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African American Experience in the United States: Racism and Anti-Racism

This guide contains freely available information from Federal, State, and Local Government resources; Libraries; Universities; Non-partisan organizations; and Museums.

Anti-Black Racism

Are Smart People Less Racist? Verbal Ability, Anti-Black Prejudice, and the Principle-Policy Paradox
Social Problems
Black Lives Matter
University of the Virgin Islands
Black Lives Matter Resources
University of Arizona
Confronting Anti-Black Racism
PBS
Talking to Young Children About Race and Racism
PBS
What to read, listen to and watch to learn about institutional racism
PBS

Racial Inequality in Institutions

Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis
American Journal of Public Health
Cultural Context and a Critical Approach to Eliminating Health Disparities
Ethnicity & Disease
Culture, Race, and Health: Implications for Racial Inequities and Population Health
The Milbank Quarterly
Ethnicity, Gender, & Inequality Research
Urban Institute
Health Disparities
Hampton University
Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research
Annual Review of Public Health
Separate and Unequal: Racism and Poverty 50 Years After the Kerner Report
Congressional Record
Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions
Lancet

Anti-Racism

Activism, Anti-Racism, Dissent and Peaceful Protest
Prairie View A&M University
Antiracism Resources
Rutgers University
Race and National Origin Discrimination
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Resources Against Racism: Data
University of Montana
Talking About Race
National Museum of African American History and Culture
What Is Systemic Racism?
Race Forward: Government Alliance on Race and Equity

Redlining, Segregation, and Economic Disparity

A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
National Public Radio: Fresh Air
The Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
HOLC “Redlining” Maps: The Persistent Structure of Segregation and Economic Inequality
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination
National Public Radio: The Two-Way
Mapping Inequality
American Panorama
Mapping Projects Show Lasting Impact Of Redlining, Racial Covenants In Virginia
National Public Radio: Virginia Public Media

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