Welcome to Sources for Race & Ethnicity: Constancy in Change
edited by hephzibah v. strmic-pawl and Milton Vickerman

We have collected resources that align with the readings assigned in Race & Ethnicity: Constancy in Change, published by Cognella.

​Resources are organized under 4 headings:
Read: Articles and summaries, often includes graphs and charts 
Watch: Short clips and documentary excerpts
Listen: Audio stories that elaborate on a particular area (often sourced from NPR)
Interactive: websites that have some sort of interactive component and amplify engagement with the data

Please note that the listing of these sources are not an endorsement of any particular outlet or viewpoint. 
Sincerely, hephzibah & Milton 
You can scroll through the resources or click one of the buttons below to bring you to resources particular to that book section's readings

The Foundations of Race & Racism

Read
The Atlantic: A Visual History of the US Race Box
Chinese Historical Society of America: Work of Giants: The Chinese and the Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad
Stanford Libraries: Chinese Railroad Workers Project

Watch
CBS Sunday Morning: Blackface: A Cultural History of a Racist Art Form ​
PBS: The Eugenics Crusade, Chapter 1
GBH/PBS: How America Invented Race: The History of White People in America
SmithsonianNMAI: The "Indian Problem"  
PBS: Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools 
WAVY TV: The Impact of Nat Turner's Rebellion Still Felt Today 
​NowThisNews: Diary Reveals Reality of Living in a WWII Japanese Internment Camp 
PBS News Hour: Revisiting Japanese Internment on the 75th Anniversary 

Listen 
​NPR: Eugenics, Anti-Immigration Laws of the Past Still Resonate Today, Journalist Says
NPR: Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How a Family Became a Test Case for Forced Sterilizations
NPR: School Colors Episode 3: The Battle of Forest Hills
​NPR: Haaland Seeks Healing for Native American Boarding School Survivors


Interact
Tulsa Historical Society and Museum: 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
​Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, Interactive US Map
​Equal Justice Initiative: Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction 
Washington University in St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum: Truths and Reckonings: The Art of Transformative Racial Justice ​
California State Archives: Making the Grade: California and the Transcontinental Railroad

The Social Construction of Race

Read
American Medical Association: New AMA Policies Recognize Race as a Social, Not Biological, Construct 
U.S. Census, About the Topic of Race

Watch
TED: Nina Jablonski: Skin Color is an Illusion 
Colorado Learning Center of Human Anatomy: Forensic Medicine: Determining Age, Gender, and Ethnicity with Our Skull ​

Listen 
NPR: How to Talk about Hair Like a Scientist (includes audio and video)
NPR: A Whiteness That's Only Skin Deep
NPR: 1 in 7 are "Some Other Race" on the US Census. That's a Big Data Problem

Interact
US Census Bureau: Measuring Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790-2010
Pew Research Center: What Census Calls US
Understanding Race: History, Human Variation, Lived Experience

Structuring American Identity Through Immigration


Read
Pew Research Center: Nation's Immigration Laws, 1920-Today 
PRB: Trends in Migration to the U.S. 
Pew Research Center: Key Findings about US Immigrants
Carnegie: 15 Myths about Immigration Debunked 
Pew Research Center: Demographic Portrait of Muslim Americans
The Guardian: 'Muslims Were So Demonized': Mehdi Hasan, Zainab Johnson, Keith Ellison, and More on 9/11s Aftermath, 20 Years Later
Arab American Stories: Demographics 
Pew Research Center: Key Facts About Asian Americans, a Diverse and Growing Population 
Pew Research Center: Key Facts about Asian Origin Groups in the US
NPR: Southeast Asians are Underrepresented in STEM. The Label "Asian" Boxes Them Out More

​Watch
Race Forward: Why We Should Drop the I-Word
The Marshall Project: Anatomy of Hate (the murder of 3 Muslim College Students)
A Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans 
PBS News Hour: Muslim Journalists on Reporting in a Post-9/11 World, 20 Years Later
Buzzfeed: "I'm Muslim, But I'm Not..."
"I'm a Muslim, but": A Response to Buzzfeed" (response to video above this one)
NowThisNews: Rashida Talib Questions Why 2020 Census Erases Middle Eastern and North African Identity 
PBS NewsHour: How 9/11 Shaped the Lives of American Muslims 
CBS Mornings: Asian Americans See Racism, Discrimination Amid Coronavirus Pandemic 
The New York Times: How Coronavirus Racism Infected My High School 
CNBC: How the Model Minority Myth Keeps Asian Americans Out of Management 
A Trip Through the Tenement Museum in NYC

Listen 
​NPR: Islamophobia Continues to Follow Him in the Years Since 9/11
NPR Code Switch: The Day That Never Happened
NPR: With Racial Attacks on the Rise, Asian Americans Fear for their Safety
Dozens of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries and Medical Abuse in ICE Custody​

​Interact
Tenement Museum - online exhibits
Statue of Liberty, Connect with Your Heritage
Interactive Maps of Immigrants in the US
Estimates of Undocumented and Eligible-to-Naturalize Populations by State, interactive map
Arab American National Museum, virtual tours available

Racism: Theories for Understanding 


Read
Vox; The Intersectionality Wars
The Guardian: Why Black People Discriminate Among Ourselves: The Toxic Legacy of Colorism 
PBS Interview with William Julius Wilson 
How Digital Beauty Filters Perpetuate Colorism 
The Color Complex: Student researchers investigate lived experiences...

Watch
Brown University: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "Why Can't We Just Can't Along?" 
VICE News: Why India's Fair Skin Business is Booming 
Harvard Kennedy School: 3 Things You Should Know about Global Colorism 
PBS News Hour: How Colorism Haunts Dark-Skinned Immigrant Communities 
Refinery29: Why People Risk Their Lives to Bleach Their Skin 
TED: Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality 
TEDx: hephzibah strmic-pawl: Understanding Our Roots: White Supremacy is More Than the KKK
Brookings Institution on on Race, Class, and Culture with William Julius Wilson 
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Listen 
​NPR: Making the Case Against 'Colorblind Casting'
NPR: What do Alabama and California Have in Common? Top-Notch US History Standards (CRT discussion)​
NPR: Black Lives Matter Gets Indians Talking about Skin Lightening and Colorism 
​NPR: What is White Replacement Theory? 

Interact
SPLC Hate Map
ADL H.E.A.T. Map

Structured Racial Inequality


Read
Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University: The State of Poverty and Disadvantage in NYC 
National Community Reinvestment Coalition: Racial Wealth Snapshot: Asian Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide
Brookings: Examining the Black-White Wealth Gap 
Pew Research Center: Views of Economic Inequality 
NCRC: Racial Wealth Snapshot: Women, Men, and Racial Wealth Divide 
Harvard Business School: Minorities who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
Harvard Business Review: Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn't Declined in 25 Years
Economic Policy Institute: Black Workers Endure Persistent Racial Disparities in Employment Outcomes
Cap: Wealth Matters: The Black-White Wealth Gap Before and During the Pandemic 
National Center for Education Statistics: Status and Trends in the Education of Racial & Ethnic Groups
ProPublica: The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
​Pew Research Center: 114th Congress is Most Diverse Ever 
US Census: Historical Reported Voting Rates by Race in Presidential Elections
Mother Jones: Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
Mother Jones: Supreme Court Gives Green Light to GOP Voter Suppression Laws
ACLU: Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Black Voters from the Ballot Box
Brennan Center: Voter Suppression in 2020
​ABC News: Timeline: Voter Suppression in the Us from the Civil War to Today (includes video)
CDC: Disparities in Death from Covid-19, Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 
CAP: Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity, Fact Sheet
PCOM: There's Nothing 'Micro' About the Impact of Microaggressions 
The Covid Tracking Project: The Covid Racial Data Tracker
KFF: Health Coverage by Race and Ethnicity, 2010-2019 
Brookings: The Great Real Estate Reset: Separate and Unequal 
6 Charts that Dismantle the Trope of Asian Americans As a Model Minority 
How Some Therapists are Helping Patients Heal by Tackling Structural Racism 

​Watch
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: A Reading of the Letter from Birmingham Jail 
Netflix: Explained, Racial Wealth Gap
WIRED: This is What $250 Billion Actually Looks Like 
Tom Scott: A Million Dollars vs a Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip 
CNBC: Why Income Inequality is Growing at the Fastest Rate among Asian Americans
CBS News: Supreme Court Strikes Down Section of Voting Rights Act (2013)
Vox: The Man Who Rigged America's Election Maps
MSNBC: New 'Real World Evidence' that GOP Voter Suppression is Already Working 
PBS News Hour: How the US Can Address the 'Moment of Crisis' Facing the AAPI Community 

Listen 
NPR Racial Covenants, a Relic of the Past, Are Still on the Books across the Country​​
NPR Code Switch Location, Location, Location!
Election 2020's Voter Suppression Reality 
NPR On Point: How the Extreme Wealth Gap Harms Us All 
NPR On Point: The Trap of Meritocracy
NPR Fresh Air: How Racism Impacts Black Americans' Health 

Interact
The New York Times: A Close-Up Picture of Partisan Segregation, Among 180 Million Voters
Pew Research Center: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Electorate
The Washington Post: America is More Diverse Than Ever - But Still Segregated
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, Interactive US Map
The New York Times: Mapping Segregation (by major cities)
EdBuild: NonWhite School Districts Get $23 Billion Less Than White Districts
Firsthand Segregation 
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Racism in Popular Culture 

Read
US Dept of Health and Human Services: Mental and Behavioral Health - American Indians/Alaska Natives 
NICOA: American Indian Suicide Rate Increase
NPR: Uncle Ben's Changing Name to Ben's Original after Criticism of Racial Stereotyping 
NPR: Sesame Street Makes History with the Debut of its First Asian American Muppet
NPR: Xbox Promotes Asian Characters and Creators Amid Calls for Greater Diversity in Games
NBC: Black Daughters Reacting to Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid 
NPR: PBS and Ken Burns Vow to do Better on Diversity But Critics Aren't Convinced
NPR: Black TikTok Creators are on Strike to Protest a Lack of Credit for Their Work 
CNN: Popular Culture Made it Impossible to Ignore America's Reckoning with Racism in 2020 
Former Employees Accuse Cards Against Humanity of a Racist and Sexist Office Culture 

Watch
Stuart Hall: Some Views on Cultural Themes and Multiculturalism 
Aljazeera: Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class in the Media 
The New Yorker: The History of Black Protest in Sports 
CBS Sunday Morning: Blackface: A Cultural History of a Racist Art Form ​


Listen 
NPR: Despite Black Princess, Disney's Race Record Mixed
NPR: The Conspiracy Against Hip-Hop
Search Engines Like Google are Powered by Racist, Misogynist Algorithms, Says MacArthur Fellow 
What Happens to "Black Twitter" Under Musk? 
Wutang Clan's RZA on The Racist History of a Popular Ice Cream Jingle 
So Few Latinas Make It in Hollywood

​Interact
Jim Crow Museum, Virtual Visit available 

Contemporary Systems of Oppression 

Read
Prison Policy Initiative: Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2022
Pew Research Center: Black Imprisonment Rate in the US has Fallen by a Third Since 2006 
Vox: The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Explained 
Prison Policy Initiative: How Much do Incarcerated People Earn in Each State? 
Detention Watch Network: Immigration Detention 101
The New York Times: For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants is Big Business
The Nation: A Look Inside our Abusive Immigrant Prisons
National Immigration Forum: Fact Sheet: Immigration Detention in the US
Freedom for Immigrants: Detention by the Numbers
NASA Global Climate Change: A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter
Smithsonian: Sea Level Rise
IISD: Small Islands, Large Oceans: Voices on the Frontlines of Climate Change (includes video)

​Watch
CNBC: Who Makes Money From Private Prisons?
CBC: George Tonight: Angela Davis on Abolishing Prisons
The Root: How the School-to-Prison Pipeline Functions
CBS: Angela Davis Likens Abolishing the Prison System to End of Slavery 
RaicesTexas: Black Immigrants in the US (Detention)
Aloe Blacc: School-to-Prison Pipeline
TED: The Danger of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice, Hany Farid 
Amanpour & Co: "Pollution is Segregated" says the Father of Environmental Justice, Robert Bullard 
ProPublica: A Brief History of Environmental Justice 
Smithsonian: What is the Anthropocene? 
60 Minutes Australia: Climate Change Causes Islands to Disappear 

Listen 
NPR: Overflowing Hog Lagoons Raise Environmental Concerns in North Carolina 
NPR: The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
NPR: A Lawyer Combats the Mass Incarceration Crisis
NPR: Reframing History: Mass Incarceration 
WBUR: Congress Demands Investigation Into Hysterectomies at an Immigrant Detention Facility 
NPR: Wayfair Employees Walk Out to Protest Sales to Immigrant Detention Facilities 

​Interact
Southern Poverty Law Center: Family Separation - A Timeline
Freedom For Immigrants: Mapping US Immigration Detention 
​​CNN Money: Education vs Prison Costs
The New York Times: Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys
Harvard: Environmental Racism in Greater Boston: An Interactive Web Resource
Environmental Justice Atlas (Global)

The Future of Race 

Read
Los Angeles Times: Affirmative Action Divides Asian Americans, UC's Largest Overrepresented Student Group
The Atlantic: This is the End of Affirmative Action: What are We Going to do About It? 
NPR: This is How the White Population is Actually Changing Based on New Census Data 
NPR: What the New Census Data Shows about Race Depends on How You Look At It


​Watch
Fusion: President Obama: I Never Expected a Post-Racial Society 
Overview of History of Affirmative Action 
​2022 Supreme Court Case on Affirmative Action
TED: Dorothy Roberts: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine 
New York University: Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans 
Vox: What's Left of Affirmative Action, Explained 
The New York Times: Being Multiracial in America
Los Angeles Times: How Kamala Harris Reflects a Multiracial America
Pew Research Center: Multiracial American Voices
Why Poorer Countries Want Rich Countries to Foot their Climate Change Bill
The Limits of Ancestry DNA Tests
CBS Heat Islands

Listen 
​NPR: University of California Will Waive Tuition and Fees for Many Native American Students
NPR: California Reconsiders Affirmative Action Ban
NPR: Mixed Race Americans Picture a "Blended Nation" 
NPR: The Return of Race Science

Interact
Anthropocene Interactive
Environmental Racism in Boston
Environmental Justice Atlas

Fighting Racial Inequality 

Read
The Atlantic: Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country (They Just Don't Realize It)
Brookings: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Requires Heavy, Progressive Taxation of Wealth 
What 2021 Taught Us About the Fight for Racial Justice
PBS - Talking to Young Children about Race and Racism
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Watch
NBC: DC Asian Americans College Students Push for Curriculum Changes
Haymarket Books - We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time with Baratunde Thurston, TED
Haymarket Boks - Angela Y. Davis Speaks
Haymarket Books - Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Listen 
Hope is a Discipline with Mariame Kaba on The Intercept
NPR: "Not Racist" is Not Enough: Putting in the Work to Be Anti-Racist
NPR: Beyond Protests: 5 More Ways to Channel Anger into Action to Fight Racism

Interact
NAACP - Take Action
Race Forward
Zinn Education Project
RISE (national nonprofit that educates and empowers the sports community to eliminate racial discrimination)