Text Resources

"And Don't Call Me Racist!"

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color Blind Society 

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)

Waking Up White

Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism

The Case for Reparations --Ta-Nehisi Coates Atlantic Magazine article, June 2104

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid The Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History

Slavery by Another Name: the Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Lies My Teacher Told Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

White Like Me: Reflections from a Privileged Son

Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How To Do It

Amilcar Shabazz

The ScholarWorks website for Amilcar Shabazz, professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. “My research interests include African Americans in the history of education, cultural and political movements against oppression, and comparative studies in the African world. I am active in educational policy affairs and public history.”   

Robert Romer--book, articles and timeline.

Retired Amherst College physics professor Robert Romer remembers how he joined a dedication to teaching young people about science with a quest to transform hearts and to change minds. His journeys brought him from a laboratory on Long Island to the March on Washington, a 1963 civil rights demonstration at the nation's capitol. He moved his family to rural South Carolina so that he could teach at an all black college. Back in Western Massachusetts, he speaks of participating in Vietnam era anti-war protests at Westover Air Force Base. He concludes that despite the optimism of the civil rights demonstrators who gathered in Washington on August 28, 1963, the promise of that day has not been realized in the United States.  See some of his published works here.

Daniel Hunter
Daniel has spent more than a decade as an activist educator, teaching a vast array of activists in twelve countries on five continents.  He works full-time training activists for direct action as a trainer with Training for Change – and is regularly sought out by local and national groups, including folks fighting natural gas fracking, Greenpeace USA, The Yes Men, and Canadian unions wanting to deepen popular education.  For more about Daniel Hunter click. See excerpts and info about "Strategy & Soul"