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Racial justice and anti-racism resources: Home

Books,and films,available remotely related to racial justice and anti-racism

These books and films are available remotely to the MIT community. See more information about connecting from off-campus.

This guide is by no means exhaustive and is limited to items that the MIT Libraries are able to provide remote access for. If you know of a related book, film or piece of music that you would like the Libraries to purchase you can suggest it here, or if you want us to add a book to this guide please send your suggestion to csa-lib@mit.edu.

Foundational reading on racism in the U.S.

Personal accounts

Anti-Racism

Films

HistoryMakers - oral histories from thousands of prominent African Americans

I am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America - 2014 Kino Lorber

Incarcerating US - Bullfrog Films

Do Not Resist - 2016 Directed by Craig Atkinson, Roco Films

A Nation in Crisis, 60 Minutes  - 2020 

Race - The Power of an Illusion - 2003

 

Racial justice activism

Racial justice and policing

Examining whiteness

Recommended resources

#BLM Libguide - created by Grace Kindeke and Julia Lanigan, MIT Libraries

Charleston Syllabus - created by the African American Intellectual Historical Society (AAIHS)

Lemonade Class Syllabus - created by Dr. Kinitra D. Brooks, University of Texas at San Antonio