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Anti-Racism Resources @ Your Library
This guide presents a small selection of resources for those interested in learning more about the over 400 years of racism, slavery and violence that have led to the Black Lives Matter movement, the current protests surrounding the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and calls for a more just American society. We have featured materials from our collections and shared recommendations from fellow librarians and national organizations. As always, if there's something you would like and we don't have it, please reach out and we will get it for you as soon as possible. This is an intentionally limited list of resources to address a moment. Reading about diverse experiences and perspectives is a proven way to increase empathy, build shared understandings, and begin the process of imagining different and better communities. We can all do more to further anti-racist thinking, anti-racist actions, and anti-racist policies, practices, and laws.
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Print Books
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Backlash: What happens when we talk honestly about racism in America by ISBN: 9781538104057Publication Date: 2018-04-15Yancy gives heartfelt, yet courageous, insight into how the vitriol from whites stirred his humanity to be proactive, and seek further ways to reach the unreachable. -
Dying of Whiteness by ISBN: 9781541644984Publication Date: 2019-03-05Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America's heartland seeking to better understand the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. -
Good White People by ISBN: 9781438451695Publication Date: 2014-06-01Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege.
Library Databases
Use these databases to find articles and information about racism, white supremacy, history, and much more.
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How to be an AntiRacist
eBooks
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Hands up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter and How they Changed America by ISBN: 9781479818563Publication Date: 2019-07-30 -
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Anti-Racist Booklists
History of American Racism
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Historical Foundations of RacismFrom the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History, this discussion of the invention of racism and the ways it is woven into the fabric of American society.
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A History of Racism in AmericaDuring our investigation to find materials that would allow for further research into the historical impact of slavery in the United States, this selection from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi was found. The list provides a broad historical sweep and includes literature related to health outcomes and biology.
Audio Books from Overdrive
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Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow / by ISBN: 9781984838964Publication Date: 2019 -
White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by ISBN: 9780807071168
Podcasts from On Being
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Interview with the author of My Grandmother's Hands Resmass MenakemThe best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.”
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Let's Talk about Whiteness“If you can’t talk about something, you can’t think about something. I’ve worked with students who could barely let themselves think, they were so scared of thinking the wrong thing.”
Other Libguides
Colleagues at libraries around the nation have put together resources to learn about racism, anti racism, and inclusive pedagogy. Listed below are just a few selected libguides from librarians at other colleges.
Jefferson College
Jefferson College's Diversity Statement: Jefferson College is a community leader dedicated to supporting and promoting diversity through opportunities and experiences that foster a culture of respect, inclusiveness, and understanding for everyone in the campus community to engage in a diverse world. Learn more...