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Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racism: Books at the MCC Library
“What is the impact of not being valued? How do you measure the loss of what a human being does not receive?”
― Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinIn 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.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF E185.61 .R8185 2017
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiIbram 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.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF E184.A1 K344 2019
ISBN: 9780525509288
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing BrownAustin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF E185.615 .B7335 2018
ISBN: 9781524760854
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Locking up Our Own by James FormanMass incarceration and aggressive police tactics--and their impact on people of color--are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF HV9950 .F655 2017
ISBN: 9780374189976
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. SaadTeaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF HT1575.S23 M43 2020
ISBN: 9781728209807
Publication Date: 2020-01-28
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderArgues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.
Call Number: STACKS HV9950 .A437 2010 (also available as an eBook)
ISBN: 9781595581037
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools by Howard C. StevensonThis work uncovers how racial stress undermines student achievement. Students, educators, and social service support staff will find workable strategies to improve their racial literacy skills to read, recast, and resolve racially stressful encounters when they happen.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF LC1099.3 .S894 2014
ISBN: 9780807755044
Publication Date: 2014-01-03
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma OluoIjeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.
Call Number: STACKS E184.A1 O454 2018
ISBN: 9781580056779
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF E184.A1 R49 2020
ISBN: 9780316453691
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF E185.61 .K358 2017
ISBN: 9781568585987
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett; Dave ZirinBennett adds his voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice.
White Fragility: why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngeloRobin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of 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.
Call Number: NEW BOOKSHELF HT1521 .D486 2018 (also available as an eBook)
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Fight the Power by Clarence TaylorExamines the explosive history of police brutality in New York City and the black community’s long struggle to resist it. Taylor brings this story to life by exploring the institutions and the people that waged campaigns to end the mistreatment of people of color at the hands of the police. He challenges the belief that police reform is born out of improved relations between communities and the authorities and argues that the only real solution is radically reducing the police domination of New York’s black citizens.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781479862450
Publication Date: 2018-12-20
From Here to Equality by A. Kirsten Mullen; William A. DarityIn From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, they next assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. Finally, Darity and Mullen offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781469654973
Publication Date: 2020-04-20
Good White People by Shannon SullivanArgues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of EducationBuilding on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as “white middle-class goodness,” an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege. Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish one's lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindness—especially in the context of white childrearing—and the cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayal. To move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781438451688
Publication Date: 2014-06-01
Mourning in America by David W. McIvorRecent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning—its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities.In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. Mourning in America connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781501704956
Publication Date: 2016-10-20
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderArgues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781595581037
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Pursuing Trayvon Martin by George Yancy (Editor); Janine Jones (Editor)On February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old African American male Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a twenty-eight-year-old white Hispanic American male in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman killed Martin in a gated community. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, featuring a new preface by editors George Yancy and Janine Jones written after the June 2013 trial, examines the societal conditions that fueled the shooting and its ramifications for race relations and violence in America.Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics attempts to capture what a critical cadre of scholars think about this potentially volatile situation in the moment. The text addresses issues across various thematic domains that are both broad and relevant. Pursuing Trayvon Martin is an important read for scholars in the fields of philosophy, criminal justice, history, critical race theory, political science, critical philosophies of race, gender studies, sociology, rhetorical studies, and for anyone hungry for critical ways of thinking about the Trayvon Martin case.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780739178829
Publication Date: 2012-11-19
Race, Place, and Suburban Policing by Andrea S. BoylesWhile considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context. Through compelling interviews, participant observation, and field notes from a marginalized black enclave located in a predominately white suburb, Andrea S. Boyles examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780520282391
Publication Date: 2015-08-01
Reproducing Racism by Daria RoithmayrThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress?Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination. Drawing on work in antitrust law and a range of other disciplines, Roithmayr brilliantly compares the dynamics of white advantage to the unfair tactics of giants like AT&T and Microsoft.With penetrating insight, Roithmayr locates the engine of white monopoly in positive feedback loops that connect the dramatic disparity of Jim Crow to modern racial gaps in jobs, housing and education. Wealthy white neighborhoods fund public schools that then turn out wealthy white neighbors. Whites with lucrative jobs informally refer their friends, who refer their friends, and so on. Roithmayr concludes that racial inequality might now be locked in place, unless policymakers immediately take drastic steps to dismantle this oppressive system.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780814777121
Publication Date: 2014-01-20
Seeing White by Amy Eshleman; Jean Halley; Ramya Mahadevan VijayaAn interdisciplinary textbook that challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. Drawing on sociology, psychology, history, and economics, Seeing White introduces students to the concepts of white privilege and social power, and is designed to help break down some of the resistance students feel in discussing race.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781442203075
Publication Date: 2011-07-01
Uprooting Racism - 4th Edition by Paul KivelA practical guide that is ideal for students, community activists, teachers, youth workers, and anyone interested in issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780865718654
Publication Date: 2017-08-28
White Fragility: why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngeloThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people' (Claudia Rankine). 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, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.