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35 things to read

Jun 10, 2020

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As a white person, there are many things you can do to help further the BLM movement. Although, I feel that one of the most important things we can do is educate ourselves. Here is a list of works you should read to educate yourself on racial inequality.

1) "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo

2) "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi

3) "Thinking About Race" by Naomi Zack

4) "American Poets For My Past and Future Assassin" by Terrance Hayes

5) "Me and White Supremacy" by Layla F. Saad

6) "Black Feminist Thought" by Patricia Hill Collins

7) "Heavy: An American Memoir" by Kiese Laymon

8) "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

9) "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

10) "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

11) "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo

12) "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

13) "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

14) "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein

15) "Women, Race, and Class" by Angela Y. Davis

16) "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander

17) "Six Ways Asian-Americans Can Tackle Anti-Blackness in Their Families" by Kim Tran

18) "Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge

19) "Divided Sisters" by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell

20) "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

21) "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

22) "They Can't Kill Us All" by Wesley Lowery

23) "Fatal Invention" by Dorothy Roberts

24) "Locking Up Our Own" by James Forman

25) "The Miner's Canary" by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres

26) "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon

27) "Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States" by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

28) "Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage" by Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin

29) "How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide" by Crystal Fleming

30) "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions" by Vilna Bashi Treitler

31) "Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach" by Tanya Golash Boza

32) "Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations" by Joe Feagin

33) "White Rage; the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide" by Carol Anderson

34) "Black Americans" by Alphonso Pinkney

35) "Black Wealth/White Wealth" by Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

What is the current minimum wage at the federal level?

What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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