Juneteenth Resources for Self-Guided Reflection

Juneteenth Resources for Self-Guided Reflection

The Wagner College History Department faculty curated the following list of resources our community can use as self-guided reflection to further educate themselves about race, discrimination, and the Black experience.

  1. "Seeing White" Podcast from 2017, https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
  2. "How to be an Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi (Also author of the new board book "Anti-Racist Baby" which is an excellent resource for discussing racism and discrimination with our youth.)
  3. Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: W W Norton & Company, 1975).
  4. Coombs, John C.  “Beyond the ‘Origins Debate’: Reconsidering the Rise of Virginia Slavery”in Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs, ed., Early Modern Virginia: New Essays on the Old Dominion.  Charlottesville, VA: University Of Virginia Press, 2011.
  5. White Man’s Burden by Winthrop Jordan
  6. The Wars of Reconstruction The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive EraBy Douglas Egerton Read the book review in NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/books/review/douglas-r-egertons-wars-of-reconstruction.html
  7. Why Cities are Still So Segregated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=O5FBJyqfoLM&feature=emb_logo (For full article: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795961381/racist-housing-practices- from-the-1930s-linked-to-hotter-neighborhoods-today
  8. How disadvantaged neighborhoods amplify racial inequality (a year-long conversation on racial inequality, 2015)--https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/rethinking-race
  9. American Slavery: 1619-1877 (an excellent brief survey on history of American slavery)  by Peter Kolchen