Resources
Here is a SMALL portion of the resources we tapped into for our research for the film, I’m Not Racist… Am I?
Books
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as “brave and bold,” this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
- Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joyce DeGruy
- Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
- Yellow by Frank Wu
- A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn
- Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to WWII by Douglas A. Blackmon
Documentaries
Race: The Power of An Illusion - PBS
Race: The Power of An Illusion challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. This definitive three-part series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs.
- The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross – PBS
- Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity – Shakti Butler
- Slavery By Another Name – PBS
- The Abolitionists – American Experience – PBS
- Latino in America – CNN
- Black in America and Black in America 2 – CNN
- The Central Park 5 – PBS
- Vincent Who? – Tony Lam
- Who Killed Vincent Chin? – PBS
Conferences
Facing Race - A National Conference
Facing Race is presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, a unique collaborative space for racial justice movement making. Facing Race is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives and other leaders.
- The White Privilege Conference – The WPC
- The People of Color Conference – NAIS POCC/SLDC