To learn about systemic racism and the injustices Black people face daily, we have started this group, ARRG. The goal of our Anti-Racist Reading Group (ARRG) is to learn to be allys, which requires acknowledging our own privilege, taking responsibility for our past and committing to creating a just future. Our objectives include providing the tools, created by Black women and men, and facilitating a necessary space for discussions about racism and inequality found in all social constructs.
The inequality and racism throughout education and academia is unacceptable, the first step to change is education. This group is open to anyone willing to learn and anyone ready to dismantle the system.
We will choose readings about Black history, white supremacy, white privilege, institutionalized racism, racism in academia, and how to be an activist. Meetings will be biweekly, to discuss readings, and to hold each other accountable. This will not be easy; fighting racism is a process that can often be emotional, frustrating, and riddled with mistakes, but it is work we must do.
Previous Reading
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
In Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, Dr. TallBear examines and discusses the intersection of tribal membership and the use of DNA to identify biological relatives and the issues that arise as a result. She also discusses modern racial science and some of its implications. Dr. Kim TallBear is a professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and CRC in Indigenous Peoples, Technosceince and Environment. She is the founder of Indigenous Science, Technology and Society and the research- creation group , ReLab. She is also the co-founder of the Summer internship for Indigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada and a faculty member of SING USA. Dr. TallBear is a regular commentator on issues related to Indigenous peoples' science, technologies, environment and sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena and a citizen of he Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a Dakota people in South Dakota, USA.
Meetings
no meetings currently
Other Resources
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And other conversations about race – Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Lies My Teacher Told Me- James W. Loewen
How to Argue with A Racist – Adam Rutherford
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Ryan Evely Gildersleeve , Natasha N. Croom & Philip L. Vasquez (2011).“Am I going crazy?!”: A Critical Race Analysis of Doctoral Education, Equity & Excellence in Education, 44:1, 93-114, DOI: 10.1080/10665684.2011.539472
Truong, K., & Museus, S. (2012). Responding to racism and racial trauma in doctoral study: An inventory for coping and mediating relationships. Harvard Educational Review, 82(2), 226-254.
Hofstra, B., Kulkarni, V. V., Galvez, S. M. N., He, B., Jurafsky, D., & McFarland, D. A. (2020). The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(17), 9284-9291.
Miller, C., & Roksa, J. (2020). Balancing research and service in academia: Gender, Race, and Laboratory Tasks. Gender & Society, 34(1), 131-152.
Slay, K. E., Reyes, K. A., & Posselt, J. R. (2019). Bait and switch: Representation, climate, and tensions of diversity work in graduate education. The Review of Higher Education, 42(5), 255-286.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminst Discovers Her Super Power – Brittney Cooper
Bad Feminist – Roxanne Gay
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combanne River Collective- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
Braiding sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer (also indigenous environmental)
Letters to the Future Black Women/Radical Writing – Ed. Erica Hunt & Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry, letters, etc)
Black Feminist Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology – E. Patrick Johnson
No Tea, No Shade: new writings in black queer studies- ed. E. Patrick Johnson
Since I Laid My Burden Down – Brontez Purnell
Real Life- Brandon Taylor
Tending the Wild – M. Kat Anderson
As We Have Always Done – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Salmon & Acorns Feed Our People – Kari Marie Norgaard
The Home Place- J. Drew Lanham
Algorithms of Oppression – Safiya Umoja Noble
Digitize and Punish: Racial criminalization in the digital age – Brian Jefferson
An human bean, Alijah Webb, made a drive of 5 gb of pdfs of all kinds of black revolutionary texts
*she doesn’t want payment but instead asks for donations to bail funds and legal help for the protestors*