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In Many Asian American Families, Racism Is Rarely Discussed

By Rachel Ramirez — 2021

“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”

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The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity

Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world.

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Kwame Anthony Appiah
2019
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America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal

Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, PhD, on breaking America's cycle of racial trauma. "I am a drop in the ocean, but I'm also the ocean. I'm a drop in America, but I'm also America.

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Larry Ward
2020
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid...

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Isabel Wilkerson
2020
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Audre Lorde and Ellen Kuzwayo, Berlin 1992

Ellen Kuzwayo, friend and comrade of Audre Lorde, visited her in Berlin in the summer of 1992 a few months before Audre's passing. Ellen Kuzwayo was a South African author and activist who became a member of Parliament after the South African liberation.

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Audre Lorde
2013
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We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“Organizing is both science and art.

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Mariame Kaba
2021
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Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching

Through accessible language and candid discussions, Storytelling for Social Justice explores the stories we tell ourselves and each other about race and racism in our society.

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Lee Anne Bell
2019
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What James Baldwin’s Work Means for a Nation Having a Reckoning on Race | The 11Th Hour | MSNBC

Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins to discuss his new biography on the late, great American writer James Baldwin and the lessons his thoughts on race still hold for America in the age of Trump. Aired on 7/06/2020.

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James Baldwin
2020
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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

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Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)
2020
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MLK: The Other America

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at Stanford. Here, he expounds on his nonviolent philosophy and methodology.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
2015
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The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X (Full Episode)

Presented entirely through speeches, newscasts, and rarely seen archival footage, The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X tells the story of the man who, by any means necessary, willingly put his life at risk to bring change and equality to black America.

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Malcolm X
2018
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Well-Being