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Anti-Racism, #BlackLivesMatter, and Civic Action

Readings and resources on topics of anti-racism, white supremacy, abolition and prisons, policing, protest, and civic activism.

History of Race & Racism

This section is currently under construction. 

See the following resources for additional information on the history of racism and white supremacy in America. 

  • 1619 Project and Podcast. Nikole Hannah-Jones

  • "The Case for Reparations." Ta-Nehisi Coates (2014)

  • Erased Lynchings. Ken Gonzales-Day

  • “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.” Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1992)

  • Edmund Morgan, “Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox." Edmund Morgan (1972)