The Demands of Fighting Racism are Solvable

The Demands of Fighting Racism are Solvable

Author: Pushkin Industries August 18, 2021 Duration: 17:50

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he’s written four #1 New York Times bestsellers including How to Be an Antiracist.

Here are some resources for learning more about, and doing, antiracism work:

Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi


Books: 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) 


Carol Anderson, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (2021) 


Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019) 


Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021) 


Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018) 


David Treuer, The Heartbeat on Wounded Knee: Native Americans From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (2019) 

  

Movies:  

13th  

John Lewis: Good Trouble 

Selma 

Just Mercy 

Hair Love 

The Hate U Give 

  

Organizations: 

Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research 

Black Lives Matter (US, Canada, United Kingdom) 

Stop AAPI Hate 

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice 

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 

Hispanic Heritage Foundation 

National Congress of American Indians

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