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Support Puerto Rico, Mexico September-October 2017
- Here’s How To Support Puerto Rico, from Remezcla
- How To Help Mexico and Puerto Rico, from Latino USA
- Help Residents of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Recover After Maria, from Colorlines
- Cuba, Venezuela Offer Hurricane Relief, from TeleSur
100 Years of Colonialism: How Puerto Rico Became Easy Prey for Profiteers, by Joel Cintron Arbasetti, * Carla Minet at Centro Periodismo Investigativo, and Alex V. Hernandez, and Jessica Stites at In These Times, from In These Times
The Difference Between “Latino” and “Hispanic” in One Cartoon, by Terry Blas at Vox.com
Harvest of Empire, a feature-length documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.
“I’m Latino, but I’m Not…” from Buzzfeed
Irma and Maria: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality, by Ana Portnoy at Counterpoint
The Jones Act Explained, by Matthew Yglesias at Vox
Latino Americans, a six-hour documentary from PBS
Latino Life by the Numbers, an infographic from Colorlines
Taínos: The First Resistance, from Latino Rebels
Ten Ethnic Studies Books Arizona Doesn’t Want You To Read, by Yara Simon at Remezclez
Voter Suppression Targets Latinx Voters in Red States, by Yessenia Fues at Colorlines
White Latino Racism on the Rise: On Euro Diasporic Whiteness, by William Garcia at Latino Rebels
Are Arabs White? by Khaled Beydoun at Al-Jazeera
Colorlines posts on Islamophobia
Dear Non-Muslim Allies, by Sofia Ali-Kahn
Hijabi World, voices of young Muslim women in a short film by Julie Winokur
How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI & Then Lost Everything, from The Nation, about Springfield MA resident Ayyub Abdul-Alim
The Race Hate We All Know, by Nimra Azmi at Colorlines
Stand Up Against Anti-Arab Racism and Islamophobia, from Coming Together
What to do when you see Islamophobia, by a graphic narrative by Maeril at Buzzfeed
The 3/5 Clause And Indian Removal, by Michael McLean at We’re History
8th Fire Dispatches: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada, and the Way Forward, films by a team of Aboriginal storytellers from CBC
10 Year Old Wukchumni Boy’s Refusal To Sing Song Leads to Its Removal From School, by Levi Rickert at Native News Online
11 Essential Native American Films You Can Watch Online Right Now from Indian Country Today
Action Lab for Community Wealth Building: Working Collaboratively to Build Community Wealth in Indian Country
All The Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, a new book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker, from Beacon Press
Australians Apologize for Atrocities Against Aboriginal Peoples, from A+J
Canada Acknowledges Abuse of First Nations, a video from AJ+
Canada’s Cultural Genocide from A+J Films
Dear Settlers, Before Using Our Medicine, Be Aware of Your White Privilege, by From An Indigenous Perspective
The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking The Domination Code, a film from 38 plus 2 Productions
Forced to Dance to the White Man’s Song: Australia, Steeped in Racism from the Stringer Independent News
How the West Was Lost by Native Americans, an animated graphic from the Atlantic Wire
Indian Country Today Media Network
Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Interactive time-lapse map shows how the U.S. took more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans, by Rebecca Onion and Claudio Saunt at Slate.com
Thanksgiving Through the Lens of Native Americans Today, from PBS, featuring Wampanoag perspective in articles, videos, etc.
More Cities Ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous People’s Day, from Telesur 10/9/16
Native Lives Matter Syllabus from POC Online Classroom
New Totem Pole Memorializes Boarding School Victims and Survivors, from CBC News
The Nolumbeka Project and the Narragansett Indian Tribe Historic Preservation Office work together to preserve New England’s tribal heritage through education, sacred site preservation, and more.
Police Are Killing One Group At A Staggering Rate, by Zack Cheney-Rice at mic.com
The Police Killings No One Is Talking About: Native Americans Most Likely To Be Killed By Cops, from Democracy Now
Resistance
– Idle No More!
– Global #NoDAPL Month of Action, a video from Sacred Stone Camp
– Veterans’ apology at Standing Rock, video from Our Revolution and article from Daily Kos
– Official Support for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Against DAPL
– Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Facebook
– Standing Rock Syllabus, from NYC Stands With Standing Rock
– 20 Photos, My 7 Months At Standing Rock, by Desiree Kane at Yes! Magazine
– Indigenous Waters, a website advocating the inherent human right to water and the protection of Indigenous Peoples’ environmental rights. Water is life.
– Life in the Native American oil protest camps, from BBC News
United American Indians of New England
The United Nations says U.S. should return stolen land to Indian tribes – from the Guardian
Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and Practice
Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition works to prevent sexual and domestic violence in the intertribal communities of the Northeast & to prevent violence against Mother Earth.
What if they told European history the way the tell Native American history? from the blog An Indigenous History of America
What Native Americans Couldn’t Do Until … from OMG Facts
Yes, Native Americans were the victims of genocide, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz at History News Network
The Model Minority Is a Lever of White Supremacy by Scot Nakagawa at Race Files
Racist U.S. court rulings deny citizenship to American Samoans, from Pema Levy at Mother Jones
The Real Story of Asians In America, by Zac Cheney-Rice at Identities.Mic
#ThisIs 2016: Asian Americans Respond, from the New York Times
And a response to #ThisIs2016: Open Letter To The New York Times Who Told Brown Asians They Don’t Matter, by EJR David at the Huffington Post
When My Japanese-American Family Was Treated As Less Than Human, by Mike Honda at Reuters
Yellowface & Racism Against Asians Is As Important As Other Prejudices, by Carmen Fishwick at The Guardian
… Also see our Black Lives Matter and Reparations pages.
1619 Project — In 2019, the New York Times began a project to observe the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans to arrive in what would become the United States. Numerous articles have been published under this series.
African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres Over Last Century, by Leah Douglas at The Nation
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, an interactive map from Slate Black History Month
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Bino & Fino: Books Celebrating Black Boys
Black History in Greenfield, MA, by John Putnam, Abolitionist & The Father of Contradance
Black Privilege, a poem by Crystal Valentine
The Black Radical Tradition, a compilation of writings put together by libcom.org
Boston’s slavery ties deepened by findings at First Church in Roxbury by Tiana Woodard in the Boston Globe
Could Black People in the U.S. Qualify As Refugees? by Raha Jorjani in the Washington Post
Crossing the Waters Cultural Exchange Institute, building alliances between artists and others in the U.S. with groups in Africa
The Destruction of Black Wall Street by Josie Pickens at Ebony
Disowning Slavery, Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England 1780–1860, by Joanne Pope Melish
Equal Justice Initiative: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Found Voices, recordings of slave narratives, from ABC News, 1999
Forgotten Martin Luther King Quotes that Show He Was a Revolutionary, by Jenee Desmond-Harris on Vox
The Freedmen’s Bureau Project — African American Family Records From time of slavery free on line
Hey Black America, Let’s All Ditch Our Slave Names, by Zaron Burnett at The Bigger Picture
The Hidden History of Slavery in New England
How fugitive slaves kept their freedom deep in the swamps, by Richard Grant at the Smithsonian Museum
Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia — Using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice
New Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, AL Dedicated To Victims of White Supremacy, by at the New York Times
The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
National Museum of African American History & Culture
New database will document burial sites of U.S. slaves, by Allison Meier at Hyperallergic
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Race & Recovery 10 Years After Katrina, an infographic by Miriam Zoila Perez at Colorlines
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears: From the Tobacco South to the Cotton South, by Edward Ball at The Smithsonian
Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a book by Dr. Robert H. Romer of Amherst, MA
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, by C.S. Manegold