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A THREAD: LINKS TO RESOURCES TO UNDERSTAND SYSTEMATIC/SYSTEMIC RACISM AND OPPRESSION
If you are uninformed on the topic, it's okay. Take the time to learn, especially if you don't understand what's going on and why, education is valuable.
If you are uninformed on the topic, it's okay. Take the time to learn, especially if you don't understand what's going on and why, education is valuable.
This link is to a PDF of a sociology textbook chapter on the matter.
https://miracosta.instructure.com/courses/9767/files/235637/download?verifier=5EOlHHyw4Q31JZbVCTuWtroEiYMo369bUdWWtYg6&wrap=1
https://miracosta.instructure.com/courses/9767/files/235637/download?verifier=5EOlHHyw4Q31JZbVCTuWtroEiYMo369bUdWWtYg6&wrap=1
A TED talk "Let's get to the root of racial injustice" given by Megan Ming Francis
An 8-part video series tackling racism and oppression in wealth gaps, employment, housing, discrimination, government surveillance, incarceration, drug arrests, immigration, arrests, and infant mortality https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism
"Lens of Systemic Oppression" from the National Equity Project
https://nationalequityproject.org/resources/featured-resources/lens-of-systemic-oppression
https://nationalequityproject.org/resources/featured-resources/lens-of-systemic-oppression
"Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis"
Easy to read small paragraphs.
https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/docs/rcc/RCC-Structural-Racism-Glossary.pdf
Easy to read small paragraphs.
https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/docs/rcc/RCC-Structural-Racism-Glossary.pdf
SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION AND TRAUMA:
WHY HEALING-CENTERED TWO-GENERATION APPROACHES ARE
CRUCIAL TO POVERTY ALLEVIATION
from Drexel University
Has graphics, easy to read paragraphs and bullet points
https://www.centerforhungerfreecommunities.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/systemictrauma_policybrief_june2019.pdf
WHY HEALING-CENTERED TWO-GENERATION APPROACHES ARE
CRUCIAL TO POVERTY ALLEVIATION
from Drexel University
Has graphics, easy to read paragraphs and bullet points
https://www.centerforhungerfreecommunities.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/systemictrauma_policybrief_june2019.pdf
A list of key terms in understanding race and racism from Vanderbilt University
https://vanderbilt.edu/oacs/wp-content/uploads/sites/140/Key-Terms-Racism.pdf
https://vanderbilt.edu/oacs/wp-content/uploads/sites/140/Key-Terms-Racism.pdf
How to counter systems of oppression in society and questions you should be asking https://www.nichq.org/insight/taking-racial-responsibility-personally-systems-improvement-work
More about understanding how race plays into privilege https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/diversity/social-justice/understanding-race-and-privilege
"Research Confirms that Entrenched Racism Manifests in Disparate Treatment of Black Americans in Criminal Justice System"
Vera Institute of Justice https://www.vera.org/newsroom/research-confirms-that-entrenched-racism-manifests-in-disparate-treatment-of-black-americans-in-criminal-justice-system
Vera Institute of Justice https://www.vera.org/newsroom/research-confirms-that-entrenched-racism-manifests-in-disparate-treatment-of-black-americans-in-criminal-justice-system
American Sociological Association on "Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System"
https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/images/press/docs/pdf/ASARaceCrime.pdf
https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/images/press/docs/pdf/ASARaceCrime.pdf
The Sentencing Project: "Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System"
A booklet on the differences in prison sentences based on race.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Reducing-Racial-Disparity-in-the-Criminal-Justice-System-A-Manual-for-Practitioners-and-Policymakers.pdf
A booklet on the differences in prison sentences based on race.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Reducing-Racial-Disparity-in-the-Criminal-Justice-System-A-Manual-for-Practitioners-and-Policymakers.pdf
2002
U.S. Prisons and Racial Profiling: A Covertly Racist
Nation Rides a Vicious Cycle
An academic journal published by University of Minnesota
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=lawineq
U.S. Prisons and Racial Profiling: A Covertly Racist
Nation Rides a Vicious Cycle
An academic journal published by University of Minnesota
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=lawineq
Prison Policy Initiative website
Full of links to articles about multitudes of issues regarding racism within the Prison System https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/race_and_ethnicity/
Full of links to articles about multitudes of issues regarding racism within the Prison System https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/race_and_ethnicity/
Innocence Project New Orleans constantly updating stats
information on Mass Incarceration Racial Oppression https://ip-no.org/what-we-do/advocate-for-change/mass-incarceration-and-racial-oppression/
information on Mass Incarceration Racial Oppression https://ip-no.org/what-we-do/advocate-for-change/mass-incarceration-and-racial-oppression/
Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the US Criminal Justice System
Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/views/2010/07/26/fourteen-examples-systemic-racism-us-criminal-justice-system
Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/views/2010/07/26/fourteen-examples-systemic-racism-us-criminal-justice-system
Michelle Alexander: “A System of Racial and Social Control”
An extensive article about mass incareration and other like issues utilized to socially control and oppress
PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michelle-alexander-a-system-of-racial-and-social-control/
An extensive article about mass incareration and other like issues utilized to socially control and oppress
PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michelle-alexander-a-system-of-racial-and-social-control/
"Covid-19 is disproportionately taking black lives
Hundreds of years of racism has delivered poor health and economic outcomes for black people, making them more vulnerable in the pandemic."
article on the disproportion and effects of the pandemic https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/7/21211849/coronavirus-black-americans
Hundreds of years of racism has delivered poor health and economic outcomes for black people, making them more vulnerable in the pandemic."
article on the disproportion and effects of the pandemic https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/7/21211849/coronavirus-black-americans
