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Books
Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers by Sanders & Wong
Read Chapter 5: Critical Pedagogy: Challenging Bias and Creating Inclusive Classrooms.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a combination of philosophical, political, and educational theory. Freire outlines a theory of oppression and the source of liberation. In Freire's view, the key to liberation is the awakening of critical awareness and the thinking process in the individual. This happens through a new type of education, one which creates a partnership between the teacher and the student, empowering the student to enter into a dialogue and begin the process of humanization through thought and its correlative, action.
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." 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. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. In this book, Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society."-- Provided by publisher.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, 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. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America. As Kendi provocatively illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation's racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited--From publisher's website.
Articles
- Aliakbari, M., & Faraji, E. (2011). Basic principles of critical pedagogy. 2nd International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences, 77-85. http://www.ipedr.com/vol17/14-CHHSS%202011-H00057.pdf
- Critical race theory & wokeness. (2021, May 19). New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/opinion/race-theory-us-racism.html
- Dandar, Devina. (2018). Critical Information Literacy in Ontario K-12 and Higher Education. https://lib.fims.uwo.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/Dandar_9410.pdf.
- Friere, P. (1974). Education for critical consciousness (2005 ed.). Bloomsbury Academic. http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Paulo-Freire-Education-for-Critical-Consciousness-Continuum-Impacts-2005.pdf
- Katz, L. (2014). Teachers' reflections on critical pedagogy in the classroom. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. https://escholarship.org/content/qt2c6968hc/qt2c6968hc.pdf
- Martinez, D. B. (n.d.). Therapy for liberation: The Paulo Friere Methodology. Boston Liberation Health. http://www.bostonliberationhealth.org/documents/freiresummarysimmons.pdf
- Saunders, L. (2017). Connecting Information Literacy and Social Justice: Why and How. Communications in Information Literacy, 11 (1), 55-75. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2017.11.1.47
Websites
Amelié Lamont: The Guide to Allyship
An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.
eXtension Foundation
A Professional Development Offering of the eXtension Foundation Impact Collaborative. Includes frameworks, resources, competencies, news and updates, and more.
National Equity Project
At the National Equity Project, we support leaders to transform their systems into equitable, resilient, and liberating environments. We provide consulting and coaching to help leaders and teams make informed decisions and take more effective action. We design and facilitate professional learning experiences for educators and other leaders to reimagine and redesign their systems for equity. Our services build culture, conditions, and competencies for excellence and equity in districts, organizations, foundations, and communities.
Videos
California Newsreel: Race: The Power of Illusion
"The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - 'red,' 'black,' 'white' or 'yellow' peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The Power of an Illusion questions the very idea of race as innate biology, suggesting that a belief in inborn racial difference is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth. Yet race still matters. Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities."
National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum: Black History Matters! (series)
The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) will present Black History Matters, a series of twenty-eight virtual introductory short “crash courses” during the month of February 2021. The Black History Matters videos will address various aspects of Black American history and culture in order to provide critical context for the ongoing racial justice movements and the persistence of racism in America.
Ohio State University: Handout: Being An Active Bystander
Empowering all to speak out in those, "…wait, did they really just say that?!" moments! This handout contains actionable strategies and model language for how to speak up when bias emerges in everyday conversation.
PBS: Racism in America
The shooting death of a Black man with a history of mental health problems prompted protests, widespread vandalism and an overnight curfew in Philadelphia days before Election Day. Protestors in other parts of the country are still calling for justice in the shooting of Jacob Blake and the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. We’re continuing our commitment to highlight content that will continue the conversation, add historical context to these issues and enable change. Below you will find programs that profile police departments, specials that detail conversations parents of color have with their children, documentaries that cover the treatment of African Americans since slavery and films that shed light on both past and current civil rights activism. These offerings are resources for everyone, regardless of race, to educate themselves on all of the ways inequality in America shows up in everyday life.
TED: Baratunde Thurston: "How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time"
Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing -- while challenging us all to level up.
TEDx: Peggy McIntosh: "How to Recognize Your White Privilege -- and Use it to Fight Inequality"
Many of us believe that we're living in a meritocracy, deserving of what we have and compassionate toward those with less. But that's not true: white people have been given a headstart and ongoing advantages due to the color of their skin, while people of color suffer from equally arbitrary disadvantages, says scholar and activist Peggy McIntosh. She explains what led her to recognize her privilege — and how it can be used by those with power to ensure a fairer life for others.
Podcasts
Anti-Racism Daily
Unpack social justice issues and take action. Hosted by Nicole Cardoza. Five minutes a day, seven days a week. Available wherever you love listening to podcasts most.
The Anxious Achiever: "Discomfort, Anxiety, and Grief: Confronting Racism With Colleagues"
How to have difficult conversations with colleagues about racism, and recognize the pain and trauma underlying police brutality.
The Diversity Gap
When it comes to diversity, good intentions are only the beginning. Join Bethaney Wilkinson as she explores the gap between good intentions and good impact as it relates to diversity, inclusion and equity. On The Diversity Gap podcast, we'll be learning from thought leaders, authors, creatives and more about the diversity gaps in society and culture. Our goal is to discover promising practices for closing diversity gaps in our everyday lives and work!
Immigrantly
The Immigrantly Podcast (formerly The Alien Chronicles) is a minority women owned & run weekly podcast that features immigrants from all different walks of life to share their immigrant experiences. Immigrantly deconstructs the archaic stereotypes of what it means to be an immigrant, a child of immigrants, a person of color and everything in between. Each episode brings a fresh perspective on the issues we address. Our conversations are complex, challenging, and oftentimes messy. But I wouldn’t trade the messiness for anything, because what we have created instead is a new, ongoing dialogue full of rich nuances.
Intersectionality Matters!
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
The New York Times: 1619
An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
Code Switch
Remember when folks used to talk about being "post-racial"? Well, we're definitely not that. We're a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.
PodcastRE
PodcastRE contains links and metadata records to over 150,000 individual audio files, from over 1000 different podcast feeds.
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