in their gender
identity.
Gender Pronoun Gender pronouns (like their, hers, he) are words that specifically refer to people that you are talking about. Some individuals may use pronouns that line up with their birth-assigned sex. While others will use pronouns that best suit their gender identity.
Gender Neutral or Is a pronoun which does not associate a gender with the individual Gender Inclusive who is being discussed. Examples of these include, Pronoun They/Their/Them, Ze/Zie/Hir/Hirs, Ve/Ver/Vis
Hate Group organizations which: · spread lies intended to incite hatred and / or advocate violence against certain groups on the basis of sexual orientation, race, colour, religion etc. · claim that their identity (racial, religious etc.) is 'superior' to that of other people · do not value the human rights of other people.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 10 Heterosexism A system of oppression where individual, societal, cultural, and institutional beliefs and practices favor heterosexuality and assume that heterosexuality is the only ‘natural’, ‘normal’, or acceptable sexual orientation. This creates an imbalance in power, which leads to systemic, institutional, pervasive, and routine mistreatment of LGBTQ2SIA+.
Heterosexual An identity term for a female-identified person who is attracted to male-identified people or a male-identified person who is attracted to female-identified people.
Homophobia The fear, hatred, and intolerance of people who identify or are perceived as gay or lesbian.
Internalized Oppression A learned fear and self-hatred of one’s own identity or identity group based on the acceptance of oppressive stereotypes, attitudes, and beliefs about their identity group.
Intersectionality The idea that multiple identities intersect to create a whole identity. These identities that can intersect include
gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, mental illness, and physical illness as well as other forms of identity. These aspects of identity are not mutually exclusive. Each element or trait of a person is inseparably linked with all of the other elements.
Note: Human Right and Equity Services acknowledges the concept of intersectional discrimination/harassment and recognizes that people’s lives involve multiple interrelated identities, and that marginalization and exclusion may exist because of how these identities intersect.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 11 Intersex A general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. (As defined by the Intersex Society of North America.)
Islamophobia The irrational fear or hatred of Islam, Muslims, Islamic traditions and practices, and, more broadly, those who ‘appear’ to be Muslim.
Lesbian An identity term for a female-identified person who is attracted to other female-identified people.
LGBTQ2SIA+ An acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,Transsexual, Queer and Questioning, Two-Spirit, Intersex, Asexual, Plus people.
Oppression A term used to describe systems, relations, or behaviors which disadvantage groups or individuals through formal institutions or informal attitudes and behaviors. Oppression fuses institutional and systemic discrimination, personal bias, bigotry, and social prejudice in a complex web of relationships and structures.
Pansexual An identity term for a person who is attracted to people of
all genders: men, women, transgender individuals, and genderqueers.
Power The capacity to direct or influence behaviour of others; the ability to act in a particular way. The ability of an individual or group to achieve their own goals or aims.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 12 Prejudice A pre-judgment or unjustifiable, and usually negative, attitude of one type of individual or groups toward another group and its members. Such negative attitudes are typically based on unsupported generalizations (or stereotypes) that deny the right of individual members of certain groups to be recognized and treated as individuals with individual characteristics.
Privilege An advantage granted or available only to a particular person or group of people./ A systemic set of benefits granted to a dominant identity group (i.e. white privilege, straight privilege, Christian privilege, cis-gender privilege), such as greater access to power, resources, government, language, land etc.
Queer A term for individuals whose gender identity/expression and/or sexual orientation does not conform to societal norms. This reclaimed term is increasingly being used as an inclusive umbrella term for the LGBTQ2SIA+ community.
Racism A system of oppression based on an individuals or groups actual or perceived racial identity.
Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a form of stereotyping based on preconceived ideas about a person’s character.
Religious Oppression A system of oppression based on an individuals or groups religious beliefs and practices.
Sexism A system of oppression based on attitudes and beliefs (commonly related to traditional stereotypes of gender roles) that privileges men, subordinates women, and devalues practices associated with women.
Sexual Orientation A person’s sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 13 Social Justice The equal distribution of resources and opportunities, in which outside factors that categorize people are irrelevant.
Stereotype A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Transgender An identity terms for a person whose gender identity does not align with the gender they were assigned at birth.
Transphobia A system of oppression based on the fear and hatred of individuals who are transgender.
Xenophobia A system of oppression based on the fear, hatred or mistrust of that which is foreign, especially strangers or people from different countries or cultures.
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A Recommended Reading List on Social and Racial Justice-
The work of Social and Racial Justice is a wholly personal journey that is not completed in a handful of workshops or reading and few books or listening to a few podcasts. Please take this list as an offering… It is chock full with information. It will be updated so continue to enter in to find more resources- Lisa Young Founder www.ideastages.org
BIPOC/Global Majority Owned Bookstores in the USA ● Multiculturalism Rocks! Pop-up Bookstore Davis CA www.multiculturalism.rocks ● Eso Won Bookstore 4327 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles CA (323) 290-1048 www.esowonbookstore.com ● Marcus Books 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland CA (510) 652-2344 www.fb.com/marcus.books ● MATTER 2134 Market Street, Denver CO (303) 893-0330 www.shopatmatter.com ● Mahogany Books 1231 Good Hope Rd, Washington DC (202) 844-2062 www.mahoganybooks.com ● Dare Books 245 N 17-92 Hwy, Longwood FL (407) 673-3273 www.darebooks.com ● Brave + Kind Bookshop 722 W. College Ave., Decatur GA (470) 440-5714 www.braveandkindbooks.com ● Semicolon Bookstore 515 N. Halsted St, Chicago IL (312) 877-5170 www.semicolonchi.com ● Beyond Barcodes Bookstore 108 N. Main Street, Kokomo IN (765) 201-0383 www.108NMain.com ● Brain Lair Books 714 E Jefferson Blvd, South Bend IN (574) 400-5572 www.brainlairbooks.com ● Wild Fig Coffee & Books 726 N Limestone, Lexington KY (859) 381-8802 www.wildfigbooksandcoffee.com ● Frugal Bookstore 57 Warren Street, Roxbury MA (617) 541-1722 www.frugalbookstore.net ● Detroit Book City 24361 Greenfield Rd, Ste. 305, Southfield MI (248) 993-3844 www.detroitbookcity.com ● Eye See Me 6951 Olive Blvd, University City MO (314) 349-1122 www.eyeseeme.com ● The Little Boho Bookshop 164a Broadway, Bayonne NJ (201) 258-4499 www.thelittlebohobookshop.com ● Cafe con Libros 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn NY (347) 460-2838 www.cafeconlibrosbk.com ● The Lit Bar 131 Alexander Avenue, The Bronx NY (347) 955-3610 www.thelitbar.com ● Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse 2578 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia PA (215) 427-3300 www.amalgamphilly.com ● Harrietts Bookshop 258 E Girard Ave, Philadelphia PA (267) 241-2617 www.harriettsbookshop.com ● The Tiny Bookstore 1130 Perry Highway, Suite 106, Pittsburgh PA (412) 585-2651 https://tinybookspgh.com ● Turning Page Bookshop 216 St James Ave #F, Goose Creek SC (843) 501-7223 www.turningpagebookshop.com ● The Dock Bookshop 6637 Meadowbrook Dr., Fort Worth TX (817) 457-5700 www.thedockbookshop.com ● Cafe con Libros- An Intersectional Feminist Bookstore & Coffee Shop 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216 [email protected] ● The Lit Bar 131 Alexander Avenue Bronx, New York 10454 https://www.thelitbar.com ● Birchbark Books- 2115 West 21st Street, Minneapolis MN (612) 374-4023 www.birchbarkbooks.com ● Red Planet Comics 1002 Park Ave SW, Albuquerque NM (505) 361-1182 www.redplanetbooksncomics.com
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The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing by Singh, Anneliese A. -A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.
Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the processes of racism. This book can help guide you.
The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you’ll discover the building blocks to creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.
This book is not just about ending racial harm—it is about racial liberation. This journey is one that we must take together. It promises the possibility of moving through this pain and grief to experience the hope, resilience, and freedom that helps you not only self-actualize, but also makes the world a better place.
The Wellbeing Handbook for Overcoming Everyday Racism: How to Be Resilient in the Face of Discrimination and Microagressions by Cousins, Susan
This enlightening and reflective guide studies the psychological impact of racism and discrimination on BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) people and offers steps to improve wellbeing. It includes definitions of race, racism and other commonly used terms, such as microaggressions, and evaluates the effect of definitions used to describe BAME people.
Each chapter of the book focusses on one category of wellbeing - self-acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, positive relations with others, environmental mastery, autonomy - and includes case examples, spaces for reflection and practical, creative exercises. For use as a tool within counselling and therapeutic settings as well as a self-help tool by individuals, each category provides a framework for thinking about how to manage everyday racism, live with more resilience, and thrive.
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Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Magee, Rhonda V. - “Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the discernment and new degrees of freedom these practices entrain.” --from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn. In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered.
Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level.
Heart-centered and spirit-based practices are the missing but vital piece to achieving racial justice.
Do Better is a revolutionary offering that addresses anti-racism from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spiritually-aligned perspective. This actionable guidebook illustrates how to engage in the heart-centered and mindfulness-based practices that racial justice educator and healer Rachel Ricketts has developed to fight white supremacy from the inside out, in our personal lives and communities alike. It is a loving and assertive call to do the deep—and often uncomfortable—inner work that precipitates much-needed external and global change.
Radical racial justice includes daily, intentional, and informed action. It demands addressing the emotional violence we have perpetuated on ourselves and others (most notably toward Black and Indigenous women and femmes), both as individuals and as a society. Do Better provides the missing pieces to manifest practicable, sustainable solutions such as identifying where we most get stuck, mitigating the harm we inflict on others, and mending our hearts from our most painful race and gender-based experiences, plus much more.
This inspirational and eye-opening handbook is filled with carefully curated soulcare activities for getting into our bodies and better withstanding the grief, rage, and conflicting emotions that naturally arise when we fight against injustice. Culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompt unpack our privilege, and take up the ongoing fight against oppression, while transforming our own lives along the way.
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz (Author) Part of: A Toltec Wisdom Book (6 Books)
In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre (Theater in the Americas) by Norma Bowles (Editor), Daniel-Raymond Nadon (Editor), Bill Rauch (Foreword), Flint (Contributor), Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences. By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers—artists, activists and scholars—provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change.
Theatre of the Oppressedby Augusto Boal (Author), Charles A. McBride (Translator) "Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, comic, inquisitive and finally optimistic theatre involving spectators and performers in the search for community and integrity. This is a good book to be used even more than to be read." - Richard Schechner "Augusto Boal's achievement is so remarkable, so original and so groundbreaking that I have no hesitation in describing the book as the most important theoretical work in the theatre in modern times - a statement I make with having suffered any memory lapse with respect to Stanislavsky, Artaud or Grotowski." - George E. Wellwarth
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition 4th Edition by Paulo Freire (Author), Donaldo Macedo (Foreword) First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoin
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love (Author) Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers) by Mariame Kaba (Author), Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword) New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to. What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”
Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina (Theater in the Americas) by Noe Montez (Author) Author Noe Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, produces memory narratives that change public reception to a government’s transitional justice policies. Drawing on contemporary research in memory studies and transitional justice, Montez examines the Argentine theatre’s responses to the country’s transitional justice policies—truth and reconciliation hearings, trials, amnesties and pardons, and memorial events and spaces—that have taken place in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Montez explores how the sociohistorical phenomenon of the Teatroxlaidentidad— an annual showcase staged with the support of Argentina’s Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo—acted as a vehicle for drawing attention to the hundreds of children kidnapped from their families during the dictatorship and looks at why the memory narratives regarding the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falklands) range from ideological appropriations of the islands, to absurdist commentaries about the failed war that signaled the dictatorship’s end, to the islands’ heavily contested status today. Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina explores the vibrant role of theatrical engagement in postdictatorship Argentina, analyzes plays by artists long neglected in English-language articles and books, and explores the practicalities of staging performances in Latin America.
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THINK Theatre 1st Edition by Mira Felner (Author)- Debuting in its first edition, THINK Theatre engages contemporary readers through its stylish visual program, lively narrative, and side-by-side coverage of multicultural and alternative theatres with more familiar and well known performances. THINK Theatre shows readers how the intersection of artistic vision, talent, and passion intersect with social, political and economic reality to create theatre everywhere, in all its forms and variety.
Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project 1st Edition by Megan Alrutz (Author), Lynn Hoare (Author)- Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project offers accessible frameworks for devising original theatre, developing critical understandings of racial and gender justice, and supporting youth to imagine, create, and perform possibilities for a more just and equitable society. Working at the intersections of theory and practice, Alrutz and Hoare present their innovative model for devising critically engaged theatre with novice performers. Sharing why and how the Performing Justice Project (PJP) opens dialogue around challenging and necessary topics already facing young people, the authors bring together critical information about racial and gender justice with new and revised practices from applied theatre, storytelling, theatre, and education for social change. Their curated collection of PJP "performance actions" offers embodied and reflective approaches for building ensemble, devising and performing stories, and exploring and analyzing individual and systemic oppression. This work begins to confront oppressive narratives and disrupt patriarchal systems―including white supremacy, racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth invites artists, teaching artists, educators, and youth-workers to collaborate bravely with young people to imagine and enact racial and gender justice in their lives and communities. Drawing on examples from PJP residencies in juvenile justice settings, high schools, foster care facilities, and community-based organizations, this book offers flexible and responsive ways for considering experiences of racism and sexism and performing visions of justice.
Visit www.performingjusticeproject.org for additional information and documentation of PJP performances with youth.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 21 Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race Paperback by Derald Wing Sue (Author) Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you must read this book. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence debunks the most pervasive myths using evidence, easy-to-understand examples, and practical tools.
This significant work answers all your questions about discussing race by covering:
● Characteristics of typical, unproductive conversations on race ● Tacit and explicit social rules related to talking about racial issues ● Race-specific difficulties and misconceptions regarding race talk ● Concrete advice for educators and parents on approaching race in a new way
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Paperback by Mahzarin R. Banaji (Author), Anthony G. Greenwald (Author) “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington Post I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.
The title’s “good people” are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can adapt beliefs and behavior and “outsmart the machine” in our heads so we can be fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our own minds.
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Let's Get Real: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender Identities in the Classroom 1st Edition by Martha Caldwell (Author), Oman Frame (Author)- This new book is a vital resource for any teacher or administrator to help students tackle issues of race, class, gender, religion, and cultural background. Authors Martha Caldwell and Oman Frame, both lifelong educators, offer a series of teaching strategies designed to encourage conversation and personal reflection, enabling students to think creatively, rather than stereotypically, about difference. Using the Transformational Inquiry model, your students will learn to explore their own identities, share stories and thoughts with their peers, learn more through reading and research, and ultimately take personal, collaborative action to affect social change in their communities. You’ll learn how to:
● Facilitate dynamic classroom discussions in a safe and empathetic environment ● Encourage students to think and talk objectively about complex and sensitive issues such as race, gender, and social class ● Help students cultivate valuable communication, critical thinking, and writing skills while developing their identities in a healthy way. ● Develop your teacher identity in a positive way to better support your students’ growth and self-discovery
The strategies in this book can be adapted for any middle school or high school curriculum, and each chapter includes a variety of lesson plans and handouts that you can use in the classroom immediately. These resources can also be downloaded from the authors’ website: www.ichangecollaborative.com.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Paperback by Joy a Degruy (Author) 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?
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 23 Dr. Joy DeGruy, answers these questions and more. With over thirty years of practical experience as a professional in the mental health field, Dr. DeGruy encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions, and behaviors through the lens of history and so gain a greater understanding of how centuries of slavery and oppression have impacted people of African descent in America.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America.
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters (Author)- This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people--and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects.
Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day, when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, even--and especially--well-meaning white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled.
This book, designed to illuminate the myriad dire consequences of "living while Black," came at the urging of Winters's Black friends and colleagues. Winters describes how in every aspect of life--from economics to education, work, criminal justice, and, very importantly, health outcomes--for the most part, the trajectory for Black people is not improving. It is paradoxical that, with all the attention focused over the last fifty years on social justice and diversity and inclusion, little progress has been made in actualizing the vision of an equitable society.
Black people are quite literally sick and tired of being sick and tired. Winters writes that "my hope for this book is that it will provide a comprehensive summary of the consequences of Black fatigue, and awaken activism in those who care about equity and justice--those who care that intergenerational fatigue is tearing at the very core of a whole race of people who are simply asking for what they deserve."
Reading group discussion guide available.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 24 The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Baptist, Edward E. A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told , the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.
Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century Roberts, Dorothy- A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial.
Moving from an account of the evolution of race--proving that it has always been a mutable and socially defined political division supported by mainstream science--Roberts delves deep into the current debates, interrogating the newest science and biotechnology, interviewing its researchers, and exposing the political consequences obscured by the focus on genetic difference. Fatal Invention is a provocative call for us to affirm our common humanity.
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 25 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Lorde, Audre Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. "[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."-- The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to "never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . "
How to Be an Antiracist- 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. Citation: Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence- If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you must read this book. Derald Wing Sue debunks the most pervasive myths using evidence, easy-to-understand examples, and practical tools.Citation: Wing Sue, Derald. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015.
Courageous Conversations About Race Glenn Singleton explains the need for candid, courageous conversations about race so that educators may understand why student disengagement and achievement inequality persists and learn how they can develop a curriculum that promotes true educational equity and excellence. Citation: Singleton, Glenn. Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools. Los Angeles: Corwin, 2015
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 26 White Fragility- Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross- racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, Robin DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. Citation: DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
The Condemnation of Blackness- The idea of Black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of Black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, Khalil Gibran Muhammad - HKS Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy - reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies. Citation: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, white, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides.Citation: Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Just Mercy (young adult adaptation @ Publisher Site) This book is Bryan Stevenson's (MPP/JD 1985 LLD 2015) unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice. Stevenson was honored by HKS in 2018 with the 2018 Alumni Public Service Award. Citation: Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
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The New Jim Crow- The New Jim Crow has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.” Citation: Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2020.
Charleston Syllabus-In the aftermath of the Charleston massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder-and the subsequent debates in the media-in the context of America's tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus on June 19, starting it as a hashtag on Twitter linking to scholarly works on the myriad of issues related to the murder. Citation: Williams, Chad, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain. (Eds.) Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016.
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation-In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. Citation: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016
The Color of Law- In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. Citation: Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York; London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
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The Broken Heart of America- From Lewis and Clark’s 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation’s past. Citation: Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2020.
One Person, No Vote- Carol Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans. Citation: Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Never Caught- A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Erica Armstrong Dunbar tells the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom. Citation: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washington's Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. 37Ink; Atria Books: New York, 2017.
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The Fire Next Time- At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both Black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Citation: Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Heavy- Kiese Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed Black son to a complicated and brilliant Black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. Citation: Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An American Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2018.
White Rage- Carefully linking historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Carol Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Citation: Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race- Crystal Fleming provides your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Citation: Fleming, Crystal. How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide. New York: Penguin Random House, 2019.
Race Matters- Race Matters contains Cornel West’s most powerful essays on the issues relevant to black Americans today: despair, black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, myths about black sexuality, the crisis in leadership in the black community, and the legacy of Malcolm X. And the insights that he brings to these complicated problems remain fresh, exciting, creative, and compassionate.
I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness (Available on Overdrive) by Austin Channing Brown The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity in their mission statements, many fall short of matching actions to words. Brown highlights how white middle-class evangelicalism has participated in the rise of racial hostility, and encourages the reader to confront apathy and recognize God's ongoing work in the world.
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Between the world and me (Available on Overdrive) by Ta-Nehisi Coates -Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America (Available on Overdrive) by Michael Eric Dyson A call for change in the United States argues that racial progress can only be achieved after facing difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, and discounted.
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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America (Available on Hoopla) by Ibram X Kendi A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists.
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir (Available on Hoopla) by Patrisse Khan-Cullors A lyrical memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement urges readers to understand the movement's position of love, humanity and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Prisoner's Wife.
They can't kill us all : the story of the struggle for Black lives (Available on Overdrive) by Wesley Lowery A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.
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Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor (Available on Hoopla) by Layla F Saad The host of the “Good Ancestor” podcast presents an updated and expanded edition of the Instagram challenge that launched a cultural movement about taking responsibility for first-person racism to stop unconsciously inflicting pain on others.
Race-Ing Art History by Kymberly N. Pinder (Editor) "The first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Richly illustrated, this pioneering volume lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the complex and shifting category of race and its significance in our visual culture and everyday lives.”
"Colored Pictures: race and visual representation by Michael D. Harris; Moyo Okediji (Foreword by) "In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real
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Sight Unseen: whiteness and American visual culture by Martin A. Berger "Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what European Americans see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact."
1971: a year in the life of color by Darby English-"In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto."
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 35 Fired up! Ready to Go! Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity by Peggy Cooper Cafritz "After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington, D.C. based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of contemporary African American art in the country. But in 2009, the more than 300 works that composed this extraordinary collection were destroyed in the largest residential fire in Washington, D.C. history. The pioneering collection included work by Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Barkley Hendricks, David Hammons, Chris Ofili, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others."
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From
Womb to Grave, in the Building of A Nation Berry, Daina Ramey- Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America.
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Foner, Eric -From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.
Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white— responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.
This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II- Blackmon, Douglas A.- This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.” By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the stories
The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Wilkerson, Isabel by
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History- Theoharis, Jeanne
2021 CTG/IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Reading List 37 Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American DemocracyBy Dudziak, Mary L.
Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894- 1994 by White, Deborah G. by
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Giddings, Paula
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Hinton, Elizabeth Kai
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Davis, Angela Y.
Roots by Haley, Alex
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by Berman, Ari
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Anderson, Carol
Antiracism: An Introduction by Zamalin, Alex
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement by Horace, Matthew
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Chokehold Policing Black Men by Butler, Paul
Citizen: An American Lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Glaude, Eddie S.
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Cooper, Brittney C.
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E Jones-Rogers (Author) Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
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Fire Shut up in My Bones: A Memoir by Blow, Charles M.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become A Good Ancestor by Saad, Layla F
My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row
by Kitchen, Ronald
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Moore, Darnell L.
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