RACE, WHITENESS & COLORISM
Understanding Race
RACE: The Power of An Illusion
RACE: The Power of An Illusion
Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people.
RACE: The Power of An Illusion
RACE: The Power of An Illusion
RACE: The Power of An Illusion
Race - The Power of an Illusion is a three part documentary series that aired on PBS . The film questions the very idea of race as innate biology. View at the Facing History website. You may need to create a free account at Facing History.
Resource Guide for Anti-Racism
RACE: The Power of An Illusion
Resource Guide for Anti-Racism
This list of readings and third party links from GLITTER GUIDE provides a Resource Guide for Anti-Racism + Being An Educated Ally for BIPOC. In order to change the racist world we live in, white people need to do better. We have to raise better humans.
Whiteness Studies
Whiteness Studies
Resource Guide for Anti-Racism
This list of third party links from the WISE Center at Ithacca College examines the emergence of whiteness as a category that determines the distribution of rights and privileges including voting rights, property rights, and the right to own one’s own body.
Race Forward
Whiteness Studies
A Girl Like Me
Race Forward has a near 40-year history of conducting cutting edge research on the intersection of race and the economy and is a leading authority on the root causes of racial inequities in the United States, including the conscious and unconscious policies and practices that foster systemic racism.
A Girl Like Me
Whiteness Studies
A Girl Like Me
A Girl like Me is a 2005 award winning documentary by teenager Kiri Davis. This seven-minute documentary examines such things as the importance of color, hair and facial features for young African American women.
Shadeism
Shadeism
Shadeism
Shadeism (2010) is an introduction to the issue of shadeism, the discrimination based on skin tone within different communities. This 10 minute documentary short looks specifically at how it affects people within the African, Caribbean, and South Asian diasporas.