Thank you to those who have shared resources already to support our ongoing work of countering racism. Below are the gems which we have shared so far. I look forward to future blog posts to expand the wealth of books, articles, interviews, movies, music and more which may support this journey. One suggestion is to include a short description in your resource sharing so that others understand why you are recommending this resource.
In solidarity,
Jessica
RESOURCES
1. On Prisons, Borders, Safety, and Privilege: An Open Letter to White Feminists
2. Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (2006). South End Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Color of Violence presents the fierce and vital writing of 33 visionary radical feminists of color. These writers not only investigate the intersecting ways in which violence and oppression exist in the lives of women of color and our communities, they also map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women and trans people of color around the world.
3. Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
http://www.incite-national.org/
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.
4. APA Society for the Teaching of Psychology Div 2
The 2nd article from the top is a working diversity bibliography created by Akhila Kolesar and a colleague and faculty member at Institute for Transpersonal Psychology.
5. The Fire This Time, a documentary about the New Jersey Seven
http://thefirethistimethefilm.com/
On a hot summer evening in the gay-friendly West Village neighborhood of New York City, seven young women from New Jersey were verbally threatened and physically attacked by a twenty-nine-year-old man. In a not uncommon travesty of justice, the New Jersey Seven, as they came to be called, were sent to prison for defending themselves. The Fire This Time tells the story of the seven women’s trial and prison sentences, and the years-long fight by relatives and activists to get the women released.
6. Jensen, Derrick (2004). The Culture of Make Believe. Chelsea Green.
Author's website: http://www.derrickjensen.org/index.html
Jensen details American racism from the genocidal slave trade through lynchings to the 2000 murder of Amadou Diallo by NYC police, and covers a wide range of other cultural horrors as well: the massacres of Native American people, the Holocaust, the 8,000 deaths from the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in India, and the deaths of 500,000 children in Iraq.
7. Galeano, Eduardo (2009). Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. Nation Books.
Mirrors, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history’s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men’s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
