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Video Links

• A Sentenced Life—Race in Colorado: Justice
  African Americans are 6 times more likely to be incarcerated in the jails in the state of Colorado when compared to Whites. This video examines why and the difficulties that minorities may experience once they leave jail and try to succeed in life outside of prison. Four people are highlighted in this video who are trying to remove the stigma associated with them once they have become incarcerated.

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• A Class Divided
  In 1968, Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliot engaged her class of third graders in what would become a landmark exercise in learning about race and the social construction of difference. She divided the class into groups based on eye color and then informed the class that one group was superior. A Class Divided is a Frontline special report about this powerful and controversial experiment that we continue to discuss decades on. 

     

• DJ Dave’s Whole Foods Parking Lot
   
• Whole Foods Parking Lot Rap Response and Revenge of the Black Prius by Delia Brown
  The first video is DJ Dave’s satirical rap about the experience of shopping—and parking—at the Whole Foods grocery store on the West Side of LA. The second is performance artist Delia Brown’s “response rap” to DJ Dave. Both artists take a Black medium (rap) and use it to point out the ridiculousness of certain aspects of White culture and consumption. 

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• Chinatown on the Move
  Over the last decade, New York’s Chinese population has increased by one third, yet the percentage of that population living and working in Manhattan’s Chinatown on the lower east side has declined. This New York Times video explores the changes in Chinatown.

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• The Caretaker
  This short New York Times documentary provides a glimpse into the life of Joesy, an undocumented immigrant from Fiji. Joesy works as a live-in attendant/aide for Ms. Tsurumoto, a 95-year-old Japanese-American woman. 

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Audio Links

• This American Life 72: Trek
  This program is an idiosyncratic first-person travelogue about race relations and tourism in the new South Africa. The interracial producers of the program travel through the still mostly segregated society and have very different opinions about what they see, especially when it comes to some distant relatives of the White correspondents in South Africa.

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• This American Life 362: Got you Pegged
  In essence, this episode is about stereotypes. Shalom goes on vacation with his family and suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter—and sets out to prove it. Amy thought it was obvious that she was an adult, not a kid, and she assumed the friendly man working at the children's museum knew it too. Unfortunately, the man had Amy pegged all wrong. These and other stories are presented about the pitfalls of making snap judgments about others.

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• Radiolab Season 5 Episode 3: Race
  Description: This episode asks—but never answers—questions about the validity of the term “race.” It examines how understandings of “race” have changed across time and looks at both the scientific and cultural costs we pay for treating “race” as a real and meaningful thing, and also examines the costs of treating it as if it is nothing more than a social construct. 

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• Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students
  This documentary considers the Black-White achievement gap. It focuses on one suburban school and how educators and administrators are attempting to address disparities of outcomes. 

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Web Resources

Professional Resources

• Ethnic and Racial Studies
  Race, ethnicity, and nationalism are at the very heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. According to the publisher, Routledge, Ethnic and Racial Studies is the leading international journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world.

​Data Resources

• U.S. Census Bureau—Race
  Data on race is available from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau collects race data according to U.S. Office of Management and Budget guidelines, and these data are based on self-identification. People may choose to report more than one race group. People of any race may be of any ethnic origin.

​Other Resources

• Race & Ethnicity
  Michael Kearl’s Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace: Race & Ethnicity.
   
• Race-Based Activism is Changing College Campuses
  This article from the Pacific Standard magazine examines a study that was conducted among 567 presidents of 4-year institutions. According to the results of this study, college activism on these campuses in regard to racial issues has increased in recent years. This article takes a look at the implementation of programs in these institutions regarding these issues as a result of the increase of activism and dialogue regarding race on these campuses.
   
• The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
  The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research. This site presents diverse opinions regarding affirmative action topics; rather than taking a singular pro or con position, it is designed to help lend many different voices to the debates surrounding the issues of affirmative action. This site is an academic resource, and it provides scholars, students, and the interested public with on-site articles and theoretical analyses, policy documents, current legislative updates, and an annotated bibliography of research and teaching materials. 
   
• The Hirasaki National Resource Center of the Japanese-American National Museum
  During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific coast. These individuals, two thirds of them U.S. citizens, were sent to 10 concentration camps built throughout the western interior of the United States. The Hirasaki National Resource Center of the Japanese-American National Museum contains information about this event and the successful movement for reparations from the U.S. government by Japanese Americans.
   
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP)
  The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination (self-characterization).
   
• The National Council of La Raza
  The National Council of La Raza, which was founded in 1968, partners with affiliates across the country to serve millions of Latinos in the areas of civic engagement, civil rights and immigration, education, workforce and the economy, health, and housing.
   
• Racial Profiling
  The American Civil Liberties Union actively opposes “racial profiling” in policing.
   
• The Cost of Color
  This article from Contexts, published by the American Sociological Association, takes a look at how one’s skin color affects the way they are perceived, according to researcher Ellis Monk. According to Monk’s research, skin tone and discrimination are associated with physical and mental issues as well as discrimination.
   
• Native American Heritage Association
  The Native American Heritage Association was founded in 1993 and serves the needs of Native American families. This organization provides food, clothing, heating assistance and other emergency programs to Native American families who are living in poverty and trying to make ends meet each month.
   
• RacismReview
  Contributors to RacismReview are scholars and researchers from sociology and a number of other social science disciplines and a variety of academic institutions across the United States. RacismReview is intended to provide a credible and reliable source of information for journalists, students, and members of the general public who are seeking solid evidence-based research and analysis of “race,” racism, ethnicity, and immigration issues, especially as they undergird and shape U.S. society within a global setting. We also provide substantive research and analysis on local, national, and global resistance to racial and ethnic oppression, including the many types of antiracist activism (self-characterization).