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Anti-racism, Anti-bias Reading/Watching/Listening Resources

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Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Eyes on the Prize, a 6 part documentary on the Civil Rights Movement, streaming on Prime Video

How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson

So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

The 1619 Project Podcast, a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander

The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson

When they See Us, on Netflix

White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo

RACE: The Power of an Illusion http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm

Slavery by Another Name http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

I Am Not Your Negro https://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Not-Your-Negro/dp/B01MR52U7T

“Seeing White” from Scene on Radio http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

Kimberle Crenshaw TedTalk – “The Urgency of Intersectionality” https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en

TedTalk: Bryan Stevenson, “We need to talk about injustice” https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en

TedTalk Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “The danger of a single story” https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story 1

Ian Haney Lopez interviewed by Bill Moyers – Dog Whistle Politics https://billmoyers.com/episode/ian-haney-lopez-on-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race/

Michelle Alexander, FRED Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfRhQsL_24

Michelle Alexander and Ruby Sales in Conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a04jV0lA02U

The Ezra Klein Show with Eddie Glaude, Jr. (Podcast) “How Whiteness Distorts Our Democracy” https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/59837986

Code Switch, NPR (Podcast) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

Uncivil (Podcast) https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil/episodes

Harvard’s Project Implicit https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

*DismantlingRacism.org – numerous resources including links to organizations where interested students may want to get involved or learn about how to volunteer. https://www.dismantlingracism.org/resources.html

Additional Books

Also see this anti-racist reading list from Ibram Kendi: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html

Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists

Omi and Winant, Racial Formation in the United States

Irvin Painter, The History of White People

Lipsitz, Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Du Bois, Souls of White Folk

Takaki, A Different Mirror

Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race

Bridges, Khiara, The Poverty of Privacy Rights

Feagin, The White Racial Frame

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Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning

Rothstein, The Color of Law

Haney Lopez, White By Law

Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Deloria, Custer Died for Your Sins

Perry, Imani, More Beautiful and More Terrible

Glaude, Eddie, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

Stevenson, Just Mercy

Alexander, The New Jim Crow

Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name

Steiker & Steiker, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

Weston, Punishment and Inequality

Additional books by: James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Vincent Harding

Additional Resources to Learn More about Criminal Justice Reform

A Prosecutor’s Vision for a Better Justice System, TED Talk by Adam Foss

Charged, by Emily Bazelon

College Behind Bars, 4 part mini-series streaming on PBS

Immaculate Perception, TEDx Talk by Jerry Kang on Implicit Bias

Justice in America Podcast: a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform

Just Mercy, by Brian Stevenson

Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration--and How to Achieve Real Reform, by John Pfaff

Prepping for Parole, Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, Dec. 2, 2019

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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor Systems Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal, by Alexandra Natapoff

Serial Season 3: Profile on the Criminal Justice System in Cleveland

Solitary, Albert Woodfox

The Marshall Project: sign up for a daily email digest that curates criminal justice news from all different kinds of sources

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Road to Repair, Danielle Sered

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