LibGuides: Antiracism &amp; Racism: Articles &amp; Essays

Articles & Essays

Most of the articles and essays on this page are freely available to anyone. For those that link to the New York Times, FLC students, staff, and faculty can access them through their free subscription to the New York Times that is provided by Reed Library.

2019-2020

The 1619 Project
edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times, 2019)
An American Spring of Reckoning
Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker, 2020)
Colorism in High Fashion
Malaika Handa (The Pudding, 2019)
Summary of Stages of Racial Identity Development
Based upon resources included in the work of Anna Stamborski, M., Nikki Zimmermann, M., and Bailie Gregory, M. M.S. Ed. (2020)
Reconceptualizing the Harms of Discrimination: How Brown v. Board of Education Helped to Further White Supremacy
Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Virginia Law Review Association, 2019)
What is Juneteenth?
Derrick Bryson Taylor (New York Times, 2020)

2014-2018

Black Male Writers For Our Time
Ayana Mathis (T, New York Times Style Magazine, 2018)
The Case for Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coats (The Atlantic, 2014)
The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning
Claudia Rankine (New York Times, 2015)
A Herstory of the Movement
Alicia Garza (The Feminist Wire, 2014)
How Racism Invented Race in America
Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, 2014)
A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, and Justice
The Movement for Black Lives
White Debt
Eula Biss (The New York Times, 2015)

Before 2014

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Kimberlé Crenshaw (Stanford Law Review, 1991)
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack and Other Essays
Peggy McIntosh (1991)
Large DNA Study Traces Violent History of American Slavery
Scientists from "23andMe" published the largest DNA study to date of people with African ancestry in the Americas.