THE SOURCE LIST
WEEK ONE
Thursday, August 20
Verna Myers, How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them, TED Talk (video)
Friday, August 21
Nikole Hannah-Jones, America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One, The New York Times (Aug. 14, 2019)
Saturday, August 22
Rabbi Mike Rothbaum, “We Don’t Talk about ‘White Anti-Semitism.” Stop talking about Black Anti-Semitism,” The Forward (Jul. 16, 2020)
Rabbi Mike Rothbaum, “Ferguson/Fargesn,” delivered at Congregation Netivot Shalom, Rosh Hashanah 2014
Sunday, August 23
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic (May 21, 2014)
Monday, August 24
Robin DiAngelo, “White Fragility,” The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy (2011)
Danielle Cadet, Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They Are Okay – Chances Are They Are Not (May 2020)
Tuesday, August 25
Megan Ming Francis, Let's get to the root of racial injustice, TEDTalks (March 21, 2016)
Wednesday, August 26
Project Implicit, Implicit Association Test (IAT), (This exercise requires navigating the sign up for the tests, which includes answering a series of questions for the researchers, but it is recommended that everyone do at least these tests: Race, Skin Tone, and Weapons-Race. Also, everyone is encouraged to add these tests if you are able: Asian American, Native American, and Arab-Muslim.)
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WEEK TWO
Thursday, August 27
Kristen Rogers, Dear anti-racist allies: Here's how to respond to microaggressions, CNN
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Friday, August 28
"Media portrayals of black men contribute to police violence, Rutgers study says,” EurekAlert! Science News (Nov. 29, 2018)
Leigh Donaldson, “When the media misrepresents black men, the effects are felt in the real world,” The Guardian (Aug. 12, 2015)
Saturday, August 29
Karen Brodkin, “How Did Jews Become White Folks?”
Sunday, August 30
John Biewen, Seeing White (14-part series podcast, 2017), S2 E14: Transformation (44 minutes, 10 seconds)
Monday, August 31
Fernanda Ponce, What Being Hispanic and Latinx Means in the United States (TED talk)
Tuesday, September 1
Indigenous People React To Indigenous Representation In Film And TV (video)
Wednesday, September 2
What Kind of Asian Are You? (video)
The long history of US racism against Asian Americans, from ‘yellow peril’ to ‘model minority’ to the ‘Chinese virus’, by Adrian De Leon
WEEK THREE
Thursday, September 3
Jason Zengerle, How America got to “zero tolerance” on immigration: the inside story, The New York Times (July 16, 2019)
Natalie Escobar, Family separation isn’t new, The Atlantic (August 14, 2018)
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Friday, September 4
Karma Allen, More than 50% of homeless families are black, government report finds, ABCNews (Jan. 22, 2020)
Scott Winship, Richard V. Reeves, and Katherine Guyot, The Inheritance of Black Poverty: It’s All About the Men, Brookings (March 22, 2018)
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Saturday, September 5
Nylah Burton, Black Jews are being chased out of the Jewish community by racism. Here are their stories., The Forward (August 23, 2018)
Sunday, September 6
Hannah Giorgis, Black Art is dangerous because it marries the personal and the political, The Guardian (Feb. 22, 2015)
Reggie Ugwu, Lena Waitheʼs Art of Protest: The “Queen & Slim” writer on mixing art and politics, the key to collaboration and those infamous comments about Will Smith and Denzel Washington, The New York Times (Dec. 2, 2019)
Bryan Stevenson ’85, "We can't recover from this history until we deal with it." legacy of slavery and the vision for creating the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum, Harvard Law School YouTube (Jan 30, 2019)
Monday, September 7
Richard Wright - Between the World and Me
Langston Hughes - Harlem
June Jordan - Poem for Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer
Audre Lorde - Who Said it Was Simple
Claudia Rankine – You are in the dark, in the car . . .
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Tuesday, September 8
The Beatles – Revolution #1
Nina Simone – Revolutions 1 and 2
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam
Janelle Monáe - Tightrope
Janelle Monáe - Many Moons
Childish Gambino - This Is America
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Wednesday, September 9
Valerie Strauss, Implicit racial bias causes black boys to be disciplined at school more than whites, federal report finds, Washington Post (April 5, 2018)
Heather Shouldice, Race and perceptions of student misbehavior, Research to Real Life blog (June 3, 2020)
Bettina Love, Hip hop, grit, and academic success, TED talk (2014)
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WEEK FOUR
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Thursday, September 10
Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia González, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality
Adrienne Green, How Black Girls Aren’t Presumed to Be Innocent: A new study finds that adults view them as less child-like and less in need of protection than their white peers, The Atlantic (June 29, 2017)
Friday, September 11
Alexia Underwood, “What most Americans get wrong about Islamophobia,” Vox (April 6, 2018)
Dalia Mogahed, “What it’s like to be Muslim in America,” TED Talk (February 2016)
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Saturday, September 12
No source today. Reflect, discuss, commit: What are YOU going to do in 5781, different from what you did in 5780, to build a more racially just society?
Sunday, September 13
Adam Conover, “The disturbing history of the suburbs,” Adam Ruins Everything (YouTube, 2017)
Richard Rothstein, “The making of Ferguson: How decades of hostile policy created a powder keg,” The American Prospect (October 13, 2014)
Monday, September 14
Sam Dylan Finch, 9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting Defensive, Everyday Feminism (May 29, 2017)
Tuesday, September 15
How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Racist, Longest Shortest Time Podcast
Wednesday, September 16
Michael Harriott, How to Be a Better White Person in 2020, The Root (Jan 9, 2020)