Read to Respond: Racial Justice

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. This post focuses on racial justice, diving deep into topics such as racial identity, the Ferguson trial, and black activism. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Racial Justice

• “Which Black Lives Matter?: Gender, State-Sanctioned Violence, and ‘My Brother’s Keeper’”
  Xhercis Méndez
  Radical History Review, number 126
  October 2016
• “Black Lives Matter Everywhere”
  World Policy Journal, volume 33, issue 1
  Spring 2016
• “The Murder of Michael Brown: Reading the Ferguson Grand Jury Transcript”
  Nicholas Mirzoeff
  Social Text, number 126
  March 2016
• “All Power to All People? Black LGBTTI2QQ Activism, Remembrance, and Archiving in Toronto”
  Syrus Marcus Ware
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, issue 2
  May 2017
• Dossier: “On Race and Innovation”
  boundary 2, volume 42, issue 4
  November 2015
• “Needed Interventions to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health”
  David R. Williams and Valerie Purdie-Vaughns
  Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, volume 41, issue 4
  August 2016  
• “Super Slaves: Breeding and Controlling the Modern Black American Male through Sports”
  Steven W. Thrasher
  Radical History Review, number 125
  May 2016  
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
  Christina Sharpe
  2016
• Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
  Jane Lazarre
  2016
• Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
  Aimee Meredith Cox
  2015
• “Calvin’s Problem: Racial Identity and Gun Ownership”
  Harel Shapira
  Public Culture, number 29
  May 2017
• Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
  Gary May
  2013
• “Lights, Camera, Police Action!”
  John L. Jackson Jr
  Public Culture, number 28
  January 2016  
  
  These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.