Special Topics and Displays: From Postcards to Hashtags

A resource guide for white people and parents to deepen anti-racism work

A collection of readings and multimedia resources including videos, lesson plans, workshop activities, thought pieces. Published by Taylor & Francis completely free to access for all educators and librarians.

Comprehensive bibliography of Anti-Racist resources.

This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources.

On Thursday, Jan 21, 2016 at the Creating Change conference, the Opening Plenary featured a panel with Charlene Carruthers, Reina Gossett and Barbara Smith.

A TEDX talk by Peggy McIntosh

There are many lenses with which to view African-American history, but what about through the evolution of postcards? While it may not be a common vantage point, the narrative is a natural one for Marilyn Stern, a photographer and graphic artist who is a member of the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of postcards that feature black people in the United States from the 19th and 20th centuries were very racist....

In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.

The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.

A letter reminding motern white feminists of their relationship with black women throughout history

From 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”

"By the time each met his death, there was practically no difference between them..."

"In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent."

"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group"

"Americans don’t see me, or Ahmaud Arbery, running down the road—they see their fear."