Systemic Racism
Systemic racism, sometimes referred to as structural or institutional racism, is a form of racism embedded within society through public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and more. The resources on this page provide a starting place to learn more about systemic racism and the structures and policies creating and reinforcing racial inequality.
- What Systemic Racism Means And The Way It Harms CommunitiesIjeoma Oluo, author of So You Want To Talk About Race, speaks about systemic racism with NPR's Noel King. What is it, and how does it affect people day to day?
- The Path to Ending Systemic Racism in the USDr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King and Anthony D. Romero discuss dismantling the systems of oppression and racism responsible for tragedies like the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and far too many others -- and explore how the US can start to live up to its ideals.
- The Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi"This anti-racist syllabus is for people realizing they were never taught how to be anti-racist. How to treat all the racial groups as equals. How to look at the racial inequity all around and look for the racist policies producing it, and the racist ideas veiling it."
Mass Incarceration
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Call Number: Gorgas Library: HV9471 .D375 2003Publication Date: 2003-08-05Print & Ebook Available
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Police Violence
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Publication Date: 2016Print & Ebook Available
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Call Number: Gorgas Library: E185.86 .T367 2016Publication Date: 2016Print & Ebook Available
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Publication Date: 2017Print & Ebook Available
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Health
Medical Apartheid: : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Call Number: Gorgas Library: R853.H8 W37 2006Publication Date: 2007Print Book
Medical Bondage: : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology by Call Number: Gorgas Library: RG67.U6 C66 2018Publication Date: 2017Print & Ebook Available
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Science
Constructing Race: The Science of Bodies and Cultures in American Anthropology by Call Number: Gorgas GN50.45.U6 T47 2014Publication Date: 2014Print book
Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America by Call Number: Gorgas Q175.52.U6 R33 2009Publication Date: 2009Print book
The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead by Call Number: Gorgas GN90 .F33 2010Publication Date: 2010Print Book
Housing
Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city by Call Number: Business Library: HD7287.96.U6 D47 2016Publication Date: 2016Print & Ebook Available
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Publication Date: 2019Ebook: Unlimited User Access
The Color of Law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Call Number: Gorgas Library: E185.61 .R8185 2017Publication Date: 2017-05-02Print Book: 2 Copies Available
Voting
Give Us the Ballot by Publication Date: 2015
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Publication Date: 2018Ebook: Limited User Access - 1 Copy Available
Environmental Racism
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Publication Date: 2019Print Book
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Call Number: Gorgas Library: GE230 .T38 2014Publication Date: 2014Print & Ebook Available
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Call Number: Gorgas Library: F379.N5 D97 2006Publication Date: 2007Print Book
Technology
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Call Number: Gorgas Library: ZA4230 .N63 2018Publication Date: 2018Print & Ebook Available
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Call Number: Business Library: HC79.P6 E89 2018Publication Date: 2018Print Book
Law
Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History by Call Number: Gorgas KF385.A4 R33 2002Publication Date: 2002Print Book
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Call Number: Gorgas KF4545.S5 F43 2001Publication Date: 2001Print Book
