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
Blood in My Eye
by George Jackson
Subjects: White Supremacy, History of Racism
Caste (Oprah’s Book Club): The Origins Of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Subjects: Systemic Oppression of Black People in America, Social Inequality
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Subject: Antiracism
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
by Angela Davis
Subjects: Prisoners’ Writings, American Prisons
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by James Forman Jr.
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
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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
Podcasts
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
Identity Politics with Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali
Topics: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Pop Culture, and Muslim Life In America
Intersectionality Matters! - African American Policy Forum with Kimberlé Crenshaw
Topics: Politics, Social Movements, and Racial Injustices
Slow Burn: Season 6
Topic: 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Documentaries/Docuseries & Movies
13th
Available on: Netflix
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap
Available on: Netflix
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Available on: Amazon
Just Mercy
Available on: Amazon, YouTube
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Available on: Netflix
When They See Us
Available on: Netflix
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.