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Books:

White Space, Black Hood

The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated “ghetto” myths to justify racist policies that concentrated poverty in the hood and created high-opportunity white spaces

The 1619 Project

In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States.

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

How to Be an Antiracist

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types.

White Fragility

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence.

Evicted

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

Four Hundred Souls

The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.

Me and White Supremacy

When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook.

Biased

How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time.

The Color of Money

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.

Red Hot City

Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent suburbs trying to push back against this diversity. Exploring the city's past and future, Red Hot City tracks these racial and economic shifts and the politics and policies that produced them.

American Apartheid

American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today through an interlocking set of individual actions, institutional practices, and governmental policies. In some urban areas the degree of black segregation is so intense and occurs in so many dimensions simultaneously that it amounts to "hypersegregation."

The Fight for Fair Housing

The Fight for Fair Housing brings together the nation's leading fair housing activists and scholars (many of whom are in both camps) to tell the stories that led to the passage of the Fair Housing Act, its consequences, and the implications of the act going forward.

Race For Profit

Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.

Talking To Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of TALKING TO STRANGERS, a powerful examination of our interactions with people we don't know. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?

So You Want to Talk about Race

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor-at-Large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.

The New Jim Crow

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Wilmington's Lie The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state—and the South—white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.

Sundown Towns - A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of “sundown towns”—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks could not live there—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation.

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Videos:

Finding A Place to Call Home Fair Housing On A Diverse Long Island (168 mins)

The Foresight of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Bryan Greene (59 mins)

Is Fair Housing In Your Blind Spot? (66 mins)

Nassau County Fair Housing Laws and the Nassau Commission on Human Rights Housing Complaint Process (28 mins)

Update from NAR on Fair Housing Policies and Initiatives (54 mins)

Subconscious Implicit Bias and Fair Housing (43 mins)

A Really Brief History of Fair Housing (66 mins)

Special Fair Housing Webinar for LIBOR Members (58 mins)

The Segregation Myth: Richard Rothstein Debunks an American Lie | NowThis (9 mins)

Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing (53 mins)

Why Cities Are Still So Segregated | Let's Talk | NPR (6 mins)

An Overview of the Fair Housing Act (6 mins)

Segregated By Design (18 mins)

"Accents" Fair Housing PSA (1 min)

Matter Of Place by The Fair Housing Justice Center (27 mins)

America Divided (16 mins)

Fair Housing Presentation Live

Understanding New York State's New Fair Housing Regulations (14 mins)

The Reaffirmation of Fair Housing Principles (4 mins)

NAR’s Role – Past, Present and Future – in Fair Housing (8 mins)

NAR’s Fair Housing Action Plan (4 mins)

Podcasts:

Books:

Finding A Place to Call Home Fair Housing On A Diverse Long Island
(168 mins)

The Foresight of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Bryan Greene
(59 mins)

Is Fair Housing In Your Blind Spot?
(66 mins)

Nassau County Fair Housing Laws and the Nassau Commission on Human Rights Housing Complaint Process
(28 mins)

Update from NAR on Fair Housing Policies and Initiatives
(54 mins)

Subconscious Implicit Bias and Fair Housing
(43 mins)

A Really Brief History of Fair Housing
(66 mins)

Special Fair Housing Webinar
for LIBOR Members
(58 mins)

The Segregation Myth: Richard Rothstein Debunks an American Lie | NowThis
(9 mins)

Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing
(53 mins)

Why Cities Are Still So Segregated | Let's Talk | NPR
(6 mins)

An Overview of the Fair Housing Act
(6 mins)

Segregated By Design
(18 mins)

"Accents" Fair Housing PSA
(1 min)

Matter Of Place by The Fair Housing Justice Center
(27 mins)

America Divided
(16 mins)

Understanding New York State's New Fair Housing Regulations
(14 mins)

The Reaffirmation of Fair Housing Principles
(4 mins)

NAR’s Role – Past, Present and Future – in Fair Housing
(8 mins)

NAR’s Fair Housing Action Plan
(4 mins)