Jacobs Library supports the anti-racist discourse and activism that is occurring around the world and locally.
This statement affirms our pledge to use our skills and resources to advance the production of knowledge for social justice.
This guide is intended to provide some general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion as well as information and resources for the social justice issues key to the IVCC community. Our intent is to promote awareness on the widespread injustices of systemic racism and inspire those on the IVCC campus to take action in dismantling systems of oppression.
This guide is by no means exhaustive, but rather serves as a starting place for finding information from a variety of sources. It will continue to develop in response to evolving anti-oppression issues and community needs.
Racism is prejudice plus power; anyone of any race can have/exhibit racial prejudice, but in the United States, white people have the institutional power, therefore Racism is a systematized discrimination or antagonism directed against people of color based on the belief that whiteness is superior. It is insidious, systemic, devastating, and integral to understanding both the history of the United States and the everyday experiences of those of us living in this country.
Anti-Racism is strategies, theories, actions, and practices that challenge and counter racism, inequalities, prejudices, and discrimination based on race.
Simmons University Library: https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression/anti-racism
Systemic racism, also referred to as structural racism, "refers to the totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice. These patterns and practices in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources" (Bailey).
Works Cited
Bailey, Zinzi D., et al. "Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions." The Lancet, vol. 389, no. 10077, 2017, pp. 1453-1463
To be Anti-Racist, is to, "[oppose] racism/white supremacy in all forms even the racism that exists within you and the forms you perpetuate with your behaviors," and to "[identify] the root causes of racism and putting an end to them" (Pike, 3).
Works Cited
Pike, L. Glenise. "The Antiracism Starter Kit." Where Change Started. https://www.wherechangestarted.com/the-antiracism-starter-kit
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Morgan, J. D., De Marco. A. C., LaForett, D. R., Oh, S., Ayankoya, B., Morgan. W., Franco, X., & FPG’s Race, Culture, and Ethnicity Committee. (2018, May). What racism looks like: An infographic. Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://fpg.unc.edu/sites/fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/other-resources/What%20Racism%20Looks%20Like.pdf
Works Cited:
NPR. (2018, April 11). Housing segregation and redlining in America: A short history [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/O5FBJyqfoLM
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Cantwell, Meagan. "How Systemic Racism Shaped the Ecosystems of U.S. Cities." Science Online. Oct. 9, 2020. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/how-systemic-racism-shaped-ecosystems-us-cities
Covert, B. (2016, February 18). Race best predicts whether you live near pollution. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/race-best-predicts-whether-you-live-near-pollution/