Recommendation Thread for Racism/Inequality/Black Issues

[NewOrleans]

Slavery By Another Name (PBS documentary)

Eyes on the Prize (PBS documentary series)

anything by Tim Wise

Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Case for Reparations"

for some fiction / art that explores the impact of race in America on the black psyche, Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved or Bluest Eye, or Langston Hughes

[katfco]

White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
www.isr.umich.edu/home/diversity/resources/white-privilege.pdf (it's in many places online, but this is the first link that popped up with the full list)

[teflepi]

hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2014/12/apology-black-folks

[iammalcolmx]

I know you said the US but everyone needs to see "Black in Latin America" to realize the impact slavery had on the New World. Everyone needs to see the struggles we have in the US as compared to the rest of the Americas. I also need to get it out there racism is a real issue in Brasil.

video.pbs.org/program/black-in-latin-america/

[Brie]

The NPR Code Switch blog is really well done. www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/

[NitaX]

Mammy and Uncle Mose - I highly recommend it because you really get a clear origin of racial stereotyping. 

The Color Complex - Great read about the politics of skin color within the Af. American community. 

Classical Black Nationalism - by far one of my favorite books from my Af. Am Political Thought classes. Then add in Modern Black Nationalism to complete your life. 

Angela Davis' Women Race and Class is a must read. 

[iammalcolmx]

The Last Dragon - Michael Schultz

I'm Gonna Git you Sucka - Keenen Ivory Wayans

[erbear]

I recently read "The New Jim Crow" and it's worth a read. Very very good.

[maybebabiesrus]

Dec 30, 2014 23:32:02 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Slavery By Another Name (PBS documentary)

Eyes on the Prize (PBS documentary series)

anything by Tim Wise

Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Case for Reparations"

for some fiction / art that explores the impact of race in America on the black psyche, Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved or Bluest Eye, or Langston Hughes

After it was recommended as one of the top ten podcasts of the year, I just listened to this interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, which was, for me, a very good introduction to his work and the concepts in his much, much longer article on the same topic. www.wnyc.org/story/uss-moral-debt-african-americans/

[pixy0stix]

Dec 23, 2015 19:47:23 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

(...)I finished a great book on Intersectional Feminism.
It's called The Sisters Are All Right: Changing The Broken Narrative of Black Women in America.

www.amazon.com/The-Sisters-Are-Alright-Narrative/dp/1626563519

It's a must read, for anyone who is alive. Lurkers, and deactivators included. 

[pixy0stix]

Dec 23, 2015 19:17:38 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

I read the thread on black women's relationship to feminism today. I know it's 9 months late and all. Allies who were interested in that thread might enjoy Audre Lorde's "Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action” and "Black Women, Hatred, and Anger." I am not an expert on Lorde's belief system (I know her poetry better than her non-fiction), so I'm not sure if that thread meshes with her whole body of work, but I kept thinking of those 2 essays when I read the posts.

....  

[ijack]

great idea! I'm always looking for ways to further my knowledge or good things to share to help others learn.

[btdt]

I heard this on NPR yesterday afternoon. While I have not read the book (but plan on it), the interview certainly proved to be be enlightening (to me, anyway).

www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494063372/the-racial-cleansing-that-drove-1-100-black-residents-out-of-forsyth-county-ga

And here is a link the the NYTimes review of the book.
www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/books/review-blood-at-the-root-a-tale-of-racial-cleansing-close-to-home.html?_r=0

[ESF]

The dissent written by Damon Keith, a black judge on the 6th Circuit earlier this week, when he disagreed with his two colleagues decision to uphold Ohio's vote restrictions.

www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/16a0231p-06.pdf

It is one of the most powerful pieces I've ever read. It goes through history, highlights the work and lives of important civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers, and just excoriates the trend towards the more recent efforts to suppress black votes.

You can skip the first 30 pages of the pdf, it's just two jerks twisting themselves in knots. Go to page 31, get a box of Kleenex and something to punch, and read.

[elleblue]

This piece talking about ally theater that Jermys originally posted on ML. 

[iammalcolmx]

LAWD I feel like everyone SHOULD see The Last Dragon!!! Sho Nuff's costume will be in the new African American Museum