- Selected Racial Literacy Resources
(These listings, with current additions, were collected over the course of our 2016 Racial Literacy Series.)
- Basic information about race
- Race: The Power of an Illusion. California Newsreel. PBS http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
- Anti-Racism
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (2016)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Whiteness and white privilege
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” by Peggy McIntosh. 1989. http://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack
- “Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person” by Gina Crosley-Corcoran, 05/08/2014 Updated Jul 14, 2016
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- “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum. 1997.
- Waking up White by Debby Irving. 2014.
- “Finding Myself in the Story of Race?” Debby Irving, TedxFenway, July 20, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD5Ox5XNEpg
- Jane Elliott’s Blue eyes, brown eyes exercise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAE3UqxIhfE
- Understanding and Dismantling Privilege (interdisciplinary journal) http://www.wpcjournal.com/
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. 2010.
- Scene On Radio Podcast’s “Seeing White” Series
- Microaggressions
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- Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientationby Derald Wing Sue. 2010
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- American History
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- National
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- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (originally published 1980)
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, D.C.
- National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.
- Black Experience
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.
- Between the World and Me by TeNehisi Coates.
- The 1619 Project
- This Week in Black History [podcast]
- Indigenous Experience
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- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)
- The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man.
- Slavery
- The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist. 2014.
- Jim Crow
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon.
- Racial Cleansing
- Buried in Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin. 2008
- Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen. 2005
- Great Migration
- Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
- The Migration Series. Paintings by Jacob Lawrence.
- Lynching
- Lynching in America
- Southern horrors and other writings: the anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster. 1997
- Without Sanctuary; photographs and postcards of lynching in America. 2000-2005. http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
- Interracial Marriage
- Loving v. Virginia: No Longer a Black and White Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpLSH8NPaw
- Mass Incarceration
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. 2010.
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. 2014.
- Trenton/Princeton Campaign to End the New Jim Crow.
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- New Jersey
- “’Steal Away, Steal Away’: A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey.” https://dspace.njstatelib.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10929/24563/h6732002.pdf
- Princeton
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- “Albert E. Hinds Memorial Walking Tour: African American Life in Princeton” hosted by the Historical Society of Princeton. Digital version developed and narrated by local historian and Not In Our Town board member Shirley Satterfield myoncell.mobi/HSofP or call 609-436-4092 from any cell phone.
- Here I Stand by Paul Robeson. 1958.
- Princeton Plan http://vimeo.com/67045107
- An Act of Faith (Glen Acres) http://vimeo.com/71330530
- The Long Journey Home: a bicentennial history of the black community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976 by Jack Washington. 2005.
- I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton by Kathryn Watterson. 2017
- Princeton University
- “Looking Back: Reflections of Black Alumni at Princeton,” 1996https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXXGUpHCk_I
- Ebony and Ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities by Craig Steven Wilder.
- African Americans and Princeton University: A Brief History http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84056&p=544526
- Slavery at Princeton http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84056&p=544524
- Princeton & Slavery https://slavery.princeton.edu/
- Blacks at Princeton (1746 to the present) http://www.blacksatprinceton.com/
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Princeton Seminary and Slavery https://slavery.ptsem.edu/
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- Current awareness
- FORTUNE raceAhead:culture and diversity in corporate America Ellen McGirt raceahead@newsletters.fortune.com
- HuffPost Black Voices http://www.huffingtonpost.com/black-voices/
- Not in Our Town Princeton blog niotprinceton.org
- New York Times Race/Related racerelated@nytimes.com.
- NPR Code Switch Race and Identity Remixed podcast http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
- Embrace Race http://www.embracerace.org/ Online community to discuss and share best practices for raising and caring for kids in the context of race.
- Citizenship & Social Justice http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/
- Source lists
- Jane Elliott’s bibliography http://www.janeelliott.com/bibliography.htm
- Facing History and Ourselves https://www.facinghistory.org/topics/race-us-history
- Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/
- Community Change Inc. http://www.communitychangeinc.org/resource-links/
- Raising Race Conscious Children: http://www.raceconscious.org
- Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators (Oakland Public Library) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0lCA3FlulVhK6DFE2d3uYCipc6ApY8Gn2rMwm6fYqw/edit
- Racial Equity Tools https://www.racialequitytools.org/home
- Standing Rock Syllabus https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/
- Leonard Pitts Jr.’s The Black List: Suggested Readings in African-American History. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article141507489.html
- Zinn Education Project https://www.zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/explore-by-theme/
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