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