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Combating Racism

A Guide To Educating Yourself and Doing More
Nyack Library Statement Condemning Racial Injustice
​​This page is intended to provide general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion as well as information and resources for the social justice issues key to current dialogues within the Nyack Community. This guide is by no means an exhaustive list nor does it capture all of the many facets of the larger conversations about the issues listed here. This page serves as an introduction to these issues and as a starting place for finding information from a variety of sources.
This page will continue to be updated with new sources.

Digital Resources 
​
65 Resources for Racial Health and Equity 
​
Asian-American Racial Justice Toolkit


1619 by the New York Times

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity

21 Day Equity Challenge

Racial Violence in America: Whitewashing of American Racism


Black Freedom Struggle in the United States 

The National Museum of African American History & Culture 

National Center For Civil and Human Rights 

Anti-Racism Resources in Spanish 

Anti-Racism Resource Guide

Freedom's Journal ​

Black Lives Matter Syllabus 

​How To Be An Ally 

Resources for Accountability And Actions For Black Lives Matter 

​Anti-Racist Books for Children and Teens

Teaching For Racial Equity and Inclusion 

​What Is Racism? 

​What is Systemic Racism?

What Will It Take For America to Understand the Pain of Black Women?
​
Suggested Reading List 
​

America's Original Sin : Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallace
Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blindspot : Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin Banaji
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons - Imani Perry
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James

Citizen : An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
The Color of Law - Rothstein, Richard
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul - Eddie Glaude Jr.
Divided By Faith - Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions - Vilna Bashi Treitler

Fences - August Wilson
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race - Jesmyn Ward
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered - Mumia Abu-Jamal
How To Be Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide - Crystal Marie Fleming

I'm Still Here : Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
​Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
​Minor Feelings - Cathay Park Hong
My Song: A Memoir - Harry Belafonte
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Race Matters - Cornel West
Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeome Oluo
Stamped From The Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson
Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens our Future - Thomas M Shapiro
The Warmth of Other Suns the Epic Story of America's Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nahisi Coates

When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
White Fragility- Robin J Diangelo
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum 
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Renni Eddo-Lodge








Movies and Documentaries

Fences 
Blindspotting

Do the Right Thing 
Fruitvale Station 
Moonlight 
Get Out 
Selma 
The Hate You Give 
To Kill a Mockingbird 
Malcolm X 
Black Panther 
12 Years A Slave 
Boyz N the Hood 
The Butler 
If Beale Street Could Talk 
Clemency 
Blackkklansman 
Loving
Whose Streets? 
I Am Not Your Negro 
The Rape of Recy Taylor 

Available For Free Streaming On Kanopy and Hoopla

I Am Not Your Negro
Slavery By Another Name
The Loving Story 
​​A Man Named Pearl
You Laugh But Its True
Complexions
​​
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Spies of Mississippi 
Dark Girls
​
Night Catches Us
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer 
​Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
​Keep Your Head Up
​
White Like Me
​How Racism Harms White Americans
Afraid of Dark 

Look and Listen


Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Black On Both Sides - Mos Def
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest
A Seat At The Table - Solange
Radio Silence - Talib Kweli
4:44 - Jay-Z
Black America Again - Common
Chapter 319 - Clipping 


Local Organizations 
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Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center 
Nobody Leaves MidHudson
Undoing Racism Workshop


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  • About
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  • Youth Services
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    • 2021 Rockland County Reference Guide
    • 55+ Resource Guide
    • Book Discussion Groups
    • Combating Racism
    • Curated Book Lists
    • ELL Resources
    • Homebound Delivery Service
    • Papercut: The Nyack Library Podcast
    • Request a New Purchase
    • Research Business and Employment Opportunities
    • Share Covid19 Story
    • Staff Picks
    • Sustainability
  • Digital Resources
    • Catalog Mobile App
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    • Lifelong Learning
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    • Niche Academy
    • NY Crime Victims Legal Help
    • NYS Civil Service Test Guides
    • Novelist
    • Rockland Executive Order #203 Response
    • Research and Databases
  • Long-Range Plan
  • Events
    • Events Calendar >
      • How to Use Localhop
    • Carnegie Concerts
    • Dorothy Gillespie
    • Exhibits
    • Grants >
      • 2023 Black American Culture & Art Series
      • 2022 Black American Culture & Art Series
      • 2020-2021 Black American Culture & Art Series
      • Black American Culture & Art Series: The Legacy of Toni Morrison >
        • BACAS Oral Histories
    • Highlighted Programs
    • Program Recordings
    • Past Events >
      • American Creed
      • Librarian's Guide to Staying Home... and Sane!
      • Nation Must Awake
      • 2022 Nyack Poetry Walk
      • Nyack Poetry Walk
      • Nyack Schools Saturday Academy: Exhibit
      • September 11, 2001 The Day That Changed The World Exhibition
    • Public Notices
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    • Quarterly Newsletter
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