Readings and Resources

Episode 1 Resources:

• i shimmer sometimes, too by Porsha Olayiwola, Button Poetry, 2019

• Genealogy Bank: African American Slave Trade: Ships & Records for Genealogy

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

• Slavery and the Law in Virginia

• 1740 South Carolina Slave Code

• Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, vol. 3 (Virginia) [1827]

• Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia; June 26, 1788, Yale Law School, The Avalon Project.

Episode 2 Resources:

• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow (Revised). New York: New Press, 2012.

• Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II. New York: Doubleday, 2008.

• Disenfranchisement And Rights Restoration: Spotlight On States. The Appeal

• DuVernay, Ava, et al. 13th. 2016. Made available on YouTube by Netflix, April 17, 2020.

• Logan, Rayford Whittingham. The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. New York: Collier Books, 1965.

• Oshinsky, David M. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Simon & Schuster: 1997.

• Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City,” August 7, 2018, video, 3:50

• Williams, Yohuru. Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement. New York: Routledge, 2015

Episode 3 Resources:

• Black Visions Collective

• Hadden, Sally E. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.

• Carter Jackson, Kellie. Force And Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

• Leepson, Marc. Francis Scott Key: A Life. From What So Proudly We Hailed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014.

• Lineberry, Cate. “The Story Behind the Star Spangled Banner,” Smithsonian.com, March 1, 2007.

• McWhirter, Cameron. Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. New York: St Martin’s Griffin, 2011.

• Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019.

• North, Anna. “How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities, Explained By A Historian.” Vox.com. June 6, 2020.

• Ward, Geoff. “Living Histories of White Supremacist Policing: Towards Transformative Justice.” Du Bois Review, Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2018

• Wells-Barnett, Ida B. The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. 1895

• Wilson, Christopher. “Where’s the Debate on Francis Scott Key’s Slave-Holding Legacy?,” Smithsonian.com, July 1, 2016

• US Constitution, Article 4: Section 2. Signed in convention September 17, 1787. Ratified June 21, 1788. (A portion of Article IV, Section 2, was changed by the 13th Amendment)

Episode 4 Resources:

• “13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery.” National Constitution Center. Accessed October 5, 2020.

• “1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,” Tulsa Historical Society & Museum. Accessed October 3, 2020.

• “A Massacre of Blacks Haunted This Arkansas City. Then a Memorial.” The Washington Post, August, 30, 2019. Accessed October 5, 2020.

• Agyeman, Julian, Kofi Boone. “Land Loss Has Plagued Black America since Emancipation – Is It Time ...”, The Conversation, June 18, 2020

• “Blacks in the U.S. Face a Huge Gap in Homeownership Rates.” The Washington Post, July 23, 2020.

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.“ The Atlantic, June 2014

• “The Emancipation Proclamation.” National Archives, issued January 1, 1863

• Fan, Andrew, Linda Lutton, Alden Loury. “Where Banks Don’t Lend”. June 3, 2020. WBEZ.org

• “The Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company and African American.” Federal Records and African American History (Summer 1997, Vol. 29, No. 2)

• George, Alice. “The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened.” The Smithsonian Magazine, March 1, 2018

• Merritt, Keri Leigh. “Land and the Roots of African-American Poverty.” Aeon, March 11, 2016. Accessed October 3, 2020.

• Meyer, Stephen Grant. As Long As They Don’t Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

• Sani, Christina Sturdivant. “Homes in Black Neighborhoods Are Vastly Undervalued, Costing ...”, Greater Greater Washington, accessed October 3, 2020.

• Sisson, Patrick. “The Fair Housing Act: An Explainer,” Curbed. April 11, 2017

• “The Story of SNCC.” SNCC Digital Gateway

• Uenuma, Francine. “What Was the Elaine Massacre?” Smithsonian Magazine, August 2, 2018.

• Washington, Booker T. “The Awakening of the Negro”. The Atlantic, September 1896.

• Baradaran, Mehrsa. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press., 2017

Episode 5 Resources:

• “Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Healthier Mothers and Babies.” 1999. CDC.gov. October 1, 1999.

• Campbell, Kendall M., Irma Corral, Jhojana L. Infante Linares, and Dmitry Tumin. 2020. “Projected Estimates of African American Medical Graduates of Closed Historically Black Medical Schools.” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 8: e2015220.

• Duffy, Thomas P. 2011. “The Flexner Report—100 Years Later.” The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 84, no. 3: 269–76.

• Greenwood, Brad N., Rachel R. Hardeman, Laura Huang, and Aaron Sojourner. 2020. “Physician-Patient Racial Concordance and Disparities in Birthing Mortality for Newborns.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, no. 35: 21194–200.

• Haskell, Rob. 2018. “Serena Williams on Motherhood, Marriage, and Making Her Comeback.” Vogue, January 10, 2018.

• Henson, Martelia L. “Medicalized Childbirth in the United States: Origins, Outcomes, and Opposition.” Marshall.Edu.

• “Interpretation: The Slave Trade Clause.” Constitutioncenter.Org. Accessed October 12, 2020.

• Kelkar, Kamala. 2016. “When Labor Laws Left Farm Workers behind — and Vulnerable to Abuse.” Pbs.Org. September 18, 2016.

• NPR. 2008. “End of Slave Trade Meant New Normal for America.” NPR, January 10, 2008.

• Onion, Rebecca. 2018. “How the C-Section Went from Last Resort to Overused.” Slate. May 21, 2018.

• Sidhu, Jonathan. “Exploring the AMA’s History of Discrimination.” Propublica.org. Accessed October 12, 2020.

• Stahnisch, Frank W., and Marja Verhoef. 2012. “The Flexner Report of 1910 and Its Impact on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Psychiatry in North America in the 20th Century.” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: ECAM 2012: 647896.

• Sullivan, Louis W., and Ilana Suez Mittman. 2010. “The State of Diversity in the Health Professions a Century after Flexner.” Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 85, no. 2: 246–53.

• Vilda, Dovile, Maeve Wallace, Lauren Dyer, Emily Harville, and Katherine Theall. 2019. “Income Inequality and Racial Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Mortality in the US.” SSM - Population Health, Volume 9, December 2019.

• Washington, Harriet A. 2008. “Apology Shines Light on Racial Schism in Medicine.” The New York Times, July 29, 2008.

• Wiencek, Henry. 2012. “The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson.” Smithsonian Magazine. September 30, 2012.

• Zhang, Sarah. 2018. “The Surgeon Who Experimented on Slaves.” Atlantic Monthly, April 18, 2018.

Episode 6 Resources:

• “Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Stanford.edu. April 24, 2017.

• Baptiste, Nathalie. “Study: Black People Are 75 Percent More Likely to Live near Toxic Oil and Gas Facilities.” Mother Jones. November 14, 2017.

• Blackmer, Peter. “Police Used the Myth of Black Snipers to Justify Brutality in the Long Hot Summer of 1967.” Timeline. August 11, 2017.

• Crime Bill Signing Ceremony. C-SPAN. 1994.

• “Governor Newsom Signs Bill Eliminating Barriers That Block Former Inmate Fire Crews from Becoming Career Firefighters after Serving Their Sentences.” Gov.ca.gov. September 11, 2020.

• Hopkinson, Nalo, and Uppinder Mehan. So Long Been Dreaming. Arsenal Pulp Press. 2009.

• Lauterbach, Preston. Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis. New York, NY: WW Norton. 2016.

• Lavender, Isiah, III, and Lisa Yaszek, eds. Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. The Ohio State University Press, 2020.

• Li, Shirley, “The Evolution of Police Militarization in Ferguson and Beyond.” The Atlantic, August 2014.

• Lopez, German. “Nixon Official: Real Reason for the Drug War Was to Criminalize Black People and Hippies.” Vox. March 22, 2016.

• “Mandatory Minimums and Sentencing Reform — Criminal Justice Policy Foundation.” CJPF.org.

• Maraniss, David. “Race ‘war’ in Cairo Reconciliation Grows as Memories Recede.” Washington Post, March 22, 1987.

• PEW Public Safety Performance Project. 2015. “Federal Drug Sentencing Laws Bring High Cost, Low Return.” Federal Sentencing Reporter 28, no. 1: 4–15.

• Pitts, Steven. “Black Workers and the Public Sector.” Berkeley.edu. Accessed October 19, 2020.

• “Redlining Was Banned 50 Years Ago. It’s Still Hurting Minorities Today,” Washington Post. March 28, 2018.

• Rosenau, William. “Bringing It All Back Home: The Roots of Militarized Policing.” Warontherocks.com. August 21, 2014.

• Royce, Eden. 2018. Apex Magazine August 2018. Edited by Sheree Renee Thomas and Jason Sizemore. North Charleston, SC: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

• “Sheree Renée Thomas.”

• “The Racial Dot Map.” Demographics Research Group. Coopercenter.org.

• TooleMan87. “Martin Luther King Jr. Shot — CBS Radio News First Report.” Youtube. April 5, 2011.

• “War Comes Home.” American Civil Liberties Union. June 2014.