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Starting points
AAA Statement on Race
American Anthropological Association's statement on race
Exposing Bias: Race and Racism in America
Harvard Extension School interview between journalist and anthropologists, 2016. Updated in 2021.
A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters
New York Times, 2/22/17
How Racism Invented Race in America
Part 1 of a 4 part series for The Atlantic, 6/23/14
RACE - The Power of an Illusion
Interactive exploration of the concept and history of race from PBS
UMaine Racial Justice Challenge
Learn about ways to take action.
Racism in the Era of Trump: An Oral History
From PBS.
The 1619 Project
A PDF of the original 1619 Project from New York Times Magazine.
In the News
BBC News: U.S. Race Relations
The Economist: Race Relations
FiveThirtyEight.com: Race
FiveThirtyEight.com: Race Relations
The Guardian: Race Issues
NPR: Code Switch: Race & Identity, Mixed
NPR: Race
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Statistics & Analysis
You will find more infographics at
Statista
Gallup: Race Relations
Pew Research Center: Race and Ethnicity
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States
Report by the Equality of Opportunity Project, March 2018
Racial and ethnic health disparities in the U.S.
Statista dossier, 2021
Helpful Websites & Organizations
Center for American Progress: Race and Ethnicity
Section on race and ethnicity from the Center for American Progress, an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans
Institute of Race Relations
An independent educational organization based in the UK
RACE
RACE is a project of the American Anthropological Association devoted to understanding the reality and unreality of race
Teaching Tolerance: Race & Ethnicity
Educational resources developed by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Media
Game over: gender, race & violence in video games
Documentary.
The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
Documentary.
I Learn America
Documentary.
NPR: Code Switch
Podcast.
Race, Power, and American Sports
Documentary.
Representation & the media
Documentary.
TED Talks: Race
Collection of TED Talks on the topic of race.
The Talk - Race in America
Documentary.
PBS American Portrait : I Rise
Documentary
Books on Race & Ethnicity
The 1619 Project
Ethnic Landscapes of America
Getting Real about Race
Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations
How to Be an Antiracist
Race in America: How a Pseudoscientific Concept Shaped Human Interactopm
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society
Books on Race & Politics
Asian American Political Participation
Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act
The Case for Identity Politics : Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals
Contemporary Asian American Activism : Building Movements for Liberation
The Great Alignment : Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Latinos and the 2016 Election: Latino Resistance and the Election of Donald Trump
One America? : Presidential Appeals to Racial Resentment from LBJ to Trump
Producers, Parasites, Patriots : Race and the New Right-wing Politics of Precarity
Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
The Turnout Gap : Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America
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