The History of White Investment in Black Suffering – AAIHS
— Read on www.aaihs.org/the-history-of-white-investment-in-black-suffering/
Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories
Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, maps are a crucial tool.
— Read on theconversation.com/using-maps-as-a-weapon-to-resist-extractive-industries-on-indigenous-territories-111472
The Decolonial Atlas
The Decolonial Atlas
— Read on decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Harvard study shows exactly how poverty impacts children’s success – Harvard Gazette
Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.
— Read on news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/harvard-study-shows-exactly-how-poverty-impacts-childrens-success/
Digital Du Bois – AAIHS
Review of W.E.B. Du Bois’s data portraits : visualizing Black America : the color line at the turn of the twentieth century
— Read on www.aaihs.org/digital-du-bois/
I’m From Philly. 30 Years Later, I’m Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing : Code Switch : NPR
Philadelphia native Gene Demby was 4 years old when city police dropped a bomb on a house of black activists in his hometown. Thirty years later, he’s still trying to make sense of it all.
— Read on www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing
Eight Tools for Powerfully Dismantling Systems of Supremacy | General Assembly Presentations | UUA.org
Workshop handouts: designed to guide white people in self-education and recovery from our inevitable errors, with a goal of sustained accountable relationship while reducing harm.
— Read on www.uua.org/racial-justice/curricula/eight-tools
How to dismantle the workings of whiteness and redistribute power in academe (opinion)
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz explores how to begin to dismantle the workings of whiteness and redistribute power dynamics in academe.
— Read on www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/04/13/how-dismantle-workings-whiteness-and-redistribute-power-academe-opinion
Decentering Whiteness: Dismantling privilege in the interest of racial justice | Everyday Race Blog
We were having a lively debate with a colleague the other day about whether systems of oppression continue to thrive because of individuals with malintent or if there is something beyond the individual at play- a more insidious normalcy and embeddedness that essentially sustains systems of oppression with or without individual action. We were arguing…
— Read on everydayraceblog.com/2016/01/14/decentering-whiteness-dismantling-privilege-in-the-interest-of-racial-justice/
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