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Understanding and Navigating Discrimination in America is a resource guide to help people identify and understand challenging conversations about race and discrimination.

Compiled by by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. NYPL.org. 3 June 2020.

"Educational Books on Fighting Racism." Bookbub. 4 June 2020.

Compiled by Rhonda Evans, Assistant Chief Librarian, JBH Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 2 Feb. 2018.

American Library Association. 2020. Links to reading lists and additional sources for teaching and learning.

14 titles. Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. The 14-part series recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It is the story of the people— young and old, male and female, northern and southern—who, compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance, worked to eradicate a world where whites and blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or participate equally in society. It was a world in which peaceful demonstrators were met with resistance and brutality—in short, a reality that is now nearly incomprehensible to many young Americans. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, Eyes on the Prize traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act; from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates.

The Atlantic's first feature documentary is the definitive inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right. With unprecedented access, White Noise tracks the rise of far-right nationalism by focusing on the lives of three of its main proponents: Mike Cernovich, a conspiracy theorist and sex blogger turned media entrepreneur; Lauren Southern, an anti-feminist, anti-immigration YouTube star; and Richard Spencer, a white-power ideologue. As white-nationalist violence surges in America and across the world, White Noise represents an urgent warning about the power of extremism, and where it's going next.
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2020
"White Noise." , directed by Daniel Lombroso. , produced by Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg. , Film Platform, 2020. Alexander Street, https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/white-noise.

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What is the difference between personal bias and institutionalized privilege?

In this clip from Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, Francie Kendall says, “I think being a bigot is an equal opportunity phenomenon, but in order to create a system or systemic institutionalized privilege, you have to have privilege plus the power to institutionalize it—to put it into laws, policies, procedures.”

East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story gives voice to some of the most marginalized people in our society and raises critical questions about how we have created concentrated poverty and limited housing opportunity for African Americans.
"East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story." , directed by Anonymous , produced by Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. , Public Broadcasting Service, 2020. Alexander Street, https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/east-lake-meadows-a-public-housing-story.

Millikin v Bradley. NPR Throughline, 25 July 2019.
After the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, public schools across the country were supposed to become more integrated, but by the 1970s, many weren't. As a way to remedy segregation in their city, the Detroit school board introduced busing across Detroit. But the plan was met with so much resistance that the issue eventually led all the way to the Supreme Court.

American Library Association. 2020. Links to reading lists and additional sources for teaching and learning.

White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.

For years, Tim Wise's bestselling books and spellbinding lectures have challenged some of our most basic assumptions about race in America. White Like Me is the first film to bring the full range of his work to the screen -- to show how white privilege continues to shape individual attitudes, electoral politics, and government policy in ways too many white people never stop to think about.

Flowers, Jonathan Charles. "The Coming Campus Protests: College leaders will be judged by their actions — not their words." Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 June 2020.

"Teaching students about race comes with a host of challenges. I share strategies from a sociologist who’s taught such courses at three predominantly white institutions."
Supiano, Becky. "Teaching: When Students Resist Learning About Racism." Chronicle of Higher Education: Teaching, 23 July 2020.