ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

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.”

Read on www.vox.com

FindCenter Post-Image
23:42

We Need to Talk about an Injustice | Bryan Stevenson

In an engaging and personal talk—with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks—human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been...

Video
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
02:33

Mass Incarceration, Visualized

In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event.

Video
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history,...

Book
Clint Smith III
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society...

Book
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
2024
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color.

Book
James Forman Jr.
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Malcolm X

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

Movie
1992
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.

Book
Michelle Alexander, Cornel West (foreword)
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

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

“Organizing is both science and art.

Book
Mariame Kaba
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America’s Toughest Communities

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.

Book
Jorja Leap
2016
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Asian American and Pacific Islander Well-Being