LibGuides: Systemic Racism &amp; White Privilege: Systemic racism

Past Vogel Library displays on systemic racism

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Systemic racism materials

Top picks for learning about systemic racism:

Here are some of our top picks for what's in the library.

Thank you for patience as we navigate our staff availability in this time of Covid-19 to add as many eBooks as possible for increased access. At the bottom of the page, you can find options for finding more materials or requesting the library purchases a title!

Slavery by another name
Print book (eBook on order; DVD and streaming video linked below)
Is everyone really equal?
Print book (eBook is on order)
Ghosts of Jim Crow : ending racism in post-racial America
Print book (eBook linked below)

Ghosts of Jim Crow: ending racism in post-racial america (eBook)
eBook (print book linked above)

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Print book (eBook linked below)

The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (eBook)
eBook (print book linked above)

The myth of equality: uncovering the roots of injustice and privilege
Print book (eBook on order)
The habits of racism: A phenomenology of racism and racialized embodiment
Print book (eBook on order)
Some of my best friends are Black : The strange story of integration in America
Print book (eBook on order)
Stamped from the beginning
Print only
Talking Black and White: An intercultural exploration of twenty-first-century racism, prejudice, and perception
Print book (eBook on order)

DVDs and streaming:

Slavery by another name (DVD)
DVD documentary based on book of the same name

Slavery by another name (streaming)
Documentary streaming in our Kanopy database based on the book of the same name

The long shadow: how slavery continues to impact American society (streaming)
Documentary streaming in our Kanopy database
Black America since MLK : and still I rise (DVD)
You can't go wrong with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Black America since MLK: and still I rise (streaming)
Documentary streaming in our Kanopy database

I am not your negro (DVD)

I am not your negro (streaming)
Documentary streaming in our Kanopy database

The Black Panthers : vanguard of the revolution (DVD)

The Black Panthers: vanguard of the revoluation (streaming)
Documentary streaming in our AVON database

Even more great materials:

American ethnicity : The dynamics and consequences of discrimination
Print only
Racist America : roots, current realities, and future reparations
Print book (eBook on order)
The color line : Legacy for the twenty-first century
Both print and eBook accessible on this link
Jim Crow's legacy : The lasting impact of segregation
Print book (eBook on order)
Black wealth, white wealth: A new perspective on racial inequality
Print book (eBook on order)
The hidden cost of being African American: How wealth perpetuates inequality
Print book (eBook on order)
Inclusive states: Social policy and structural inequalities
Both print and eBook accessible on this link

Project Muse - access to publications on racism
Project Muse walks the walk and makes clear access to many scholarly publications on racism.

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