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How to Befriend People You Don’t Like

By Allison Briscoe-Smith — 2004

One successful way to combat prejudice, it seems, is by serving as a model to others.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era.

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Erika Lee
2025
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How 'white fragility' reinforces racism

Robin DiAngelo’s bestselling book White Fragility has provoked an uncomfortable but vital conversation about what it means to be white.

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2020
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Native Americans Know How Place Affects Health | Place Matters Oregon | OHA

For thousands of years, the Klamath Tribes have had a deep physical and spiritual connection to southern Oregon. But in 1954, the U.S. government took over their tribal lands there.

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2018
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Why Admitting Privilege Is Key to Racial Healing

“We don’t hear white people talking about how slavery has negatively affected them,” says Nancy Wong, a Baha'i living in Chicago.

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2020
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Can Latinos Benefit from White Privilege? - The Kat Call - Season 2 Ep 2 - mitú

White privilege, that’s just a Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber thing right? Wrong! Kat brings insight on how some Latinos can actually benefit from white privilege and how to use our privilege for good.

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2018
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Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory—a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people’s sense of itself.

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Ron Eyerman
2008
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Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy—A Trip to the Grocery Store

In this story from “Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity,” a film from World Trust, author and educator Dr. Joy DeGruy shares how her sister-in-law uses her white privilege to stand up to systemic racial inequity.

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2013
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X.

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Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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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,...

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Clint Smith III
2021
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating a More Equitable Society Is in White Americans’ Self Interest

The best selling author of “How to Be an Antiracist” and “Antiracist Baby,” Dr. Ibram X. Kendi joins Stephen Colbert to discuss what it takes to call one’s self antiracist, and how he believes it’s in everyone’s interest to end the racist policies that cause inequality in this country.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2020
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