What is Racism?
Recommended Resources
Books
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
By Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
A classic book focused on the psychology of racism and racial identity development. A must-read for aspiring anti-racists.
Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
By Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“
Video
Allegories on race and racism
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on “race” and racism. She hopes that these "telling stories" empower you to do something different, and that you will remember them and pass them on.
Film
13th
The U.S. imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a third of U.S. prisoners are black. In this infuriating documentary, director Ava DuVernay argues that mass incarceration, Jim Crow, and slavery are "the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date."
Article
How Structural Racism Works
“As a legacy of African enslavement, structural racism affects both population and individual health in three interrelated domains: redlining and racialized residential segregation, mass incarceration and police violence, and unequal medical care.”