ACTION ON RACISM RESOURCES, Page 2
Some Resources for Better Understanding Race Issue in America
Including Videos, Articles, Books, and Movies
Videos
-HISTORY: The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (1 hour and 29 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FudYZTM4ens
-Dr. Joy DeGruy on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and its effect on people
(black and white) today. The lecture was in 2008 in London:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjSday7f_8
Short Videos
-Implicit Bias: Peanut Butter and Jelly and Racism (2.27 minutes)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004818663/peanut-butter-jelly-and-
racism.html?playlistId=100000004821064
-A Conversation With My Black Son (5 min.)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000003575589/a-conversation-with-my-black-
son.html
-A Conversation With Police on Race (7 min.)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004027684/a-conversation-with-police-
on-race.html
-A Conversation With Black Women on Race (6 min.)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004050379/a-conversation-with-black-
women-on-race.html
-A Conversation With Latinos on Race (7 min.)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004237305/a-conversation-with-latinos-
on-race.html
-A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race (7 min.)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004308529/a-conversation-with-asians-
on-race.html
-A Conversation With White People on Race (5 min.)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000003773643/a-conversation-with-white-
people-on-race.html
Audio , Video, Articles
The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates Article
Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Audio file of Article: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-case-for-reparations-the-
atlantic-ta-nehisi-coates
Project:
https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/reparations/
-A Healing Moment at the Movies with Joy De Gruy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdLTVHazTKo
-Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy "A Trip to the Grocery Store"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9QBnPK6Yg
Movies
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-Just Mercy (2019)
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78
-Persian Article:
https://persianmediaproduction.org/article/%d8%a7%db%8c%d9%86-
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If Beale St. Could Talk (2018)
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQXSforT_qQ
Documentary Films:
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-"13" Documentary Film on Netflix called "13" provides a great insight to the history of
this country and its incarceration approaches.
-I Am Not Your Negro - 2016
-Amistad - 1997
Books
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
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How to be an Antiracists, Ibram X Kindi
Article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/books/review/me-and-white-supremacy- layla-saad.html
Interview:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/gildenhorn-book-talk-with-ibram-x- kendi/
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HISTORY: The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein (History of How our government
segregated America)
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-
government-segregated-america/
Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UqnQC7jY4
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The Spirit Level, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket (Why Greater Equality
Make Societies Stronger
https://www.c-span.org/video/?292024-1/the-spirit-level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0HwniJHNo
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Freedom's Daughters" Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to
1970 by Lynne Olson.
Articles
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White Liberals in the Struggle for Racial Equality
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/opinion/letters/white-liberals-racial-equality.html
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INCITE! WOMEN OF COLOR AGAINST VIOLENCE AND CRITICAL
RESISTANCE: STATEMENT ON GENDER VIOLENCE AND THE PRISON
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fincite-
national.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F08%2Fincite-cr-
statement.pdf&data=02%7C01%7CAnusce%40tahirih.org
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-Forging a Path to Racial Justice
A message from the Baha'is of the United States
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/06/19/2050595/0/en/Forging-a-Path-
to-Racial-Justice.html?fbclid=IwAR2oYRocpREvxZKqe2ZBiOrYDjHNDkxTDFW5nIdrpL5LE-
UhjzCB-Yr2kRI
Podcasts
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“Seeing White”, from Scene on Radio series
https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/