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Books, Videos, Articles, Podcasts from trustworthy sources
on Diversity in the USA and Texas
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Books
Links all go to Amazon, which has samples of books available to look at for free.  
Most books available in local libraries as well.

United States

Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity
By Donald Yacavone
Amazon Sample

How the Word is Passed
by Clint Smith
Amazon Sample
31-minute video

This Land is Their Land
by Dr. David J. Silverman
Amazon Sample
60-minute video lecture

Our Separate Ways:  Black and White Women
and the Struggle for Professional Identity
by Ella Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo 
Amazon Sample

Nice Racism
by Robin DiAnglo
Amazon Sample

Less Than Human:  Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others
by David Livingstone Smith
Amazon Sample

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
by Robert P. Jones
Amazon Sample

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
by Elizabeth Hinton
Amazon Sample

The Sum of Us:  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can All Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee
Link to Sample

Democracy in Chains:  The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America 
by Nancy MacLean
Amazon Sample

These Truths: A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore
Amazon Sample

The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by C. Vann Woodward
Amazon Sample

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Amazon Sample

The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
Amazon Sample 
American Racism and What You Can Do About It:  The Hard Truth about America and Americans
by Donald L. Scott
Amazon Sample

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Amazon Sample

White Fragility:  Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
by Robin J. DiAngelo
Amazon Sample

Stamped From the Beginning:  The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
Amazon Sample

How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Amazon Sample

Texas

Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
by Andrew Torget. (UNT history professor)
Amazon Sample

A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas
by Bill Minutaglio (UT Austin professor)
Amazon Sample                 Author Interview 

On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Amazon Sample                 Author interview

The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City
by Jim Schutze
Amazon Sample                 Author Interview

Articles

United States

On World Alzheimer's Day, the Black doctor who helped decode the disease
Ray Cavanaugh, The New York Times
Link to Article

College was supposed to close the wealth gap for black Americans.  The opposite happened.
Rachel Louise Ensign, Shane Shifflet, Wall Street Journal
Link to Article

Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate Are Not Separate Issues
Bill McKibben, The New Yorker.
Link to Article

A Year of New Urgency for Black Lives Matter
The New Yorker
Link to Articles

The 1619 Project
The New York Times
Link to Articles

On the Border, Two Versions of One Immigration Reality
Stephanie Taladrid, The New Yorker
Link to Article

Right-wing media falsely ties Black Lives Matter movement to Beijing
Barbara Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios
Link to Article 

Bridging the Divide between the Police and the Policed
Saki Knafo, The New Yorker
Link to Article

Born with two strikes:  How systemic racism shaped Floyd's life and hobbled his ambition
Toluse Olorunnipa and Griff Witte, The Washington Post
Link to Article

A Knee on His Neck: Police were a constant presence in Floyd's life, an experience shared by other Black men
Arelis R. Hernandez, The Washington Post
Link to Article

Greenwood: The Devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Ago
Deneen Brown, The Washington Post
Link to Article, Photos

Resources to Understand America's Long History of Injustice and Inequality
The Washington Post
Link to Article

Remembering Rosewood
The Real Rosewood Foundation
Link to Web Site

Texas

Texas' divisive bill limiting how students learn about current events and historic racism passed by Texas Senate
The Texas Tribune
Link to Article

The Bullock Museum:  African Americans in Texas
Texas State History Museum
Link to Article

Racial Geography Tour
University of Texas Austin
Link to Article

Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Link to Article

Segregated from Opportunity: A young man's path out of Houston's oldest housing project echoes Floyd's journey
Tracy Jan and Arelis R. Hernandez, The Washington Post
Link to Article

Remembering Quakertown (Denton History)
Denton County Office of History and Culture
Link to Article

What is critical race theory, and why do Republicans want to ban it in our schools?
Marisa Iati
Link to Article

The Western’s Long Glorification of Oppression
Nic Yeager, Texas Observer
Link to Article

Movies and Videos

Movies 

Only links to trailers are included here because availability of movies on streaming services changes often.  To find the full length movie, Google the name of the movie and find out where to stream

The Green Book (2018)
Trailer


Just Mercy (2019)
Trailer

Fruitvale Station (2013)
Trailer
Lectures

How Voting and Elections will Change in Texas
Texas Tribune (41 minutes, discussion starts at about 5:30)
Link to Video

The Road to Revolution (Texas)
Andrew J. Torget (UNT professor)
Short Version  (11 minutes)
Long Version (50 minutes)

Video Collection: US Racial Justice and Black History
KERA Television
Archive Page with Links

A viral video forced a wealthy Texas suburb to confront racism.  A 'silent majority' fought back.
NBC News
Archive Page with Links

Dallas at the Crossroads (1960)
Walter Cronkite
YouTube Video

Podcasts and Interviews

What Are States Really Banning When They Ban Critical Race Theory in Classrooms?
The Argument, New York Times
The Argument Podcast

Are Workplace Diversity Programs Doing More Harm Than Good?
The Argument, New York Times
The Argument Podcast

Does Teaching America It's Racist Make It Less Racist?
The Argument, New York Times
The Argument Podcast

The Cost All Americans Pay for Racism
Ezra Klein, Heather McGhee, The New York Times
Ezra Klein Show Interview

Tearing Down Racist Statues Doesn’t Mean We’ve Torn Down Racism
Krys Boyd, Connor Towne O’Neill
KERA Think Interview

Want To Learn About Class? Turn On The TV
Krys Boyd, Rob Henderson
KERA Think Interview

The Dreams Of Those Who Don’t Get DACA
Krys Boyd, Cornejo Villavicencio
KERA Think Interview

Talking Back To A Culture That Doesn’t Value Gay Black Men
Krys Boyd, Saeed Jones
KERA Think Interview

The Roadblocks to Love for Black Women
Krys Boyd, Dianne M. Stewart
KERA Think Interview
Talking Back To A Culture That Doesn’t Value Gay Black Men
Krys Boyd, Saeed Jones
KERA Think Interview

The Roadblocks to Love for Black Women
Krys Boyd, Dianne M. Stewart
KERA Think Interview

The Link between Structural Racism and Mental Illness
Krys Boyd, Dr. Ruth Shim
KERA Think Interview

A Story of Chinese Immigrants in the Jim Crow South
Krys Boyd, Larissa Lam
KERA Think Interview

The South Lives on in White Sororities
Krys Boyd, Margaret L. Freeman
KERA Think Interview

Growing Up Racially Black, but not Culturally Black, in America
Krys Boyd, Louis Chude-Sokei
KERA Think Interview

Is Diabetes Research Actually Harming Black Americans?
Krys Boyd, James Doucet-Battle
KERA Think Interview

Texas
A 40-Year Look at Racism In North Texas
Krys Boyd, Ray Sanders
KERA Think Interview

Southlake:  A viral video, a diversity plan, and an election that changed an affluent Texas town
NBC News
Southlake Podcast
                           How to contribute
How to contribute to the diversity library:  send an email to webmaster@voicesunitedrr.org.

Please include the name of the book, article, video, podcast, the author or corporate source for the information, and a link for

• A book: Find it on Amazon and send a link to the sample.

• A video: Send a link to the podcast or video itself or to a webpage that has the video embedded.