What is anti-racism?
Merriam-Webster defines "anti-racist" as someone who is "opposed to racism." The term has grown in popularity since the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others around the nation in spring 2020.
The following are ebooks, audiobooks, and films available to Missouri S&T affiliates. Many are from OverDrive, which S&T users can use on their own computers or on a tablet or phone with the OverDrive app.
Anti-Racism
How to Be an Antiracist by Also in audiobook
Examining Whiteness
Race, Policing, Justice
Background on US Racism
Activism and #blacklivesmatter
Personal Perspectives
Videos
- Afraid of DarkA video that asks "why are people afraid of black men?" and examines stereotypes in America.
- Black Lives Matter2017 documentary on the movement, featuring BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
- America After FergusonTown hall discussion at UMSL featuring civil rights leaders, government officials, and youth. Recorded after Michael Brown's death in 2014.
- Baltimore Rising2017 documentary that observes the tensions in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.
- P.S. I Can't BreatheA documentary look at the Millions March NYC after a grand jury chose not to indict Eric Garner's killer.
- Frame 394A short film in which a man from Toronto gets embroiled in one of America's high-profile police shootings.
- The Talk: Race in AmericaParents of color talk to their children about how to behave, if stopped by police.
- True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for EqualityBryan Stevenson - author of Just Mercy - talks about his life as an attorney and his advocacy for criminal justice reform.
- Slavery by Another NameA history of forced labor (after the end of the Civil War) in the United States