History Repeats Itself: Ahmaud Arbery & Racism in 2020 Resources

These resources are related to “History Repeats Itself: Ahmaud Arbery Racism in 2020,” an event sponsored by Carolina Public Humanities, Carolina K-12, and the Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition. The program can be viewed in it’s entirety here.

We also encourage everyone to view Dr. William Sturkey’s comments from our “Beyond the Headlines: Confederate Monuments, Historical Memory, & Free Speech” event.

Anti-Racist Activist Funds – Help provide direct support to activists on the front lines

• List of bail funds from around the United States
• Minnesota Freedom Fund 
• Where to Donate to Help People Fighting Racism
• How to Support Protests If You Can’t Attend

From Dr. Sonny Kelly

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• The White Ally Toolkit Workbook: Using Active Listening, Empathy, and Personal Storytelling to Promote Racial Equity by David Campt
  • This book helps me to formulate a plan for graciously addressing difficult conversations with people whom I love that do not believe that racism is prevalent, systemic, or relevant in America today.
• Sonny’s own story combines the power of words, storytelling, and autobiographical reflection to call diverse communities into candid conversation about race in America. According to the Monti: Sonny Kelly is more than a man with an unusual name. He’s an actor, father, and a Black man in America. As race riots explode in the streets of Baltimore City, Maryland, Sonny reflects upon his identity, and the way others may perceive him. This inspires a tough conversation with his young son. Hear Sonny’s story, recorded live at our “Home” event on April 9th, 2018 in Chapel Hill, NC

From Dr. Seth Kotch:

• A Red Record: Revealing Lynching Sites in North Carolina
• “Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America” by Barbara J. Fields
• Slavery by Another Name by Douglas J. Blackmon
  
  • Accompanying PBS Series based on Blackmon’s book
• From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State by Charles Ogletree
• Documentary: Always in Season

From Professor Ted Shaw:

Suggested Readings on Lynching and Other and Racially Motivated Violence

• James Allen, Hinton Als: Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America  (Twin Palms Publishers ©2000)
• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010)
• Phillip Dray: At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House ©2002)
• Ida B. Wells Barnett: On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, A Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans (Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., Reprint Edition © 1991)
• James Cameron: A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story (Black Classic Press © 1982, 1994)
• Ralph Ginzburg: One Hundred Years of Lynching (Black Classic Press ©1962, 1968)
• James S. Hirsch: Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy (Houghton Mifflin Co., ©2002)
• Sherrilyn Ifill: On the Court-House Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century (Beacon Press, ©2007)
• Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and Representative Jesse L Jackson, Jr., with Bruce Shapiro: Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future (The New Press ©2001)    
• Elliott Jaspin: Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America (Basic Books ©2007)
• Jerry Mitchell: A Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (Simon & Schuster © 2020)
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad: The Condemnation of Justice: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2010)
• Gunnar Myrdal: An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper & Row © 1944, 1962)
• Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Surat, From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (New York University Press ©2006)
• Steve Oney: And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phegan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (Pantheon Books © 2003
• Bryan Stevenson: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel & Grau, 2014)

From Dr. Deborah Stroman:

• Waking Up White by Debby Irving
• White Rage by Dr. Carol Anderson
• The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash
• “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones: How Racial Linguistics Can and Do Hurt Me” by Dr. Deborah Stroman

Additional Resources for K-12 Teachers

• Carolina K-12’s Database of K-12 Resources
  • Tips for Tackling Sensitive History & Controversial Current Events in the Classroom
• We Are (Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education)
• Teaching Tolerance
  • Teaching About Race, Racism, and Police Violence
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Rethinking Schools
• The Place of Racism and White Supremacy in US History Classrooms – A Conversation with Dr. Christoph Stutts (Meredith College), Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery (UNC Study for the Center of the American South), and Dr. Rachel Seidman (Southern Oral History Program).
• NEA EdJustice: 5 Things Educators Can Do to Address Bias in Their School
• “Teachers Must Hold Themselves Accountable for Dismantling Racial Oppression” by Kelisa Wing
• “To My White Educators”
• Five Activities to Promote Diversity in the Classroom from Purdue University Global

Additional Resources from CPH Staff

• From George Floyd to Chris Cooper: Ibram X. Kendi on “Racist Terror” Facing Black People in America
• Anti-Racism Resources from FightforBriana.org
• “Resisting State Violence:  Race, Policing, and Social Justice in Twentieth Century America” – Syllabus from Dr. Austin McCoy, University of Michigan
• From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Life Long Journey from Tema Okun
• Anti Racist Reading List
• Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White by Dr. William Sturkey
• Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina by Dr. Seth Kotch
• Reckoning with White Supremacy: 5 Fundamentals for White Folks by Lovey Cooper
• “Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus” from JSTOR

UNC History

• Here’s the story of James Lewis Cates, a rallying point for today’s UNC demonstrators

• Thread by Mike Ogel about James Lewis Cates
• Silent Sam’s Reckoning

Anti-Racist Organizations

• Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition (OCCRC)
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)*
• NAACP*
• Organizing Against Racism (OAR)*
• Racial Equity Institute (REI)

*Organizations mentioned by Dr. Deborah Stroman

Information About Police Violence, Police Abolition Movement, Etc.

• The Marshall Project: Police Abolition
• Defund Police: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Says Budgets Wrongly Prioritize Cops Over Schools, Hospitals
• The Price of Defunding Police by Brentin Mock
• Black Lives Matter: Defund the Police

Podcasts

• Scene on the Radio – “Turning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1)
• NPR – Code Switch

Additional Resources Submitted by Organizations Outside UNC

• Black Youth Matters: Understanding Mental Health Issues among Black Teens
• Black Men Matter – Examining Mental Health Issues among Black Men – A Guide to Freedom
• How to Avoid (Unintentional) Online Racism – and Shut Down Overt Racism When You See It
• What is Critical Race Theory?

If you have questions or would like would like to add resources, please email CarolinaK12@unc.edu