POW! resources list June 2020
Photo by Inky Durant
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POW! would like to recommend the following reading (and listening) resources:
We are open to hearing your suggestions for further research and resources.
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Lesson plans from the LGBT history month http://the-classroom.org.uk/category/lessons-and-resources/
Photo by Lisa Valder
And an excellent printable wallchart https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/resources/lgbt-history-month/wallchart/
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Ramsgate Arts Primary have a great webpage with resources on how to address current news events surrounding race and inequality age appropriately with children. ramsgateartsprimaryschool.co.uk
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Some podcasts we’ve been listening to.
https://www.weneedtotalkaboutwhiteness.com/podcast
http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast/
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Reading recommendations
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'
The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World
by Layla Saad (Author), Robin DiAngelo (Foreword)
Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain. Her partner, her daughter, her sister and the vast majority of her friends are British. So why is her identity and sense of belonging a subject of debate? The reason is simply because of the colour of her skin.
Blending history, memoir and individual experiences, Afua Hirsch reveals the identity crisis at the heart of Britain today. Far from affecting only minority people, Britain is a nation in denial about its past and its present. We believe we are the nation of abolition, but forget we are the nation of slavery. We sit proudly at the apex of the Commonwealth, but we flinch from the legacy of the empire. We are convinced that fairness is one of our values but that immigration is one of our problems.
Brit(ish) is the story of how and why this came to be and an urgent call for change.
Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Nativesspeaks directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire.
Black and British A Forgotten History
In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.
Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.
Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence.
These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction.
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo (Author)
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.
How To Be an Antiracist
In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.
Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.
In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism – what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.
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Articles/websites
Gal Dem
How to talk to kids about racism
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TV, radio and film recommendations
BBZ ‘The show is holding space for my black fam, includes a meditation by angel Kyodo Williams and talk from Audre Lorde’ - Sippin T was live now for BBZ show.
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV3nnFheQRo&feature=youtu.be
13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix - (also available on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8)
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
1xtra BBC Sounds George Floyd & Black Lives Matter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000k3yt?fbclid=IwAR2ZyuyJVuseEZCMfFqnh1ZTROMof6NPTbbNr6at8QJI0u0s0hg_XL2jnyg
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Other resources
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