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Life Aboard A Slave Ship

History Channel | From approximately 1525 to 1866, 12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Middle Passage to serve as slaves in the New World. Life aboard slave ships was agonizing and dangerous; nearly 2 million slaves would perish on their journey across the Atlantic.

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The Racialization Process, Part 1

Oxford University Press | Dr. Carlos Hoyt outlines the process of racialization and how essentialization limits the possibility of change.

  • Excerpt: We’re all prone to cognitive confusion around lots of things. The brain is quite susceptible to seeing things that aren’t there, and then running with it. And that's part of what happens with race. It takes advantage of our desire and proclivity to dichotomize, to bifurcate [and] to categorize things. We are very good at this-and-that, even when there isn't a this-and-that. Another way to think about it is—and this is particularly useful in thinking about race—is that, we very quickly attach deeper meaning to surface distinctions.

    Link: The History of Race and Racialization, Part 2

    Length: 3 minutes and 13 seconds.

  • Excerpt: We treat race as if it is a permanent feature of the social, psychological [and] political landscape of the society. And, by doing so, we forfeit our opportunity to see it as what it really is—something with a pretty short lifespan, you know, 4 [or] 500 years old, depending on when you sort of mark the start of it. We're failing to see that we need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time—to understand that the social construct of race has us in deep, deep peril...

    Link: Resisting Race and Racialization, Part 3

    Length: 3 minutes and 8 seconds.

  • Excerpt: …Resistance of the false identity itself is what I'm suggesting is worth talking about these days.

    Link: Non-Racial Identities and Worldviews, Part 4

    Length: 4 minutes and 13 seconds.

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The Origin Of Race In The USA

PBS Origins | Do you believe that your race correlates to your skin tone? Because that wasn’t always the case. So how did Americans come to believe that race equals certain visible physical characteristics such as skin color and hair? And why is it that certain ethnic groups that were once considered “non-white” became reclassified as “white”? Watch the episode to find out.

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?

AJ+ | How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation.

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Rare Audio Of Enslaved People Connects History To The Present

ABC News | ABC News’ Alex Presha examines rare audio of formerly enslaved people to preserve their stories, and interviews one of their descendants, in partnership with the 10 Million Names Project.

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The Lie That Invented Racism

TED | To understand and eradicate racist thinking, start at the beginning. That's what journalist and documentarian John Biewen did, leading to a trove of surprising and thought-provoking information on the "origins" of race. He shares his findings, supplying answers to fundamental questions about racism —and lays out an exemplary path for practicing effective allyship.

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White Men: Time To Discover Your Cultural Blind Spots

TED | White men rarely, if ever, are required to examine their own culture. In this timely and provocative talk, Welp speaks to his own experience becoming conscious of his white male culture, bias, and privilege as key tools to effective partnership across difference.

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Prince Harry Discusses Racism In Candid Conversation With Patrick Hutchinson

The Royal Family Channel | Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, opens the GQ Heroes Conference in conversation with Patrick Hutchinson. Harry spoke about confronting his own biases on issues of race and class in a candid conversation hosted by British GQ magazine. The Duke of Sussex talked about racial inequality, social justice, and his privileged upbringing as a member of the Royal Family in a discussion with personal trainer and Black Lives Matter protester, Patrick Hutchinson. Hutchinson was thrust into the media spotlight in June when he was filmed at a BLM protest in London carrying an injured counter-protester to safety during clashes between rival demonstrators.

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The Collapsing Bridge

The Atlantic | In 2017, Walker, an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, was asked to make a short film inspired by the theme of “bridges” for the annual TEDWomen conference. “One of the first things I always do when approaching a subject is to think about poetry on similar themes,” Walker said. Immediately, she called to mind Kate Rushin’s “The Bridge Poem."

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Sadia Khan On Femininity

Sadia Psychology | Sadia Khan discusses feminism within a racialized White and British context from timecode 6:37 to 8:46.

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Discussing Race

TED | Jay Smooth is host of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightful and humorous suggestions for expanding our perception of the subject.

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Being A Church Girl And A Black Woman

Christine Caine | In this episode, Dr. Sarita Lyons joins Christine Caine on the Propel Women podcast to talk about what it means to be a “church girl” as a black woman. In this episode you will be encouraged that God’s word is relevant in any and every corner of discovering your purpose, identity and calling. Dr. Sarita will empower you to face the particular spiritual challenges and opportunities you face in the culture and context God has placed you.