Anti-Racism Resources: Watch

We compiled some suggestions from our Tulane faculty and staff for educational resources. We have organized them by how you might want to educate yourself. This page has resources you can watch. You can click the following links for resources you can read or listen to.

• Race – The Power of an Illusion (California Newsreel) – available on Kanopy streaming service, which can access through the library (both Tulane and NOPL)
• APHA’s 2020 webinar series on Advancing Racial Equity
• Claiborne Avenue: Past, Present, and Future
• The Amistad Research Center's Conversations in Color (a free public cultural series that featured artists, educators, and community activists in talks about their work and its impact on social change.)
• The Racing Toward Equity seminar series, offered by the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (CEMCH) during the 2016-2017 academic year incorporated segments of the APHA webinar “Quantifying Racism to Understand and Address Health Disparities”, readings, and live presentations
• Structural racism and myocardial infarction in the United States (Social Science & Medicine, via PubMed)
• Latino? Hispanic? Latinix? BBC News
• We often hear that Louisiana is the mass incarceration capital of the world. In this short video from The Atlantic, sociologist Bruce Western lays out how incarceration has become almost inevitable for certain demographics of young Black men in the United States.
• It seems like there are more disturbing news stories about the death of Black Americans who are having a mental health crisis by the hands of law enforcement. Oftentimes, the families of the victims called police for help. This short lecture from the Scholar Strike addresses race, policing and the criminalization of mental illness.
• Many of us know we need to do better when teaching about race and racism. This brief video from the Scholar Strike presents some tips and lessons learned about teaching about racism in the classroom.
• Facilitating Race Talk & Difficult Conversations In the Classroom, webcast from University of Buffalo