LibGuides: Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism: Racism and Race

Black Freedom Struggle

Black Freedom Struggle website: Featuring expertly selected open primary source documents, visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.

Podcasts

Listen and subscribe to any of the following podcasts to learn more about racial and political justice:

Code Switch
Weekly podcast discussing race, culture, and identity from American public radio network NPR.
1619
A podcast from the New York Times: "An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling."
Intersectionality Matters!
Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race.
The Stoop.
Combining journalism and storytelling, hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba talk about the issues of blackness, race, and identity in America.
The United States of Anxiety
Hosted by award-winning journalist Kai Wright. Ties current events to the past "...with critical insights into social, racial, and economic injustice. "
Asian Enough
From the Los Angeles Times, hosts Jen Yamato and Frank Shyong discuss the many facets of the Asian American experience and identity.
That's Not How That Works
"This podcast is an exploration of diversity, inclusion, and equity and how these things show up, (or don’t) in our personal and professional communities."
The Activist Files
A podcast by the Center for Constitutional Rights that features stories of people on the front lines fighting for justice, including activists, lawyers, and artists.
Inclusive Activism
Hosted by Phoenix College Communication faculty Rowdy Duncan, this podcast helps listeners "learn and explore more with Diversity and Inclusion and how that relates to the concept of personal leadership."
Irresistible
Formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast, Irresistible is hosted by Kate Werning & collaborators. Topics of focus include community organizing and activism, social movements, resistance, trauma and resilience, self care, physical wellness, emotional and mental health, organizational culture, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and more.

Online Resources

ColorLines
Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation.
A Conversation on Race
From the New York Times, a series of short films about identity in America.
How Did We Get Here? 163 Years of The Atlantic’s Writing On Race and Racism in America
A collection of articles on the topic of race and racism published by The Atlantic magazine from its founding in 1857 until present day.
Talking About Race
From The National Museum of African American History and Culture, a list of resources that offers tips and ideas on how to talk about race and racism.
Black Perspectives
Award winning blog published by the African American Intellectual History Society. Features more than 50 regular contributors. Works include scholarly reflections, book features, online roundtables, book reviews, and more.
Racism in America
A collection of films and programs highlighting different aspects of racial inequality in the US, both past and present. From PBS.
What is Systemic Racism?
From the organization Race Forward, this is an 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, Infant Mortality

Below are a sample of documentaries and films from our streaming media databases. Within each database, you can browse by Subject. Search term suggestions: racism AND United States history, race relations, discrimination, systemic racism.

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Not Your Model Minority
Exploring the origins of the myth and the intersections with past and present anti-Asian violence, this documentary reveals the many ways the model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between communities of color and perpetuate divisive narratives.
Running time: 30 mins
Year: 2021
What Killed Michael Brown?
Documentary that examines the facts that the news media missed in the infamous police incident in Ferguson, Missouri, including the long standing societal and governmental causes, too many of which are absent from mainstream discourse.
Running Time: 110 minutes
Year: 2020
Selma
The marches from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans are depicted in this docudrama set during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr.
Running time:128 mins
Year: 2014
I Am Not Your Negro (Kanopy)
An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.
Running Time: 94 mins
Year: 2016
The Talk: Race in America (Films On Demand)
This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. PBS Distribution.
Running time: 115 mins
Year: 2017
The Hate U Give (Feature Films for Education)
Based on the 2017 best-selling young adult novel of the same name by Angie Thomas.
Running time: 133 mins
Year: 2018
Documenting Hate - Charlottesville
The first in a series of two films from FRONTLINE and ProPublica that investigates and exposes the resurgence of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville rally. Shows how some of those behind the racist violence went unpunished and continued to operate around the country.
Running time: 53 mins
Year: 2018

13th (also available on Netflix)
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
Running time: 100 mins
Year: 2016
Three Myths About Racism
In her talk, Dr. Watts Smith dispels what we think we know about racism, and explores what we can do in order to live in a post-racist society.
Running time: 10 mins
Year: 2020
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 talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing -- while challenging us all to level up.
Running time: 16 mins
Year: 2019
Let's Get to the Root of Racial Injustice - Megan Ming Francis
Ted Talk. Megan Francis traces the root causes of our current racial climate to their core causes, debunking common misconceptions and calling out "fix-all" cures to a complex social problem.
Running Time: 20 mins
Year: 2016
What Being Hispanic and Latinx Means in the United States - Fernanda Ponce
Tedx Talk. "Fernanda provides a first person account of identity--addressing stereotypes and assumptions, and invites the audience to dig deeper into the Latinx experience in the United States.
Running time: 12 mins
Year: 2017
Racism Has a Cost for Everyone - Heather McGhee
Ted Talk. "From her research and travels across the US, McGhee shares startling insights into how racism fuels bad policy making and drains our economic potential -- and offers a crucial rethink on what we can do to create a more prosperous nation for all."
Running Time: 14 minutes
Year: 2019
I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype - Canwen Xu
Ted Talk. "Bad driver. Math wizard. Model minority. In this hilarious and insightful talk, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving competently on her way to buy rice."
Running time: 9 minutes
Year: 2016

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