Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today.
Hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Native American peoples, such as indigenous feminism, food sovereignty, DNA tests, and queer identity.
Hosted by journalists of color, this podcast addresses all aspects of race, including politics, policing, popular culture, parenting, the census, and more. According to the show, "This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story."
An audio series from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
This podcast features "personal stories from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ folks and others who redefine “outdoorsy”.
From the podcast, Scene on Radio, John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika explore the history and meaning of whiteness.
From the Othering and Belonging Institute, this podcast asks questions of who belongs in our societies, as "one of the central drivers that underpin how people are othered, or how the conditions of belonging are created."
Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today.
Life, love and work in a white man's world. Let's help each other figure it out! Featuring Sadia Azmat and Monty Onanuga.
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory, with the tagline, "The podcast that brings intersectionality to life."
The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma.
While there are numerous studies of racism and racial inequality at the macro-level of analysis, there has been little work done on the experience of everyday racism for black people. Essed's work fills this gap, through an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social constructions of racism and everyday practices that the majority of society has come to take for granted.
Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. Just Mercy is a window into the lives of those Stevenson has defended, and an argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies, making clear that it was the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining white privilege, what allyship means, racial stereotypes and appropriation, changing the way that you view and respond to race, and how to continue the work to create social change.
Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
A lyrical memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement urges readers to understand the movement's position of love, humanity and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Prisoner's Wife.
Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. These environments create an insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power.
Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious.
The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
Reaching beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women’s lives in all their fraught complexities, the authors prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, queer women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women’s history in the United States.
Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a wide-ranging picture of how, when, where, and why police resort to deadly force, offering policy prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments can reduce killings by police without risking the lives of officers.
Welcome to Day 3 of the Racial Justice Challenge
We begin with Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, who stated in her TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story: "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." She goes on to say, "The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult."
Let's get started. Stories help us connect with one another and build empathy. Today's tasks are focused on growing our set of stories by listening to people of color with a wide range of lived experiences.
1. Listen to Adiche's TED talk. (18:33 minutes)
Please Note: After the Challenge ended, we learned that Chimimanda Ngozie Adichie had made comments that diminish and marginalize trans people, as discussed in this Vox article, this Time article, and in this journal article. Although Adichie's talk about the danger of a single story has important messages - with its focus on representation, diversity of experience, and perspective taking - Adichie's later comments do not afford trans people the same considerations that she advocates for in her original TED talk. The responses linked above add to the notion of how dangerous, and oppressive, a single story can be, especially when someone else is telling your story. As you work through the original Challenge material below, we ask that you incorporate the stories described above in your reflection on how to move beyond a single story.
2. Actions You Can Take Today to Move Beyond a Single Story
The suggestions above are a few of the approaches one might take. Below are other ideas that participants shared during the challenge week.
NOTE: This challenge originally took place August 3-7, 2020. Comments are now disabled, but please reflect on the question in the board and scroll through participants' responses.
3. BONUS Actions
Nice job! You have completed Day 3 of the Racial Justice Challenge. Take a few breaths, and join us tomorrow when we look at issues of race in the media.
