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Suggested reading, watching, listening and other resources for our community. This page, curated by the IIE and DART teams, is updated regularly. Check back often for additional resources.

How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race

Articles and Programs
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans like me that our belonging is conditional John Cho (LA Times) The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asians Jeff Guo (Washington Post) (paywall) The racial triangulation of Asian Americans. Kim, Claire Jean. Politics & society 27.1 (1999): 105-138. Harvard University and the Myth of the Model Minority Chenyu Wang (Washington Post) (paywall) Model Minority Mutiny: 250 Years of Asian American Social History Blog Post & Resource List: POC Online Classroom How to Have That Tough Conversation About Race, Racism and Racial Identity Let’s Talk: Discussing Race, Racism and Other Topics with Students Fulfilling the American Promise Facing History and Ourselves - For Teachers

Articles and Programs

Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans like me that our belonging is conditional
John Cho (LA Times)
The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asians
Jeff Guo (Washington Post) (paywall)
The racial triangulation of Asian Americans.
Kim, Claire Jean. Politics & society 27.1 (1999): 105-138.
Harvard University and the Myth of the Model Minority
Chenyu Wang (Washington Post) (paywall)
Model Minority Mutiny: 250 Years of Asian American Social History
Blog Post & Resource List: POC Online Classroom
How to Have That Tough Conversation About Race, Racism and Racial Identity
Let’s Talk: Discussing Race, Racism and Other Topics with Students
Fulfilling the American Promise
Facing History and Ourselves - For Teachers

Becoming Racially Literate and Understanding Issues of Social Justice in America

Abolitionist Law Center

African American Policy Forum

Equal Justice Initiative

Facing History and Ourselves

Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus

Teaching Tolerance

Zinn Education Project

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. 2012.
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. 2017.
 Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk. 1974
Coates, T. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
DiDangelo, R. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. 2018.
Dunbar-Ortiz, R. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. 2015.
Farrow, A. How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. 2006.
Kendi, Ibram X.  How to Be an Antiracist. 2019.
Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Race in America. 2017.
Lorde, Audre. Your Silence Will Not Protect You. 2017.
Onaci, Edward. Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation State. 2020.
Ortiz, Paul. An African-American and Latinx History of the United States. 2018.
Oluo, Ijeoma.  So You Want to Talk About Race. 2018.
Painter, Nell I. The History of White People. 2010.
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. First edition. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014.
Tatum, Beverly. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. 2017.
White, Monica. Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement. 2018.
Wilder, Craig. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. 2014.
Williams, Chad. Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence. 2016.

Just Mercy (2019)

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (2019)

When They See Us (2019)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Fruitvale Station (2018)

Notes From the Field (2018)

Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)

I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-92 (2017)

The Uncomfortable Truth (2017)

Hidden Figures (2016)

13th (2016)

Let The Fire Burn (2013)

Tangarine (2015)

Selma (2014)

Central Park 5 (2012)

Milk (2008)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

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Recording of the Open Forum on Racial Injustices
Hosted by President Brock Blomberg and President of UCGC Jalen Everette’22 (June 10, 2020)
Ursinus College Diversity Library Guides- Myrin Library

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How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race

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