Ava Duvernay's 13th
Understanding Racism and White Privilege
Everyday Forms of Whiteness: understanding race in a "post-racial" world by Call Number: available onlineISBN: 9780742599994Publication Date: 2010Looks 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.
Lifting the White Veil by Call Number: [Wheelock College] 305.8 H63LISBN: 0971901708Publication Date: 2002A 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.
Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation by Call Number: [Lesley University] E185.615 .S84 2003ISBN: 0787967440Publication Date: 2003A guide to overcoming your prejudices on a personal level, by the first president of the Asian American Psychological Society.
Privilege, Power, and Difference by Call Number: Available at several FLO librariesISBN: 0072874899Publication Date: 2005How systems of privilege work (gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical abilities, age, income, education, geographic); how to be part of the solution.
Uprooting Racism: how white people can work for racial justice by Call Number: Available at several FLO librariesISBN: 0865713375Publication Date: 1995Helps white people see dynamics of racism in society, institutions, daily lives. Stories, exercises, advice for working together.
Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism by Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018ISBN: 9781479837243Publication Date: 2018
Uncovering Racism
Nobody: casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond by Call Number: HN90.S62 H55 2016ISBN: 1501124943Publication Date: 2016
Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Call Number: Available at several FLO librariesISBN: 0385509936Publication Date: 2007Abusive 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.
Contested Waters: a social history of swimming pools in America by Call Number: available onlineISBN: 9780807831007Publication Date: 2007Shows how mixed-gender use of urban pools led to segregation; decades of protest won desegregation but also a shift to private club pools.- Between Women: domestics and their employers byCall Number: Available at several FLO librariesISBN: 0877223831Publication Date: 1985Draws 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.
Telling Histories: Black women historians in the ivory tower by Call Number: available onlineISBN: 9780807832011Publication Date: 2008A 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.
Complicity: how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery by Call Number: [Wentworth] 306.362 .F27 2006ISBN: 9780345467836Publication Date: 2006Reveals how essential slavery was to New England's economy, with chapters on specific industries.
Personal Politics: the roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the new left by Call Number: HQ1426 .E9 1980ISBN: 0394742281Publication Date: 1980Based 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.
Black Live Matter Syllabus
Clint Smith TedTalk
Colorblind: ReThinking Race
Protest and Action
#sayhername -- Say Her Name documents stories of Black women who have been killed by
police, shining a spotlight on forms of police brutality often experienced disproportionately by women of color.
TedTalk Playlist: To Help You Understand Racism in America
How Racism is Learned and Unlearned
The First R: how children learn race and racism by Call Number: [Emmanual College] HQ784.S56 V36 2002ISBN: 9780847688623Publication Date: 2001Ausdale 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.
Hate Hurts by Call Number: [Lesley University] BF723.P75 S74 2000ISBN: 0439211212Publication Date: 2000Strategies, 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.
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" by Call Number: available onlineISBN: 0465003966Publication Date: 2003African 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?"
Einstein on Race and Racism by Call Number: available onlineISBN: 9780813540986Publication Date: 2005Describes Einstein's anti-racism activism, which history books and biographies usually fail to mention.
Race in the College Classroom by Call Number: Available at several FLO librariesISBN: 081353108XPublication Date: 2002College professors who teach about race describe the impacts on their careers of their teaching about race and racism.
Because of the Kids: facing racial and cultural differences in schools by Call Number: [Lesley University] LC1099.3 .O25 2001ISBN: 0807740128Publication Date: 2001An 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.
Dream Not of Other Worlds: teaching in a segregated elementary school, 1970 by Call Number: available onlineISBN: 9781587297168Publication Date: 2007The 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.
