Fordham CDO Resources: Black Lives Matter
So many New Yorkers (and people of color living in America) know there are two sets of rules and two sets of justice in this city and country. However, the mayor must provide some real leadership these last months in office to move the needle on racial and police equity…as promised. Mr. Mayor, Please Focus. The Amsterdam News, May 13, 2020
Christina Greer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science, Fordham University
Themes: Self-Care; Caring for Black People; Articles; Books: Multimedia: Documentaries and Conversations; Get Involved
Jesuit Resources on Racism: Ignatian Solidarity Network - Racial Justice
Self-Care
How black Americans can practice self-care... And how everyone else can help ., Elizabeth Wellington, 2020.
4 Self-Care Resources for Days When the World is Terrible, Miriam Zoila Pérez, 2020.
Demonstrating Care for Black People
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not, Danielle Cadet, Refinery 29, 2020.
Before You Check In On Your Black Friend, Read This, Elizabeth Gulino, Refinery 29, 2020.
Articles
Around the world, the U.S. has long been a symbol of anti-black racism, Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, The Washington Post, 2020
NYPD at the Crossroads: Some Background History, Dr. Mark Naison, The Gotham Center for New York City History, 2020
Racism Won’t be Solved by Yet Another Blue Ribbon-Report, Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 2020.
The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do…, Bryan N. Massingale, National Catholic Reporter, 2020
The NFL Is Suddenly Worried About Black Lives, Jemele Hill, The Atlantic, 2020.
Performative Allyship is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead), Holiday Phillips, Forge - Medium, 2020.
A Look Back At Trayvon Martin's Death, And the Movement..., Karen Grigsby Bates, Code Switch - NPR, 2018.
Paul-Emile, K. (2018). Blackness as disability. Geo. LJ, 106, 293
The Intersection of Policing and Race, Danyelle Soloman, American Progress, 2016.
The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism, Adrienne Green, The Atlantic, 2016.
The Politics of ‘Looting’ and ‘Violence’, Eric Draitser, CounterPunch, 2015
Anderson, E. (2015). The white space. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1(1), 10-21.
Books
Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an Antiracist. One World/Ballantine.
Hernández, T. K. (2018). Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-race Stories of Discrimination. NYU Press.
Oluo, Ijeoma (2018) So You Want to Talk About Race (2018).
Khan-Cullors, P. (2018). When they call you a terrorist: A black lives matter memoir. Canongate Books.
Fletcher Hill, J. (2017). The sin of white supremacy: Christianity, racism, & religious diversity in america. Orbis Books.
Ritchie, A. J. (2017). Invisible no more: Police violence against Black women and women of color. Beacon press.
Hill, M. L. (2016). Nobody: Casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond. Simon and Schuster.
Coates, T. (2015). Between the World and Me. United Kingdom: Spiegel & Grau.
Massingale, B. N. (2014). Racial justice and the Catholic Church. Orbis Books.
Rankine, C. (2014). Citizen: an American lyric. Graywolf Press.
Byfield, N. (2014). Savage portrayals: Race, media and the Central Park jogger story. Temple University Press.
Steele, C. M. (2011). Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do. WW Norton & Company.
Alexander, M. (2010) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
Pollock, M. (Ed.). (2008). Everyday antiracism: Getting real about race in school. The New Press.
Bonilla-Silva, E. (2006). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Multimedia: Documentaries and Conversations
The Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project. Fordham University. Carlos Rico, Veronica Quiroga, and Bethany Fernandez.
13th (2016) [Film]. Netflix. Duvernay, A. (Streaming for free)
Just Mercy (2019) [Film]. Warner Bros. Cretton, D. D. (Streaming for free)
Black vs. White: Protesting & Riots (2020) [Interview] Dr. Christina Greer & Jason Johnson
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on How Racism & Racial Terrorism… (2020)[Interview] DemocracyNow!
Decade of Fire (2019) [Film]. GoodDocs. Hilderbran, G., Vazquez, V.
When They See Us (2019) [TV Mini-series]. Netflix. Duvernay, A.
Angela Davis - "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" (2019) [Lecture] The University of New England
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (2018) [Book Talk] Seattle Central Library
The Urgency of Intersectionality (2016) Kimberlé Crenshaw, TED
The Black Power Mixtape (2011) [Film]. PBS Independent Lens. Göran Olsson
Color Blind or Color Brave (2014) Mellody Hobson, TED.
The Power of Vulnerability (2010) Brené Brown, TED.
Intersectionality Matters [Podcast] Kimberlé Crenshaw
Code Switch, [Podcast] NPR
Pod Save the People [Podcast] Deray McKesson
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