Category: Race & Ethnicity
W.E.B. DuBois: A biography in four voices
Professor Rose Kim recommended this video to me. It is narrated in four parts by four different scholars — Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka– that cover the long length of DuBois remarkable life and contributions.
Bryan Stevenson, “We need to talk about an injustice” Ted Talk
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois
This is a collection of essays written by W.E.B. Du Bois, originally published in news and literary magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly. The essays were published together in book form in 1903. Du Bois was one of the first American Sociologists. The ebook can be accessed here.
Race/Ethnicity Videos
Race: The Power of an Illusion — available on Kanopy; this three part, three hour documentary is fantastic as a whole, but you can also use just one episode. Alternatively, there are great clips from each episode on YouTube: Episode 1, Episode 2 and Episode 3.
True Colors — this old ABC News experiment still really resonates with students:
Race and Redlining, NPR — Very good overview of redlining and institutional racism.
Netflix Explained: Racial Wealth Gap
Race/Ethnicity Readings
Race and Ethnicity
“America’s Enduring Caste System,” by Isabel Wilkerson — This is a great excerpt of Wilkerson’s book published in the NY Times Magazine.
The 1619 Project, The New York Times — Another great NY Times resource, with many different articles.
