Supporting Anti-Racism
Tuesday, September 8 and Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Scholarstrike is a national movement which was started by Dr. Anthea Butler of the University of Pennsylvania and is being co-facilitated by Dr. Kevin Gannon of Grand View University. The movement asks for a pause in classes and administrative duties on September 8 and 9 to allow for a teach-in on racial violence, policing and community organizing.
Faculty members at CSULB are encouraged to consider pausing classes on September 8 and 9 to provide the opportunity for students and faculty members to participate in educational opportunities focused on anti-racism. A number of your colleagues have been working hard to develop programming for these days, and to compile and curate readings, films, videos and podcasts that address anti-racism.
Students, staff members and faculty members will also have the opportunity to join conversations at the national level. The organizers of the movement have built a website, and there will be a YouTube channel showing 10-minute long lessons about injustice in America and talking about policing and organizing. Social media will also be used as a platform to foster discussions and promote. Use the #scholarstrike hashtag in your social media channels to follow the conversations.
Speaking Out Events: Supporting Anti-Racism at CSULB and Beyond
CSULB Land and Territorial Acknowledgment [PDF]
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9am-10:40am |
Individually watch the film, 13th, by Ava Duvernay (also available on Netflix) |
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11:30am-12:30pm |
"13th: What the Film Teaches Us About Anti-Blackness in the U.S." |
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12:45pm-1:45pm |
Student Teach-in by ENGL 375: |
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1:15pm-2:15pm |
Songwriting Class: Social & Racial Injustice Focus |
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1pm-2:30pm |
"Abolitionist Futures" |
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3pm |
TAKE ACTION: Opportunities for Direct Participation In this election, voters face unprecedented challenges to exercising their right to vote. CFA is partnering with local community organizations, including the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community, Khmer Girls in Action, Californians for Justice, the Gray Panthers, Filipino Migrant Center, to ensure voters have the information and knowledge they need to cast their ballot. Together we will be conducting voter registration drives, voter education forums, and voter “zoom parties” to reach as many eligible voters as possible. We can’t do this alone; we need your help: please contact ghytrek@calfac.org or CFA_LB@calfac.org to learn how you can protect our democracy and make sure every eligible voter can vote.
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6pm-7:30pm |
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10am-12pm |
“The Movement Needs Co-Conspirators Instead of Allies” |
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12:30pm-2pm |
“Racial Equity in Undergraduate Research” |
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2:30pm-4pm |
“AB 1460: CSU Ethnic Studies Requirement” |
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5pm-7pm |
“Demanding Real Transformation in Long Beach and Los Angeles” |
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The following people took part in bringing these events and resources together from a grassroots level on short notice. Thank you for your efforts!
Sabrina Alimahomed – Sociology
Yousef Baker – International Studies
Juan Benitez – Center for Community Engagement
Elaine Bernal – Chemistry and Biochemistry
Tiffany Brown – Family and Consumer Sciences
Gary Daniels - CFA
Belinda Daughrity – Speech-Language Pathology
Laura Emery - Academic Technology Services
Araceli Esparza – English
Malcolm Finney – Faculty Center
Kirsty Fleming, Faculty Affairs
Claire Garrido-Ortega – Health Science
John Hamilton – Student Affairs
Deb Hamm – CSULB CFA
Lily House Peters – Geography
Gary Hytrek – CSULB CFA
Amber Johnson – Health Science
Maulana Karenga – Africana Studies
Barbara Kim – Asian and Asian American Studies
Beka Langen – CFA
Angela Locks – Academic Affairs
Ronald Loewe – Anthropology
Melissa Maceyko – Anthropology
Tracey Mayfield - Academic Affairs
Matthew McGarvey – Political Science
Anna Ortiz – Educational Leadership
Audrena Redmond – CFA
Jessica Rios – Dream Success Center
Rigoberto Rodriguez – Chicano and Latino Studies
Norma Salcedo - Dream Success Center
David Shafer – History
Jolan Smith – Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling
Craig Stone – American Indian Studies
Kimberly Walters – International Studies
Somone Washington – Faculty Affairs
Terri Wright – Political Science
Kris Zentgraf – Sociology
Learn More About Racial Justice
Title: Justice Delayed
A short film made by CSULB students, under the guidance of Kent Hayward, in FEA340 about characters affected by a police shooting of an innocent, young, black male. It won first place for narrative short at the CSU Media Arts Festival in 2019.
Title: 13th
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
- Watch on YouTube or Netflix
More Films & Videos
- White Like Me: Racism in the US
- The 1619 Project
- Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History
- The Root: How Redlining Shaped Black America as We Know It
- Racial Wealth Gap
- What “Defund the Police” Really Means
- The End of Policing
- The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration
- For Harriet: After we abolish prisons and policing...then what?: A Black Feminist Dialogue
- The Path to Ending Systemic Racism in the U.S.
- David R. Williams: How Racism Makes Us Sick
- Racial Bias in Preschools
- How Restrictive Voting Requirements Target Minorities
- Dr. Akhila Ananth, The History of Policing at the CSUs
- PBS films about race and racism
- UCLA Implicit Bias Video Series
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Nice White Parents (Serial and The New York Times)
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
Note: Some ttems on this list were generated from Anti-Racism Resources for White People, a Google document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
- We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi
- Standing Up, Speaking Out for Racial Justice by Belinda Daughrity
- Call it What it Is: Anti-Blackness
- How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
- Systemic Racism and the Killing of Rayshard Brooks, by Elisabeth Dahab (see also: video footage)
Note: Some ttems on this list were generated from Anti-Racism Resources for White People, a Google document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
Resources for Coping with Racial Trauma
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation
- The Loveland Foundation, free mental health therapy for black girls
- The Black Girl Doctor accepts stipends from The Loveland Foundation to cover cost of therapy.
- Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook
- Talknajia.org
- Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
- Black Mental Wellness
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Eustress
- Our Mental Health Minute
- Community Healing Network
- Family Community Self Care Toolkit [PDF]
- Black Wellness Now, Instagram @blackwellnessnow
- The Steve Fund
- Community Cares Listening Line
- Surviving the Coronavirus While Black-Pandemics Heavy Toll on African-American Mental Health
- It Just Weighs on Your Psyche: Black Americans on Mental Health, Trauma, and Resilience
- COVID, Racism Are Dual Crises for Black Americans
- Resources to Understand America’s Long History of Injustice and Inequality
- Recommended books and films about the Black experience in America by Sonoma State professors
