Key Resources To Support You On Your Journey
Here is a collection of resources on some of our favorite topics:
RACIALIZED CAPITALISM
PUBLICATIONS:
Race & the Law: Racialized Capitalism | Harvard Law Review, Nancy Leuong
Global Social Theory: Racialized Capitalism | Submitted by Stephen D. Ashe
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Racial Economics of Inclusive Capitalism | John N. Robinson III
Racial Capitalism and the Structural Roots of White Nationalism | Matt Burkhold
How the ‘Racial Capitalism’ that Commodified Women’s Bodies Haunts us Today. | NYU, James Devitt
PEOPLE’S HISTORY
PUBLICATIONS:
After 50 Years of the War on Drugs, ‘What Good is it Doing for Us?’ | NPR, 2021
Racial Equity & Anti-Black Racism | UCSF Resource Center
RACE & RACISM
PUBLICATIONS:
Is the United States a Racist Country? | Brookings, Rashawn Ray
Structural Racism in America | Urban Institute
Race in America 2019 | Pew Research Center, Horowitz, Brown & Cox
Exposing Bias: Race and Racism in America | Harvard Extension
158 Resources to Understand Racism in America | Smithsonian Magazine
What Students are Saying About Race and Racism in America | NY Times
Resources to understand America’s long history of injustice and inequality | Washington Post
26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren’t convinced racism is still a problem in America | Business Insider
The Social Construction of Racism in the United States | Manhattan Institute
EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
Publications:
How Will Each of Us Contribute to Racial Justice and Educational Equity Now? | Learning Policy Institute
Why Understanding Equity vs. Equality in Schools Can Help You Create an Inclusive Classroom. | Waterford
The History of Inequality in Education | Noltemeyer, Mujic & McLoughlin
Educational Access and the State: Historical Continuities and Discontinuities in Racial Inequity in American Education | Walters, Indiana University
HISTORICAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
Mapping American Social Movements | University of Washington project
Social Movements- and Their Leaders- that Changed Our World | Global Citizen
U.S. Social Movements | gcdd.org timeline visual
Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement | Herbert Ruffin II
Civil Rights Era | Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University
The Black Panther Party: Challenging Police and Promoting Social Change | National Museum of African American History & Culture
Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers Movement | Oxford Research Encyclopedias
The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start the Gay Rights Movement | Greggor Mattson
The Environmental Justice Movement | Skelton & Miller, Natural Resources Defense Council
INEQUITIES IN JUSTICE
Publications
Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System | the Sentencing Project
Justice, Inequality, and the Poor | National Affairs
Mass Incarceration has been a Driving Force of Economic Inequality | Brennan Center
Understanding America: Addressing Racial Inequality in the Justice System | U.S. Department of State
STUDENT ACTIVISM
Publications:
Student Activism in School: Getting Your Voice Heard | Accredited Schools Online
Student Activism 2.0 | Graduate School of Education, Harvard
Student Activism | Youth Celebrate Diversity
The Student Activism That Led to Seattle Schools Temporarily Cutting Ties to SPD | South Seattle Emerald
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