DPE’S VERY OWN CECILIA POU PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE FOR THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE titled “LEARNING BY EXAMPLE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLICE BRUTALITY”

INFORMATIVE RESOURCES

BOOKS

  • Americanah Chimamanda Adichie

  • Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

  • Beloved Toni Morrison

  • Sula Toni Morrison

  • Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

  • What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Helen Oyemi

  • How To Be An Anti-Racist Ibram X. Kendi

  • Go Tell It on The Mountain James Baldwin

  • So You Want To Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley Alex Haley

  • The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander

  • Some of My Best Friends Are Black Tanner Colby

  • Freedom is a Constant Struggle Angela Davis

  • Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Your Silence Will Not Protect You Audre Lorde

  • Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialgoue and Race Derald Wing Sue

  • How I shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood Jim Grimsley

  • Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America Devon W. Carbado & Mitt Gulati

  • Stamped from the Beginning: Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi

  • Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism Becky Thompson

  • A People’s History of the Unites States Howard Zinn

  • The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson

  • How to be Anti-Racist Ibrahim X. Kendi

  • Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy Andrea Smith

  • Women, Race, and Class Angela Davis

  • White Fragility Robin Diangelo

  • My Grandmother’s Hands Resmaa Menakem

FILMS

NETFLIX

  • Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap

  • Time: The Kalief Browder Story

  • When They See Us

  • 13th

  • Who Killed Malcom X?

ESSAYS

  • “The Inventions of Blacks in France" Patrick Lozes

  •  “Coda: Black Identity in France on a European Perspective” Allison Blakely 

  • “Nobody Knows My Name” James Baldwin

  • “Our Kind of Ridiculousness” Kiese Laymon

  • “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” Kiese Laymon

  • “Black Like Them” Malcolm Gladwell

  • “Black Men and Public Spaces” Brent Staples

  • “Walking While Black” Garnette Cadogan

  • “There's no Scientific Basis of Race - It's a Made-Up Label” Elizabeth Kolbert

  • “Sociology on Racism” Matthew Clair & Jeffrey S. Denis

  • “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

  • “Understanding White Privilege” Francis E. Kendall

  • “White Privilege: A History of the Concept” Jacob Bennet

  • “The Origins of ‘Privilege’” Joshua Rothman

  • “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Dr. Marin Luther King Jr.

MEDIA