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CTG & IDEAs Social and Racial Justice Workshop Resource Sheet
CTG & IDEAs
                 Social and Racial Justice Workshop
                           Resource Sheet
Compiled by Lia Kozatch, Katelyn Kendrick, Lisa Ann Gaylord, and Lisa Young

                      PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND ARTICLES

   ● 55+ Social Justice Terms
   ● Advance Gender Equity in the Arts
   ● Alicia Garza
   ● American Theatre Magazine-Digital Content
   ● Anti-Defamation League
   ● AntiRacism Learning + Action Space for White People in U.S. Theatre -FB group that
     moves beyond allyship to accomplice/co-conspirator work
   ●   Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi
   ●   Antiracist Checklist for Whites
   ●   artEquity
   ●   A.R.T. New York- #TheShowMustBePaused
   ●   BIPOC Arts (opera group)
   ●   BIPOC Director Database
   ● BIPOC Stage Managers
   ● BIPOC Theater Designers and Technicians Database
   ● Black Acting Methods: Studio and Pedagogy
   ● Black Lives Matter
   ● Colorado Refugee Connect
   ● Consortium of Asian-American Theaters and Artists
   ● DENVER EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION EVENT RESOURCES
   ● Diversity in the Arts: Colorado arts internships
   ● Emily Johnson: Decolonization rider for work
   ● The Equity Project
   ● Groundwater Arts

   ● Hollaback! Bystander Training
   ● HowlRound-Digital theatre commons
   ● https://www.ideastages.org/pillars
   ● IDEA Stages: Pillars of Inclusion
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● Interfaith Alliance of Colorado
● Joy-Jackson Initiative
● Latinx Theatre Commons
● Michigan State University An Open Letter Regarding Diversity, Equity, and
  Inclusion
● MENA Arts Advocacy Coalition
● MENA Theatre Makers Alliance
● Muslim Advocates
● Muslim Public Affairs Council
● Native Land- Canada
● Nicole Brewer
● North American Drama Therapy Association
● ONE Colorado
●   Pamela Hayes- “Addressing Framework”
●   Patrice Cullors
●   Racism Recovery Center
●   Rocky Mountain Artist' Safety Alliance
●   Scaffolding Anti-racism Resources
●   The SEED Project- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
●   The Sikh Coalition
●   System of White Supremacy and White Privilege
●   Stop AAPI Hate
●   Theatre Educator Pro Learning Center
●   Theatre Communications Group
●   Theatre for Young Audiences/USA
● U.S. Department of Arts and Culture-Land Acknowledgement processes
● We See You White American Theatre

                                    TEACHING RESOURCES
● EduColor Resource List for pedagogy, curriculum, policy, labor, research to raise issues
  of equity, anti-racism, and justice
● Edutopia: Culturally Responsive Teaching

● Teacher Resource Sites for Social Justice Issues
● Many, Many Examples Of Essential Questions (teachthought.com)
● Educational Leadership: Stirring Up Justice

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PLAYS AND STORIES
   ● 8 of the Best Plays About Social Justice | Book Riot
   ● The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
   ● Indigenous Theater and Performance of North America
   ● 10 Contemporary Native American Playwrights You Should Know
   ● Native Women Rising
   ● 50PP’s Best Unproduced Latinx Plays 2019
   ● National Theatre of the Deaf- 2020 Playwrights’ Conference Registration
   ● HowlRound Theatre Commons- Deaf Playwriting: A New Art Form
   ● Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights

                                FROM THE WORKSHOP LAND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
   ● https://native-land.ca/
   ● 907-312-5085- text city and state

Requesting Access Needs:
A time to call into the space that the humans within each meeting may have biological,
personal and capacity needs. Definition: An access need is something a person needs
to communicate, learn, and take part in an activity

Below is a suggested Access Needs Script (as suggested by Nicole BrewerAnti-racist Theatre
Series)
                                   ACCESS NEEDS: (Script)
                                   “My access needs are…”
                           “My access needs are being met” (stop)
                   “I have access needs and I an attending to them” (stop)

              GENDER PRONOUNS:

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55+ Social Justice Terms from the Social & Racial Justice Workshop

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Term                                        Definition

AAVE
                        African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety formerly
                        known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English
                        among sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the
                        academic community.

        Ableism           A system of oppression that includes discrimination and social
                        prejudice against people with intellectual, emotional, and physical
                         disabilities, their exclusion, and the valuing of people and groups
                                              that do not have disabilities.

       Accomplice         An ally who directly challenges institutionalized homophobia,
                            transphobia and other forms of oppression, by blocking or
                                     impeding oppressive people, policies and
                         structures. Accomplices fight with oppressed peoples, and their
                               actions are coordinated by those who are oppressed.

African
American/Black/Africa
ns in America           Black people is a racialized classification of people, usually a
                        political and skin color-based category for specific populations
                        with a mid to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered
                        "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based
                        systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term
                        "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-
                        skinned compared to other populations.

                        African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-
                        Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial
                        ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

                        Africans in America- Diaspora Black or African people from the
                        continent of Africa.

        Ageism               A system of oppression that works against the young and

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the old and values individuals of a particular age range.

          Ally
                           A person who is a member of an advantaged social group who
                          takes a stand against oppression, works to eliminate oppressive
                                    attitudes and beliefs in themselves and their
                            communities, and works to interrogate and understand their
                                                      privilege.

 Anti-Semitism/Anti-Je    The systematic discrimination against and oppression of Jewish
   wish Oppression              people, Judaism, and Jewish culture and traditions.

        Asexual
                             An identity term for people who either do not feel sexual
                               attraction or do not feel desire for a sexual partner or
                             partners. Some asexual individuals may still have romantic
                                                     attractions.

        Biphobia
                          The irrational hatred or fear of people who identify as bisexual,
                                                 pansexual, or fluid.

        Bisexual
                          An identity term for people who are attracted to people of two
                           genders, usually to both men and women. Bi* is used as an
                           inclusive abbreviation for the bi, pan, and fluid community.

BIPOC
                         BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
                         Pronounced “bye-pock,” this is a term specific to the United
                         States, intended to center the experiences of Black and Indigenous
                         groups and demonstrate solidarity between communities of color.

  Birth Assigned Sex
                                 The designation that refers to a person’s biological,
                          morphological, hormonal, and genetic composition. One’s sex is
                         typically assigned at birth and classified as either male or female.

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Black Lives Matter
(Concept)            The ideology that seeks to affirm and assert the value of Black
                     lives, seeking equal treatment and justice for Black people, not to
                     the exclusion of such for people of other races, but in response to
                     the systematic absence or denial of

                     equal treatment and justice for Black people across institutions
                     and policies.

Black Lives
 Matter (Movement)
                     Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a
                     world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally
                     targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black people’s
                     humanity, their contributions to [this] society, and their resilience
                     in the face of deadly oppression.”A political movement to address
                     systemic and state violence against African Americans. Per the
                     Black Lives Matter organizers: In
                     2013, three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse
                     Cullors, and Opal Tometiï — created a Black-centered political will-
                     and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter in
                     response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer, George
                     Zimmerman. The project is now a member-led global network of
                     more than 40 chapters. Black Lives Matter members organize and
                     build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black
                     communities by the state and vigilantes.

       Cisgender
                     Individuals whose gender identity and expression line up with their
                                            birth-assigned sex.

       Cissexism
                     A system of oppression that values cisgender people, upholds the
                      gender binary, and marginalizes, oppresses, and makes invisible
                             the lives and experiences of transgender people.

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Classism
                            A system of oppression that includes institutional, cultural,
                              societal, and individual beliefs and practices that assign
                            value to people based in their socio-economic class. Here,
                          members of more privileged socio-economic classes are seen as
                                               having a greater value.

      Collusion
                           Thinking and acting in ways that support dominant systems of
                                         power, privilege, and oppression.

     Coming Out
                         The process by which LGBTQ2SIA+ individuals recognize, accept,
                                    appreciate, and often celebrate their sexual
                         orientation, sexuality, or gender identity/expression. Coming out
                            varies from individual to individual, and across culture and
                                                     community.

Cultural Appropriation
                           A term used to describe the taking over of creative or artistic
                         forms, themes, or practices by one cultural group from another. It
                                      is in general used to describe Western
                          appropriations of non‐Western or non‐white forms, and carries
                                   connotations of exploitation and dominance.

Cultural Competence
                         The ability to effectively and empathetically work and engage with
                                       people of different cultural identities and
                               backgrounds in order to provide safe and accountable
                             spaces for dialogue and discourse; cultural competence is
                            relevant in all fields of work, education, and informal social
                                                      interactions.

   Discrimination
                          A person discriminates when they make a distinction, (whether
                            intentional or not), based on a characteristic, or perceived
                                                 characteristic that:
                             ·      has the effect of imposing burdens, obligations or
                            disadvantages on an individual or a class of individuals not
                                           imposed upon others and/or
                          ·      withholds or limits access to opportunities, benefits and
                         advantages available to other individuals or classes of individuals
                                                      in society.

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Empathy
                     A learned skill that allows one to recognize and deeply listen to
                     another’s story or experiences, and connect them to common
                          understandings and emotions; differs from sympathy.

 Ethnocentrism
                    Judging another culture solely based on the standards and values
                     of one’s own culture. Also, a belief in the inherent superiority of
                                   one’s own nation or ethnic group.

    Equality
                    Equality means everyone is given the same resources, in an effort
                     to promote fairness, but it can only work if everyone starts from
                               the same place and needs the same help.

     Equity
                    Equity means that everyone is given the resources that they need
                          to succeed. Equity often appears unfair, but it actively
                       moves everyone closer to success by “leveling the playing
                                                  field.”

      Gay               Is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior
                       between members of the same sex or gender. Commonly an
                    identity term specifically used for a male-identified person who is
                                attracted to other male-identified people.

     Gender          a socially constructed range of characteristics pertaining to, and
                           differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

 Gender Binary
                    A social construction of gender in which there are two distinct and
                               opposite genders: male/masculine/men and
                                         female/feminine/women.

Gender Expression        A person’s presentation of their gender. These outward
                      expressions of gender can be intentional or unintentional and
                     involve one’s mannerisms, clothing, hair, speech, clothing, and
                                         activities (and more!).

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Gender Identity
                       A person’s innate sense of their own gender. This may include
                       identities on either end of the gender binary, somewhere in-
                                   between or outside the gender binary.

                      An identity term for a person who may not identify with and/or
 Genderqueer/ also
                               express themselves within the gender binary.
termed Gender non
      Binary

   Gender Non
   Conforming         Gender variance, or gender nonconformity, is behavior or gender
                              expression by an individual that does not match
                        masculine and feminine gender norms. People who exhibit
                        gender variance may refer to themselves as gender variant,
                     gender non-conforming, gender diverse, or genderqueer, and may
                            be transgender or otherwise variant in their gender

                                                    identity.

 Gender Pronoun
                      Gender pronouns (like their, hers, he) are words that specifically
                      refer to people that you are talking about. Some individuals may
                                    use pronouns that line up with their
                      birth-assigned sex. While others will use pronouns that best suit
                                            their gender identity.

Gender Neutral or    Is a pronoun which does not associate a gender with the individual
 Gender Inclusive             who is being discussed. Examples of these include,
    Pronoun                    They/Their/Them, Ze/Zie/Hir/Hirs, Ve/Ver/Vis

   Hate Group                                organizations which:
                       ·       spread lies intended to incite hatred and / or advocate
                     violence against certain groups on the basis of sexual orientation,
                                           race, colour, religion etc.
                     ·       claim that their identity (racial, religious etc.) is 'superior'
                                            to that of other people
                         ·         do not value the human rights of other people.

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Heterosexism
                           A system of oppression where individual, societal, cultural, and
                             institutional beliefs and practices favor heterosexuality and
                                   assume that heterosexuality is the only ‘natural’,
                              ‘normal’, or acceptable sexual orientation. This creates an
                              imbalance in power, which leads to systemic, institutional,
                                pervasive, and routine mistreatment of LGBTQ2SIA+.

     Heterosexual
                          An identity term for a female-identified person who is attracted to
                              male-identified people or a male-identified person who is
                                         attracted to female-identified people.

     Homophobia
                           The fear, hatred, and intolerance of people who identify or are
                                             perceived as gay or lesbian.

Internalized Oppression
                            A learned fear and self-hatred of one’s own identity or identity
                                    group based on the acceptance of oppressive
                          stereotypes, attitudes, and beliefs about their identity group.

   Intersectionality
                             The idea that multiple identities intersect to create a whole
                          identity. These identities that can intersect include

                            gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual
                             orientation, religion, age, mental disability, physical
                           disability, mental illness, and physical illness as well as
                           other forms of identity. These aspects of identity are not
                           mutually exclusive. Each element or trait of a person is
                           inseparably linked with all of the other elements.

                          Note: Human Right and Equity Services acknowledges the concept
                           of intersectional discrimination/harassment and
                          recognizes that people’s lives involve multiple interrelated
                            identities, and that marginalization and exclusion may exist
                            because of how these identities intersect.

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Intersex
                   A general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is
                            born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that
                    doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.
                         (As defined by the Intersex Society of North America.)

    Islamophobia
                    The irrational fear or hatred of Islam, Muslims, Islamic traditions
                      and practices, and, more broadly, those who ‘appear’ to be
                                                 Muslim.

      Lesbian
                   An identity term for a female-identified person who is attracted to
                                     other female-identified people.

LGBTQ2SIA+         An acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
                   Transgender,Transsexual, Queer and Questioning, Two-Spirit,
                   Intersex, Asexual, Plus people.

     Oppression
                     A term used to describe systems, relations, or behaviors which
                            disadvantage groups or individuals through formal
                   institutions or informal attitudes and behaviors. Oppression fuses
                    institutional and systemic discrimination, personal bias, bigotry,
                       and social prejudice in a complex web of relationships and
                                                 structures.

     Pansexual         An identity term for a person who is attracted to people of

                         all genders: men, women, transgender individuals, and
                                            genderqueers.

       Power
                   The capacity to direct or influence behaviour of others; the ability
                    to act in a particular way. The ability of an individual or group to
                                      achieve their own goals or aims.

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Prejudice
                       A pre-judgment or unjustifiable, and usually negative, attitude of
                               one type of individual or groups toward another
                         group and its members. Such negative attitudes are typically
                          based on unsupported generalizations (or stereotypes) that
                         deny the right of individual members of certain groups to be
                             recognized and treated as individuals with individual
                                                 characteristics.

       Privilege
                        An advantage granted or available only to a particular person or
                                                  group of people./
                        A systemic set of benefits granted to a dominant identity group
                                 (i.e. white privilege, straight privilege, Christian
                        privilege, cis-gender privilege), such as greater access to power,
                                    resources, government, language, land etc.

        Queer
                        A term for individuals whose gender identity/expression and/or
                                 sexual orientation does not conform to societal
                          norms. This reclaimed term is increasingly being used as an
                            inclusive umbrella term for the LGBTQ2SIA+ community.

        Racism
                       A system of oppression based on an individuals or groups actual or
                                           perceived racial identity.

    Racial Profiling
                        Racial profiling is a form of stereotyping based on preconceived
                                         ideas about a person’s character.

Religious Oppression
                       A system of oppression based on an individuals or groups religious
                                             beliefs and practices.

        Sexism
                              A system of oppression based on attitudes and beliefs
                       (commonly related to traditional stereotypes of gender roles) that
                          privileges men, subordinates women, and devalues practices
                                            associated with women.

  Sexual Orientation   A person’s sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they
                                                 are attracted.

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Social Justice    The equal distribution of resources and opportunities, in which
                       outside factors that categorize people are irrelevant.

 Stereotype         A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a
                                 particular type of person or thing.

Transgender        An identity terms for a person whose gender identity does not
                         align with the gender they were assigned at birth.

Transphobia      A system of oppression based on the fear and hatred of individuals
                                       who are transgender.

Xenophobia
                  A system of oppression based on the fear, hatred or mistrust of
                 that which is foreign, especially strangers or people from different
                                         countries or cultures.

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A Recommended Reading List on Social and Racial Justice-

The work of Social and Racial Justice is a wholly personal journey that is not completed in a handful of
workshops or reading and few books or listening to a few podcasts. Please take this list as an
offering… It is chock full with information. It will be updated so continue to enter in to find more
resources- Lisa Young Founder www.ideastages.org

                  BIPOC/Global Majority Owned Bookstores in the USA
   ●   Multiculturalism Rocks! Pop-up Bookstore Davis CA www.multiculturalism.rocks
   ●   Eso Won Bookstore 4327 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles CA (323) 290-1048 www.esowonbookstore.com
   ●   Marcus Books 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland CA (510) 652-2344 www.fb.com/marcus.books
   ●   MATTER 2134 Market Street, Denver CO (303) 893-0330 www.shopatmatter.com
   ●   Mahogany Books 1231 Good Hope Rd, Washington DC (202) 844-2062 www.mahoganybooks.com
   ●   Dare Books 245 N 17-92 Hwy, Longwood FL (407) 673-3273 www.darebooks.com
   ●   Brave + Kind Bookshop 722 W. College Ave., Decatur GA (470) 440-5714 www.braveandkindbooks.com
   ●   Semicolon Bookstore 515 N. Halsted St, Chicago IL (312) 877-5170 www.semicolonchi.com
   ●   Beyond Barcodes Bookstore 108 N. Main Street, Kokomo IN (765) 201-0383 www.108NMain.com
   ●   Brain Lair Books 714 E Jefferson Blvd, South Bend IN (574) 400-5572 www.brainlairbooks.com
   ●   Wild Fig Coffee & Books 726 N Limestone, Lexington KY (859) 381-8802 www.wildfigbooksandcoffee.com
   ●   Frugal Bookstore 57 Warren Street, Roxbury MA (617) 541-1722 www.frugalbookstore.net
   ●   Detroit Book City 24361 Greenfield Rd, Ste. 305, Southfield MI (248) 993-3844 www.detroitbookcity.com
   ●   Eye See Me 6951 Olive Blvd, University City MO (314) 349-1122 www.eyeseeme.com
   ●   The Little Boho Bookshop 164a Broadway, Bayonne NJ (201) 258-4499 www.thelittlebohobookshop.com
   ●   Cafe con Libros 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn NY (347) 460-2838 www.cafeconlibrosbk.com
   ●   The Lit Bar 131 Alexander Avenue, The Bronx NY (347) 955-3610 www.thelitbar.com
   ●   Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse 2578 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia PA (215) 427-3300 www.amalgamphilly.com
   ●   Harrietts Bookshop 258 E Girard Ave, Philadelphia PA (267) 241-2617 www.harriettsbookshop.com
   ●   The Tiny Bookstore 1130 Perry Highway, Suite 106, Pittsburgh PA (412) 585-2651 https://tinybookspgh.com
   ●   Turning Page Bookshop 216 St James Ave #F, Goose Creek SC (843) 501-7223 www.turningpagebookshop.com
   ●   The Dock Bookshop 6637 Meadowbrook Dr., Fort Worth TX (817) 457-5700 www.thedockbookshop.com
   ●   Cafe con Libros- An Intersectional Feminist Bookstore & Coffee Shop 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216
       wecare@cafeconlibrosbk.com
   ●   The Lit Bar 131 Alexander Avenue Bronx, New York 10454 https://www.thelitbar.com
   ●   Birchbark Books- 2115 West 21st Street, Minneapolis MN (612) 374-4023 www.birchbarkbooks.com
   ●   Red Planet Comics 1002 Park Ave SW, Albuquerque NM (505) 361-1182 www.redplanetbooksncomics.com

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The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You
                               Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective
                               Healing by Singh, Anneliese A. -A powerful and practical guide to help you
                               navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin
                               to heal.

                               Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and
                               experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a
                               bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding
                               of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many
                               ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the
                               processes of racism. This book can help guide you.

                              The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily
and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle
feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and
conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you’ll discover the building blocks to
creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.

This book is not just about ending racial harm—it is about racial liberation. This journey is one that we must
take together. It promises the possibility of moving through this pain and grief to experience the hope,
resilience, and freedom that helps you not only self-actualize, but also makes the world a better place.

                   The Wellbeing Handbook for Overcoming Everyday Racism: How
                  to Be Resilient in the Face of Discrimination and Microagressions by Cousins, Susan

                  This enlightening and reflective guide studies the psychological impact of racism and
                  discrimination on BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) people and offers steps to
                  improve wellbeing. It includes definitions of race, racism and other commonly used terms,
                  such as microaggressions, and evaluates the effect of definitions used to describe BAME
                  people.

                   Each chapter of the book focusses on one category of wellbeing - self-acceptance,
                   personal growth, purpose in life, positive relations with others, environmental mastery,
                   autonomy - and includes case examples, spaces for reflection and practical, creative
exercises. For use as a tool within counselling and therapeutic settings as well as a self-help tool by
individuals, each category provides a framework for thinking about how to manage everyday racism, live
with more resilience, and thrive.

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                       Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by
                       Magee, Rhonda V. - “Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be
                       approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the
                       discernment and new degrees of freedom these practices entrain.” --from the foreword
                       by Jon Kabat-Zinn. In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized
                       racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When
                       conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety
                       of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the
                       difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential.
                       Through the practice of embodied mindfulness--paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and
                       physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way--we increase our emotional resilience,
                       recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered.

                                  Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist
                                  Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to
                                  dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level.

                                  Heart-centered and spirit-based practices are the missing but vital piece to
                                  achieving racial justice.

                                  Do Better is a revolutionary offering that addresses anti-racism from a
                                  comprehensive, intersectional, and spiritually-aligned perspective. This
                                  actionable guidebook illustrates how to engage in the heart-centered and
                                  mindfulness-based practices that racial justice educator and healer Rachel
                                  Ricketts has developed to fight white supremacy from the inside out, in our
                                  personal lives and communities alike. It is a loving and assertive call to do the
                                  deep—and often uncomfortable—inner work that precipitates much-needed
                                  external and global change.

                                 Radical racial justice includes daily, intentional, and informed action. It
                                 demands addressing the emotional violence we have perpetuated on ourselves
    and others (most notably toward Black and Indigenous women and femmes), both as individuals and as a
    society. Do Better provides the missing pieces to manifest practicable, sustainable solutions such as
    identifying where we most get stuck, mitigating the harm we inflict on others, and mending our hearts from
    our most painful race and gender-based experiences, plus much more.

    This inspirational and eye-opening handbook is filled with carefully curated soulcare activities for getting into
    our bodies and better withstanding the grief, rage, and conflicting emotions that naturally arise when we fight
    against injustice. Culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative
    breathwork, and journaling prompt unpack our privilege, and take up the ongoing fight against oppression,
    while transforming our own lives along the way.

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal
  Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz (Author)
  Part of: A Toltec Wisdom Book (6 Books)

  In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the
  source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering.
  Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code
  of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom,
  true happiness, and love.

   Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist
   Theatre (Theater in the Americas) by Norma Bowles (Editor),
   Daniel-Raymond Nadon (Editor), Bill Rauch (Foreword), Flint (Contributor),
   Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools
   and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about
   diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking
   collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and
   their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United
   Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of
   these creative initiatives on participants and audiences. By reflecting on their
   experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers—artists,
   activists and scholars—provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create
   their own theatre for social change.

Theatre of the Oppressedby Augusto Boal              (Author), Charles A. McBride
(Translator) "Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern
situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now
wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, comic, inquisitive and
finally optimistic theatre involving spectators and performers in the search for
community and integrity. This is a good book to be used even more than to be
read." - Richard Schechner "Augusto Boal's achievement is so remarkable, so
original and so groundbreaking that I have no hesitation in describing the book as
the most important theoretical work in the theatre in modern times - a statement I
make with having suffered any memory lapse with respect to Stanislavsky, Artaud
or Grotowski." - George E. Wellwarth

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition 4th
                          Edition by Paulo Freire (Author), Donaldo Macedo (Foreword)
                          First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated
                          and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower
                          countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the
                          United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass
                          among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoin

                                We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching
                                and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
                                (Author)
                                Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding
                                Book Award. Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical
                                events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice
                                inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on
                                her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love
                                persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence,
                                oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities
                                through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US
                                educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children
                                of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers
                                offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and
                                character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To
                                dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational
freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the
imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like
Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an
alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and
intersectional justice.

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We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and
                           Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers) by Mariame Kaba
                            (Author), Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword) New York
                            Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a
                            vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being
                            concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to
                            actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to
                            get the target to actually move in the way that you want to. What if social
                            transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along
                            and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free
                            ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba
                            reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a
                            foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the
punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective
struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change
the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”

                           Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship
                           Argentina (Theater in the Americas) by Noe Montez (Author) Author
                            Noe Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, produces memory
                            narratives that change public reception to a government’s transitional justice
                            policies. Drawing on contemporary research in memory studies and transitional
                            justice, Montez examines the Argentine theatre’s responses to the country’s
                            transitional justice policies—truth and reconciliation hearings, trials, amnesties
                            and pardons, and memorial events and spaces—that have taken place in the last
                            decade of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first
                            century.
                            Montez explores how the sociohistorical phenomenon of the Teatroxlaidentidad—
                            an annual showcase staged with the support of Argentina’s Grandmothers of the
                            Plaza de Mayo—acted as a vehicle for drawing attention to the hundreds of
children kidnapped from their families during the dictatorship and looks at why the memory narratives
regarding the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falklands) range from ideological appropriations of the
islands, to absurdist commentaries about the failed war that signaled the dictatorship’s end, to the islands’
heavily contested status today. Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina
explores the vibrant role of theatrical engagement in postdictatorship Argentina, analyzes plays by artists
long neglected in English-language articles and books, and explores the practicalities of staging
performances in Latin America.

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THINK Theatre 1st Edition             by Mira Felner (Author)- Debuting
                                     in its first edition, THINK Theatre engages contemporary readers
                                     through its stylish visual program, lively narrative, and side-by-side
                                     coverage of multicultural and alternative theatres with more familiar and
                                     well known performances. THINK Theatre shows readers how the
                                     intersection of artistic vision, talent, and passion intersect with social,
                                     political and economic reality to create theatre everywhere, in all its
                                     forms and variety.

                                 Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The
                                 Performing Justice Project 1st Edition by Megan Alrutz
                                 (Author), Lynn Hoare (Author)- Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with
                                 Youth: The Performing Justice Project offers accessible frameworks for
                                 devising original theatre, developing critical understandings of racial and
                                 gender justice, and supporting youth to imagine, create, and perform
                                 possibilities for a more just and equitable society.
                                 Working at the intersections of theory and practice, Alrutz and Hoare
                                 present their innovative model for devising critically engaged theatre with
                                 novice performers. Sharing why and how the Performing Justice Project
                                 (PJP) opens dialogue around challenging and necessary topics already
                                 facing young people, the authors bring together critical information about
                                 racial and gender justice with new and revised practices from applied
                                 theatre, storytelling, theatre, and education for social change. Their curated
                                 collection of PJP "performance actions" offers embodied and reflective
                                 approaches for building ensemble, devising and performing stories, and
exploring and analyzing individual and systemic oppression. This work begins to confront oppressive
narratives and disrupt patriarchal systems―including white supremacy, racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth invites artists, teaching artists, educators, and youth-workers
to collaborate bravely with young people to imagine and enact racial and gender justice in their lives and
communities. Drawing on examples from PJP residencies in juvenile justice settings, high schools, foster
care facilities, and community-based organizations, this book offers flexible and responsive ways for
considering experiences of racism and sexism and performing visions of justice.

Visit www.performingjusticeproject.org for additional information and documentation of PJP performances
with youth.

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Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and
  Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race Paperback by Derald Wing
  Sue (Author)
  Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that
  talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you
  must read this book. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence debunks the most
  pervasive myths using evidence, easy-to-understand examples, and practical tools.

  This significant work answers all your questions about discussing race by covering:

  ●      Characteristics of typical, unproductive conversations on race
  ●      Tacit and explicit social rules related to talking about racial issues
  ●      Race-specific difficulties and misconceptions regarding race talk
  ●      Concrete advice for educators and parents on approaching race in a new
  way

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Paperback                         by Mahzarin
R. Banaji (Author), Anthony G. Greenwald (Author) “Accessible and authoritative . .
. While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can
counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . .
What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington
Post I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.

The title’s “good people” are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our
intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to
help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can
adapt beliefs and behavior and “outsmart the machine” in our heads so we can be
fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our
own minds.

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Let's Get Real: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender Identities
                           in the Classroom 1st Edition by Martha Caldwell (Author), Oman Frame
                           (Author)- This new book is a vital resource for any teacher or administrator to
                           help students tackle issues of race, class, gender, religion, and cultural
                           background. Authors Martha Caldwell and Oman Frame, both lifelong educators,
                           offer a series of teaching strategies designed to encourage conversation and
                           personal reflection, enabling students to think creatively, rather than
                           stereotypically, about difference. Using the Transformational Inquiry model, your
                           students will learn to explore their own identities, share stories and thoughts with
                           their peers, learn more through reading and research, and ultimately take
                           personal, collaborative action to affect social change in their communities.
                           You’ll learn how to:

          ●   Facilitate dynamic classroom discussions in a safe and empathetic environment
          ●   Encourage students to think and talk objectively about complex and sensitive issues such as
              race, gender, and social class
          ●   Help students cultivate valuable communication, critical thinking, and writing skills while
              developing their identities in a healthy way.
          ●   Develop your teacher identity in a positive way to better support your students’ growth and
              self-discovery

       The strategies in this book can be adapted for any middle school or high school curriculum, and
       each chapter includes a variety of lesson plans and handouts that you can use in the classroom
       immediately. These resources can also be downloaded from the authors’ website:
       www.ichangecollaborative.com.

                            Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of
                            Enduring Injury and Healing Paperback by Joy a Degruy (Author)
                           In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until
                           the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865,
                           Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They
                           experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual
                           abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely
                           traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with
                           the abolition of slavery?
                           Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized
                           subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws,
                           peonage, convict leasing, domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations
continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in yet unmeasured injury. What do
repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these
ordeals had on African Americans today?

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Dr. Joy DeGruy, answers these questions and more. With over thirty years of practical experience as a
professional in the mental health field, Dr. DeGruy encourages African Americans to view their attitudes,
assumptions, and behaviors through the lens of history and so gain a greater understanding of how
centuries of slavery and oppression have impacted people of African descent in America.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and
sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs,
feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America.

                             Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and
                             Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters (Author)- This is the first book to define and
                             explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on
                             the physical and psychological health of Black people--and explain why
                             and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious
                             effects.

                             Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and
                             inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally
                             draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day,
                             when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to
                             constantly explain this to white people, even--and especially--well-meaning
                             white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly
complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled.

This book, designed to illuminate the myriad dire consequences of "living while Black," came at the urging of
Winters's Black friends and colleagues. Winters describes how in every aspect of life--from economics to
education, work, criminal justice, and, very importantly, health outcomes--for the most part, the trajectory for
Black people is not improving. It is paradoxical that, with all the attention focused over the last fifty years on
social justice and diversity and inclusion, little progress has been made in actualizing the vision of an
equitable society.

Black people are quite literally sick and tired of being sick and tired. Winters writes that "my hope for this
book is that it will provide a comprehensive summary of the consequences of Black fatigue, and awaken
activism in those who care about equity and justice--those who care that intergenerational fatigue is tearing
at the very core of a whole race of people who are simply asking for what they deserve."

Reading group discussion guide available.

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American
                      Capitalism Baptist, Edward E. A groundbreaking history demonstrating that
                      America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves Americans tend
                      to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps,
                      but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs
                      the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E.
                      Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told , the expansion of slavery in the
                      first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and
                      modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South
                      grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental
                      cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and
                      capitalist economy.

Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians,
entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation
of American history.

                     Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in
                     the Twenty-first Century Roberts, Dorothy- A decade after the Human
                     Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the
                     emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic
                     genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological
                     category written in our genes. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar
                     and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of
                     a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences
                     at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our
                     society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time
                     when America claims to be post-racial.

Moving from an account of the evolution of race--proving that it has always been a mutable and socially
defined political division supported by mainstream science--Roberts delves deep into the current
debates, interrogating the newest science and biotechnology, interviewing its researchers, and
exposing the political consequences obscured by the focus on genetic difference. Fatal Invention is a
provocative call for us to affirm our common humanity.

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Lorde, Audre Presenting the essential
                        writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
                        celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. "[Lorde's] works will be
                        important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."--
                        The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches,
                        Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds
                        social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive,
                        unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
                        This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet
                        Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more
                        than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in
                        Lorde's own words, a call to "never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is
Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . "

                           How to Be an Antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism
                           reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in
                           America - but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new
                           ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with
                           the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about
                           what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active
                           role in building it. Citation: Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019

                            Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence- If you believe that talking
                     about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you
                     must read this book. Derald Wing Sue debunks the most pervasive myths
                     using evidence, easy-to-understand examples, and practical tools.Citation: Wing
                     Sue, Derald. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race.
                     Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015.

                       Courageous Conversations About Race Glenn Singleton explains the
                       need for candid, courageous conversations about race so that educators
                       may understand why student disengagement and achievement inequality
                       persists and learn how they can develop a curriculum that promotes true
                       educational equity and excellence. Citation: Singleton, Glenn. Courageous Conversations
                       about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools. Los Angeles: Corwin, 2015

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White Fragility- Referring to the defensive moves that white people
   make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by
   emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including
   argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to
   reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-
   racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, Robin DiAngelo examines
   how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what
   we can do to engage more constructively. Citation: DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility:
   Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.

The Condemnation of Blackness- The idea of Black criminality was
crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African
Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. Chronicling the emergence
of deeply embedded notions of Black people as a dangerous race of
criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European
immigrants, Khalil Gibran Muhammad - HKS Professor of History, Race,
and Public Policy - reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban
development and social policies. Citation: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of
Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2010.

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, white,
and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a
problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a
renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk
about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling
communication across racial and ethnic divides.Citation: Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why
Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race. New York:
Basic Books, 2003.

  Just Mercy (young adult adaptation @ Publisher Site) This book is
  Bryan Stevenson's (MPP/JD 1985 LLD 2015) unforgettable account of
  an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into
  the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for
  compassion in the pursuit of true justice. Stevenson was honored by
  HKS in 2018 with the 2018 Alumni Public Service Award. Citation:
  Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New
  York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.

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The New Jim Crow- The New Jim Crow has spawned a whole
  generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations
  motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we
  have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
  As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most
  important book published in this century about the U.S.” Citation: Alexander,
  Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press,
  2020.

      Charleston Syllabus-In the aftermath of the Charleston massacre,
      Professors Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N.
      Blain sought a way to put the murder-and the subsequent debates in
      the media-in the context of America's tumultuous history of race
      relations and racial violence on a global scale. They created the
      Charleston Syllabus on June 19, starting it as a hashtag on Twitter
      linking to scholarly works on the myriad of issues related to the
      murder. Citation: Williams, Chad, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain. (Eds.) Charleston
      Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. Athens: The University of Georgia Press,
      2016.

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation-In this stirring and
insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and
persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black
unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against
police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black
liberation. Citation: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago:
Haymarket Books, 2016

        The Color of Law- In this groundbreaking history of the modern
        American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on
        housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be
        racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through
        individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private
        institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color
        of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure
        segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state,
        and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory
        patterns that continue to this day. Citation: Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A
        Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York; London: Liveright
        Publishing Corporation, 2017.

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The Broken Heart of America- From Lewis and Clark’s 1804
    expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has
    been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this
    searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and
    capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation’s past.
    Citation: Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the
    United States. New York: Basic Books, 2020.

   One Person, No Vote- Carol Anderson follows the astonishing
story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before
our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression
laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter
suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to
poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance:
the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to
vote to all Americans. Citation: Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter
Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

 Never Caught- A startling and eye-opening look into America’s
 First Family, Erica Armstrong Dunbar tells the powerful narrative
 of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave
 who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom.
 Citation: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washington's Relentless Pursuit of Their
 Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. 37Ink; Atria Books: New York, 2017.

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The Fire Next Time- At once a powerful evocation of James
 Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the
 consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal
 and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on
 the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation,
 that exhort Americans, both Black and white, to attack the terrible
 legacy of racism. Citation: Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage, 1992.

 Heavy- Kiese Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about
growing up a hard-headed Black son to a complicated and brilliant
Black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. By attempting to name
secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, he
asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation
actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live
under the weight of actually becoming free. Citation: Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An
American Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2018.

 White Rage- Carefully linking historical flashpoints when social
 progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and
 cleverly crafted opposition, Carol Anderson pulls back the veil that
 has long covered actions made in the name of protecting
 democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud,
 rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Citation: Anderson, Carol.
 White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.

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