Support of Racial Justice on Campus
Racial Justice Educational Resources
This is not an exhaustive list of resources on racial justice but a few recommendations by members of the SMC Community, most notably from Professor Lorrie Smith, Ph.D. who has taught numerous English and American Studies courses on African-American and black authors over her 30+ year career. Two articles below highlight Fr. Maurice Ouellet, SSE ’48 and the Edmundites support of the black community in Selma during Bloody Sunday and the Civil Rights Movement.聽
Nonfiction Books
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
How to be Antiracist 鈥� Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 鈥� Ibram X. Kendi
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 鈥� Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
American Lynching 鈥� Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century 鈥� Dorothy E. Roberts
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do 鈥� Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Ph.D.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption 鈥� Bryan Stevenson
(a film adaptation was released in 2019)
The New Jim Crow 鈥� Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Slavery by Another Name – Douglas Blackmon
Men We Reaped – Jesmyn Ward
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners聽– Margaret A. Burnham
YA Nonfiction
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You 鈥� Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
TEDx Talks
| angel Kyodo williams
| Dr. Philip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D.
| Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Mia Birdsong
| Baratunde Thurston
| Kimberl茅 Crenshaw
聽| Loretta J. Ross
Podcasts
鈥淭he 1619 Project鈥� 鈥� A New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
A critically acclaimed podcast on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
鈥淪eeing White.鈥� Scene on Radio: Season 2, hosted by John Biewen of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
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鈥檚 an old story.
Articles and Blogs
| Paul Murray, National Catholic Report (March 7, 2015).聽 This article details Fr. Ouellet’s (and the Edmundites) support of the black community in Selma and the prominent role they played during the Civil Rights Movement.
| Robert Howell, CNN.com (March 8, 2010).聽 Another piece on Fr. Ouellet’s and the Edmundites impact during Bloody Sunday and the black community in Selma.
鈥搢 Corinne Shutack
, The Athletic
, Tasha Ryals
, Josh Meyer
, President Barack Obama, Medium
, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Times
Videos and Films
High on the Hog: How African Cuisine Transformed America (2021). Directed by Roger Ross Williams. Available on Netflix.
13th (2016) and Selma (2014). Directed by Ava DuVernay. Both films are available on Netflix.
Do the Right Thing (1989). Directed by Spike Lee.
Fruitvale Station (2013). Directed by Ryan Coogler.
Find more films in this article:
Short Videos
| 100 Photos | Time
(Caution: graphic imagery of lynchings)
Cultural Educational Resources
This is not an exhaustive list of resources on cultural education but a few recommendations by members of the SMC Community.
Literature
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter – Erika S谩nchez
In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez
Not Quite Not White – Sharmila Sen
Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People – Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis
Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance – Nick Estes
Killing Rage: Ending Racism – bell hooks
Cockroaches – Scholastique Mukasonga
Freedom is a Struggle – Angela Davis
TED x Talks
– Hayley Yeates
– Baratunde Thurston
– Verna Myers
Podcasts
Latino USA w/ Maria Hinojosa
1619
Code Switch
Videos & Films
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America
Break it all: The History of Rock in Latin America
Favela Rising
Hotel Rwanda