Self-Educating & University Resources

The following links and resources were compiled by Amy Wright-Parra, Director, NYU Law Human Resources; June Su, Associate Director, NYU Law Human Resources; Lindsay Kendrick, Dean of Students and the Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at NYU School of Law; and Savannah Lynn, Assistant Director of Diversity & Inclusion at NYU School of Law.

University Resources

• Office of Global Inclusion Anti-Racism Education, Programs and Resources
• Office of Global Inclusion Anti-Racism Website
• NYU BeTogether Website
• OGI’s recent panel discussion on “Blackness, Racism & Protest: Reflections on the Past, Present & Future” 
• OGI’s upcoming events are always available on their Events & Engagement page
• OGI will provide increased training, guidance, and resources across the University.

Resource Guides/Learning

• Office of Global Inclusion Anti-Racism Resource List – This is meant for NYU community members to begin to continue their learning through articles, podcasts, books, guides, and other resources. This is a working document the University will continue to update over time.
• Members of the University Development and Alumni Relations Belonging & Inclusion Group (UDAR BIG) recently compiled this list of Resources to Combat Racism and White Supremacy
• Disability Visibility
• An Antiracist Reading List - Ibram X. Kendi
• 24 Books for White People to Read Beyond Black History Month
• An Introduction to the History of Police Brutality in the United States
• NYU Press #BlackLivesMatter
• Black History Month Library
• List of Media Recommendations to Deepen Anti-Racist Work
• Confronting Racism at Work: A Reading List
• 11 Anti-Racist Accounts that are Worth Following
• STUDY, SUPPORT & ACTION - Cultivating Resilient Allies in Struggle is an online caucus for people socially classified as white who seek greater emotional resilience and political understanding in their work against racism and for a better future for all.

Articles

• "The 1619 Project" - New York Times Magazine
• "Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests" - Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker
• “The Death of George Floyd, In Context” - Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
• “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd” - Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
• "I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem" - R.T. Rybak, POLITICO
• “You Shouldn’t Need a Harvard Degree to Survive Birdwatching While Black” - Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate, Washington Post
• “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People” - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Times
• “The Case for Reparations” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
• “What is Owed” - Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine
• “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change” - Barack Obama, Medium
• “The Law Isn’t Neutral" - Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Slate
• "What is Juneteenth" - History

Books

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap - Mehrsa Baradaran '05
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice - Fania Davis
• White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
• Brutal Imagination - Cornelius Eady
• Biased - Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
• A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature - Jacqueline Goldsby
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in A Racially Unjust America - Jennifer Harvey
• Waking Up White - Debby Irving
• An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
• They Were Her Property - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
• Uprooting Racism - Paul Kivel
• Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem
• Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era - Jerry Mitchell
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business - Pamela Newkirk
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
• Warriors Don’t Cry - Melba Pattillo Beals
• Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
• The Color of Law - Richard Rothstei
• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
• The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality - Thomas M. Shapir
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do - Claude M. Steel
• Race for Profit - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow - C. Vann Woodward
• Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy - David Zucchino

Short Videos

• “Slavery to Mass Incarceration” featuring Professor Bryan Stevenson 
• Professor Melissa Murray on MSNBC
• The Debrief: What’s Next – George Floyd and the Future of Policing in NYC on NBC NY featuring Associate Professor Deborah Archer
• Trevor Noah’s Commentary 
• Tim Wise’s talk at Insight LA - Learn how issues of racial equity tie into the COVID-19 crisis and how we might take this moment to develop important new empathies and strategies for social justice and public health.

Film/Television

• The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering a portrait of race in America
• Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
• Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
• Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
• Let It Fall, a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King
• Whose Streets?, a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
• When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
• The Central Park Five, a documentary from Ken Burns
• 13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
• I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
• Fruitvale Station, a film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant
• American Son, a film with Kerry Washington about an estranged interracial couple waiting for their missing son
• Dear White People, a Netflix series about being black at a predominantly white college

Podcasts

• Still Processing, a New York Times culture podcast with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morrison
• Seeing White, a Scene on the Radio podcast
• Code Switch, an NPR podcast tackling race
• Jemele Hill is Unbothered, a podcast with journalist Jemele Hill
• Pod Save The People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from fellow activists Brittany Packnett, Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith III
• The Appeal, a podcast on criminal justice reform by Adam Johnson
• Justice in America, a podcast by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith on criminal justice reform 

Kids & Teens 

General Resources

• Talking with Kids About Race
• Talking About Race from the National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Books for Children of All Ages

Watch

• 26 New York Times mini-films for students
• The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
• Hidden Figures, a film about the brilliant African American women of NASA
• Remember the Titans, story of an integrated football team
• Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour

Read

• This Promise of Change by Jo Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
• Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
• Skin Again by Bell Hooks
• The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Anything by Angie Thomas
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams