Understanding Structural Oppression
Please note that we will read/listen/watch excerpts from some of the below resources, as the semester unfolds. The rest are here for your continued learning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Books
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Beautiful Trouble edited by Andrew Boyd
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Direct Action by LA Kaufman
Films and Podcasts
Insurgent Imagination podcast by Current Movements
Irresistible Podcast by Kate Warner [note that this podcast is now discontinued, due to a call for accountability by a Black collaborator. The call is here, and apology is here.]
How to Survive the End of the World with adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown
Web resources
The Ruckus Society, Creative Direct Action Visuals
Resources for Documenting Protest, by Witness
Books
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Baltimore Revisited, edited by Nicole King, Kate Drabinski and Joshua Clark Davis
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
Invisible No More by Andrea Richie
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change in a Divided World, by John Freeman
Essays
Don't Understand the Protests? What You're Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The Case for Reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Films and Podcasts
13th (film) by Ava Duverney
Race: The Power of an Illusion from California Newsreel
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones at The New York Times Magazine
Uncivil by Chenjerai Kumanyika
Floodlines from The Atlantic
Throughline by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei
Codeswitch by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby
When They See Us (series) by Ava Duverney
Books
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
The Institute of Black Imagination by Dario Calmese
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Films and Podcasts
Books
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
The Wellbeing Handbook for Overcoming Everyday Racism: How to Be Resilient in the Face of Discrimination and Microagressions by Susan Cousins
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
Essays
Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. By Peggy McIntosh
Films and Podcasts
Seeing White, podcast by Seen on Radio
Books
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
How we Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor
The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
Essays
Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw
Films and Podcasts
Intersectionality Matters! from The African American Policy Forum