This guide will help users learn more about antiracism resources available through the Texas A&M University School of Law Library.
You may be prompted to enter your Texas A&M University credentials to gain access to certain materials.
This guide was revised to comply with Texas Senate Bill 12 in accordance with the Texas A&M University System compliance requirements and guidance.
Recommended Citation:
Malikah Hall, Lisa Goodman, Cynthia Burress, Kristen Rowlett, & Jamie Madison, Antiracism Resources (July 30, 2020), https://doi.org/10.37419/antiracism
Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow laws, the system that once forced African-Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts and the criminal justice system.
On Account Of Race tells the story of an American tragedy, the only occasion in United States history in which a group of citizens who had been granted the right to vote then had it stripped away.
Guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to facilitate honest conversations about race and racism.
Argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set against people of color.
In How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. The author shows why and how, despite this risk, many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights.
Available via Lexis Digital Library: Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America's foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics.
It's important that people have the ability to converse openly and honestly with their students, colleagues, children, and neighbors, and Race Talk provides the path for achieving this goal.
Call Number: E840.8 .L49 A3 1998 Row 1B
Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America, where he has remained to this day, committed still to the nonviolent ideals of his mentor Martin Luther King and the movement they both served. John Lewis's life, which he tells with charm, warmth, and toughness, ranges across the battlefields of the civil rights movement -- Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, Mississippi.
Call Number: E184 .A1 B37 2007 - Row 1B
With great clarity Barndt traces the history of racism, especially in white America, revealing its various personal, institutional, and cultural forms. Without demonizing anyone or any race, he offers specific, positive ways in which people in all walks, including churches, can work to bring racism to an end.
Call Number: E185.61 .R68 2017 - Row 1B
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies.
Call Number: E184 .A1 R64 2014 - Row 1B
Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination.
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Call Number: E184 .A1 B65 2014 - Row 1B
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify-- racial inequalities
Call Number: KF336 .V84 2011 - Row 43A
The “Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities” teaching conference brought together law faculty, practitioners, and students to reexamine how issues of race, gender, sexual identity, nationality, disability, and generally—outsider status—are linked to poverty. Contributors have transformed their presentations into essays, offering a variety of roadmaps for incorporating these issues into the law school curriculum.
Call Number: E185.61 .W345 2018 - Row 1B
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers. In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals.
Call Number: E184 .M5 M64 2014 - Row 1B
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished{u2014}to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed.
