Understanding anti-Blackness
Pre-Work
Please write your racial biography, reflecting on how you came to understand yourself as having or being a race.
Read, “Call it what it is: anti-blackness,” by kihana miraya ross. PDF available here.
Additional Resources
Books
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, New Press, 2012
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without racists, Rowman and Littlefield 2017
Joe Feagin, Racist America, Routledge, 2014
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Haymarket Books, 2016
“blackness marks a social relationship of dominance and abjection and potentially one of redress and emancipation; it is a contested figure at the very center of social struggle.”
Videos
Goran Olsson, Black Power Mixtapes, 1967 - 1975
Ava DuVernay, 13th
Essays
Ta-Nehesi Coates, “The case for reparations.” The Atlantic
Imani Perry, “Racism is terrible. Blackness is not.” The Atlantic