#UnmaskingHR Resources – Unmasking Hampton Roads

*Unmasking Hampton Roads, Oct. 10, 2019 (photo courtesy Hampton Roads Community Foundation).*

Continue your learning and build on the action of Unmasking Hampton Roads with these resources and tools.

Books

In the Shadows of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Slavery By Another Name, Douglas Blackmon

Podcasts & Radio

Your Neighbor’s Hood with Christina & Jackie: https://yourneighborshood.podbean.com/
Another View with Barbara Hamm Lee on Fridays at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM
WNYC The Takeaway: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway
The New York Times’ Race Related
WRAG (Videos and Podcasts): https://www.puttingracismonthetable.org/

Videos

Unmasking Hampton Roads (Norfolk, Virginia Beach), Oct. 17, 2019: Watch this panel of community leaders address critical race issues in the region. Moderated by Anita Blanton, anchor, WAVY TV10. Panelists: Julian Baena, president, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Coastal Virginia; Khayla Walker (also know as Cuyjet), peer facilitator and alumnus, Teens with a Purpose and spoken word artist; Dr. Amelia Ross-Hammond, founder and chairman, the African American Cultural Center of Virginia Beach; Dr. Patricia Turner, member of the Norfolk 17 and retired veteran educator; Forrest “Hap” White, author, “Black, White and Brown: The Battle for Progress in 1950s Norfolk; Lavell White, educator and motivational speaker.
(Video by the AV Company)

Unmasking Hampton Roads (Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk), Nov 14, 2019: Watch this panel session featuring community leaders, followed by a public Q&A session. Panel moderated by WAVY News10 Anchor Anita Blanton. Panelists: James Boyd, president, Portsmouth NAACP; Mary Hill, Executive director, Suffolk African American Cultural Society; Bob Matthews, host of The Bob Matthews Show WTAR; Randy Williams, owner, Talley & Twine; Chief Kelvin Wright, Chesapeake Chief of Police; Dr. Allan Bergano, co-founder, Hampton Roads Chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS). (Video by Trey Mitchell/Virginia Humanities)

The Antiracist Center at American University
The 1619 Project (The New York Times Magazine)
Under Our Skin video series (The Seattle Times)

Other Resources

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities: https://inclusiveva.org/
E Pluribus Unum Fund: https://www.unumfund.org/
The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html?smid=fb-share
The Antiracist Center at American University: https://www.american.edu/centers/antiracism/
Seattle Times’ Under Our Skin series: http://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/under-our-skin/#
“America to Me” video series (Starz, iTunes, Amazon Prime): https://www.starz.com/series/americatome/episodes (episode guides: https://www.americatomerealtalk.com/#episode-guides)
Let’s Talk: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/publications/lets-talk
Project Implicit (Hidden Bias Test) https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Teachers Guide for Teaching “The New Jim Crow” https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/publications/teaching-the-new-jim-crow
#UnmaskingRVA (held in Richmond in 2016): https://richmondmagazine.com/unmasking
#UnmaskingCville (held in Charlottesville in 2018): https://www.virginiahumanities.org/events/unmasking-cville/