Intercultural Inspirations

"How a Golden Shipping Container Became One Man's Portal to the World," Lidia Jean Kott, PRI's The World, 4 April 2018

"Emma Lazarus: 'The New Colossus,'" Austin Allen, Poetry Foundation, 22 Nov. 2017

"Poems on Immigration," Collection, Poetry Foundation

"Social Justice Rap Battle," Decoded

 

"Legal Immigration," Last Week Tonight, 15 Sept. 2019 (19:41)

 

 

Culture

"Why Do You Think Stereotypes Are True?" Decoded, season 2, episode 9, 2 Dec. 2015 (5:09)

"Judge Strikes Down Controversial Citizenship Question on 2020 Census," Ari Berman, Mother Jones, 15 Jan. 2019

"You, Me and Them: Experiencing Discrimination in America," a special series at NPR

Code Switch, NPR

The Race Card Project, special series, NPR

"Seven Myths about Cultural Appropriation Debunked!" Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey

"Five Things You Should Know about Racism," Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey

"When Did You Realize Your Race," Francesca Ramsey, Decoded, season 3, episode 12, 20 July 2016 (4:50)

"A Guide to Cultural Appropriation Vs. Appreciation," Hoda Kotebi, BUST

"Is Bruno Mars Guilty of Cultural Appropriation?" Moments - Twitter

"The Census Always Boxed Us Out," E. Dolores Johnson, Narratively, 30 Oct. 2017

"DUDES Week: 'We are louder than ever,'" Marcus Garcia, Bulldog Blog, 6 Dec. 2017

 

Economics

"JP Morgan's Racist Practices Exposed in Bombshell Recording," Aleia Woods, Newsone, 11 Dec. 2019

 

Native American

"How to Do Thanksgiving Makeup That Has Nothing to Do with the 566 Federally Recognized Tribes," Sailor J, 7 Nov. 2017 (3:09)

Mary G. Ross

Native News Online

 

History

"Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations," National Museum of the American Indian, 21 Sept. 2014-2021

"A Few Things to Know about Why Treaties Matter," NPR, 22 Nov. 2017 (5:20 min.)

"Broken Promises on Display at Native American Treaties Exhibit," Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 18 Jan. 2015 (3:41 min. audio)

"American Indian Treaties," Native American Heritage, National Archives

"Native American Students Fight Discrimination by Celebrating Their Heritage," David Sommerstein, NPR, 16 Nov. 2017

"The Disturbing History of the Pilgrims," Adam Ruins Everything, 22 March 2018

"Everything You Know about Thanksgiving is WRONG," Franchesca Ramsey, Decoded, 18 Nov. 2015 (3:21) 

 

 

Art

"5 Contemporary Native American Artists You Should Know," Partnership with Native Americans, 10 July 2018

"8 Contemporary Native American Artists Challenging the Way We Look at History," Jillian Billard, Artspace, 24 Nov. 2017

"11 Native American Artists Whose Work Redefines What It Means to Be American," Kinsey Lane Sullivan, Mic, 3 Nov. 2015

"Terms and Issues in Native American Art," Lauren Kilroy Eubank, Khan Academy

 

"'Please, Don't Discover Me! On The Year of the White Bear," Leticia Robles-Moreno, Sightlines, Walker Art Magazine, 19 July 2018--On Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco's performance of "Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West" in 1992

"Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West," Wikipedia

 

Music

"Custer Died for Your Sins"  and "B. I. A.," Floyd Westerman

 

Literature

Native American Poetry and Culture, collection at the Poetry Foundation

"Ofelia Zepeda," American Indian Studies, The University of Arizona

"Ofelia Zepeda," Poetry Foundation

"Indigenous poets read urgent climate message on a melting glacier" 

"Sherman Alexie," Poetry Foundation

 

Hispanic American

"Are Hispanic People White?" Franchesca Ramsey, Decoded, 24 Aug. 2016

"Colorism in the Latinx Community," Franchesca Ramsey and Lee Chin, Decoded, 28 Feb. 2018

 

History

"Why Some American Farmers Are Moving to Mexico," PRI's The World, 30 Dec. 2010

Art

"Chicano Mural Movement" by Teresa Palomo Acosta, Texas State Historical Association

"28 Amazing Tucson Murals and Where to Find Them," Tucson Life

"Concrete History: Chicana Muralist Judith F. Baca Goes from the Great Wall to the Museum Wall," by Maximilíano Durón, ArtNews, 19 April 2017

Barrio Stories: Theater with Soul, Arizona Illustrated, 24 June 2018 (report on Borderlands Theater community production of Barrio Anita stories)

The Guadalupe Series, Yolanda Lopez

 

Literature

"U. S. Latinx Voices in Poetry," Collection, Poetry Foundation

"Poetry Magazine Short Takes: Maria Melendez Kelson Reads 'A Chingona Plays Dinah Brand,'" The Poetry Foundation

 

 

African American

History

"New Lynching Memorial Is a Space to Talk about 'All of That Anguish,'" Debbie Elliott, NPR, 26 April 2018

"A New National Memorial to Victims of Lynching," 1A, NPR, 24 April 2018

"Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation and Apartheid South Africa," Democracy Now, 15 Jan. 2018

"The One-Drop Rule," from Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition by F. James Davis, Frontline, PBS,

"Five Excuses for Slavery That Need to STOP," Franchesca Ramsey, Decoded, 17 Aug. 2016

"Life of Last-known Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Survivor Sheds Light on Dark Chapter in U.S. History," Peter O'Dowd, Here and Now, NPR (9:07)

Art

National Gallery of Art, Collection Highlights: African American Artists

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art by African Americans

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 30 Americans

Huffpost, "Exhibition Features 30 of the Most Influential Contemporary Black Artists"

Twenty Important African American Female Artists of the 20th Century

Literature

"Harlem" by Langston Hughes

"kitchenette building" by Gwendolyn Brooks

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Project Gutenberg

Ntozake Shange at Barnard 

Ntozake Shange 

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

SLAVE NARRATIVES 

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - pdf

Slave narratives by women writers:

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. By Harriet Ann Jacobs (or Linda Brent), edited by L. Maria Child

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By Harriet E. Wilson.

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African.

 

 

Asian American

 

"Asian Americans Respond to Racist Comments," Buzzfeed

"Are All Asians Rich?" Franchesca Ramsey with Lily Du, Decoded, 14 March 2018 (5:27)

 

History

"Children of the Camps: Internment History," PBS.org

The Untold Story of America's Southern Chinese

"Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar"

Art

"Dismantling Stereotypes about Asian-American Identity through Art," Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post, 3 May 2017

"Asian American Artists," Smithsonian

"Asian American Art," The Michael D. Brown Collection 

"Gordon Chang Asian American Art Talk," Stanford Humanities Center

Literature

"Poetry in History: Japanese American Internment," Lantern Review Blog: Asian American Poetry Unbound, 15 May 2010

"Asian American Voices in Poetry," Poetry Foundation

"How Amy Tan's Family Stories Made Her a Storyteller," PBS NewsHour, 14 Nov. 2017 (7:00)  

"Stanford Students Write and Produce Graphic Novel," Stanford Humanities Center

"The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen," Beverly Parayno, The Rumpus, 8 March 2017 

"Oregon Poet Laureate Inada Reflects on Internment," PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, 14 May 2009 (3:53) 

"Hawaiian Pidgin Recognized as a Language" 

 

Policing 

"Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,"  7 June 2020

"Why I keep talking to my Latinx family about anti-blackness despite them yelling, 'Why should I care?'" Magdalena Guillen, yahoo!life, 9 June 2020