Resources

Given to me by Susan. I expect to improve on it, but for now here it is, just as text.

• Allyship: Intersectionality and Anti-Oppression
• White Privilege:  Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh 
• Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against
• Women of Color by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun 
• Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Curriculum for White Americas to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism by Jon Greenberg 
• Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race by Sam Adler-Bell
• Privilege & Oppression, Conflict & Compassion by Meg Barker & Jamie Heckert
• Note to Self:  White people taking part in #BlackLivesMatter protests by Vonn New
• Putting a Toe in the Water of the Race Conversation by Jackson Free Press 
• Race Matters: How to Talk About Race by Annie E. Casey Foundation
• 4 Ways White People can Process their Emotions Without Bringing White Tears by Jennifer Loubriel 
• I, Racist by John Metta
• Why Black History Month is for Everybody by Maisha Johnson 
• On Being Fat, Brown, Femme, Ugly and Unloveable by Caleb Luna
• Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran 
• "Check my what?" On privilege and what we can do about it
• Emptying the White Knapsack by Jaime Grant 
• White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed — and what can never be repaid — for racial privilege By Eula Bliss
• The Good, Racist People by Ta-Nehisi Coates 
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Books Every White Ally Should Read

• The Body Is Not An Apology
• Back Girl Dangerous
• Leaving Evidence (Mia Mingus)
• Showing Up For Racial Justice

• How to apologize
• What does it mean to be white? With Anne Rhodes | TEDxIthacaCollege
• What It Means to Be White, Reflections by Nancy M. Thurston
• The Psychology of Racism and Antiracism with Derald Wing Sue, PhD
• What does it mean to be white in America? Community Dialog on Race and
• Racism
• Shopping White Black, Social Experiment

One of the Silicon Valley Reads book this year is “Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Justice.”

http://siliconvalleyreads.org

An activist against the prison-industrial complex (@prisonculture on Twitter), is promoting this resource:

http://www.thepicis.org/why-protest/

A surprising article related to our criminal justice topic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/aramis-ayala-prosecutors-death-penalty.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share A battle in Florida erupted over a newly elected prosecutor’s decision not to seek the death penalty in a case involving the death of a police officer.

Rikers Island Could Be Closed And Replaced With Smaller Jails Around New York City by Joel Rose

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to close the city's notorious Rikers Island jail. But even he acknowledges that the process will not be quick or easy….

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/31/522251063/rikers-island-could-be-closed-and-replaced-with-smaller-jails-around-new-york-ci?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

Money bail makes innocent people plead guilty

A KQED report on illegal activities related to bail in Santa Clara County.

https://ms.clicks.actions.aclu.org/t/gfcbZaS1SrQBTSpHEYsERK7aBZCdQN-FoaaaaDSCkBMNYFCwaaERK7BZCd?r=3@3-253&f=qwqcl%256yqukamg.emo&d=usuYp%2522mygeik.aqk&n=~56&z=&p=%23

NYTimes: An Alabama Prison’s Unrelenting Descent Into Violence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/us/alabama-prison-violence.html

Even in a state with some of the nation’s most troubled and overcrowded prisons, St. Clair Correctional Facility stands out for its history of violence.