Anti-Racism Resource Guide: Systemic Racism

Top Marble Picks:

"I Am Not Your Negro" (James Baldwin, Documentary)
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond (Marc Lamont Hill, Book)
Stamped from the Beginning The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi, Book)
Code Switch (NPR, Podcast)

Articles

Systemic Racism - Wealth Gap
A Vast Wealth Gap, Driven by Segregation, Redlining, Evictions, and Exclusion...
Lee, Trymaine
2019, The New York Times Magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html

Systemic Racism - Sports
Colin Kaepernick Refused to Bend to Roger Goodell's Will
Zirin, Dave
2019, The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/colin-kaepernick-tryout/

Systemic Racism - Sports
The Critical Role of Athletes in Fighting White Blindness
Zirin, Dave
2020, The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/george-floyd-athletes/

Systemic Racism - Sports
Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Zirin, Dave
2020, The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/society/sports-black-athletes/

Systemic Racism - Health / Wealth Gap
Study: Covid-19 Lockdowns Hit Black-Owned Small Businesses the Hardest
Coleman, Aaron Ross
2020, Vox
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/10/21286759/study-covid-19-lockdowns-black-owned-businesses-hardest-recession

Systemic Racism - Health / Wealth Gap
Coronavirus is Hitting Black Business Owners Hardest
Leatherby, Lauren
2020, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/18/us/coronavirus-black-owned-small-business.html

Systemic Racism - Health / Wealth Gap
Coronavirus has Widened America's Vast Racial Wealth Gay...
Rushe, Dominic
2020, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/19/coronavirus-pandemic-billioinaires-racial-wealth-gap

Systemic Racism - Health
Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most
Flavelle, Christopher
2020, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/climate/climate-change-pregnancy-study.html

Of Course There Are Protests. The State is Failing Black People
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
2020, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/george-floyd-minneapolis.html

Books

Systemic Racism - Wealth Gap
*Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
2019

Systemic Racism - Indigenous Perspective
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Hogan, Linda
2007

Systemic Racism - Indigenous Perspective
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
Curtice, Kaitlin B.
2020

Systemic Racism - Health
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Roberts, Dorothy
1997

Systemic Racism - Health
*Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Washington, Harriet A.
2008

*The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Woodward, C. Vann
1955

*The Fire Next Time
Baldwin, James
1963

*Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
2003

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulneraable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Hill, Marc Lamont
2016

Systemic Racism - Education
*The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Kozol, Jonathan
2006

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
2016

Documentary

I Am Not Your Negro
Baldwin, James, & Raoul Peck
2016

Podcasts

*The United States of Anxiety
Wright, Kai
2016, WNYC Studios
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety/season-1

Code Switch
2020, NPR
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1112190608?mt=2

Snap Judgement
Washington, Glynn
2020, WNYC Studios
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/snapjudgment/podcasts

Videos

What Happened, Miss Simone?
Garbus, Liz
2015, Netflix

Blindspotting
Casal, Rafael, Daveed Diggs, et al
2018

What is Systemic Racism (8 part series)
2015, Race Forward
https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism

*How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time
Thurston, Baratunde
2019, Ted
https://www.ted.com/talks/baratunde_thurston_how_to_deconstruct_racism_one_headline_at_a_time

*Highly Recommended