LibGuides: Anti-Racism and #BlackLivesMatter: Resources

Resources

"1619 Project"
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
"Who Get's to Be Afraid in America"
by Ibram X. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a professor and the director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist.
George Floyd Protests: A Timeline
Race to the Bottom
How the post-racial revolution became a whitewash.

"Black Lives Matter: Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle"
The article features the group Black Lives Matter to discuss developments in the fight for human rights in the U.S. as of early 2016. The organization is focused on fighting racism, social injustice, and police misconduct. Also cited are the members of the movement including feminists, working-class members, and members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities, as well as such topics as the fight for social justice under African American U.S. President Barack Obama.
"Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex"
A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
"Mass Incarceration"
This paper takes a brief look into Mass Incarceration: a phenomenon in the United States that accounts for the imprisonment of 2.3 million people (25% of the world's imprisoned population). It includes the synthetization of ideas by notable scholars within the realm of social justice studies, such as Bryan Stevenson and Ibram X. Kendi, in order to display how mass incarceration discriminates against minorities, upholds systemic injustice, and has effects on individuals who are incarcerated, as well as their families and the communities they live in. In order to set the context, this paper also mentions the "boom" of incarceration in the 1970s and the importance of rhetoric and policy in its continuation. To conclude, it mentions the framework in which mass incarceration should be viewed in order to address the issue effectively and in a redemptive manner.
"The Case for Reparations"
The article argues that reparations should be given to African Americans as repayment for the work done by their ancestors when they were enslaved. Topics discussed include alleged racist housing policies in the U.S., the experience of Clyde Ross of the Contract Buyers League, and the conditions of the North Lawndale area of Chicago, Illinois.
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
Provides insights on the existence of privileges for the white population in academes. Daily effects of white privilege; Factors that shape white privilege; Types of privileges; Association of strength and power with privilege.

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E184 .A1 K344 2019
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas--from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities--that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: E184 .A1 O454 2018
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities.
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call Number: E185.86 .A28 2017
In December 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness.
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele; Angela Davis (Foreword by)
Call Number: E185.97 .K43 A3 2018
A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America--and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin.
The War on Neighborhoods by Ryan Lugalia-Hollon; Dan Cooper
Call Number: HV7936 .C56 L84 2018
A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoods
They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Call Number: HV7936.R3 L69 2016
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: KF373 .S743 A3 2015
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship--and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
Call Number: RA563 .M56 M48 2019
Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Physician Jonathan M. Metzl's quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America's heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. And he shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates.

Black Lives Matter
Official #BlackLivesMatter Organization founded by Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza.
Equal Justice Institute
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
Fatal Force
In 2015, The Washington Post began to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officer in the United States. In that time there have been more than 5,000 such shootings recorded by The Post.
Movement for Black Lives
The Movement for Black Lives: Build. Heal. Learn. Organize.
NAACP
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Education Fund, Inc.
Founded in 1940, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country's first and foremost civil and human rights legal organization.
Racial Justice
The ACLU Racial Justice Program aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race.
Southern Poverty Law Center
The SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.
Taking a Stand Against Police Violence
In response to the senseless murders of black people, Teen Vogue has compiled a list of stories to help cope with race-based trauma, support racial justice organizations, ethically document police misconduct, and use white privilege to stand up against racist attacks against people of color.
Talking About Race
Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. We are here to provide tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.