Systemic Discrimination
Articles & Opinion
1619 Project, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
After Atlanta: Teaching About Asian American Identiy and History, Learning for Justice, https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/after-atlanta-teaching-about-asian-american-identity-and-history
An Atomic Bomb: Former NFL Players Allege Racism in Concussion Settlement, Alicia Jessop, https://theathletic.com/2033375/2020/08/31/an-atomic-bomb-former-nfl-players-allege-racism-in-concussion-settlement/?source=user_shared_article
Bryan Stevenson on How the US Can Heal, Ezra Klein, https://www.vox.com/21327742/bryan-stevenson-the-ezra-klein-show-america-slavery-healing-racism-george-floyd-protests
Bryan Stevenson on The Frustrations Behind the George Floyd Protests, Issac Chotiner, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/bryan-stevenson-on-the-frustration-behind-the-george-floyd-protests?fbclid=IwAR1LwW5rZc8pyBvvCWMKSjONSNwbbV_kE_BX3jrTL1mG92xePqudVLj1OJE
Dealing with Two Pandemics, Catherine Carlock, https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/06/08/colette-phillips-on-racism-in-boston.html
Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian Americans, Wayne Au and Moé Yonamine, https://rethinkingschools.org/2021/03/23/dear-educators-it-is-time-to-fight-for-asian-america/
Diversity Work Doesn't Have to Be Reserved for Partners, Law360, https://www.law360.com/massachusetts/articles/1304365/diversity-work-doesn-t-have-to-be-reserved-for-partners?nl_pk=2d51edb1-13e1-4e8f-b25e-f641fbb969e7&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=massachusetts&read_more=1
Gender Bias in Research: How Does It Affect Evidence Based Medicine? Anita Holdcroft,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670/
Gender Bias Still Plagues the Workplace, Braddy, Stern, Atwater et als, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1059601119867780
Gender Study Finds 90% of People are Biased Against Women, BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51751915
Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement, Michael German, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law
How Bankruptcy Bias Contributes to the Racial Wealth Gap, https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-bankruptcy-bias-contributes-to-the-racial-wealth-gap/
How the 1619 Project Took Over 2020, Sarah Ellison, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/1619-project-took-over-2020-inside-story/2020/10/13/af537092-00df-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html
I've Witnessed Harassment in the NFL for Four Decades, Lesley Visser, https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/21/sports/lesley-visser-patriots-reporter-nfl-harassment/
John Kelly, the Civil War, and America's Textbooks, Arica Coleman, https://time.com/5013943/john-kelly-civil-war-textbooks/
Law 360's Diversity Snapshot: What You Need to Know, Jacqueline Bell, https://www.law360.com/massachusetts/articles/1303148/law360-s-diversity-snapshot-what-you-need-to-know?nl_pk=2d51edb1-13e1-4e8f-b25e-f641fbb969e7&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=massachusetts
Law Firm Diversity: How Does Your Firm Measure Up? Jacqueline Bell, https://www.law360.com/massachusetts/articles/1305495/law360-diversity-snapshot-how-does-your-firm-measure-up-?nl_pk=2d51edb1-13e1-4e8f-b25e-f641fbb969e7&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=massachusetts&read_more=1
Men and Women Differ in Their Perceptions of Gender Bias in Research Institutions, Garcia-Gonzalez, Forcen, Jimenez-Sanchez, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225763
Never Think You're Not Supposed to Be There, Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/a-concerto-is-a-conversation-great-migration.html
One Year In, Mansfield Rule is Boosting In-House Diversity, Michele Gorman, https://www.law360.com/massachusetts/articles/1302833/one-year-in-mansfield-rule-is-boosting-in-house-diversity?nl_pk=2d51edb1-13e1-4e8f-b25e-f641fbb969e7&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=massachusetts&read_more=1
The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro, Fredrick Douglas, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
The Role of White Co-Conspirators in Dismantling Systemic Racism, Andrew Greenia, https://embracingequity.org/blog/2018/11/2/let-us-work-together-the-role-of-white-co-conspirators-in-dismantling-systemic-racism
There Are Two Asian-Americas, and One is Invisible, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/opinion/atlanta-shooting-asian-massage.html
Twisted Sources: How Confederate Propaganda Ended Up In The South's Textbooks, Facing South, https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks
Walking While Black, Garnette Cadogan, https://lithub.com/walking-while-black/
We're In a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope. john.a.powell, https://belonging.berkeley.edu/glimmers-hope
What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/anti-asian-violence.html
Why 2020 Could Be A PivotalYear For Diversity At Firme, Aebra Coe, https://www.law360.com/massachusetts/articles/1298388/why-2020-could-be-a-pivotal-year-for-diversity-at-firms?nl_pk=2d51edb1-13e1-4e8f-b25e-f641fbb969e7&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=massachusetts&read_more=1
Why Gender Bias Still exists and What We Can Do About It, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/londonschoolofeconomics/2019/07/05/why-gender-bias-still-occurs-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/?sh=3396b7135228
Blogs & Newsletters
Code Switch, NPR, https://www.npr.org/newsletter/code-switch
Colorlines, Race Forward, https://www.colorlines.com/subscribe#
Race/Related, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters
Where are the Black American Cheesemakers? Cheese Shop of Salem, https://www.thecheeseshopofsalem.com/cheese-2/blackamericancheesemakers
Books
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft
And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts
Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women, Lyz Lenz
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States, Eleaonor Flexner
Democracy for the Few, Michael Parenti
Family Properties, Beryl Satter
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay McKeeson
Racing to Justice, john.a.powell
Reproductive Injustice, Dana Ain Davis
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
The Abolition of White Democracy, Joel Olson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
The Good Girls Revolt, Lynn Povich
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
The Third Reconstruction, Rev. Dr. William Barber
The Witches Are Coming, Lindy West
This Bridge Called My Back, Gloria E. Anzaldúa et al, Editors
We Can't Talk About THAT at Work!, Mary-Frances Winters
We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
Writings of James Baldwin, James Baldwin
White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, Louise Michele Newman
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Tatum
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of Women Who Fought For the Right to Vote, Susan Ware
Women's Rights in the United States: A HIstory in Documents, Anne M. Boylan
Documentaries
Asian Americans, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/
Becoming, Michelle Obama, Creator
Reclaim Idaho, Reclaim Idaho Organization, https://www.reclaimidahofilm.com
Teach us All, Sonia Lowman, Director
What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus, director
Exercises
Teaching Peoples' Histories, Zinn Education Project, https://www.zinnedproject.org/teaching-materials/explore-by-theme
The Privilege Walk, http://doloreshuerta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/privilege-walk.pdf
The Privilege Wheel, https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2019/cultural_equity/Identity%20and%20Social%20Location%20Wheel.pdf
Movies & Television
12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, Director
13th, Ava Duvernay, Director
A Primer: Reparations and White Privilege, Trevor Noah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVa-HAsB-xQ
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, Henry Louis Gates
Blackish, ABC
Dear White People, Jusin Simien, Director
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap, Ezra Klein et al, Producers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqrhn8khGLM
I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, Director
I am Woman, Helen Reddy, Director
James Baldwin Responds to Paul Weiss on the Dick Cavett Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZQQ7o16yQ
Just Mercy, Dustin Daniel Cretton, Director
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, John Ridley, Director, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j96sTP8-wKk
Mudbound, Dee Rees, Producer
One Night in Miami, Regina King, Director
Orange is the New Black, Jenji Kohan et al, Producers
Philadelphia, Jonathan Demme, Director
Selma, Ava Duvernay, Director
Seven Seconds, Veena Sud, Producer
The Hate U Give, George Tillman Jr.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, David France, Director
Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Jenner Furst, Director
When They See Us, Ava Duvernay, Director
Other Resources, Studies, and Guides
Jamison v. McClendeon, Carlton Reeves, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7013933-Jamison-v-McClendon.html?fbclid=IwAR2fmYXG1LAjJOCbTMAfJHGDNt-ifevYWwC_hRfpMfsU3-dt_fZeymZ_gcA
Left Out and Left Behind, American Bar Association, https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/women/leftoutleftbehind-int-f-web-061020-003.pdf
Survey of Federal and State Laws: Understanding Your Rights, Stop AAPI Hate, https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Stop_AAPI_Hate_Public_Accommodation_Law_Survey_200920.pdf?emci=b5c656ac-3288-eb11-85aa-00155d43c992&emdi=c0871bcf-4d88-eb11-85aa-00155d43c992&ceid=721140
Other Videos
Amplifying Unheard Voices: The Black Male Voice, Boston Bar Association, https://vimeo.com/449687738
Black Lives Matter: A Year After Ferguson, john.a.powell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hayhyUnmHio&feature=youtu.be
Gender Stereotypes and Education, European Institute for Gender Equality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrZ21nD9I-0
Isabel Wilkerson, "Caste" with Bryan Stevenson, Politics and Prose, https://youtu.be/bP0m0jKORwg
Love Letters to God, Nahko and Medicine for the People, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QGkYNc0Ls
Race in America: Race Matters, Washington Post, https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=906875530070973&ref=watch_permalink
Strong Opinions Loosely Held, Robin DiAngelo, https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/why-are-white-people-so-bad-at-talking-about-race
Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man, Emmanuel Acho, https://uncomfortableconvos.com/
We Are Not A Stereotype - Breaking Down Asian Pacific American Bias, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, https://smithsonianapa.org/learn/not-a-stereotype/
Podcasts
1619 Podcast, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, https://soundcloud.com/harperaudiopresents/matt-damon-reads-howard-zinn
CodeSwitch: Race and Identity Remixed, NPR, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
How Are The Atlanta Shootings Reverberating Among AAPIs?, WBUR, https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2021/03/22/shootings-atlanta-aapi-commonwealth
Intersectionality Matters! Kimberle Crenshaw, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intersectionality-matters/id1441348908
Radical Imagination, Angela Glover, https://radicalimagination.us/episodes
Seeing White, Scene On Radio, https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
What the Georgia Shootings Reveal About Anti-Asian Racism in the US, WBUR, https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/03/22/what-the-georgia-shootings-reveal-about-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s
Whistling Vivaldi and Beating Stereotypes, Neal Conan, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125859207
Ted Talks
A Prosecutor's Vision for a Better Justice System, Adam Foss, https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_foss_a_prosecutor_s_vision_for_a_better_justice_system (NOTE: Mr. Foss is presently under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for alleged sexual misconduct)
From the Inside Out: Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Wendy Knight Agard, https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_knight_agard_from_the_inside_out_diversity_inclusion_belonging
How Racial Bias Works - And How to Disrupt It, Jennifer Eberhardt, https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_l_eberhardt_how_racial_bias_works_and_how_to_disrupt_itHow to Reduce the Wealth Gap Between Black and White Americans, Kedra Newson Reeves, https://www.ted.com/talks/kedra_newsom_reeves_how_to_reduce_the_wealth_gap_between_black_and_white_americans
Let's Get to the Root of Racial Injustice, Megan Ming Francis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s&t=2s
Training Materials
Websites
Addressing Anti-Asian Bias, Learning for Justice, https://www.learningforjustice.org/the-moment/march-15-2021-addressing-antiasian-bias
Asian Americans in the People's History of the United States, Zinn Education Project, https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/asian-americans-and-moments-in-peoples-history/
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit, Chinese Progressive Association, https://www.asianamtoolkit.org/
Bullying Prevention, Intervention, and Resource Guide for Parents, Asian American Psychological Association, https://aapaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bullying-Parent-Guide_AAPA_final-English-1.pdf
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, www.glaad.org
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, www.glsen.org
Greater Boston PFLAG, www.gbpflag.org
Human Rights Campaign, www.hrc.org
It Gets Better, www.itgetsbetter.org
john a. powell, http://www.johnapowell.org/media
Othering and Belonging Institute, Berkeley, https://belonging.berkeley.edu/
Out Metro West, www.outmetrowest.org
Show Up: Your Guide to Bystander Intervention, hollaback!, https://www.ihollaback.org/app/uploads/2016/11/Show-Up_CUPxHollaback.pdf
Trevor Project, www.thetrevorproject.org
Women in the Workplace, McKinsey, https://womenintheworkplace.com/