My Weekly Resistance

Insights from American economic history:

• William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (2020)

  • Darity and Mullen were interviewed about their book in an Economic Policy Institute webinar on 5/27/20

• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019)

• Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017)

• Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (2005)

  • Katznelson summarized some of the arguments in his book in an opinion piece in the New York Times on 8/12/17, "Making Affirmative Action White Again,"

• Vann R. Newkirk II, "The Great Land Robbery," The Atlantic, Sept. 2019. 
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
  This article is about the loss of land by African-American farmers in the Mississippi Delta

• Gavin Wright, Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (2013), ch. 2, "The Political Economy of the Jim Crow South," pp. 32-73.  

Anti Racist Resources from Greater Good Science Center

Racial Equity Tools- Resources for Educators

• https://www.racialequitytools.org/home

• Seventy Five Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Brene Brown Anti Racism Resources