LEARNING

Resources

 

It’s the year 2020. Between a worldwide pandemic and ongoing protest for social justice across America, there is A LOT to process. The Levine Center to End Hate believes that worthwhile dialogue of today’s hot-button issues is most benefited by educational resources that, thankfully, are easily found and readily available across the media—whether in articles and video streaming online or in books and magazines you can find at your local library or bookshop.

Rochester Past and Present

 

Like so many other American cities across the country, Rochester has experienced its own share of challenges and social upheaval, provoked by various forms of hate. To those in our community, we encourage you to explore those moments in Rochester’s history that will help put current events into context and help us bridge our divides through a common understanding of the past and united vision for the future.

 

July ‘64, a documentary by Carvin Eison and Chris Christopher, 2006

Download the WXXI Discussion Guide.

Additional Reading and Viewing

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

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• RaceForward.org

• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

• Teaching about Race, Racism and Police Violence

• Engage in Racial Justice

 

ARTICLES

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• Winning the Peace: What If We’ve Already Won the War? by Eric Ward | Medium 08.19.20

• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer | Atlantic 05.08.20

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

• The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston | Vox 05.28.19

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic 05.12.20

 

PODCASTS

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• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Seeing White

 

BOOKS

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• America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Brian Stevenson

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Deangelo

 

FILM & TV

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• A Class Divided (PBS, Frontline)

• 13th

• CBS News Analysis: 50 States, 50 Different Ways of Teaching America's Past

• Dear White People

• How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time

• If Beale Street Could Talk

• Just Mercy

• Selma

• Test Your Awareness: Do The Test

• The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

• The Hate U Give

• When They See Us

• Webinar Recording: Juneteenth: What's It All About?

• Webinar Recording: How Should We Be "Talking About Race?"