Gale In Context Topic Guides
- Black Lives Matter
- Civil Rights
- Police Brutality
- Racism
- Racism in Post-Emancipation America
- Race Relations
- Racial Profiling
- Anti-Racism
- African American Perspectives
Books for Adult (Non-Fiction)
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (ebook, audio)
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (ebook)
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (ebook, audio, Hoopla)
- Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Hoopla audio)
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (ebook, audio, Hoopla audio)
- Stamped–Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi (ebook, audio)
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (Hoopla audio)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD (ebook, audio)
Articles & Educational Resources:
- African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (Yale Open Course)
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic
- An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi | The New York Times
- Anti-Racism Project
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- NAACP’s Criminal Justice Fact Sheet.
- The Sentencing Project, Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic
- Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
- Tools, Guides and Reports GARE Resource Guides and Toolkits
- Racial Equity Tools
- Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide from Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Teaching Ideas and Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the George Floyd Protests (NY Times)
Films and Series to Watch on Kanopy
Film Topic Guides:
Films:
- America After Ferguson
- Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Oregon
- Copwatch: An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police
- Every Mother’s Son: Policing and Race in America
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Let the Fire Burn: Tragedy in Philadelphia
- Peace Officer: The Militarized State of American Police
- Policing the Police
- Profiled: The Mothers of Murdered Black and Latino Youth
- P.S. I Can’t Breathe: Black Lives Matter
- Race – The Power of an Illusion
- The Talk: Race in America
- When Justice Isn’t Just: Unarmed Police Incidents
- White Like Me – Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Podcasts
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Seeing White
