We helped my friend Phyllis (one-half of the viral Internet art duo LazyMom) put this syllabus together in an attempt to better educate ourselves and others on race and privilege. I have yet to go through all of these myself, but it’s a start.
Essays Looking Back On the 2016 Election
Trump Syllabus 2.0 (in-depth mock syllabus exploring deep historical and political roots leading to Trump’s success in the 2016 election)
Videos
Jane Elliot’s Classroom Experiment to Illustrate Systemic Racism
Oprah visits a County Where No Black Person Had Lived for 75 years
Dr. Joy DeGruy’s lecture on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
The 13th (a documentary on the prison industrial complex and how slavery has been re-designed)
Essays
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood
Surveillance Self0Defense Against the Trump Administration
BOOKS
Black Picket Fences by Mary Patillo
Anything by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Undercommons by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
The Notion of Difference to Emerging Womanist Ethics by Bell Hooks and Audrey Lorde (Read for free with JSTOR registration)
The History of White People (wiki)
The History of White People (PDF)
