Resources on Racial Injustice & Anti-Racism
In light of injustices faced by the Black community, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is committed to igniting meaningful conversations surrounding these issues. The NSM Student Leadership team put together a list of resources that we hope will shed light on the existing inequalities and help us answer the difficult questions and stand with our diverse community.
This webpage is a living document which will highlight books, podcasts, documentaries/docuseries and movies, and other materials. It will be the inspiration for the larger, ongoing NSM Talks, Listens, and Shares events of the Office of First Year Programs.
If you would like to have materials considered for addition to this webpage, please email nsmyear1@central.uh.edu.
Books
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Davis
Subject: American Prison System
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Subject: Antiracism
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by James Forman Jr.
Subject: American Prison System
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race
by Robin DiAngelo
Subjects: White Fragility, Racial Injustice
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
by Angela Davis
Subjects: Prisoners’ Writings, American Prisons
Blood in My Eye
by George Jackson
Subjects: White Supremacy, History of Racism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Subject: American Prison System
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla Saad
Subjects: White Supremacy, Journal Style
Podcasts
Intersectionality Matters! - African American Policy Forum with Kimberlé Crenshaw
Topics: Politics, Social Movements, and Racial Injustices
Identity Politics with Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali
Topics: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Pop Culture, and Muslim Life In America
1619 - The New York Times
Topics: Impacts of Slavery on American Democracy, Economy, Music
Beyond Prisons - Kim Wilson & Brian Sonenstein
Topics: Abolition, American Prison System
Documentaries/Docuseries & Movies
13th
Find it on: Netflix
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap
Find it on: Netflix
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Find it on: Netflix
When They See Us
Find it on: Netflix
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Find it on: Amazon
Just Mercy
Find it on: Amazon, YouTube
Other Material
Center for Diversity and Inclusion Workshops
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion offers diversity trainings and seminars throughout the year.
Faculty Conversation Resource Page
An extensive list of resources for UH faculty to educate themselves on systemic racism and to possibly add to their syllabi.
Letters for Black Lives
A set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.
Tips on Having Conversations About Race
Guidance and advice from the UH Center for Diversity and Inclusion on having conversations about race in the workplace.