The resources listed below are provided by University Presses and other platforms to encourage informed, thoughtful discussions. Note that though many of these resources are freely accessible in an open license, some are offered free for a limited time, with options to purchase.
Ebook. Antiracism Inc. reveals how antiracist claims can be used to propagate racism, and what we can do about it. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations.
We all hold racial biases. Racial bias can be formed both implicitly and explicitly, and can be passed on generationally. The good non-racist/bad racist binary frames how we perceive ourselves and how bias can impact our daily interactions with others. Tracey Benson leverages his experience as an educator to challenge us to become more aware of our own biases and challenge ourselves to make society safer for each other. Dr. Benson is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the UNC Charlotte where he teaches courses in educational leadership, law, and policy.
There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world -- and replace it with love. (This virtual interview, hosted by TED's current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha, was recorded June 9, 2020.)
Racial Justice, Policing, and Protest. Annual Reviews journals are highly respected sources of reviews on discriminatory policing of minorities, on bias in the criminal justice system, on inequalities in healthcare, and on other relevant issues. To draw wider attention to these resources, we have curated a collection of articles that focus on understanding discrimination and its impact, and what must be done to end it. These articles are freely available to download.
The legacies of the trans-Atlantic slave trade are integral to the formation of the modern world. From colonization and the Middle Passage to Jim Crow laws and the Black Lives Matter Movement, the idea of race, and its most insidious application racism, has been mobilized by those in power to subjugate others, to maintain an inequitable status quo.
As an academic publisher, it is not only our mission, but also our moral duty, to dissect and engage with our work; to inform our audience of literature that challenges widely and deeply held beliefs; to speak truth to power.
We are proud to present our Race and Power Collection a quarterly updated assortment of book chapters and journal articles that explores the intertwining concepts of race and power, on a global scale, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Video: Dr. Robin DiAngelo is the author of "White Fragility" and "What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy" and has been an anti-racist educator, and has heard justifications of racism by white men and women in her workshops for over two decades. This justification, which she calls “white fragility,” is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation.
Video. Professor Dorothy E. Roberts delivered the Henry L. Gates Jr., Lecture, “Killing the Black Body: A Twenty-Year Retrospective,” on April 27, 2017, at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, Yale University.
Our syllabi series highlights articles, books, and journal issues that encourage discussion of today’s most pressing issues. Selections in this syllabus explore and criticize police violence in both contemporary and historical contexts. Topics include the militancy of policing, Black Lives Matter, carceral technologies, gender, and more.
All journal articles and issues in this syllabus are freely available online until September 30, 2020. The books in this syllabus can be purchased from your local independent bookseller, from online booksellers, and at dukeupress.edu.
Our syllabi series highlights articles, books, and journal issues that encourage thoughtful discussion of today’s most pressing issues. The Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus lists titles that tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
All journal articles and issues in this syllabus are freely available online until August 31, 2020. The books in this syllabus can be purchased from your local independent bookseller, from online booksellers, and at dukeupress.edu.
Our syllabi series highlights articles, books, and journal issues that encourage discussion of today’s most pressing issues. Selections in this syllabus explore racial justice. Topics include racial protests, justice movements, racial power, and racial justice history.
All journal articles and issues in this syllabus are freely available online until September 30, 2020. The books in this syllabus can be purchased from your local independent bookseller, from online booksellers, and at dukeupress.edu.
At Duke University Press, we see scholarship as a powerful basis for understanding our current sociopolitical climate and working toward a brighter future. With this in mind, we’re glad to present staff-curated syllabi of incisive work on today's most critical issues.
A selection of temporarily free scholarship from Project MUSE publishers on the history of structural racism in the United States and how the country can realize anti-racist reform.
Sadye Paez and Erich D. Jarvis, The Scientist
Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.
Free ebook available for download. Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we’ve had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume—culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature—are an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators.
The work of social and behavioral scientists is crucial in helping to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and create a radically improved society. This collection shares freely accessible articles to support researchers in future scholarship and amplify their critical work; educators as they discuss the impacts of systemic racism with students; and policymakers and advocates in their fight to make sweeping reform.
The University of Minnesota Press is committed to challenging white supremacy, police violence, and unequal access to criminal justice, education, and resources in Minnesota, the United States, and throughout the world. To promote understanding and action for change, this collection of antiracist books is available to all to read online for free through August 31, 2020. Read a statement from the Press here.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
To understand today’s version of American nationalism, we need to go back to the 1920s when the Klan re-emerged as a slick and successful recruiting and marketing engine that appealed to the fears and aspirations of middle-aged, middle-income, white protestant men in the middle of America. The goal of this project is to assemble a comprehensive and hopefully complete collection of Klan and other white nationalist newspapers into a fully-searchable open access database. The collection features national Klan publications (for example: the Imperial Night-Hawk and the Kourier) as well as regional and local Klan produced papers (i.e., Sgt. Dalton’s Weekly, Jayhawker American, and the Minnesota Fiery Cross). The collection will also include a smaller set of papers sympathetic to the Klan (i.e., The Good Citizen and The Fellowship Forum) alongside anti-Klan publications (Tolerance and The Record).
The project is funded by Reveal Digital’s Diversity & Dissent Digitization Fund and the generous support received from participating libraries. Davidson College Library is a funding library for Reveal Digital, Diversity & Dissent.
White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo says the question white people should be asking themselves is not have I been shaped by race, but how have I been shaped by race?
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.
The concluding episode in our series, Seeing White. An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Robin DiAngelo, and William “Sandy” Darity, Jr.
