Suggested Reading & Viewing

Books

         Race

• Developing Cultural Humility: Embracing Race, Privilege, and Power – Miguel Gallardo
• Humans – Brandon Stanton (creator of Humans of New York)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent – Isabel Wilkerson
  • Goodreads Choice Awards 2020: Best History & Biography
• White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
• So You Want to Talk About Race? – Ijeoma Oluo
• Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memories and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist – Franchesca Ramsey
• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement – John Lewis
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Nonfiction
• Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 – Thomas D. Morris
  • 1997 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association
  • 1996 Book Award, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People – Mahzarin R. Banaji
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner

          LGBTQ+

• The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook – Ashley Molesso & Chessie Needham

          Women’s Rights

• When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to Present – Gail Collins
• The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote – Elaine Weiss
  • American Bar Association 2019 Silver Gavel Award

           Holocaust Remembrance 

• The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
• Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family – Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gould
• Night – Elie Wiesel

Articles

• Unconscious Bias, Implicit Bias, and Microaggressions: What Can We Do About Them? – Artika R. Tyner
• Salem State Will Carry on Mission to Remember Genocides – via Boston Globe
• The Literary Movement America Forgot – via HuffPost

Movies

• Freedom Writers (2007) | PG-13 | Based on a true story. In the wake of the 1992 LA Riots, English teacher Erin Gruwell accepts a position at an underperforming high school and is assigned a classroom of at-risk teenagers. Quickly identifying racial tensions and violence in the lives of her students, Gruwell decides to focus her cirriculum on the Holocaust and encouraging her students to share their stories in diaries. Starring Hilary Swank, April Lee Hernandez, Mario, Giovannie Samuels and Patrick Dempsey. Featuring Pat Carroll as Miep Gies.
• Hamilton: An American Musical (2020) | PG-13 | Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. A fast-paced hip hop, rap, R&B, pop and soul musical based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, featuring a multicultural cast to show “America then, told by America now.” Starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr, Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Jonathan Groff, and Jasmine Cephas-Jones.

Activities

• Project Implicit: Implicit Bias Association Test – via Harvard University
• What is Your American Dream Score? – via MovingUpUSA.com: “Spend five minutes taking this quiz, and you’ll find out what factors were working in your favor and what you had to overcome to get where you are today. At the end, you’ll receive an overall score and a personalized summary of the results (and probably a big dose of pride and gratitude).” No personal identification information necessary!

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