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"An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling."
"From the author behind the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, comes a podcast that takes the conversation a step further. Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today."
"What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story."
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
"Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Build on your racial justice lens and get inspired to drive action by learning from organizational leaders and community activists."
Pod for the Cause (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
"The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights launched “Pod for the Cause” podcast to expand the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & tech, economic security, immigration, and human rights. Through this expanded dialogue, we want to spur activism that drives change in our communities and country."
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
"On Pod Save the People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color."
"Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.
Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?
Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams."
Parenting Forward podcast: EP. 075 Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt May 18, 2020, 18 mins.
"With a particular interest in unschooling and the Self-Directed Education movement, Akilah S. Richards and guests discuss the fears and the fares (costs) of raising free black and brown children in a world that tends to diminish, dehumanize, and disappear them."
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu: Pastor Michael McBride says stop reaching for whiteness; July 13, 2016, 46 mins
“For those in search of a little grace and some straight talk about freeing white folks from whiteness (and minorities reaching for that same whiteness), this conversation is for you. Learn more about Pastor Mike’s work on ending gun violence and the incarceration of young people of color”
In an effort the amplify Black and Brown voices and creations, the following is a list of recommended movies and documentaries with Black and Brown directors and producers.
When They See Us 2019 (4 episode series available on Netflix)
American Son 2019, 1h 30m (available on Netflix) *This film was directed by a Black person, however written by a white person.
See You Yesterday 2019, 1h, 27m (available on Netflix)
The Hate U Give 2018, 2h 13m (available on Hulu)
If Beale Street Could Talk 2018, 1h 59m (available on Hulu)
Dear White People 2017 (series available on Netflix)
13th 2014, 1h 40m (available on Netflix)
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity (2012)
A film that asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity. Available in Knight Library, Call Number DVD 04733
Souls of Black Girls: The Image of Women of Color in the Media (2008, 52 min)
Valerius surveys the dominant white, light-skinned, and thin ideals of beauty that circulate in the culture, from fashion magazines to film and music video, and talks with African-American girls and women about how these images affect the way they see themselves. (Available on Kanopy streaming for UO community members.)
This documentary discusses the racial inequality in the US. This documentary focuses primarily on the prison system and the fact that they are filled with African-Americans. It references the existing laws in place to oppress blacks both in prison and out.
How Racism Hurts White Americans: A Lecture by John H. Bracey (2013, 45 min)
In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes. (Available on Kanopy streaming for UO community members.)
The following are films we recommend with white directors and producers.
King in the Wilderness 2018, 1h 51 m(available on Hulu, HBO Max and others for $2.99)
Detroit 2017, 2h 24 m
Broken Treaties: An Oregon Experience (2017, 59 min)
“Broken Treaties” introduces OPB viewers to Oregon’s tribes and explores a thread of the story that isn’t told well in those shelves of history books. Combines Oregon history with contemporary interviews.
White Like Me: Race, Racism, and White Privilege in America 2013, 69 min
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. (Available on Kanopy streaming for UO community members.)
Ken Burns' Central Park Five 2012, 2h (available on Amazon Prime)
Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003, 3 60-minute episodes)
Series explores a variety of topics related to race in America. From the evolution of the modern understanding of race, to scientific racism, immigration, and housing policies that have affected communities’ abilities to develop wealth. (Available on Kanopy streaming for UO community members.)
We encourage you to purchase these books in ways that the creators will receive the credit by supporting Black and Brown owned book stores and/or shopping locally when possible. Please click here for a list of Black and Brown owned book stores, and scroll to the bottom of this section for local, independent book stores in the Eugene-Springfield area.
In an effort to amplify Black and Brown creators, the following is a list of works created by Black and Brown folks.
Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad (2020)
How to Be and Anti-Racist, by Ibram X Kendi (2019)
Becoming, by Michelle Obama (2018)
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijooma Oluo (2018)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman (2017)
White Rage, by Carol Anderson (2016)
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, by Marc Lamont Hill (2016)
They Can’t Kill Us All, by Wesley Lowery (2016)
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, by Darryl Pinckney (2014)
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts (2012)
The Condemnation of Blackness, by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (2010)
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander (2010)
- With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.
The Miner’s Canary, by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres (2002)
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria, by Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997)
Divided Sisters, by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell (1996)
Killing Rage Ending Racism, by bell hooks (1995)
A Different Mirror, by Ronald Takaki (1993)
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde (1984)
The Bluest Eyes, by Toni Morrison (1970)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (1969)
The Autobiography of Malcom X, by Alex Haley (1965)
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin (1963)
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon (1961)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
The following is a list of works that we recommend that were created by white folks.
Dying of Whiteness, by Jonathan M. Metzl (2019)
White Fragility, by Robin Diangelo (2018)
- 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).
The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein (2017)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (2016)
The Burning House, Anders Waller (2012)
What Does It Mean to Be White?, by Robin Diangelo (2012)
- What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person.
Lies my Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen (1995)
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (1980)
Local Book Stores:
Eugene-Springfield
- Smith Family Books - POC owned
- Tsunami Books
Corvallis and Salem
-The Book Bin - location in Corvallis and Salem
- Grass Roots Books and Music – Corvallis
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