Kritikos Anti-Racist Reading Group Expanded Resources
Kritikos Anti-Racist Reading Group Sessions and Materials
Program One
Week One, June 26, 2020: Intro, Check Your Privilege, Role of the Artist in Society, and Rules of Engagement
The Creative Process by James
Baldwin https://openspaceofdemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/baldwin-creative-process.pdf
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy
McIntosh https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
White Fragility, Chapter 10, by Robin DiAngelo
People Try The "Check Your
Privilege" TikTok Challengehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KSxfhtRjHE
Week Two, July 10, 2020: Race in Academia and #BlackintheIvory
Teaching to Transgress, Chapter 10—Building a Teaching Community: A Dialogue by bell hooks http://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Transcend.pdf
We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think by Andre Perry https://hechingerreport.org/need-black-brown-teachers-not-reasons-think/
How Far Have We Really Come? Black Women Faculty and Graduate Students’ Experiences in Higher
Education by Lori
Walkington https://www.jstor.org/stable/90007871?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
‘I Was Fed Up’: How #BlackInTheIvory Got Started, and What Its Founders Want to See Next by Francie
Diep https://www.chronicle.com/article/I-Was-Fed-Up-How/248955
After colleges promised to increase it, hiring of black faculty declined by Matt
Krupnick https://hechingerreport.org/after-colleges-promised-to-increase-it-hiring-of-black-facultydeclined/
10 Moments Black People In The Workplace Know Too
Well (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqHrT_MD4ys
Week Three, July 17, 2020: Defunding the Police, 13th (Feature Film), The New Jim Crow, and MPD 150
13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
What are we talking about when we talk about “a police-free future?”https://www.mpd150.com/whatare-we-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-a-police-free-future/
MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing: Frequently Asked
Questionshttps://www.mpd150.com/faq/
What does it mean to defund the police? (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg6YV_5Om3s
Angela Davis: ‘We knew that the role of the police was to protect white
supremacy”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/angela-davis-on-george-floyd-as-longas-the-violence-of-racism-remains-no-one-is-safe
Slavery still reigns in US prisons (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kotf68mrqCI
The school-to-prison pipeline, explained (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKkasEyDOI
Week Four, July 24, 2020: Representation Matters, Questioning and Decolonizing Your Syllabus, and Race in the Classroom
It’s time to decolonize that syllabus by Yvette DeChavez
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-decolonize-syllabus-20181008-story.html
Decolonize Your Syllabus: An Interview with Yvette DeChavez
https://thehellebore.com/decolonize-your-syllabus-an-interview-with-yvette-dechavez/
Hip hop, grit, and academic success: Bettina Love at TEDxUGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZqPMzgvzg
Teaching Critical Thinking Chapter 4 Decolonization by bell hooks
Decolonize Your Syllabus—U of SC Center for Teaching Excellencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQid1sFGZ0A
Week Five, July, 31, 2020: Race and Climate Change
The Principles of Environmental Justice https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/ej-principles.pdf
Environmental justice, explainedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREtXUij6_c
A Brief History of Environmental Justicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xLg2HHg8Q
Trump's EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real: A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency finds that people of color are much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air— even as the agency seeks to roll back regulations on pollution. by Vann R. Newkirk II https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-trump-administration-finds-that-environmentalracism-is-real/554315/
Coronavirus Death Rates Are a Direct Result of Environmental Racism by
Leila Ettachfini https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7ev93/coronavirus-death-rates-environmentalracism
Environmentalism’s Racist History by Jedediah Purdy https://www.newyorker.com/news/newsdesk/environmentalisms-racist-history
It's Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People by Wanjiku Gatheru https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/889qxx/its-time-for-environmental-studies-to-own-up-to-erasingblack-people
“Pollution is Segregated” Says the Father of Environmental Justice | Amanpour and Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-D3YkOe-w
Week Six, August 7, 2020: Anti-Racist Allyship between Black and Asian Americans Against White Supremacy
Alex Dang - "What Kind of Asian Are You?" (NPS
2013)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoP0ox_Jw_w
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights” by Kenji Yoshino
- Preface: covering-1-13 (PDF)
- Racial Covering: covering-108-127 (PDF)
'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks. Chow, K. (2017, April 19). https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-againused-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks
Internal Colonialism: White Supremacy and Education https://www-jstor-
org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/42980003?seq%3D2=&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Meet the Asian Americans helping to uproot racism in their communities
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/us/asian-americans-blm-conversations-trnd/index.html
Week Seven: August 14, 2020: Race, Rest, and Pleasure, Who deserves to rest?, The Nap Ministry, and Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
Love as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
The Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde
https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf
adrienne maree brown: pleasure activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKEnvcRmMs&feature=youtu.be
What is 'black joy' and why do we need it in our lives? | BBC Ideashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQlEpjZXfRU&feature=youtu.be
How to combat 'burnout?' A group nap | USA TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-REMRJNXsI&feature=youtu.be
Atlanta-Based Organization Advocates For Rest As A Form Of Social Justice
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/869952476/atlanta-based-organization-advocates-for-rest-as-a-form-ofsocial-justice
Rest as Reparations: If there is a way to heal from trauma, where does one start?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/style/self-care/healing-trauma-racism-wellness.html
RADICAL SELF CARE: ANGELA DAVIShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cHoL4vaBs
Program Two
Week One: October 2, 2020: Misogynoir
Why you need to know what 'misogynoir' means right now (article)
What "Misogynoir" Means . . . and Why It Has to End (video)
End Adultification Bias (Full Version) (video)
The Uses of Anger by Audre Lorde (essay)
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde (essay)
How to Be an Anti-Racist: Chapter 14: Gender by Ibram X. Kendi
M4BL: END THE WAR ON BLACK WOMEN (website)
Doreen Garner Sculpts Our Trauma | Art21 "New York Close Up" (video)
‘Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free’: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Legacy Is More Important Now Than Ever (article)
The problem with celebrating the 19th Amendment: Opinion by Treva B. Lindsey (article)
Ida B. Wells | The Vote | American Experience | PBS (video)
THE REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE OF BLACK FEMINISMS (website)
Week Two: October 16, 2020: Reparations
M4BL: Reparations https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/reparations/
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic article)
What is Owed by Nikole Hannah-Jones (NYT article)
We May Be the First People to Receive Reparations for Slavery | NYT Opinion (NYT video)
Slavery reparations bill debated in US House hearing (The Guardian video)
‘Stain of slavery’: Congress debates reparations to atone for America's original sin (Guardian article with video)
Can reparations help right the wrongs of slavery? (PBS video)
North Carolina City Will Give Reparations to Black Residents | NowThis (video)
Reparations, H.R. 40 and the Path Forward (ACLU) H. R. 40
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/40/text
How Reparations Could Fix The Racial Wealth Gap In America | NBC News NOW (video)
Six questions about slavery reparations, answered (CNN article)
Week Three: October 23, 2020: Afrofuturism, Otherwise Worlds, and Freedom Dreaming
Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YI8lsjJJA
Excerpt: "Emergent Strategies" - adrienne maree brown (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyN76oTt67M
Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” Sun Ra Part 1 | DUST (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnSiQ2xNyy4&t=1s
Afrofuturism mixes sci-fi and social justice. Here’s how it works. (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPwTMMhGGI
Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=154XnA1xcis
Otherwise, Ferguson by Ashon Crawley (essay) http://interfictions.com/otherwise-fergusonashoncrawley/
Against the Normative World by Sofia Samatar (interview) https://thenewinquiry.com/against-thenormative-world/
NOTES TOWARD A THEORY OF QUANTUM BLACKNESS by SOFIA SAMATAR (poem)
http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/notes-toward-a-theory-of-quantum-blackness/
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Chapter 6: KEEPIN’ IT (SUR)REAL:
DREAMS OF THE MARVELOUS by Robin D. G. Kelley
https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/1016862/mod_resource/content/1/Kelley_Freedom%20Dreams.p df
Freedom Dreaming: A Call to Imagine by Sarah Branch, Downtown Brooklyn Arts Management Fellow https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/freedom-dreaming-call-imagine
Freedom Dreaming - Digital Resource Guide
https://issuu.com/freedomdreaming/docs/freedom_dreaming_-_digital_resource
Week Four: October 30, 2020: Disability and Race
Alice Sheppard https://alicesheppard.com/
Alice Sheppard on Disability Dance and Access https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qfZA1V7Yo Racism and Ableism https://www.aapd.com/racism-and-ableism/
Children of color with autism face disparities of care and isolation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS0mh0kUlzo
Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability by Beth A. Ferri, David J. Connor, Subini A. Annamma
M4BL POLICY PLATFORM: END THE WAR ON BLACK HEALTH AND BLACK DISABLED PEOPLE: https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/end-the-war-black-health/
Intersectionality & Disability, ft Keri Gray, the Keri Gray Group #DisabilityDemandsJustice (video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2XN0CQazr0
#RaceAnd: Kay Ulanday Barrett (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSHcKFn7zZw
Week Five: November 6, 2020: Education as Liberation: Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Chapter 2—Paulo Freirehttps://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internshipreadings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf (full text)
Teaching to Transgress, Chapter 1: Engaged Pedagogy and Teaching to Transgress, Chapter 4: Paulo Freire, by bell hooks
https://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Transcend.pdf (full text)
bell hooks on interlocking systems of domination (4 min video)
We Want to Do More Than Survive, Chapter 5: Abolitionist Teaching, Freedom Dreaming, and Black Joy by Bettina Love (Available online via GMU library)
Creating Inclusive Classrooms (Mason Website)
“Education Liberates” featuring bell hooks and Bettina Love (1 hr, 30 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY2C_ATNFEM&feature=emb_logo
Week Six: November 13, 2020: Black Trans Lives Matter
END THE WAR ON BLACK TRANS, QUEER, GENDER NONCONFORMING AND INTERSEX
PEOPLE (website with multiple resources) https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/end-the-war-trans/
A Vision for Black Lives M4BL POLICY DEMANDS FOR BLACK POWER, FREEDOM, & JUSTICE
Policy Brief 4
Black Trans Women Seek More Space in the Movement They Helped Starthttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/politics/black-trans-lives-matter.htmlMarsha P. Johnson Was a Transgender Rights Pioneer Who Fought for LGBTQ Minoritieshttps://www.vice.com/en/article/neqzpd/marsha-p-johnson-was-a-transgender-rights-pioneer-who-foughtfor-lgbtq-minorities
Black Trans* Lives Matter | D-L Stewart | TEDxCSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs67v5klQI4
Thousands Protest in Support of Black Trans Lives in NYC | NowThis (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqxbCpx-bUQ
Black Trans Lives Matter: Movement Pushes for Justice & Visibility Amid “Epidemic” of Violence
Democracy Now (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHQNrM1r2kDiamond Stylz on Why Black Trans Rights Are Civil Rights | The Roothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6psXYXw6I
Week Seven: November 20, 2020: Black Joy, Bliss, Self-Care, and Healing from Racial Trauma
Calm: Do Nothing for 2 Minuteshttp://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/
RADICAL SELF CARE: ALICIA GARZAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ7FGkfPwyE
Talking about Race: Self-Carehttps://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/self-care
Understanding Racial Traumahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIyp8AZV1vs
How racism makes us sick | David R. Williamshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzyjDR_AWzE
Racism at My Job Literally Gave Me PTSD by Erika Stallingshttps://www.thecut.com/article/racism-atmy-job-literally-gave-me-ptsd.html
Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmq9gw4Rq0
Kleaver Cruz The Black Joy Projecthttps://kleavercruz.com/the-black-joy-project
Dignity and Power Now Healing Justice Toolkithttp://dignityandpowernow.org/wpcontent/uploads/2019/05/Healing-Justice-Toolkit_PRINT_March-1.pdf
Program Three
Week One: February 19, 2021: Racism & Medicine
“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Dr. Susan Moore Dies of COVID After Decrying Racist Care (Democracy Now video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v1Oyp_bBGk (6:07)
Say her name: Dr. Susan Moore (Washington Post article):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/26/say-her-name-dr-susan-moore/
The Tuskegee Study (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afwK2CVpc9E&feature=youtu.be (3:01)
The US medical system is still haunted by slavery (Vox Pro Publica video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfYRzxeMdGs (8:49)
Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism (New England Journal of Medicine) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMpv2035827
Meet the Black female scientist at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine development (CBS article and video) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-development-kizzmekia-corbett/ (6:25)
Ted Talk: The problem with race-based medicine | Dorothy Roberts (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxLMjn4WPBY (14:36)
Early Data Shows Striking Racial Disparities In Who's Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine (NPR 5-Minute Listen) https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/28/961703505/early-data-showsstriking-racial-disparities-in-whos-getting-the-covid-19-vaccin
Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine (Painting by Kadir Nelson) https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2018.9
Doreen Garner Sculpts Our Trauma | Art21 "New York Close Up" (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjOUk4p3bo8&t=209s (7:38)
Week Two: February 26, 2021: Dismantling the White Gaze
Facing Difference: The Black Female Body by bell hooks ( PDF from Art on My Mind, pp. 94-100) http://www.virginiabonner.com/courses/cms4810/readings/hooks%20Facing%20Differences.pdf
The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity by bell hooks (from Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural
Politics, Chapter 2, pp. 15-22)
http://www.virginiabonner.com/courses/cms4810/readings/hooks%20Facing%20Differences.pdf
Discerning Photography’s White Gazehttps://hyperallergic.com/466560/discerning-photographys-whitegaze/
Nine Black Artists and Cultural Leaders on Seeing and Being Seen: Amy Sherald, Michael R. Jackson and others discuss the challenges and opportunities of cultivating black audiences and dismantling historically white institutions: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/t-magazine/black-artists-whitegaze.html
Beware the white gaze: https://mg.co.za/article/2017-10-27-00-beware-the-white-gaze/
Black writers courageously staring down the white gaze – this is why we all must read them by Stan Grant https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/31/black-writers-courageously-staringdown-the-white-gaze-this-is-why-we-all-must-read-them
'Fairview' and tackling the white gaze by Hannah Miao
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/10/fairview-and-tackling-the-white-gaze-5da7b82701a0f
White Savior: The Movie Trailer (Late Night with Seth Meyers video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_RTnuJvg6U (5:51) )
Week Three: March 5, 2021: Cultural Appropriation
What is Cultural Appropriation? by Ijeoma Oluo (Chapter 10 from So You Want to Talk About Race)
Watch This Documentary on Braids and Appropriation in America | ELLE (20 minute video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFGwmUCH9aI
We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs by LAUREN MICHELE JACKSON https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
What is Cultural Appropriation?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgF1f557YY
7 Myths about Cultural Appropriation DEBUNKED! | Decoded | MTV Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXejDhRGOuI
Jessica Krug: Inside the mind of an imposterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Ltj-Z52_o
CULTURAL APPROPRIATIONhttps://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/whatihear/9Cultural_Approp-Viewing_Guide.pdf
The Long, Painful Legacy Of Blackface In America (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9soZnDf0P7E
These Blackface-Wearing, N-Word-Spewing Culture Vultures Would Like to Teach Your Kids About HipHophttps://thegrapevine.theroot.com/these-blackface-wearing-n-word-spewing-culture-vulture1796722436
Week Four: March 12, 2021: Museums Are Not Neutral
Museums Are Not Neutralhttps://www.museumsarenotneutral.com/
African American Artists Are More Visible Than Ever. So Why Are Museums Giving Them Short Shrift? https://news.artnet.com/the-long-road-for-african-american-artists/african-american-research-museums1350362
The Guggenheim’s First Black Curator Is Denouncing the Museum’s Treatment of Her https://observer.com/2020/06/guggenheim-museum-chaedria-labouvier/
The Problem with Museums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av_3tGceTvs
The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTxiRWrvp8 moCa Curator La Tanya Autry Advocates Museums Are Not Neutral https://www.ideastream.org/news/moca-curator-la-tanya-autry-advocates-museums-are-not-neutral
Former Staffers and Board Members Denounce Racism at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art https://hyperallergic.com/577140/smithsonian-national-museum-of-african-art-culture-of-racism/
The Met Will Turn Down Sackler Money Amid Fury Over the Opioid Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/arts/design/met-museum-sackler-opioids.html?auth=loginemail&login=email
An Instagram Account Is Amplifying Anonymous Testimonies of Racism in Museumshttps://hyperallergic.com/574189/change-the-museum-instagram/
Week Five: March 19, 2021: The Black Horizon: Black Womxn, Sex & Power
Constructing Radical Black Female Subjectivities: Survival Pimping in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe by Jennifer Thorington Springer (PDF 23 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/fronjwomestud.36.2.0169?seq=1
Why I Speak Up for Black Women. I’m not afraid of criticism, and “Protect Black women” should not be controversial by Megan Thee Stallion https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/opinion/megan-thee-stallionblack-women.html
Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexualtiy in the Cultural Marketplace by bell hooks (Chapter 4 from Black Looks pp. 61-77) https://aboutabicycle.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bell-hooksblack-looks-race-and-representation.pdf
WAP: the summer smash hit that exposed the fear of sexually liberated black women by Michell Chresfield https://theconversati on.com/wap-the-summer-smash-hit-that-exposed-the-fear-of-sexuallyliberated-black-women-144815
The Boldly Feminine Gaze of Hiba Schahbaz--Schahbaz’s large-scale paintings, on view in her latest exhibition Dreaming, assert the right to claim and occupy space as a womanhttps://hyperallergic.com/591100/hiba-schahbaz-dreaming-debuck-gallery/
Against the Grain: Black Women and Sexuality by Desiree Lewis (PDF 24 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/4066624?seq=1
Zanele Muholi – ‘In My World, Every Human is Beautiful’ | Tatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEgf1XmtWCo
Week Six: March 19, 2021: Racism & Travel
Life after the ‘Green Book’: What is the future for Black travelers in America? By Glynn Pogue https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/has-black-travel-evolved-since-the-greenbook/#close
What Was It Like to Travel While Black During Jim Crow? | 360 Video | Op-Docs (20:08) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UUFn7iyymo&t=138s
The real story of the Green Book (4:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b33PN2NB2Do&feature=youtu.be
[LoveCraft Country Series] S01 E01 Sundown Town Scene (4:35) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gOxLNWVm4w
This former sundown county expelled 1,100 black residents in a racial cleansing (9:14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtIPudTIMdM
2020 Is the Summer of the Road Trip. Unless You’re Black. by Tariro Mzezewa https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/travel/road-trip-black.html
Freedom Riders (1:52:28) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/#part01
Evita Robinson: Reclaiming the globe (6:37) https://www.youtube.com/watch?t&v=aQTOVwtPlY&feature=youtu.be
Week Seven: April 9, 2021: Radical Self-Care & Loving Blackness
We need more 'trauma-free Blackness.' Here's a start by John Blake (CNN article) https://www.cnn.com/style/article/trauma-free-blackness-culture-queue/index.html
Loving Blackness as Political Resistance by bell hooks (Chapter 1 from Black Looks pp. 9-20) https://aboutabicycle.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bell-hooks-black-looks-race-and-representation.pdf
The Radical History of Self-Carehttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-radical-history-of-self-care
Artist Billie Zangewa – the Ultimate Act of Resistance is Self-Love | TateShotshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CISkiELcT6I
RADICAL SELF CARE: NONA HENDRYXhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlT4QeLCQAk
RADICAL SELF CARE: TERENCE NANCEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RoHKtKU5k
DREAMWEAVERS: In / Conversation - Carrie Mae Weems and Terence Nancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr26SNkpCKc
Nina Simone: That Blacknesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ClwX7oyXk
Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, WizKid - BROWN SKIN GIRL (Official Video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFS0MYTC1I
Additional Resources
Books
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) by Ibram X Kendi
We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Abolition Democracy by Angela Y. Davis
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by bell hooks
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by bell hooks
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Essays
An Aesthetics of Blackness—Strange and Oppositional by bell hooks
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism by Audre Lorde
Films
Daughters of the Dust
I Am Not Your Negro
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Central Park Five
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
Good Hair
Loving
The Loving Story
Tell Them We Are Rising
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People Belly of the Beast
The Last Angel of History
Afronauts
A Joyful Noise
Space is the Place
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Articles
Stop Calling Black People 'Urban,'
'I Cannot Sell You This Painting.' Artist Titus Kaphar on his George Floyd TIME Cover by Titus Kaphar, https://time.com/5847487/george-floyd-time-cover-titus-kaphar/
The Black Lives Matter Revolution Can’t Be Co-Opted By Police and Lawmakers by Kandist Mallett https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-lives-matter-revolution-coopt
Black Lives Matter at School: Students Apply Pressure to Donate, Support Movement by
Mary Retta https://www.teenvogue.com/story/students-pressure-schools-support-black-lives-matter
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising by Michael Harriot, https://www.theroot.com/a-timeline-of-events-that-led-to-the-2020-fed-up-rising-1843780800
Videos
White Privilege Glasses: https://www.ctschicago.edu/wpg/#
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, TEDWomen 2016, An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter,
https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_garza_patrisse_cullors_and_opal_tometi_an_interview_with_the_found ers_of_black_lives_matter
A Public Dialogue Between bell hooks and Cornel
West, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LL0k6_pPKw&t=2116s
bell hooks on interlocking systems of domination, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUpY8PZlgV8
Notes of a native son: The world according to James Baldwin - Christina
Greer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKku0AfTs0c
How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Christina
Greer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fygjGXnaV9w
Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY
James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni, a conversation [FULL], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZmBy7C9gHQ&t=318s
Toni Morrison on the Importance of Writing in the Face of Hate,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj7bcVhCJM
Discussion Guides
White Privilege Glasses Discussion Guide
https://www.ctschicago.edu/wpg/files/WPG_Discussion_Guide.pdf
Websites
Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/
Black Lives Matter DC, https://www.blacklivesmatterdmv.org/
MPD 150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing, https://www.mpd150.com/
Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History & Culture, https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
The Okra Project, https://www.theokraproject.com/
The Nap Ministry, https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/
White Fragility Mixtape, DIRT DMV, https://www.dirtdmv.com/writing/white-fragility-mixtape
Racial Equity Tools, https://www.racialequitytools.org/home
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective, https://www.beam.community/
Adrienne Maree Brown, http://adriennemareebrown.net/
Zines
Building a Police Free Future: Frequently Asked Questions. Presented by MPD 150, https://www.mpd150.com/wp-content/themes/mpd150/assets/faq_zine.pdf
Art
At The ICA Watershed, John Akomfrah’s 'Purple' Mourns A Planet
Lost https://www.wbur.org/artery/2019/05/23/ica-watershed-john-akomfrah-purple
Hank Willis Thomas projected incarcerated individuals’ statements onto the U.S. Department of Justice building, https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-hank-willis-thomas-projectedincarceratedindividuals-statements-department-justice-building
Doreen Garner:
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/doreen-garner-art21-
1884681?fbclid=IwAR2t8UpaT1_Bno9VOnzisDeXP1VoF6aXs-TUW7o8XYAXNKu6VzFaaK0VAGI
Black-Owned Galleries to Support across the United States
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-black-owned-galleries-support-united-states
At the River’s Edge: Allison Janae Hamilton Interviewed by Stephanie
- Goodalle https://bombmagazine.org/articles/at-the-rivers-edge-allison-janae-hamilton-interviewed/ Titus Kaphar https://kapharstudio.com/
Carrie Mae Weems http://carriemaeweems.net/
These Emerging Black Artists Are the Future of Figurative
Painting, https://www.artsy.net/article/artsyeditorial-emerging-black-artists-future-figurative-painting
Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the
Met, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/arts/design/wangechimutu-metropolitan-museum.html
Podcasts
With Friends Like These: "White Fragility 101"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cadence13/withfriendslike-these/e/55927773
Nancy: “Black Trans LivesMatter”https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/nancy/episodes/nancypodcastblack-trans-lives-matter
Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/arts/design/wangechimutu-metropolitan-museum.html
Dance
CALVIN ROYAL III BECOMES THE FIRST BLACK MALE PRINCIPAL WITH AMERICAN
BALLET THEATER IN MORE THAN TWO DECADES
https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/botwc-firsts/calvin-royal-iii-becomes-first-black-maleprincipal-with-american-ballet-theater-in-more-than-two-decades
Theater
Let’s Be Real: These Programs Won’t End Racism at Your Theatre
Ending white supremacy at your institution requires an organization-wide commitment to change in both culture and policy.https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/12/22/lets-be-real-these-programs-wont-endracism-at-your-theatre/
Putting Out the American Theatre Dumpster Fire Through White Abolition by Ann James https://howlround.com/putting-out-american-theatre-dumpster-fire-through-white-
abolition?fbclid=IwAR3CURtn4ls3B9z-j-oH0Up3d6qPhpJwBSAMWKBtaJ6S4az_rid_4BQ83Hg
Petition: Demand change for BIPOC theatremakers: https://www.change.org/p/white-american-theaterdemand-change-for-bipoc-theatremakers?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_22703809_enUS%3A6&recruiter=1145638352&recruited_by_id=0163e0c0-ebcc-11ea-945e45ff47728999&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_ initial
For BIPOC women in theater who have had enuf: A roundtable on resistance
https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2020/07/24/for-bipoc-women-in-theater-who-have-had-enuf-a-roundtableon-
resistance/?fbclid=IwAR3SlpmtnoHUPha2uKMKtDn_3X4TPdwwAqEBJ61AGS32idWVZjo2avzLP7M
Anti-racist theater and the #WeSeeYou movement: A Q&A with Nicole Brewer
Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater
World, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/theater/systemic-racism-theater.html
The Theatrical Ties that Bind: An Examination of the Hidden Curriculum of Theatre Education
By Angela R. Hines https://repository.asu.edu/attachments/110363/content/Hines_asu_0010E_12760.pdf
“How Have Off-Broadway Theatre Companies Responded to Black Lives Matter?” by Olivia Clement,
Dan Meyer
https://www.playbill.com/article/how-have-off-broadway-theatre-companies-responded-to-black-livesmatter
Learning Through Theatre: The Changing Face of Theatre in Education by Anthony Jackson and Chris Vine
https://books.google.com/books?id=FecdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=bell+hooks+hidden +curriculum&source=bl&ots=zF6tn5ddzm&sig=ACfU3U2JLe3xUjlWodi6UTdbTJfnHLTdSA&hl=en&s
a=X&ved=2ahUKEwi12NSM5pXqAhU8hXIEHWBbAlE4FBDoATAEegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=bell %20hooks%20hidden%20curriculum&f=false (page 291)
Music
The Last Water Fountain: The Struggle Against Systemic Racism in Classical Music
Trumpeter Theresa May Shares the 'Calluses' Black Women Build in the Classical World
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
Sci-Fi Digital Series “Afrofuturism” Sun Ra Part 1 | DUST (video)
Sun Ra : A Joyful Noise (Film)
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" (video)
Meet the Visionary Revitalizing Newark Symphony Hall
More About White Fragility
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU&feature=youtu.be
A drained swimming pool shows how racism harms White people, too
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/us/heather-mcghee-racism-white-people-blake/index.html
More About Race in Academia & Race in the Classroom
Creating Inclusive Classrooms (Mason Website) https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/knowledge-center/studentengagement-classroom-managment/creating-inclusive-classrooms/
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress Today: Theory and Practice In and Outside the
Classroomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9OgVs19UE
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Ask Who Paid for America’s Universities—Cornell, Virginia Tech, Ohio State and many more were created with wealth stolen from Indigenous people
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opinion/land-grant-universities-native-americans.html Black People’s Land Was Stolen—Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed
it https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/opinion/sunday/reparations-hearing.html
Embracing Equity https://embracingequity.org/
Embracing Equity Environment Audit—Building Affirming Classroom
Environments https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a8266baf14aa1dab6c210a6/t/5d682ae9e0d4790001a 366f6/1567107818534/EE+Environment+Audit.pdf
What Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-decolonization-is-and-what-it-means-to-me
Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Action: First Steps
An Essay for Teachers Who Understand Racism Is Real, by Bettina Love
Bettina Love: On Black Girls, Discipline, and Schools (video)
More About Defunding the Police & Prison Abolition
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete
Reimagining Justice: A Primer on Defunding the Police and Prison Abolition
https://blog.getpocket.com/2020/06/reimagining-justice-a-primer-on-defunding-the-police-and-prisonabolition/
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Coronavirus VIII: Prisons & Jails: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuxnH0VAkAM
MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing: Resourceshttps://www.mpd150.com/resources/
Phillip Atiba Goff on reducing racial discrimination in policing
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/06/19/phillip-atiba-goff-on-reducing-racialdiscrimination-in-
policing?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/policinginamericaphillipatibagoffonreducingracialdiscriminationinpolicingb yinvitation
Is Slave Labor Still Legal In America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlCXjcQgNJg
Slavery to Mass Incarceration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4e_djVSag4
The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander
Introducing "The New Jim Crow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHuql3q3j8
A Conversation Between Michelle Alexander & Angela Davis (10/20/17)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixX4HfOiVPo
The day Philadelphia bombed its own people. An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever. by Lindsey Norward https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphiabombing-1985-move
More About Anti-Racist Allyship between Black & Asian Americans Against White Supremacy
How Asian Americans Can Help Fight Anti-Black Racism | NowThis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7JFmHywsrE
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Black Lives Matter: An Informational Letter to the SouthAsian Community by Kavya Balaji, Shilpa
Bhat, Shefali Mangtani, and Audreela Deb
U.S. History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxukOPEdgg
Confederacy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5b_TZwQ0I
School Segregation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yiYCHMAlM
Asian Americans need to talk about anti-blackness in our communitieshttps://www.vox.com/firstperson/2020/6/3/21279156/george-floyd-protests-police-brutality-tou-thao-asian-americans
Latinos And Asians Grapple With Racism, Allyship Amid Ongoing Protests
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/14/876714190/latinos-and-asians-grapple-with-racism-allyship-amidongoing-protests
A War of Words.' Why Describing the George Floyd Protests as 'Riots' Is So Loadedhttps://time.com/5849163/why-describing-george-floyd-protests-as-riots-is-loaded/
NON-BLACK PEOPLE OF COLOR NEED TO START HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE ANTIBLACKNESS IN OUR COMMUNITIEShttps://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/our-role-as-non-blackpeople-of-color-in-disrupting-racism
WHY DO THEY BURN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES?https://www.prainc.com/why-do-they-burntheir-own-communities/
The massacre of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ItsPBTFO0
How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War historyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkFXPblLpU
Stop AAPI Hatehttps://stopaapihate.org/
Asian Americans face a wave of discrimination during the pandemic
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/asian-americans-face-a-wave-of-discrimination-during-thepandemic
Constellations of Care: On Small Scale Solidarities https://aaww.org/constellations-of-care-on-smallscale-solidarities/
More About Black Joy, Rest as Reparations & Pleasure Activism
The Nap Ministry
https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown http://adriennemareebrown.net/
Black Girl In Omhttps://www.blackgirlinom.com/
Trust, belonging, keys to mental health of students of color
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/feeling-of-alienation-could-account-for-higher-rates-ofmental-illness-among-minority-students/
BEAM Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective https://www.beam.community/tool-kits-education
More About Misogynoir & Black Feminisms
Moya Bailey (website) https://www.moyabailey.com/tag/misogynoir/
From the Base to the Face: Kamala Harris, Black Women, & Misogynoir in the 2020 Election (video length 1:39:28)
Black Girl Gamers- BBC London (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl8jHQS_5DE
#RaceAnd: Arielle Newton (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGJ_td3ZUIU
The Kissing Booth 2” Shows Another Lazy Attempt at Diversity—Teen Vogue
Top 100 films directed by women: What is ‘misogynoir’?
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw
A Conversation With Black Women on Race | Op-Docs (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxz4qiUBsw
So you want to talk about race, chapter 5 by Ijeoma Oluo
Serena Williams And Misogynoir: The Meaning Of Sexism And Racism Towards Black Women (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_A7Hxa3sQ
Bettina Love: On Black Girls, Discipline, and Schools (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCqUClUWlc
Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that | Monique W. Morris (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7F9XCdeOtw
3 Black Female Stereotypes that Need to Die | Decoded | MTV News (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQO7XoANYb8
The Negative Effects Of The 'Strong Black Woman' Stereotype | AJ+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYSzI8fX9o
"WAP" Highlights the Hypocrisy That Sex Is Taboo When Women Steer the Conversation by Rhea
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks
Ain’t I A Woman by Sojourner Truth
(1977) THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT https://www.blackpast.org/africanamerican-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/
Breonna Taylor Received No Justice Because Black Women’s Lives Aren’t Valued https://www.teenvogue.com/story/breonna-taylor-no-justice-police
Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women. I’m not afraid of criticism, and “Protect Black women” should not be controversial by Megan Thee Stallion
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/opinion/megan-thee-stallion-black-women.html
More About Reparations
The Gray Market: Why an Indie Rock Star’s Reparations Pledge Sets an Example for the Art World (and
Other Insights)https://news.artnet.com/opinion/jeff-tweedy-wilco-reparations-1892374
5 Questions About Reparations: Answeredhttps://www.benjerry.com/home/whatsnew/2020/06/reparationsquestions?utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_source=google&utm_name=bj_alwayson_brand2019_traffic& utm_term=&utm_content=serp&utm_topic=flavors&utm_objective=discover&utm_root=d&gclid=Cj0K
CQjwt4X8BRCPARIsABmcnOo7AGOKVnhtdRMenpMxEr9JNbYdsU98UNra_L3t4lJUkBlmjzl12Nsa Ag_0EALw_wcB
More About Afrofuturism, Otherwise Worlds & Freedom Dreaming
Black. Queer. Born again: Black life is world-making, born of gaps and dislocations, imaginative leavings and returns, generative escapes and arrivals by Ashon Crawley https://aeon.co/essays/blackqueer-born-again-a-life-in-and-out-of-the-church
Otherwise Movements by Ashon Crawley (essay) https://thenewinquiry.com/otherwise-movements/
Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters | It’s Lit (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1xmwqGEBw Black Quantum Futurism (website) https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/about
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley (book)
Robin D.G. Kelley and Angela Davis: Freedom Dreams, Freedom Now! (1 hr 6 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kibc5oqOdM
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown (book)
Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by Tiffany Lethabo King (book)
GLOBAL ART FORUM 10: THE FUTURE WAS COLLECTIVE (28 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiFPEWDDDAc
AFRONAUTS (short film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3pu5jXWHU
More About Race, Disability & the Medical-Industrial Complex
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth
DisCrit―Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education (Disability, Culture, and Equity
Series) (Book) by David J. Connor (Editor), Beth A. Ferri (Editor), Subini A. Annamma (Editor), Alfredo J. Artiles (Series Editor), Elizabeth B. Kozleski (Series Editor)
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault
How racism amplifies Covid-19 risk for everyonehttps://www.vox.com/2020/10/26/21529323/policecovid-19-risk-race-racial-disparities
Walter Wallace had a mental illness, his family says. Why did police respond? by Grace Hauck https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/28/walter-wallace-philadelphia-shooting-mentalillness/6053831002/
10 Principles of Disability Justicehttps://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice
Medical Industrial Complex Visual https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/medicalindustrial-complex-visual/
More About Black Trans Lives Matter
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (website) https://marshap.org/about-mpji/
bell hooks and Laverne Cox in a Public Dialogue at The New School (video length 1:36:08) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY
Casa Ruby https://casaruby.org/
The Okra Project (website) https://www.theokraproject.com/
TransLash (website) https://translash.org/
The Future of Trans' Documentary: Chella Man, ALOK, Patricio Manuel, and more (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxwjfRsQsfk&feature=emb_logo
When Black lives matter, Black trans people must be freed from discrimination and
violence by Tiq Milan, https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/when-black-lives-matter-black-transpeople-must-befreed-ncna1228316
Activism: Marsha P. Johnson PBS LearningMedia
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/fp18.lgbtq.marsha.p.johnson/activism-marsha-p-johnson/ LAVERNE COX on Transphobia in the LGBT community | Bent Lens | In Conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDiU8R0KhY
Black Trans Lives Matter | Full Frontal on TBShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JxFO2oIyLU
Violence Against Trans Women of Color | Full Frontal on TBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC1pV0Z8N5M
8 Comebacks for Transphobic Relatives Over the Holidays | MTV News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCTyj60mGto
END THE USE OF RELIGION TO DISCRIMINATE—ACLUhttps://www.aclu.org/issues/religiousliberty/using-religion-discriminate/end-use-religion-discriminate
Discriminating in the name of religion? Segregationists and slaveholders did it, too. The Supreme Court must reject these claimshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-
history/wp/2017/12/05/discriminating-in-the-name-of-religion-segregationists-and-slaveholders-did-ittoo/
More About Black Joy, Bliss, Self-Care & Healing from Racial Trauma
Artist Howardena Pindell on understanding 'the trauma of racism'
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/02/howardena-pindell-art-racism
Healing Racialized Trauma Begins With Your Body: The healing of your body, mind, and soul by Resmaa
Menakem MSW, LICSW https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/somaticabolitionism/202011/healing-racialized-trauma-begins-your-body
The Four Bodies: A Holistic Toolkit for Coping With Racial Traumahttps://medium.com/nappy-headclub/the-four-bodies-a-holistic-toolkit-for-coping-with-racial-trauma-8d15aa55ae06
Shine: Your daily mental health check-inhttps://www.theshineapp.com/
More About Racism & Medicine
END THE WAR ON BLACK HEALTH AND BLACK DISABLED PEOPLEhttps://m4bl.org/policyplatforms/end-the-war-black-health/
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.....The Deadly Deception (video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOBYPiVfoI&feature=youtu.be (56:27)
Henrietta Lacks: The Woman with the Immortal Cellshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3kR2dMCfOM (3:01)
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (book) by Dorothy Roberts
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (book) by Harriet A. Washington
Combating Racism and Place-ism in Medicine | J. Nwando Olayiwola | TEDxKingLincolnBronzeville Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnm__UPTRM&feature=youtu.be (11:24)
Diversity in Medicine: Facts and Figures 2019https://www.aamc.org/datareports/workforce/report/diversity-medicine-facts-and-figures-2019
Sex History: Sterilization, Abuse, & Reproductive Justicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOKW4U5sY_o
Frantz Fanon “Medicine and Colonialism.”
http://www.socmedglobal.org/uploads/8/6/3/1/8631191/fanon_colonialism_and_medicine.pdf
Long Read | Decolonising care and its ethicshttps://www.newframe.com/long-read-decolonising-careand-its-ethics/
Medical community scrambles to understand COVID-19 ‘long haulers’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/medical-community-scrambles-to-understand-covid-19-long-haulersA ‘Rare Case Where Racial Biases’ Protected African-Americanshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/upshot/opioid-epidemic-blacks.html
Councilmembers Butt Heads with DC Health Director Over Racial Equity in Vaccine Distribution https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/505858/councilmembers-butt-heads-with-dc-health-directorover-racial-equity-in-vaccine-distribution/
More About Dismantling the White Gaze
Black Art Is in High Demand. But Telling Our Stories Comes at a Costhttps://time.com/5932847/blackart-chad-sanders/
Unlearning the White Gaze by Jessica L. https://www.thepvblication.com/post/unlearning-the-white-gaze
We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs by LAUREN MICHELE JACKSON https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
Meet Jackie Sibblies Drury | Fairview | 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4EZT3rB1tY (1:44)
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators bell hooks (PDF), from Black Looks, Chapter 7, pp. 115-131
Images of whiteness: can we imagine a world without white eyes?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/11/images-of-whiteness-photography-photo-essay
Two Artists Interrogate the "White Gaze" of National Geographic: Pairing archival images and text,
Michelle Dizon and Việt Lê pose a razor-sharp critique of colonialismhttps://aperture.org/editorial/michelle-dizon-viet-le-white-gaze/
Australian Open Viewers Rip Chris Evert for Call of Serena Williams Match: ‘The Face of Misogynoir’https://www.thewrap.com/chris-evert-serena-williams-drama-criticism-australian-open-espn/
Whiteness: WTF? White Privilege and the Invisible Race (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zDo_TkSnA
The white gaze of Save the Last Dance | Khadija Mbowehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAVXDtO0xgU
How using a black actor to vent white frustration sinks Malcolm & Marie
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/05/malcolm-and-marie-sam-levinson-netflix-john-davidwashington-zendaya
Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It's a Sign of Disrespecthttps://time.com/5933920/harriet-tubman-20-bill-joe-biden/
More About Cultural Appropriation
The Costs of Code-Switching: The behavior is necessary for advancement — but it takes a great psychological toll. by Courtney L. McCluney, Kathrina Robotham, Serenity Lee, Richard Smith, and Myles Durkee https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-costs-of-codeswitching
Code-Switching Is Not Trying to Fit in to White Culture, It’s Surviving It https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/12/17/culture-code-switching/
George Washington University Professor Admits Falsely Claiming Black Identityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfXJgBsv2FM
Jessica Krug: George Washington University professor admits she has been pretending to be blackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3kyjX6un0E
Yellowface is a bad look, Hollywoodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB0lrSebyng
Whitewashing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XebG4TO_xss
TCM Original Production: Blackface and Hollywood - African American Film History – Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4OKW_fqYU
Who Really Owns the ‘Blaccent’?https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/awkwafina-blaccent-culturalappropriation.html
TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackfacehttps://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-evolution-digitalblackface/
Digital Blackface? | Khadija Mbowehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcYnswbybM
Dueling Consciousness by Ibram X. Kendi (Chapter 2 from How to Be an Antiracist)
Hair Is a Vibrant Source of Power in Lorna Simpson’s Fantastical Collages
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hair-vibrant-source-power-lorna-simpsons-fantasticalcollages
More About Museums Are Not Neutral
Our Incomplete List of Cultural Institutions and Initiatives Funded by the Sackler Familyhttps://hyperallergic.com/419850/our-incomplete-list-of-cultural-institutions-and-initiatives-funded-bythe-sackler-family/
Social media advocacy group calls for a boycott of all US museums in Octoberhttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/no-museum-october
ARE ART MUSEUMS RACIST? by Maurice Berger https://www.artnews.com/art-inamerica/features/maurice-berger-are-art-museums-racist-1202682524/
Identifying and Transforming Racism in Museum Education by Marit Dewhurst &Keonna Hendrick https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10598650.2017.1311745?src=recsys&
Art Museum Teaching: Museums Are Not Neutral https://artmuseumteaching.com/2017/08/31/museumsare-not-neutral/
More About The Black Horizon: Black Womxn, Sex & Power
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion - WAP (Explicit Music Video) HD FULL VERSION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siTGRbeq5K8
The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood by Patricia Hill Collins (Chapter 6 from Black Feminist Thought pp. 123-148)
Zanele Muholi: Glossaryhttps://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/zanele-muholi/zanelemuholi-glossary
Zanele Muholi: Mobile Studios | Art21 "Extended Play"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5MMcjZ6nsQ
Tate Modern presents the first major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholihttps://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/zanele-muholi
How Muholi is affirming beautyhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/zanele-muholi-18872/yes-but-whyzanele-muholi
Yes, but why? Zanele Muholihttps://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/yes-but-why-zanele-muholi/
Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital Worldhttps://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/23/3/163/4962541
Intelexual Media (YouTube Channel)
More About Racism & Travel
Whitewashed: The racial cleansing of Forsyth Countyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsTheB5ufqU
Jim Crow and Plessy v. Fergusonhttps://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/jim-crow/
Lessons I've learned as a Black travelerhttps://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lessons-black-travelercmd/index.html
The Black businesswomen bringing diversity to ski slopeshttps://www.cnn.com/travel/article/mountnoire-black-skiing-group/index.html
More About Radical Self Care & Loving Blackness
Billie Zangewa, One of Africa’s Most Closely Watched Artists, Gets New York Gallery Representation https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/billie-zangewa-lehmann-maupin-gallery-representation1202686130/
GRAMMY Award Results for Blue Ivy 63RD ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS (2020) https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/blue-ivy/292460
TwinsthenewTrend (YouTube Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopm4iCRGWS6PkLB8uDe-Wg
Perspective | This Black American artist was born to ‘transport gladness.’ The French accent came later. - The Washington Posthttps://apple.news/Aq74-HvGpRvi-mLTOPDgFpw
Ask a Black therapist: 5 tips to support Black mental health during the Derek Chauvin trial
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/us/iyw-black-mental-health-resourceswellness/index.html?environment=ref
How hair discrimination impacts Black Americans in their personal lives and the workplace https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-hair-discrimination-impacts-black-americans-in-their-personallives-and-the-workplace
Marsai Martin Has an Office Rule for Produced Projects: 'No Black Pain'
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/marsai-martin-has-an-office-rule-for-produced-projects-1846572524
11 Famous African American Mathematicians You Should Know About https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKp-_Kj8P9E