This resource list is very incomplete … just a drop in the bucket! Books (others listed in podcasts and resource lists): Alexander, Michelle (2010, 2012, 2020) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and 1/17/20 Ten Years After The New Jim Crow
Baldwin, James – all
Billings, David (2016) Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in the United States
Cohen, Cathy J. Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics
Davis, Angela, et.al (2016) Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Gaines, Ernest (1993) A Lesson Before Dying
Glaude, Eddie S. (2020) Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own; (2017) Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; (2008) In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
Kendi, Ibram X. & Lukashevsky, Ashley (2020) Antiracist Baby board book and hard copy. Interview with Kendi on the book 7/24/20: Teaching children to be antiracist
Kendi, Ibram X. (2019) How to Be an Antiracist; (2017) Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Dr. Kendi is the professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences (as of June 11, 2020) who will establish the BU Center for Antiracist Research
King, Ruth (2018) Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the inside Out
Lopez, William D. (2020). Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid – relates police violence in Black communities and immigration violence in Latinx communities while sharing life stories.
Love, Bettina L. (2019) We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and The Pursuit Of Educational Freedom
Menakem, Resmaa (2017) My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Racism in America A Reader(2020) – free download pdf essays
Reynolds, Jason & Kendi, Ibram X. (2020) Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix (YA oriented) of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Washington, Harriet A. (2006) Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present
Wilkerson, Isabel (2020) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of American’s Great Migration (2011)
Black authors to read (Trevor Noah list): Ibram X Kendi & Jason Reynolds, Bakari Sellers, Eve Ewing, D.L. Hughley, Mikki Kendall, Mary Frances Berry, DeRay McKesson, Wesley Lowery, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
YouTube/ Podcasts 8/13/20 Black Lives Matter Movement and the Fight for Racial Justice- MV Author’s Series (start at 16 minutes to skip music and introductions) with Kiesa Laymon, Barbara Phillips, David Blight and moderator Ken Mack 8/11/20 When Antiracist Reading Lists Aren’t Enough with Nicole Cooke courtesy of WT Library Resources 8/5/20 Education Now: Practicing Antiracism in Your School 8/3/20 Poor People’s Campaign Moral Monday Digital March 8/2/20 US History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 7/20/20 (only available until 8/20/20) an interview with Dr. Ibram X.Kendi from Prince George's County Memorial Library System via Crowdcast 7/16/20 Don Lemon interviews Defining What Matters- Kennedy Mitchum on definition of racism; (7/9) Monumental Conversations – on Confederacy; (7/2) Schooling the System; (6/18) Why Not Being Racist Is Not Enough with Kendi and Professor Christopher Petrella 7/13/20 Romeo & Juliet In Rwanda: How A Soap Opera Sought To Change A Nation 7/9/20 Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem In Conversation with On Being 7/2/20 Rev. Barber, Bob Moses, Rep. Raskin - Time for a Third Reconstruction? 6/26/20 You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument 6/26/20 Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating A More Equitable Society Is In White America’s Interest Interview with Stephen Colbert; also see 6/26/19 How to be an Antiracist interview with author of the book Ibram X.Kendi 6/23/20 Dream Defenders: Abolition in Our Time You Tube Lifetime “Sunday School” with Dr. Angela Davis, K Agbebyi, Derecka Purnell, and Cherrell Brown 6/22/20 Black Authors To Read | The Daily Social Distancing Show Trever Noah Essential 6/19/20 What the Courage to Change History Looks Like: We can’t tinker around the edges. We need to dismantle systems. William Barber II, Liz Theoharis,Timothy B. Tyson and Cornel West 6/19/20 Kimberly Jones Speaking Out About Black Experience in America -The Daily Show 6/18/20 Van Jones: great awakening 6/17/20 Dr. Robin DiAngelo Wants White People to Stop Saying They’re Not Racist with Jimmy Fallon// 6/12/20 Robin DiAngelo on “White Fragility”-Extended conversation 6/15/20 Angela Davis on Black Lives Matter Protests, The Prison-Industrial Complex & Communism 6/4/20 Resmaa Menakem: The On Being Project with Krista Tippett (numerous interviews see Podcasts in Arts Resources) interview with Resmaa Menakem author of My Grandmother’s Hand: Racializing Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies; And YouTube healing racial trauma 6/2020 The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign Statewide meeting on Thursday, July 23 at 7-8:15pm. 5/29/20 Connecting the dots – George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests,Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper – The Daily Show 5/10/20 The Awakening Educator - The New Age of Education (Sandy Pimentel’s daughter Susan runs this) on topics relevant to education focus on trauma, cultural responsibility, social- emotional learning, etc. with co-hosts Susan Andrien & Megan Sweet, educators; This is a great interview with Dr. Machea Payne on Freedom Schools YouTube; Freedom School 3/9/20 Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism in America with Jeffrey Robinson Write. Right. Rite. Series Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature - Grab the Mic Tell Your Story List of podcasts from Gutman Library @ Harvard Graduate School of Education: "Clint Smith Reflects On This Moment" from the TED Radio Hour “'You Can't Meditate This Away' (Race, Rage, and the Responsibilities of Meditators)" from Ten Percent Happier, Episode #252 1619 Podcast series from New York Times. Also explore the full 1619 Project and the related article on "Why We Published the 1619 Project" also see article of attempt to block teaching 1619 in schools in the Guardian Seeing White from Scene on Radio (suggested by Adriana Umana-Taylor, HGSE faculty member) The Very Best Of Code Switch, In 8 Episodes from NPR Intersectionality Matters series hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. List of free videos from Gutman Library @ Harvard Graduate School of Education: 13th by Ava DuVernay on YouTube/Netflix. Footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. What is Systemic Racism? series from Race Forward. An eight-part video series that illustrates the ways racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society. Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives panel interview with Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers, hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force A Conversation on Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott, hosted by the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Older 2/27/19 Jackie Wang Carceral Temporalities and the Politics of Dreaming 4/13/18 Carol Anderson White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide 8/24/17 The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States (FULL Version) Jeffrey Robinson 4/12/16 Reflections on African American Studies with Dr. Cathy J. Cohen 10/30/14 Cathy Cohen: Race and Participatory Politics ACLU top racial justice expert (short video of Muhammed Ali inside) Jim Crow of the North - Full-Length Documentary The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DU BOIS read by toriasuncle | Full Audio Book Articles:
8/26/20 Ava Duvernay interviews Angela Davis on This Moment and What Came Before 7/15/20 She gets people talking Healing Justice St. Paul engages youth through the power of words 7/10/20 Yeah, Let’s Not Talk About Race 7/8/20 (The Color of Corona Virus. Covid-19 Deaths By Race And Ethnicity in the U.S.) 7/4/20 (A Teacher Held a Famous Racism Exercise in 1968. She’s Still at It.) 7/4/20 Frederick Douglass – 2020 Virtual Reading (organized by Renaissance House Abby McGrath with Makani Themba and MVTV Michelle Vivian-Jemison) – What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 7/3/20 Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History July2020 Speak Up At School: How to respond to everyday prejudice, Bias, and Stereotypes 6/19/20 “The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See” For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told? By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. 6/19/20 What Does it Mean to Be a Black Immigrant in the United States? Teaching Tolerance 6/10/20 How to Talk About Race a Protests With Your Kids, Explained By A Child Psychologist 6/5/20 Talking to Kids about Racism 6/2/20 Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Darkness is Asking To Be Loved author of The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender (2015) 5/12/20 “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America” by Ibram X. Kendi 3/20/20 How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism: As COVID-19 infections increase, so too does racism and xenophobia. Use our “Speak Up” strategies to let people know you’re not OK with racist or xenophobic comments about coronavirus or anything else. 1/17/20 (The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’: From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial) 2017 W.E.B.Du Bois’s Little-Known Arresting Modernist Data Vusualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair 1900 6/2014 “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates List of articles from Gutman Library @ Harvard Graduate School of Education: A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza "How you can be a better coworker to your black colleagues right now" by Soo Youn, The Lily ‘To create lasting change, we must sustain this anti-racist work beyond the heat of the moment’ by Jennifer Rich, Hechinger Report "Are You Supporting White Supremacy?" by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Inside Higher Education Films List of films from Gutman Library @ Harvard Graduate School of Education: I am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America, directed by Raoul Peck, 2016. America to Me, directed by Steve James, 2018. Black Studies in Video Collection (Alexander Street Press) The HistoryMakers: African American video oral history Resources: Anti-Racism Resources EduColor Resources See Borders to Bridges Resources (Art, News, Teachers Guides, Service Organizations) Focus on Immigration Education and Stories Through the Arts (FIESTA) Point Made Learning Resources Abolitionist Teaching Network White Ally Toolkit Living Room Conversations Racial Equality Tools Resources for Families: Talking About Racism: (also bilingual resources listed) • "Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism" (Town hall from Sesame Street and CNN) • Talking to Young Kids About Race and Racism (PBS Parents) • Ten Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids About Race (MomsRising) • Anti-Racism for Kids: An Age by Age Guide to Fighting Hate (Parents) • Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice(Teaching Tolerance) • Infographics: What is antiracist parenting? (Curious Parenting on Instagram) • Talking to White Kids About Race and Racism (Safe Space Radio) The State Library of Ohio and Bexley (OH) Public Library Race and Antiracism Opportunities Summer Reading List for Educators Interested in Racism/ Racial Identity, Unpacking Privilege, Gender Identity/Gender Expression, LGBTQ+, and Disability
6/23/20 Gutman Library Harvard Graduate School of Education: list Racial Justice Resources 6/12/20 23 Books to Help Kids of All Ages Learn About Race 6/5/20 25 Books for People Who Want to Learn More About Race in America 6/5/20 31 Resources That Will Help You Become a Better White Ally
Other resources ~Music: (lots more out there) The Chicks – March ~(7/23/20) Protesting police violence, a playlist. Think of hip hop as a historical record of the nation’s racial violence and injustice, director of the Harvard Archive says) ~Artwork: see Janice Frame - Eisenhauer Gallery (be sure to scroll down to see all the pieces) ~Theater: Zoom theater production, if available:#WhileWeBreathe: A Night of Creative Protest ~Arts Corps social justice framework; and project R.E.A.C.T. Reach, Express, Action, Community, Team lesson; video; African Drumming “Fanga” Rhythm; video ~ Film: I’m Not Racist…Am I? Documentary from Point Made Films ~ Game: The American Dream Game increase awareness, empathy, understanding