Racism, Diversity, and Protest: Understanding Racism

Looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the election of Barack Obama, racism is still very much a factor in everyday life.

A basic "remedial education for white folk" by the Center for the Study of White American Culture co-founder, who is white, married to an African American.

A guide to overcoming your prejudices on a personal level, by the first president of the Asian American Psychological Society.

How systems of privilege work (gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical abilities, age, income, education, geographic); how to be part of the solution.

Helps white people see dynamics of racism in society, institutions, daily lives. Stories, exercises, advice for working together.

Abusive experimentation, and the rationalizations used to justify them, from slavery to today. The author is African American, as is James, H. Jones, author of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment about experiments on, and non-treatment of, African Americans that went on between the 1930s and 1975.

Shows how mixed-gender use of urban pools led to segregation; decades of protest won desegregation but also a shift to private club pools.

Draws on 40 in-depth interviews and the sociologist's own experience as a domestic worker for employers in the greater Boston area (Brookline), to show the social psychology of relationships of domination.

A Black historian gathers 17 narratives by Black women historians that describe how they entered and navigated an academic world dominated by whites and men. Reveals the barriers, both internal and external, that can prevent such scholars from writing and teaching freely and well.

Reveals how essential slavery was to New England's economy, with chapters on specific industries.

Based on Evans' personal experiences, discusses problems with racial tension in SNCC and explores how patriarchal social structures, fierce racial tension, and socio-economic differences pushed issues of racism within both the organized Civil Rights and with the Women's movements it gave rise to.

Ausdale spent a year observing a racially diverse day care center, where pre-school children experienced racial diversity in their own ways, but also in the light of adult world ideologies.

Strategies, role plays, and sample dialogues to help children of all ages value the differences they perceive relating to race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Tackles adolescent name-calling, exclusion, and tools for countering bias in schools, media, books, online.

African American psychologist explains the development of racial identity in this much-read book, a must for high school teachers. Also: Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, especially chapter 3 is "What Kind of Friendship is That?"

Describes Einstein's anti-racism activism, which history books and biographies usually fail to mention.

College professors who teach about race describe the impacts on their careers of their teaching about race and racism.

An African American teacher and a white teacher set out to collaborate in a middle school classroom, but find themselves grappling with distrust, anger, and fear, eventually building trust and understanding. Shows both the importance and the challenges of interracial collaborations. Keen insights into how race and culture matter in teacher-student interactions.

The white author reflects on her inexperience and the low expectations she brought to her teaching of "Negro" 4th graders in Virginia, and how she was repeatedly surprised and challenged by her students, causing her to question her prejudices and middle-class assumptions.