We say their names: Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Dreasjon Reed…
Just a few resources (not remotely a comprehensive list but some good starters) We know folks are always look for places to start.
Resource List was organized by Angela Weaver, Puget Sound Librarian, and compiled by various departments across the campus: African American Studies, the Race & Pedagogy Institute, Collins Memorial Library, Politics & Government, School of Education, School of Music, and Environmental Policy and Decision-Making.
From the June 3rd, 2020 Teach In: We Can’t Breathe: 400 Years of Institutionalized Violence
Renee Simms Presentation: In Plain Sight (PowerPoint) & written words.
Wind Woods Presentation: On Breath: B(l)ack at the Edge of the Wor(l)d (Word Doc)
Compiled Lists
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic
Anti-Racist Library and Archival Resources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yOj7t1A8hUwrCz9rFLAQIymbq-ttiuYHoQWC-p9Shcw/edit?usp=sharing
University of Puget Sound’s School of Music Resource page
https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/music/blacklivesmatter/get-involved/
Teaching Resources
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising
Michael Harriot
https://www.theroot.com/a-timeline-of-events-that-led-to-the-2020-fed-up-rising-1843780800?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1590862085&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR100V7KaIQp1yg-wXfOnEE_ckNz9T2qmlIO1H0gCKrl7VL9hYm8kvvp7KE
Teachers Must Hold Themselves Accountable for Dismantling Racial
Oppression
https://educationpost.org/teachers-must-hold-themselves-accountable-for-dismantling-racial-oppression/?fbclid=IwAR1y145_F1IoiekPOsQtcob5dERvY1xWheeTb2znrSwjngDrCSjFT_7Bu00
Facing History and Ourselves: Reflecting on George Floyd’s Death and Police
Violence Towards Black Americans
https://www.facinghistory.org/educator-resources/current-events/reflecting-george-floyds-death-police-violence-towards-black-americans?utm_campaign=COVID19&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=88865794&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–g-9KTConhiXXvK3zoran6O9pROs-yIdAofHAnGhN8j6vg9mgQaPl_FiyFIcGxCMBVTp_fe2rH4xuxG52bPuadStXCVg&utm_content=88865794&utm_source=hs_email
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Talking about Race: I am an Educator
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/audiences/educator
‘Teaching for Black Lives’ – a handbook to fight America’s
ferocious racism in (virtual or face-too-face) classrooms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/06/01/teaching-black-lives-handbook-fight-americas-ferocious-racism-virtual-or-face-to-face-classrooms/
Police Use of Force Report
http://useofforceproject.org/#project
https://www.blackpast.org/
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus — How can we help students understand George Floyd’s death in the context of institutionalized racism?
https://daily.jstor.org/institutionalized-racism-a-syllabus/
Articles/Commentary
Risk of being killed by police use of force in the
United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
Research-based Solutions to Stop Police Violence
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1180655701271732224.html
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9841376/black-trauma-george-floyd-dear-white-people
The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-fellow-white-people-_b_11109842?fbclid=IwAR15n1ighNdf0LE6n1DXl_49w41j7r3rUh-uk8IHXclHBRnIWodiQcHEBFc
Tamika Mallory – The Most Powerful Speech of a Generation- Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7-2qnaCQr4&feature=youtu.be
26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the
Streets
https://issuu.com/nlc.sf.2014/docs/beyondthestreets_final/2?fbclid=IwAR2IVwPm6dwovl-iH6DX8g9FIMDIuJ0yCOi3-iaeQyX2ZQGEmOg3dtKI40g
Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot
Shenequa Golding
https://medium.com/@shenequagolding/maintaining-professionalism-in-the-age-of-black-death-is-a-lot-5eaec5e17585
Everything Is Political, and Always Has Been
Beth Skwarecki
https://lifehacker.com/everything-is-political-and-always-has-been-1818724298?fbclid=IwAR2GMKpNW3o6iHa5W1MlOmOmRX5SfJaVuk3DmPfHc3rD6KK5uD2N6s__A10
How not to raise a racist white kid
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/health/parents-raising-white-children-racism-wellness/index.html
The “I’m not a racist” defense
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/opinions/amy-cooper-apology-opinion-williams/index.html
A Brief History of the “Black Friend”
https://www.aaihs.org/a-brief-history-of-the-black-friend/
Charles M. Blow: How White
Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html
“I Don’t See Color.” Then You Don’t See Me
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minority-report/201602/i-dont-see-color
White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/white-people-are-noticing-something-new-their-own-whiteness.html
Becoming Trustworthy White Allies
https://reflections.yale.edu/article/future-race/becoming-trustworthy-white-allies
Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re
seeing is people pushed to the edge
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge
What we’re missing when we condemn “violence” at
protests
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/29/21274891/george-floyd-cop-arrested-minneapolis-breonna-taylor
Officials See Extremist Groups, Disinformation in
Protests
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/31/us/politics/ap-us-america-protests-behind-the-protests.html
Keeyanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is
Failing Black People.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/george-floyd-minneapolis.html
Defund Police: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Says Budgets
Wrongly Prioritize Cops Over Schools, Hospitals
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/1/keeanga_yamahtta_taylor_defund_us_police
Melvin Rogers: We Should Be Afraid, but
Not of Protestors
http://bostonreview.net/race/melvin-rogers-we-should-be-afraid-not-protesters
Roxanne Gay:
Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/trump-george-floyd-coronavirus.html
Danielle Allen: The situation is dire. We
need a better normal at the end of this – and peace.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/31/situation-is-dire-we-need-better-normal-end-this-peace/
Cornel West:
America is a Failed Social Experiment, Neoliberal Wing of Democratic
Party Must be Fought
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/29/cornel_west_america_is_a_failed_social_experiment_neoliberal_wing_of_democratic_party_must_be_fought.html
History Will Judge the Complicit:
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an
immoral and dangerous president?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share
Accelerationism: the
obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/11/20882005/accelerationism-white-supremacy-christchurch?fbclid=IwAR3GDm1g6ImXp0JFL7nHZdsd-wLCi9jXkm4CAby-O7ZMbdSRF10Kp2BGUGk
Masculinity As Radical Selfishness: Rebecca Solnit on
the Maskless Men of the Pandemic
https://lithub.com/masculinity-as-radical-selfishness-rebecca-solnit-on-the-maskless-men-of-the-pandemic/
Recommended Books/Reading Lists
An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism
Arianna Rebolini
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ariannarebolini/george-floyd-amy-cooper-antiracist-books-reading-resources?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeedbooks&ref=bffbbuzzfeedbooks&fbclid=IwAR3U-HaD0K1URqX3Jg0dBRxa9ElBgr4ltWJ7N17PrCmbU1pPXjpYqWQ1lHU
Anti-Racism Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi
https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/204842963/1357692923?page=1&fbclid=IwAR2J1s2GabVs8O0g6RQCsJ1upmvT4vg57DCSwEkTGAAjkD7R5Q9XXogd_Mk
So
You Want to Talk About Race (Seattle-based Author, Ijeoma Oluo)
How
to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped
From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racism in America by
Ibram X. Kendi
White
Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The
End of Policing by Alex Vitale (available free electronically
here
and recent author piece
here )
Choke Hold [Policing Black Men]: A Renegade Prosecutor’s Radical Thoughts on How to Disrupt the … by Paul Butler
The
New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Steeped
in the Blood of Racism by UPS professor Nancy Bristow
Me
and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good
Ancestor by Layla Saad
Locking
Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by James Forman Jr.
Just
Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (also an
interview about the current protests with the author)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Davis; there are a few facebook groups on abolition and a new
journal
https://abolitionjournal.org/
Antifa: The
Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray)
Black Skin, White Masks
or
Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
In the Wake by Christina Sharpe
Recommended Films
I
Am Not Your Negro
13th
and
When They See Us – Both available on Netflix
Tulsa Massacre
Just Mercy – Free during the month of June on streaming
platforms
Blogs, Podcasts, etc.
Democracy in Dark Times – Jeffrey C. Isaac
Trumps Reichstag Moment May Have Just Arrived
https://jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/trumps-reichstag-moment-may-have-just-arrived/?fbclid=IwAR1dc9T_K8URG-8N98Kryldc9oJRa8pwcZG023T2kiQFwoMAky8-J5DDbsg
The Root
Color Lines
Public Seminar
The Monkey Cage (WaPo)
The Stone (NYT)
Boston Review
Organizations
Showing Up for Racial Justice
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
https://www.facebook.com/TalkandAction/about/?ref=page_internal
https://www.tacomapeoplesassembly.com/
Other Resources
7 Virtual Mental Health Resources Supporting Black
People Right Now
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/virtual-mental-health-resources