LibGuides: Anti-Racism Resources: Articles

“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.”
— Ijeoma Oluo

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Black Lives and the Police
by Darryl Pinckney for The New York Review of Books
Black Regulators Rarely Appointed to Oversee Wall Street
by Dave Michaels for the Wall Street Journal
Bringing Hidden Biases Into the Light: Big Businesses Teach Staffers How 'Unconscious Bias' Impacts Decisions
by Joann S. Lublin for the Wall Street Journal
Deepening Our Understanding of Structural Marginalization
by john a. powell for Poverty & Race Research Action Council
For Too Long, Economists Have Dodged the Issue of Racism and Discrimination
by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst for Marketplace
How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues
by Stephanie Creary for the Harvard Business Review
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
by Robert Livingston for the Harvard Business Review
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
How can we help students understand George Floyd’s death in the context of institutionalized racism? The following articles, published over the course of JSTOR Daily’s five years try to provide such context. The underlying scholarship is free for all readers.
Is Now a Teachable Moment for Economists? An Open Letter from Bill Spriggs in the Wake of George Floyd’s Death
An open letter on the Minneapolis Fed’s website posted by Howard University economist William Spriggs
Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It?
by Kira Hudson Banks and Richard Harvey for the Harvard Business Review
Lessons We Can Learn from Toni Morrison
by Joshua Barajas for the PBS Newshour - Canvas
Multicultural Competence
by Paul Kivel
New Seminar Series Focuses on Racial Justice and Equity
by Pheabe Morris for IMF Intranet News
The Origins of Privilege, an interview with Peggy McIntosh
by Joshua Rothman for The New Yorker
The Overdue Awakening: Ending Centuries of Racism Requires Systemic Change
by Justin Worland for Time International
Race in Economics
by Martin Cihak, Montfort Mlachila and Ratna Sahay for Finance and Development
Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races
by Randall Akee, Maggie Jones and Sonya Porter for Demography
Rethinking Racial Discrimination: Harvard Professor Mario Small Discusses how Sociology Can Help Economics Diversify its Perspective
by Chris Fleisher for the American Economic Association
Small Steps, Big Change: Becoming an Antiracist Healthcare Student
by Bernard Grant and Tade Souaiaia for EduMed
Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
by Mario L. Small and Devah Pager for the Journal of Economic Perspectives
Toward a Racially Just Workplace
by Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo for the Harvard Business Review
The Voting Rights Act Was Signed 55 Years Ago. Black Women Led the Movement Behind It.
by N'dea Yancey-Bragg for USA Today
What Happened 99 Years Ago in the Tulsa Race Massacre
by Gretchen Frazee for The PBS Newshour
What it Means to be Anti-Racist
by Anna North for Vox
What to Read, Listen to and Watch to Learn About Institutional Racism
by Isabella Isaacs-Thomas for The PBS Newshour
When the Rules Are Fair, but the Game Isn't
by Muktha Jost, Edward L. Whitfield, and Mark Jost for Multicultural Education
White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo for the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
by Peggy McIntosh. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.

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