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#BlackLivesMatter: Background, Context, Resources

Institutional Racism

Reproducing Racism by Daria Roithmayr
Call Number: 305.800973 R637
ISBN: 9780814777121
Publication Date: 2014
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.

21 Numbers That Will Help You Understand Why Ferguson Is About More Than Michael Brown
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations
Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis
How a Racist System Has Poisoned the Water in Flint, Mich
Understanding institutional racism through the State of Emergency in Flint, MI
My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
By Kiese Laymon.
Race: The Power of an Illusion
Companion website to a documentary about race. The library has the DVD it is also available to stream through Kanopy via the Boston Public Library. If you need help accessing, please contact a librarian.
What Systemic Racism Means And The Way It Harms Communities
NPR's Noel King speaks with Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want To Talk About Race, about systemic racism. What is it, and how does it affect people day to day?
Impact of Racism on our Nation’s Health

Prejudice

Understanding Prejudice
For students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice. Includes a "baseline survey" that you can use to "measure your current thinking."
The New Threat: 'Racism without Racists' | CNN
How Our Brains Perceive Race | Moyers & Company
Project Implicit: Social Attitudes
Test yourself for implicit race-based bias.
Do Our Brains Contribute to Racism?

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