Examine the Racism Machine’s Powerful Mechanisms
This chapter in Dismantling the Racism Machine, 2nd ed. explores the following questions . . .
How did the founding of the US strengthen the Racism Machine?
How did the Racism Machine become even stronger during the nation’s first two centuries?
with the following Recommended Resources . . .
Online Videos
Podcasts
- Biewen, John. Seeing White. Scene on Radio, 2017.
- McGhee, Heather, host. The Sum of Us. Color of Change, 2022.
Websites
- Mapping Inequality. University of Richmond, 2024.
- Race: Are We So Different? American Anthropological Association, 2016.
- Race: The Power of an Illusion. California Newsreel.
- Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2024.
- Zinn Education Project. 2024.
Articles
- “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.” United Nations, Accessed 13 August 2024.
- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. 3rd ed. Equal Justice Initiative, 2017.
- Estes, Nick. “The U.S. stole generations of Indigenous children to open the West.” High Country News. 14 October 2019.
- Freeman, Andrea. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch. Metropolitan Books, 2024.
- Grann, David, and Jim Gray. “The True Story Behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Being Erased From Oklahoma Classrooms.” New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023.
- Little Finger, Leonard. “We Walk on Our Ancestors: The Sacredness of the Black Hills.” Cultural Survival, 10 March 2014.
- “Unlearning Columbus Day Myths: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” National Museum of the American Indian, 2024.
- Weil, Julie Zauzmer, et al. “More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.” Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022.
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. “Lynch Law in America.” Words of Fire: An Anthology of African- American Feminist Thought, edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall. The New Press, 1995, pp. 70–76.
Books
- Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2012.
- Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury, 2016.
- Arana, Marie. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority. Simon & Schuster, 2024.
- Bell, Derrick. And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. Basic Books, 1987.
- Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Yale University Press, 2023.
- Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II. Anchor Books, 2008.
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2014.
- Estes, Nick. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. Verso, 2019.
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Donald Yacovone. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Smiley Books, 2013.
- Goodman, Alan H., et al. Race: Are We So Different? Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole, et al., editors. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World, 2021.
- Harriot, Michael. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. Dey Street Books, 2023.
- Jones, Robert P. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future. Simon & Schuster, 2023.
- Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2019.
- Mogelson, Luke. The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible. Penguin Press, 2022.
- Stanley, Jason. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Random House, 2018.
- Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.
- Yacovone, Donald. Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. Pantheon Books, 2022.
- Zia, Helen. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
Films
- The Chinese Exclusion Act. PBS, 2017.
- The 1619 Project. Harpo Films, 2023. [six-episode TV mini-series on Hulu]
- Slavery by Another Name. TPT National Productions, 2012.
- Stamped from the Beginning. One Story Up, 2023.
- 13th. Kandoo Films, 2016. Netflix.
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