LibGuides: Personal Learning Network Resources: SOCIAL IDENTIFIER: RACE

RECENT ARTICLES

Dear White Protesters, You Are Not “Supporting” Black People in Their Fight "White protesters, you are not just supporting black people, it is your fight! We, as black people raised the flag; the banner clearly states Black Lives Matter, but white people should sound the trumpet and go into battle." excerpt from the article

Disrupting Your Texts: Why Simply Including Diverse Voices is not Enough

3 White Privilege Blind Spots in Boston That Are Keeping Us Racist
NEW: A Battle Between the Two Souls of America Ibram X. Kendi in The Atlantic takes a candid look at the historical divide in the U.S.
Black girls in Mass. nearly 4 times more likely to face school discipline than white girls, report finds
Black girls in Mass. nearly 4 times more likely to face school discipline than white girls, report finds
Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse A report in the NYTimes that looks at the people with power in the United States.
Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories about Bias and Injustice From the ADL, this article provides suggestions, strategies and resources to help make discussions about incidents of injustice and bias rich and productive for students.
How Did We Get Here? In June, 2020 The Atlantic took a look back at their 163 years of covering race and racism in their publication.
How to not be a “Karen”: Managing the tensions of antiracist allyship
Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? In The Atlantic, Ibram X. Kendi writes that Donald Trump has "inadvertently forced a reckoning."
more...less...
Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently forced a reckoning.
It’s Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism
Karen Embodies White Privilege
Liberal, progressive — and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history.
NEW: America is more diverse than ever-but still segregated This study was conducted by The Washington Post in 2018.
more...less...
"The Post analyzed census data from 1990, 2000, 2010 and the latest estimates from the 2016 five-year American Community Survey. Using that data, we generated detailed maps of the United States using six race categories: black, white, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American and multi-race/other for the available years."
Reflections From a Token Black Friend The author of this article attended Weston High School as part of the METCO program which sent black students from Boston to suburban schools.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case for Reparations This article appeared in The Atlantic in 2014."Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole."
To protect Black women and save America from itself, elect Black women From the Brookings Institute Gender Equality Series
We're Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholder's Republic By Ibram X. Kendi in The Atlantic, May 4, 2020
What is Owed Nikole Hannah-Jones received a Pulitzer Prize for an essay that led The 1619 Project. In this recent article, she discusses the need for reparations to the black community.
What is Systematic Racism@ What Is Systemic Racism?" is an 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, Infant Mortality… yes, systemic racism is really a thing.
more...less...
From Colorlines: Race Forward
Who Gets to be Afraid in America? A May 12, 2020 article in the Atlantic by Ibram X. Kendi

PODCASTS

Are We Hearing A Crescendo of Anti-Racism in Classical Music? with Dr. Kira Thurman and Ashleigh Gordon
Code Switch "Code Switch is a multi-racial, multi-generational team of NPR journalists who cover race and identity. Our work appears on-air and online, across NPR's shows, and on the weekly Code Switch podcast." (from the website)
Nice White Parents A series of podcasts from the NYTimes that looks at white parents who are driving force behind what is happening in public schools. The series is brought to you by the reporter Chana Joffe-Walt who has produced shows on This American Life and has worked with Nikole Hannah-Jones.
On Being: Race and Healing
Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem In Conversation An episode from the On Being podcast.
Seeing White Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story. Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
Uncivil: A Podcast "A history podcast from Gimlet Media, where we go back to the time our divisions turned into a war, and bring you stories left out of the official history."

Seeing White Discussion Guide This guide was created to accompany the Seeing White podcast series.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES BALDWIN

Conversation With James Baldwin A recording from The Vault (PBS) Dr. Kenneth Clark interviews author James Baldwin shortly after Baldwin’s now famous 5/24/1963 meeting with United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy regarding the state of Civil Rights in the United States.

ONLINE MAGAZINES

There are several online publications that feature contributions from writers who talk about race and other topical areas. Below are links to a few of them.

Boston Review
Medium Medium publishes thousands of articles on topical issues and has a wide viewership. Writers are both well-known and invites anyone to submit their stories.
more...less...
Medium provides free access to a few articles each month. If you can't read the full text you can email Ms. Starr for the entire article.
Yes! Magazine "Through rigorous reporting on the positive ways communities are responding to social problems and insightful commentary that sparks constructive discourse, YES! Media inspires people to build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world." (from the website)

VIDEOS

Hundreds of Television Appearances by Rep. John Lewis Available to Online Available From the C-SPAN Video Library
Oprah Winfrey and Ta-Nehisi Coates Oprah and Ta-Nehisi discuss The Water Dancer
Race: the Power of an Illusion This documentary was originally produced in 2003 and was re-released in 2018. The companion website, provides additional information to support the 3 part series that explored the question "What is this thing called ‘race’?"
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ex NFL player Emmanuel Acho, engages in conversations with white people to talk about racism in our society.
more...less...
Each episode is about 10 minutes.

WHAT IS RACE?

Racism This article from Gale Opposing Viewpoints gives an overview of every day racism and systematic racism.