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Racial Equity Guide
Resources to promote awareness of and conversation about racial equity.

eBooks

cover art Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
 
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson 

eAudiobook version is also available.

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So You Want to Talk about Race (eAudiobook) by Ijeoma Oluo and Bahni Turpin 

 

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition by Michelle Alexander and Karen Chilton

eAudiobook version is also available.

cover art How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi cover art Race Matters by Cornel West
color art The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein cover art White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson

Search these databases for more eBooks and eAudiobooks about racial equity: OverDrive, and Ebook Central

Online Resources

Recent publications about race and ethnicity from Pew Research Center
Gender, Race, & Ethnicity special report from The Chronicle of Higher Education 
E(Race)ing Inequities: The State of Racial Equity in North Carolina Public Schools from the Center for Racial Equity in Education (2019)   

Search these databases for more about racial equity: Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies and ProQuest.            

Streaming Video

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True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

This feature documentary follows Bryan Stevenson – lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative – through his experiences as a capital defense attorney and advocate for community-based reform.

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The Talk: Race in America

This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. 
 

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Race - The Power of an Illusion

This three-hour documentary challenges the idea of race as biology and traces our current notions to the 19th century. It also demonstrates how race nevertheless has a continuing impact through institutions and social policies. 

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Slavery by Another Name

Even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South after the Civil War, new systems of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force and brutality. The film documents how for more than 80 years, thousands of African Americans, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of white masters.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1985 (Series)

This 14 video series tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.

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A Class Divided

After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., an elementary school teacher in a small Iowa town decided to introduce ideas about racism and discrimination to her all-white class.

Search these streaming video databases for more content: Films on Demand Video Collection and Swank Digital Campus