In what ways is racism structural, and what are the histories of those structural components?
I. Overview
Brown University – How Structural Racism Works
Sarah Bond – Five GIS Projects That Are Changing the Way We Understand Racism
Bradon Goyette and Alissa Scheller – 15 Charts That Prove We’re Far from Post-Racial
Laci Green – Is Racism Over Yet?
Jeff Nesbit – Institutional Racism is Our Way of Life
John Scalzi – Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, and later Revisiting the Article
Bryan Stevenson – The Narrative of Racial Difference
Zerflin – American Slavery Graphic
II. Education
Patricia Cohen – Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree
Emily Deruy – How Black Lives Matter Activists Plan to Fix Schools
Nikole Hannah-Jones – How the Systemic Segregation of Schools is Maintained by “Individual Choices”
NPR Code Switch – Black Preschoolers Far More Likely to Be Suspended
Cory Turner – Bias Isn’t Just a Police Problem, It’s a Preschool Problem
US Department of Education Office Office for Civil Rights – School Discipline
III. Housing
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project – Housing, Whiteness, and Abolition
Emily Badger – Redlining: Still a Thing
Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Racist Housing Policies That Built Ferguson
Camila Domonoski – Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America’s History of Discrimination
Nikole Hannah-Jones – Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
Sam Levin – Racial Profiling in Oakland via NextDoor.com
John Light – Ferguson, the Foreclosure Crisis and America’s Hedge Fund Landlords
Alexis C. Madrigal – The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood
Richard Rothstein – From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation
This American Life – House Rules
Gillian B. White – Why Blacks and Hispanics Have Such Expensive Mortgages
IV. Income and Wealth
Emily Badger – Black Poverty Differs From White Poverty
Rafael Bernal and Mike Lillis – Economic Fights Highlight Wealth Gap for Hispanics
Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Case for Reparations
Confronting Racial Bias at Work
Drew Desilver – Black Unemployment Rate is Consistently Twice That of Whites
Adrian Florido – Black, Latino Two-Parent Families Have Half the Wealth of White Single Parents
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn and Jeff Neumann – 40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today
National Council of La Raza – Five Key Economic Trends Among California Latinos
New York Times Editorial – How Segregation Destroys Black Wealth
Emily Peck – Black Women are Leaning In and Getting Nowhere
Amy Traub et al. – The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap
Gillian B. White – Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice As Good
V. Health and Safety
Tara Culp-Ressler – Why Racism is a Public Health Issue
Kenya Downs – When Black Death Goes Viral, It Can Trigger PTSD-Like Trauma
Abby Goodnough – Finding Good Pain Treatment is Hard. If You’re Not White, It’s Even Harder
Feminista Jones – Why Black Women Struggle More With Domestic Violence
VI. Police and Prisons
Alan Aja et al. – How Immigrants Became Criminals
Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow
Emily Badger – How Mass Incarceration Creates “Million Dollar Blocks” in Poor Neighborhoods
Whitney Benns – American Slavery Revisited: Prison Labor in America
Excessive or Reasonable Force by Police?
Kel Kray – Why the Growing Alliance Between Police and White LGBTQIA+ Folks is a Problem
Alex Landau – Almost Another Dead Black Male: Remembering a Traffic Stop That Got Ugly
Raven Rakia – When People Are Property
Stanford Report on Oakland Police Department and Racial Profiling
Bryan Stevenson – We Need to Talk About an Injustice
