LibGuides: Research Topic Starters: Systemic Racism

Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2019-01033-011.html

Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism

https://medium.com/national-equity-project/implicit-bias-structural-racism-6c52cf0f4a92

How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them [TED talk]

https://www.ted.com/talks/verna_myers_how_to_overcome_our_biases_walk_boldly_toward_them?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Racial Microaggressions Are Real. Here’s How to Navigate Them

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/10/23/racist-racial-microaggressions/

How to Respond to Racial Microaggressions When They Occur

https://diverseeducation.com/article/176397/

Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry

https://www.splcenter.org/20150125/speak-responding-everyday-bigotry

10 things we know about race and policing in the U.S.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/03/10-things-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s

Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/

18 Examples Of Racism In The Criminal Legal System

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/18-examples-of-racism-in-criminal-legal-system_b_57f26bf0e4b095bd896a1476?utm_source=everydayfeminism.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article

ABC News analysis of police arrests nationwide reveals stark racial disparity

https://abcnews.go.com/US/abc-news-analysis-police-arrests-nationwide-reveals-stark/story?id=71188546

The Code Switch Guide To Race And Policing

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/09/873066989/the-code-switch-guide-to-race-and-policing

Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide

https://ips-dc.org/report-racial-wealth-divide-solutions/

From Jobs To Homeownership, Protests Put Spotlight On Racial Economic Divide

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/866794025/from-jobs-to-homeownership-protests-put-spotlight-on-economic-divide

Racial Economic Inequality

https://inequality.org/facts/racial-inequality/

Examining the Black-white wealth gap

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/

Racial Wealth Equity

https://prosperitynow.org/topics/racial-wealth-equity

Why we need reparations for Black Americans

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/

The case for reparations

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

What the Racial Data Show:The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-exposing-our-racial-divides/609526/

What Would It Take to Reduce Inequities in Healthy Life Expectancy?

https://next50.urban.org/question/health-related-social-needs

Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2020/05/07/484742/health-disparities-race-ethnicity/

Inequity and Health

https://inequality.org/facts/inequality-and-health/

Minority Population Health Profiles

https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=26

In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/2018/sep/focus-reducing-racial-disparities-health-care-confronting

Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-racism-not-race-is-a-risk-factor-for-dying-of-covid-191/

Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities

https://medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-info/health-care-disparities/

4 Ways Racial Inequity Harms American Schoolchildren

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/875023672/4-ways-racial-inequity-harms-american-school-children

RACE, DISCIPLINE, AND SAFETY AT U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS

https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/race-discipline-and-safety-us-public-schools?redirect=issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/doing-math-devos

Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-and-education/

Inequality at school: What’s behind the racial disparity in our education system?

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/11/cover-inequality-school

Teachers Are as Racially Biased as Everybody Else, Study Shows

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/09/teachers-have-racial-biases-too-study-shows.html

Racial Equity Tools

https://www.racialequitytools.org/home

14 Black Activists and Authors Providing Crucial Insight Into Racial Justice in the US

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/black-activists-authors-us-racial-justice/

10 YOUNG RACIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW

https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/10-racial-justice-activists-you-should-know

Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston

http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/

Being Antiracist

https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist

Western Mass Showing Up for Racial Justice

http://www.wmsurj.com/

FOR OUR WHITE FRIENDS DESIRING TO BE ALLIES

https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies

On Being Comfortable with Discomfort: Tiffany Jewell Explains What It Means To Be Anti-Racist

https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=tiffany-jewell-anti-racism-childrens-nonfiction-author-interview

White allies: Here's a basic list of do's and don'ts to help you with your helplessness

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/01/white-allies-dos-donts-racism-black-lives-matter-protest/

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

An Ally’s Guide to Issues Facing the LGBTQ Community

https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/Allys-Guide-Issues-Facing-LGBT-Americans-Dec2012.pdf

Key Terms Defined

Anti-Racist: Someone who opposes and actively fights against racism. (Source)

BIPOC: An acronym that stands for Black, Indigenous, People of Color

Colonialism: Domination of a people or area by a foreign state or nation; the practice of extending and maintaining a nation's political and economic control over another people or area. (Source)

Implicit Bias: Attitudes towards or stereotypes associated with people that exist without our conscious knowledge (Source)

Intersectionality: The idea that individuals are shaped by and identify with a vast array of cultural, structural, sociobiological, economic, and social contexts. (Source)

Micro aggressions: The everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership. (Source)

People of Color: A term generally used to describe anyone who is not white. The term encompasses all people who experience systemic racism. However, when able, it is best to refer to people by their individual identities, rather than referring to them as a group, which can sometimes be dehumanizing and invalidate individual experiences. (Source)

Racism: A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race (Source)

Restorative Justice: A theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior (Source)

Social Justice: Fair treatment of all people in a society, including respect for the rights of minorities and equitable distribution of resources among members of a community. (Source)

Systemic Racism (Also known as institutional racism): Policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization, and that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair and harmful treatment of others based on race. (Source)

White Fragility: The tendency among members of the dominant white cultural group to have a defensive, wounded, angry, or dismissive response to evidence of racism. (Source)

White Privilege: The unearned and mostly unacknowledged societal advantage that members of the dominant white racial group have and members of nonwhite groups do not, separate but compounding with wealth, income, class, education, and other demographic factors that form individua identities. (Source)

White Supremacy: The belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society. (Source)