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Test Activities Podcasts Videos Articles Blogs Reports Books Op-Eds Children’s Student Scholarships Documentaries Poems Books Materials Movies Websites Hashtags Organizations Social Media to Follow on Social Media Test: ○ Bias Test - ○ https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/indexrk.htm Activities: ○ White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntonsh) ○ https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf Podcasts: ○ NPR episode about Whistling Vivaldi ○ https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125859207 ○ Side Effects of White Women Podcast Episode with Amanda Seales ○ https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/starburns-audio/small- doses/e/54694841?autoplay=true ○ Smartest Person in the Room’s episode on Well Meaning White People ○ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-30-bias-well-meaning-white- people/id1142903667?i=1000409893824 ○ Code Switch podcast A Decade on Watching Black People Die ○ https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black- people- die?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=s ocial ○ Still Processing episode on Kaepernick ○ https://nyti.ms/2RQOUAq ○ White Lies (NPR) ○ https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510343/white-lies ○ At the Square: Both Sides #11: Sophic Solution's Cofounders on Systemic Racism on Apple Podcasts ○ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/both-sides-11-sophic-solutions- cofounders-on-systemic/id1353432750?i=1000476840410 ○ Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast ○ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-makes-cents-a-history-of- capitalism-podcast/id872656509 ○ Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’ ○ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parenting- forward/id1403686245?i=1000474951309 ○ Fare of the Free Child podcast ○ https://www.raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/ ○ Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey” ○ https://integratedschools.simplecast.com/episodes/harvey ○ 1619 (New York Times) ○ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html ○ About Race ○ https://www.showaboutrace.com/ ○ Code Switch (NPR) ○ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/ ○ Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw ○ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intersectionality- matters/id1441348908 ○ Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast ○ https://www.raceforward.org/media/podcast/momentum-race-forward- podcast ○ Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights) ○ https://civilrights.org/podforthecause/ ○ Pod Save the People (Crooked Media) ○ https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/ ○ Seeing White ○ https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ ○ Reflections on Kansas City’s Weekend of Protests Against Police Violence ○ https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2020-06-01/reflections-on- kansas-citys-weekend-of-protests-against-police-violence ○ NPR: To Be in a Rage Almost All of the Time ○ https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867153918/-to-be-in-a-rage-almost-all- the-time ○ Cape-Up ○ https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/cape-up/the-author-of-white- fragility-doesnt-think-most-white-people-care-about-racial-injustice/ ○ NPR: The Trauma of Being Black in America ○ https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/868093533/the-trauma-of-being-black-in- america Videos: ○ Interview about White Awake ○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkE5kNnlDQ ○ Interview about I’m Still Here ○ https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/defininggrace/art-of-the- sermon/e/54526347 ○ White Fragility - short video summarizing the book by Robin DiAngelo ○ https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/why-are-white-people-so-bad-at- talking-about-race ○ How We Can Win (David Jones) ○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go&feature=youtu.be ○ 5 Tips for Being an Ally ○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0&feature=youtu.be ○ The Unequal Race for Good Jobs ○ https://youtu.be/R8T7rHZaCxQ ○ Born to Win, Schooled to Lose ○ https://youtu.be/nZes0kcuwCM ○ Our Separate and Unequal Public Colleges ○ https://youtu.be/8iNARlfvmT8 ○ White Flight in America’s Colleges ○ https://youtu.be/fZZFQuw1FvU ○ Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48) ○ https://youtu.be/eV3nnFheQRo ○ Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30) ○ https://youtu.be/45ey4jgoxeU ○ "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26) ○ https://youtu.be/e-BY9UEewHw ○ Racism is Real ○ https://youtu.be/fTcSVQJ2h8g ○ Call for Change ○ https://vimeo.com/424168164 ○ 13th ○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8 ○ The Danger of a Single Story ○ https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_ single_story ○ Deconstruct Racism ○ https://www.ted.com/talks/baratunde_thurston_how_to_deconstruct_racis m_one_headline_at_a_time/transcript?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2 019-05- 31&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content =talk_of_the_week_button ○ I Just See People ○ https://youtu.be/i9z8TV31Wm0 ○ Its Not About You. It’s About Us. ○ https://youtu.be/-Fr5081_4hE ○ How to overcome Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them. ○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYyvbgINZkQ Articles: ○ Walking While Black (Garnette Cadogan) ○ https://lithub.com/walking-while- black/?fbclid=IwAR00nbDnPcoE7BJOUZgQL8nxFckVR0vsDWdC9hUXtE RwmxmhuRw7HVSDwTI ○ Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism ○ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african- american-history/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding- racism/ ○ Rachel Elizabeth Cargle’s When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels ○ https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a22717725/what-is-toxic- white-feminism/ ○ Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Case for Reparations ○ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for- reparations/361631/ ○ Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen Is So Important (Kimberley Lawson) ○ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwq3x/why-diversity-on-screen-is- important-black-panther ○ 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice ○ https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for- racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234 ○ Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism ○ https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/resources-for-white-people-to-learn-and- talk-about-race-and-racism-5b207fff4fc7 ○ Crimes Against African Americans ○ https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/06/l-ali-khan-crimes-against- african-americans/ ○ The 1619 Project. Nikole Hannah Jones, The New York Times. ○ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america- slavery.html ○ Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites. Robin DiAngelo, 2016. ○ https://robindiangelo.com/2018site/wp- content/uploads/2016/01/Antiracist-Checklist-2015.pdf ○ A Critique of "Our Constitution Is Color-Blind.” Neil Gotanda, 1991. ○ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1228940.pdf ○ The Case for Reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates ○ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for- reparations/361631/ ○ Civil Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2017 ○ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/colin- kaepernick/541845/ ○ Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist ○ https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&c ontext=uclf ○ Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist ○ https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&c ontext=uclf ○ Politics. Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989. ○ https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&c ontext=uclf ○ Killing Us Softly: Navigating State and State-Sanctioned Violence Against ○ https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/killing-us- softly-navigating-state-and-state-sanctioned-violence-against-black- mens-humanity-3891aa23e591 ○ Black Men’s Humanity. Charles H.F. Davis III, Keon A. McGuire ○ https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/killing-us- softly-navigating-state-and-state-sanctioned-violence-against-black- mens-humanity-3891aa23e591 ○ Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black ○ https://www.jstor.org/stable/800672?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents ○ Feminist Thought. Patricia Hill Collins, 1986. ○ https://www.jstor.org/stable/800672?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents ○ On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism. Varun Chaudhry, 2020 ○ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706466 ○ Racism, whiteness, and burnout in antiracism movements: How white racial justice activists elevate burnout in racial justice activists of color in the United States, Paul Gorski ○ http://edchange.org/publications/White-Activists-Causing-Burnout-Racial- Justice-Activists-Gorski- Erakat.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Du78HrP7FLAoVtc_mpcnrGlkH_DSBqQ119SlIJ XRUNKZiOggbTICiTeo ○ Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Angela P. Harris, 1990. ○ https://www.jstor.org/stable/1228886?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents ○ Race without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize ○ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/486184/pdf ○ Racist Institutional Norms. Shaun Harper, 2012. ○ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/486184/pdf ○ Racism Defined. Dismantling Racism. ○ https://www.dismantlingracism.org/racism-defined.html ○ Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law's Response to Racism. Patricia
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