LibGuides: Juneteenth: Continue Learning

Race and Antiracism

The Antiracist Reading List - curated by Ibram X. Kendi for the New York Times
Anti-Racism Resource Guide - provided by the Saber Es Poder (Knowledge is Power) Planning Team
- Saber Es Poder is a Latinx Leadership & Advocacy program, a partnership between the Centro Cultural César Chávez Center and Community Engagement and Leadership (CEL) at Oregon State University
What's Going On? Antiracist Resources for Understanding 2020
Racial Equity Work for White People - Getting Started and Going Deeper - compilation of resources for white people on racial equity work by Multnomah County Library
Recommended Reads for Equity - research guide collection of recommended books from YA to poetry on equity, diversity, and inclusion from the University of Washington Libraries

Antiracism Inc. : why the way we talk about racial justice matters by Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, Alison Rose Reed
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781950192243
Publication Date: 2019
"Antiracism Inc. traces the ways people along the political spectrum appropriate, incorporate, and neutralize antiracist discourses to perpetuate injustice. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations. Antiracism Inc. reveals how antiracist claims can be used to propagate racism, and what we can do about it."
How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780525509295
Publication Date: 2019
"The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. In this book, Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society."
Rethinking racial justice by Andrew Valls
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780190860561
Publication Date: 2018
The racial injustice that continues to plague the United States couldn't be a clearer challenge to the country's idea of itself as a liberal and democratic society, where all citizens have a chance at a decent life. So what must a liberal society do to address the legacies of its past, and how should we aim to reconceive liberalism in order to do so? In this book, Andrew Valls takes issue with solutions from both the left and the right, and therefore with the constricted ways in which racial justice is debated in the United States today.
Race in North America origin and evolution of a worldview by Audrey Smedley, Brian D. Smedley
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9786613137906
Publication Date: 2011
A sweeping work examining the evolution of "race" in the past three centuries as a cultural invention rationalizing inequality among the peoples of North America
"Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780465003969
Publication Date: 2003

Film Resources

Kanopy
A streaming video resource made available through the joint support of OSU Libraries and Ecampus

Social and Systemic Injustice - collection of films curated by Kanopy
Emancipation Road collection - 7 part series from 1625 to today

Additional Films and Videos

Oregon's Black Pioneers (OPB)
Reconstruction - America After the Civil War (PBS series)
Pioneers of African American Cinema (Criterion Channel)
Just Mercy (now free on Youtube)
13th (Netflix documentary now free on Youtube)

OSU Press Books

Breaking Chains Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory by R. Gregory Nokes
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780870717123
Publication Date: 2013
In Breaking Chains, R. Gregory Nokes tells the story of the only slavery case ever adjudicated in Oregon courts—Holmes v. Ford. Drawing on the court record of this landmark case, Nokes offers an intimate account of the relationship between a slave and his master from the slave’s point of view. He also explores the experiences of other slaves in early Oregon, examining attitudes toward race and revealing contradictions in the state’s history. Oregon was the only free state admitted to the union with a voter-approved constitutional clause banning African Americans and, despite the prohibition against slavery, many in Oregon tolerated it, and supported politicians who were pro-slavery, including Oregon’s first territorial governor.
Dangerous subjects : James D. Saules and the rise of black exclusion in Oregon by Kenneth R. Coleman
Call Number: E185.93.O7 C65 2017
ISBN: 9780870719042
Publication Date: 2017
Dangerous Subjects describes the life and times of James D. Saules, a black sailor who was shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon and settled there in 1841. Before landing in Oregon, Saules traveled the world as a whaleman in the South Pacific and later as a crew member of the United States Exploring Expedition. Saules resided in the Pacific Northwest for just two years before a major wave of Anglo-American immigrants arrived in covered wagons. In Oregon, Saules encountered a multiethnic population already transformed by colonialism—in particular, the fur industry and Protestant missionaries. Once the Oregon Trail emigrants began arriving in large numbers, in 1843, Saules had to adapt to a new reality in which Anglo-American settlers persistently sought to marginalize and exclude black residents from the region. Unlike Saules, who adapted and thrived in Oregon’s multiethnic milieu, the settler colonists sought to remake Oregon as a white man’s country. They used race as shorthand to determine which previous inhabitants would be included and which would be excluded. Saules inspired and later had to contend with a web of black exclusion laws designed to deny black people citizenship, mobility, and land.
Black woman in green : Gloria Brown and the unmarked trail to forest service leadership by Gloria D. Brown, Donna L. Sinclair
Call Number: SD129.B76 B76 2020
ISBN: 9780870710018
Publication Date: 2020
From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the first African American woman to attain the rank of forest supervisor at the US Forest Service. As a young widow with three children, she transferred to Missoula, Montana, and embarked on a remarkable journey, ultimately leading the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon and later the Los Padres in California. The story of Brown’s career unfolds against the backdrop of a changing government agency and a changing society. As scholars awaken to the racist history of public land management and the ways that people of color have been excluded from contemporary notions of nature and wilderness, Brown’s story provides valuable insight into the roles that African Americans have carved out in the outdoors generally and in the field of environmental policy and public lands management specifically. Drawing on her powerful communication and listening skills, her sense of humor, and her willingness to believe in the basic goodness of humanity, Brown conducted civil rights trainings and shattered glass ceilings, all while raising her children alone.

Celebrating Black Lives

Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List (by American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table)
Juneteenth Reader - curated by Ally Fripp, OSULP's 4th Diversity Scholar

Learn About Black Librarians

Blazing Trails: Pioneering African-American Librarians Share Their Stories (ALA blog)
13 Pioneering Black American Librarians You Oughta Know (Book Riot Post)
Honoring African American Librarians (Smithsonian)

Learn About Black Board Game Designers

Black Board Game and RPG Designers and Artists (list by Board Game Geek)
https://www.boardgamebrothas.com
- Includes games such as Rap Godz and Graffiti Knights
https://educationalgamestore.com
- Includes the Entrepreneur Game as well as additional versions such as Rise of the Returning Citizen (for recently released citizens), Vetrepreneur (for veterans), and a Spanish version of the original Entrepreneur Game.

Read More Black Authors

3 Great Queer Books by Black Authors (Book Riot)
43 Books by Black Authors You Should Read in Your Lifetime (Oprah Magazine)
33 Books by Contemporary Black Authors (Penguin Random House)
42 Amazing Books Written by Black Authors (Buzzfeed)
15 Young Black Female Authors to Add to Your Must Read List (Insider)
19 Black Childrens Books by Black Authors (Book Riot)
15 Black Comic Artists Whose Work You Need to Read (CBR)

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Celebrating Black Lives

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