KARRG Expanded Resources

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 

  1. Preface: covering-1-13 (PDF)
  2. 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 institutionshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/t-magazine/black-artists-whitegaze.html

Beware the white gazehttps://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 Shrifthttps://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

  1. 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 (HBOhttps://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 DiversityTeen 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

Cartwright 

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