Black Lives Matter

James Baldwin's "most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide." (print at RCC, ebook at JCLS)

Ibram X. Kendi "asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like." (print at RCC, JCLS; ebook at JCLS)

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva "documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities." (print at RCC)

Ijeoma Oluo offers readers a way into discussions of American white supremacy. (print at RCC, JCLS; ebook and audio at JCLS)

Ibram X. Kendi argues that "racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit." (print at RCC, JCLS; ebook at JCLS)

Robin DiAngelo examines "the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially." (print at RCC, JCLS; ebook and audio at JCLS)

"Chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America," Carol Anderson examines arguments about "protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud." (print at RCC)

A collection of openly available articles

Kathleen Belew "traces the history of the white power movement from the aftermath of the Vietnam War through the Oklahoma City bombing."

Jonathan Metzl examines "the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health." (print at RCC, JCLS)

Layla Saad "teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color." (print at RCC, JCLS; audio at RCC)

A resource created for educators after the 2015 shooting of worshipers in South Carolina.

Richard Rothstein details the way racial zoning in housing and industry excluded Black Americans from the wealth creation afforded by local, state, and federal law to white Americans in the 20th century. (print at RCC and JCLS, ebook at JCLS)

Edward Baptist shows that the wealth built on slavery drove the American economic engine that helped make it a world power. (print, audio, and ebook at JCLS)

Ta-Nehisi Coates examines the theft of wealth and resources from Black Americans, from slavery to the modern era.

Safiya Umoja Noble explores "how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms." (print at RCC, JCLS)

Benjamin Ruha explores "how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity." (print at RCC)

"Just as railroads and interstate highways were the defining infrastructure projects of the 1800 and 1900s, the development of data infrastructure is a critical innovation of our century. Railroads and highways were drivers of development and prosperity for some.... Yet other individuals and communities were harmed, displaced, bypassed."

"Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars," this film examines how "the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America."

"An essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America" (RCC, JCLS; also on Netflix)

An examination of race in America, based on an unfinished James Baldwin project. (DVD at RCC, JCLS; streaming at RCC, JCLS)

"Explores the stories of the African-Americans who lived, worked and created communities despite the hardships" of Oregon's Black exclusion policies.

This documentary series from PBS explores how the idea of race became understood as biology.

"How do we prevent and stop violence and harm without creating more violence and harm?"

In this Pulitzer-winning work on the Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson explores the movement of Black Americans out of the South in search of freedom and opportunity. (print at RCC, JCLS; audio and ebook at JCLS)

Saidiya Hartman on how Black women in the early 20th century "forged relationships, families and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to moral dictates." (print at RCC)

Nikole Hannah-Jones examines American history from the 400th anniversary of American slavery, recentering Black Americans in the national narrative.

A podcast series

Chris Hayes writes that "aggressive policing combined with racial inequality has created conditions resembling a police state." (print, ebook, and audio at JCLS)

Alex Vitale examines modern policing as a tool of social control, exacerbating the problems it is supposed to solve.

Devah Pager explores what the "war on crime" has meant for young men's ability to find employment. (print at RCC}

Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it," with the criminal justice system enforcing racial control. (print at RCC, JCLS; ebook and audio at JCLS, Spanish at JCLS)

Bruce Western "dispels many of the myths about the relationships among crime, imprisonment, and inequality." Ebook at RCC

From TransformHarm.org,"Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment."

A resource list examining the role of police power in enforcing racial inequities

In telling Saules' story, Kenneth Coleman examines Oregon's history of Black disenfranchisement. (print at RCC and JCLS)

by Elizabeth McLagan (print at RCC, JCLS)

"Black exclusion laws that were in place during much of the region's early history... [ensured] that Oregon would develop as primarily white."

"In 1940s Southern Oregon, prisoners of war were more welcome than US military of color.... 'Oregon leads the states and is politically, as well as racially, a white man's country.'"

Oregon was "the only state in the Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people from living, working, or owning property there."

An oral history collection by James Loewen

"Examines how current genomic science and biotechnologies are being leveraged to maintain the racial sociopolitical order." (print at RCC)

Explores the "perceptions that have particularly victimized and blamed disadvantaged, plus-sized African-American women." (print at JCLS)

"The first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment." (print at RCC)

"it is race, not class, that contributes the most to premature birth and other unfavorable birth outcomes for black women in the US." (print at JCLS)

This toolkit from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research aims to help "health professions faculty address and seek to reduce the effects of systemic racism in our society through their professional work."

An issue devoted to the impact of race on health.

A textbook and professional development resource from Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo presenting key concepts in social justice education, including intersectionality, classism, activism, and colonialism. (print at RCC)

From Nadia E. Brown, Ray Block, Jr., and Christopher Stout, a collection of articles (free to access only until August 31st) on identities and structural disadvantages.

"The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents' values of community, equality, and justice." (print at JCLS)

Invites "white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice." (print at RCC, JCLS)

Jason Reynolds adapts Stamped from the beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi, for young adults. (print at RCC, JCLS; ebook, audio at JCLS)

"A multiracial community of parents, teachers, experts, and other caring adults who support each other to meet the challenges that race poses to our children, families, and communities."

A resource list from Jackson County Public Library.