Articles & Resources – Journals – Organizations – Videos

Articles & Resources

• 4 Ways Colleges Can Promote Anti-Racism on Campus
• Advancing Racial Justice and Equitable Outcomes in Community Colleges Institutes – OCCRL offered three nationwide institutes designed to provide regional professional development opportunities for community college faculty, student-affairs professionals, and academic-affairs administrators.  Institute recordings and other resources provided define issues of race on two-year campuses, develop a clear understanding of educational equity, and received guidance on action plans to improve learning environments and achieve equitable student outcomes.
• Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good
• Being Antiracist, the National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources – 1,600+ documents from ProQuest databases focused on six different phases of Black Freedom (Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement, the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era, the Jim Crow Era, the New Deal and World War II, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, and the Contemporary Era.
• Black Men’s Perceptions of Sense of Belonging with Faculty Members in Community Colleges, by Christopher B. Newman, Frank Harris II, and J. Luke Wood (2015)
• Challenges Faced by Black Nurses in the Profession: Q&A With an Advocate – NurseJournal.org
• DiversityEdu Resources Round-up – A compilation of resources “intended to anchor and guide [educators]” involved in promoting anti-racism activism, allyship, and awaremess.
• Envisioning Higher Education as Antiracist – Krishni Metivier provides a checklist of key actions that colleges and universities should take.
• Examples of Microaggressions in the Classroom
• Exploring Educational Journeys, Barriers, and Motivating Factors of Tribal College Students through Capabilities Approach – “As a population, Native Americans have the highest poverty rate of all racial categories in the United States at 26.2% (Economic Policy Institute 2016).”
• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies, by Courtney Ariel
• A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions, by Kevin L. Nadal – When and how should you respond when you are the victim of a microaggression?  What if you make a microaggresion?  Nadal answers these questions and details the different types and impacts of microaggressions.
• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus – JSTOR – Resources to help educators better understand and teach the historical context of institutional racism, particularly in response to the death of George Floyd while in police custody.
• Let’s Talk: Microaggressions – Information from a professional development session facilitated by the EIC at Mitchell Community College in May 2020, hosted by Dr. Beverly Brown and Aspen Chang.
• The Problem We All Live With, from This American Life (radio program) – Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there’s one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program.
• Racial Equity Tools – “(Over 3,200) tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.”
• Racial Justice, Racial Equity, and Anti-Racism Reading List – The Harvard Kennedy School –
• Recovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community – From the Center for Practice Transformation and the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series, this program “reviews the 12 steps of the Model of Recovery from White Conditioning, discusses implementation lessons learned to date, and explores implications for practice in various settings.  A PDF of the program slides, including links to videos, is available for download.
• Rights in American – The National Archives – “Explore the ways Americans have fought for, attained, and protected their rights.”
• Talking About Race – The Smithsonian and The National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Want Anti-Racist Policy to Work on Today? Adequately and Equitably Fund Community Colleges – Community College Research Center (CCRC)
• White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy – What does “white anti-racist” mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what’s all this talk about being “colorblind”? Teaching Tolerance asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.

Journals

• Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME)

Organizations

• Achieving the Dream – “Achieving the Dream believes that access to a high-quality education in an inclusive environment is the right of all individuals and imperative for the continued advancement of a strong democracy and workforce. Achieving the Dream also believes higher education institutions have an obligation to work toward equity for their students.”
• African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ)
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• BlackPast – “This reference center with 7,806 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.”
• Boston University Racial Data Lab – BU Center for Antiracist Research
• Campaign Zero –
• Center for Racial Justice in Education
• The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute – Stanford University
• Emancipate North Carolina
• LatinxEd – “Latinx Education is a non-profit educational initiative in NC providing targeted, multi-year support to Latinx students and immigrant families striving for higher education and greater opportunity.”
• Learning for Justice – “[S]eeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people. “
• National Education Association – edjustice – “Get connected and engaged to advocate for racial and social justice in our schools and communities.”
• National Urban Indian Family Coalition –
• Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) – Based at the University of Illinois, OCCRL uses research and evaluation methods to improve policies, programs, and practices that enhance community college education and the transition to college for diverse learners at the state, national, and international levels. 
• Race & Equity Initiative, University of Washington – “President Ana Mari Cauce launched a Race and Equity Initiative in Spring 2015 with a challenge: that all of us — students, faculty, staff and university leadership — take personal responsibility for addressing our own biases and improving our university culture.” Offers an excellent list of anti-racism resources.
• Racial Equity Institute
• Southern Antiracism Network
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• USC Race and Equity Center – The University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education CUE has developed tools to empower faculty and staff to become equity-minded practitioners who have the critical consciousness, will, and ability to combat institutionalized racism.

Videos

Mitchell Community College, as a part of their role as the higher education leader in the county hosted a panel conversation on the topics of Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) that the College provides as well as how local law enforcement agencies are provided resources and fiscal support. The panel recording can be accessed below, and a downloadable outline including questions for panelists can be found here.

“Seeing White” is the second season from Scene on Radio, the podcast from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Learn more and hear the series in full on sceneonradio.org.

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