Demos Assigned Racial Equity Readings

Note: I have not yet vetted this list. Posting here for future reference and reading.

REPORT — “Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race”
Independent Television Service
http://resources.css.edu/diversityservices/docs/tenthingseveryoneshouldknowaboutrace.pdf

ARTICLE — “The Historical Origins and Development of Racism”
George Frederickson
https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-01.htm

BOOK — The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter (excerpts)

ARTICLE — “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack”
Peggy McIntosh
http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf

ARTICLES — “How Immigrants Come to Be Seen as Americans”
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/11/15/how-immigrants-come-to-be-seen-as-americans

BOOK — Race: Are We So Different?
Alan Goodman, Yolanda Moses, Joseph Jones (excerpts)

BOOK — Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
john a. powell (excerpts)

BOOK — Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (excerpts)

BOOK — Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of White America
Rich Benjamin (excerpts)

ARTICLE — “The Case for Reparations”
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

ARTICLE — “A Dream Undone”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/magazine/voting-rights-act-dream-undone.html

REPORT — “Whiter Jobs, Lower Wages: Occupational Segregation and the Lower Wages of Black Men”
http://s1.epi.org/files/page/-/BriefingPaper288.pdf

REPORT — “The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation and Race and Ethnicity”
http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-gender-wage-gap-by-occupation-and-by-race-and-ethnicity-2013

BOOK — Freedom is Not Enough
Nancy Maclean (excerpts)

BOOK — Harvest of Empires
Juan Gonzalez (excerpts)

BLOG — “On Two Year Anniversary of Blow to VRA, New Evidence That Voter ID Laws Are Racially Biased”
http://www.demos.org/blog/6/4/15/two-year-anniversary-blow-vra-new-evidence-voter-id-laws-are-racially-biased

BLOG — “Racism is Destroying the Right to Vote”
http://www.demos.org/blog/5/18/15/racism-destroying-right-vote

BOOK — A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki (excerpts)

WEBSITE — Kanaʻiolowalu
Kanaʻiolowalu is a project of the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission. It is a campaign to reunify Native Hawaiians in the self-recognition of our unrelinquished sovereignty
http://kanaiolowalu.org/about/

ARTICLE — “Famous are the Flowers: Ha waiian Resistance Then–and Now”
Elinor Langer
http://www.thenation.com/article/famous-are-flowers-hawaiian-resistance-then-and-now/

REPORT — “Tribal Nations & The United States, National Congress of American Indians”
http://www.ncai.org/attachments/PolicyPaper_VmQazPEqbvZDMeaDvbupWTSZLmzyzBKOknQRXnUyoVMoyFkEWGH_Tribal%20Nations%20and%20the%20United%20States_An%20Introduction.pdf

ARTICLE — “Struggle for Chicano Liberation”
Bill Gallegos
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/lrs-chicano/index.htm

BOOK—Yellow
Frank Wu (excerpts)

BOOK — Everyday Bias
Howard Ross (excerpts)