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Hot Topics: Race Relations: Racism & Civil Rights

Starting Points

158 Resources to Understand Racism in America
Smithsonian Magazine, 6/4/2020
How Did We Get Here?: 163 Years of The Atlantic's Writing on Race and Racism in America
The Atlantic, 6/2020
Polling highlights stark gap in trust of police between black and white Americans
CNN, 6/2/2020
Systemic Racism
CQ Researcher report, 2020
Racism and Mental Health
Mental Health America, 2020
TED Talks to help you understand racism in America
Why are people still racist? What science says about America's race problem.
Washington Post, 8/14/17

Books on Racism

#identity by Abigail De Kosnik; Keith Feldman
ISBN: 9780472074150
Publication Date: 2019-04-18
Don't Label Me by Irshad Manji
ISBN: 9781250157980
Publication Date: 2019-02-26
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780525509288
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
The Racial Glass Ceiling by Roy L. Brooks
ISBN: 9780300227611
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
ISBN: 9780465060689
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Racism in American Popular Media by Brian D. Behnken; Gregory D. Smithers
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)

Books on Economic Aspects of Race & Discrimination

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement by Traci Parker
ISBN: 9781469648682
Publication Date: 2019-02-06
The Hidden Rules of Race by Andrea Flynn; Susan R. Holmberg; Dorian T. Warren; Felicia J. Wong
ISBN: 110841754X
Publication Date: 2017-09-08
The Making of a Teenage Service Class by Ranita Ray
ISBN: 9780520965614
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
The One-Way Street of Integration by Edward G. Goetz
ISBN: 9781501707599
Publication Date: 2018-03-15
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey
ISBN: 9780393651263
Publication Date: 2018-04-03
How the Streets Were Made by Yelena Bailey
W. E. B. du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society by Andrew J. Douglas
You Can't Eat Freedom by Greta de Jong

Statistics & Analysis

Hate Crime in the U.S.
Statista Statistics & Facts
NPR Report: Discrimination in America: Final Summary
Based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, January 2018
Race and Ethnicity - Pew Research Center
Race in America, 2019
Pew Research Center, 4/9/2019

More Stats and Information on the Web

National Council on Family Relations: Understanding Racism in Society
Resources on matters related to the systematic oppression and the persistence of both individual and institutional racism in our society
American Psychological Association: Race
APA's section devoted to race and racism
Urban Institute: Structural Racism in America
Urban Institute's collection of research-based articles related to racism
U.S. Department of Justice: Hate Crimes
Information on hate crimes, including definitions, statistics, and prevention action items

Books on Civil Rights

Breaking White Supremacy by Gary Dorrien
ISBN: 0300205619
Publication Date: 2018-01-09
A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780807075876
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
Touched with Fire by David E. Lowe
ISBN: 9781640122734
Publication Date: 2019-12-01
Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers by Kent Spriggs (Editor)
ISBN: 9780813054322
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
What the Hell Do You Have to Lose? by Juan Williams
ISBN: 9781541788268
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
The Road South by B. J. Hollars
ISBN: 9780817319809
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
Driving While Black by Gretchen Sorin
The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized by Errol Henderson
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton

In the News

Media

Great teachers, great courses, Socio-Racial Roundtable: The Ecology of Negative Imagery, Gender Roles and Racism
Lecture/presentation.
Hate Crimes in the Heartland
Documentary.
How Racism Harms White Americans
Documentary.
Implicit Bias: New Forms of the American Dilemma and the New Science of Discrimination
Lecture/presentation.
KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy
Documentary.
Parrhesia: A Stand Against Oppression
Documentary.
Reveal Moments: Microaggressions in Everyday Life
Documentary.
The Talk - Race in America
PBS Documentary
White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Documentary.
White Supremacy: Going Under
Documentary.

Civil Rights & Advocacy Organizations

Alliance for Justice
Works to preserve human rights and access to the courts
American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity
American Civil Liberties Union
Works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States
Anti-Defamation League: Race & Racial Justice
Works to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all
Black Lives Matter
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
A civil and human rights coalition
NAACP
The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization
National Civic League: Racial Equity
National Coalition on School Diversity
Focuses on elementary & secondary schools
Opportunity Insights (formerly Equality of Opportunity Project)
A research entity, headquartered at Harvard, created to understand how to improve economic opportunity for all Americans
Southern Poverty Law Center
Dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Justice: Community Relations Service
Works to help resolve racial and ethnic tensions, civil disorder based on race, color, or national origin, and to address and prevent hate crimes.
Urban Institute
Develops economic and social policy research