In the Time of George Floyd: A List of online resources

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)

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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
  • Black Past
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/
  • The Conversation
https://www.facebook.com/TalkandAction/about/?ref=page_internal
  • The People’s Assembly
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