READINGS | LINKS | INFO

Below is a list of readings, links, and information to help further our mission.

EDUCATIONAL READINGS

NOTE: TWO LOCAL BLACK-OWNED BOOK STORES YOU CAN SUPPORT:
KEY BOOKSTORE HARTFORD
PEOPLE GET READY - NEW HAVEN

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

  • Stamped from the Beginning (Ibram X. Kendi)

  • A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)

  • Caste, The origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson)

  • White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)

  • So you want to talk about race? (Ijeoma Oluo)

  • The Burning House (Anders Walker)

  • The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)

  • The Condemnation of Blackness (Khalil Gibean Muhammad)

  • Dying of Whiteness (Jonathan Metzl)

  • A Different Mirror (Ronald Takaki)

  • How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)

  • Evicted (Matthew Desmond)

  • Nobody (Marc Lamont Hill)

  • Lies My Teachers Told Me (James W. Loewen)

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Beverly Daniel Tatum)

  • The Color of Law (Richard Rothestein)

  • Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy (Darryl Pinckney)

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

  • Before She Was Harriet (Lesa Cline Ransome, James E. Ransome)

  • Dream Builder (Kelly Starling Lyons)

  • Sit In (Andrea Davis Pinkney)

  • I’ve Seen the Promise Land (Walter Dean Myers)

  • Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly (Walter Dean Myers)

  • Someday is Now (Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

  • Ruth and the Green Book (Calvin A. Ramsey)

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EDUCATE YOURSELF

The key to being a better advocate is education.
PARJE created an Arts and Advocacy video library.
We have been busy curating and co-creating lectures from today’s top art professionals to more fully explore contemporary ideas in racial justice.

Want more videos on advocacy?
Try this free course from the University of Boulder CO.
It’s an 11 hr Master Class on anti-racist training divided into short digestible classes.

MORE LINKS AND IDEAS

Readings and News
WHAT DID DAVID RUGGLES LOOK LIKE?
WHAT DID DAVID RUGGLES LOOK LIKE?

What did David Ruggles Look Like?
As Public Art For Racial Justice Education dives deeper into our Sister Mural project we examine one of the themes of the Norwich mural, David Ruggles (1810 - 1849). A contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Ruggles was active in the underground railroad and owned the first Black-owned bookstore in New York.)

Since murals are visual artworks, we started wondering “What did David Ruggles look like?”

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A NEW MONUMENT: 350 Sculptures Invoke First Enslaved Africans
A NEW MONUMENT: 350 Sculptures Invoke First Enslaved Africans

“Monumental Reckoning,” 350 sculptures she created to represent the first Africans kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1619.

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TURNING BODY BAGS INTO ART
TURNING BODY BAGS INTO ART

Seattle based artist Abigail Echo-Hawk, a public health researcher for the Seattle Indian Health Board and a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. When her workplace requested personal protective equipment during the Corona pandemic, they were sent a box of body bags. This left Echo-Hawk feeling like the U.S. government didn't value the lives of Native Americans.

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IS FRIDA KAHLO GUILTY OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?
IS FRIDA KAHLO GUILTY OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?

Joanna García Cherán dissects Frida Kahlo’s dress as cultural appropriation of indigenous people.

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LAND CLAIM
LAND CLAIM

Tomashi Jackson’s show at the Parish Museum of Eastern Long Island explores the experiences—past and present—of communities of color on Long Island’s East End.

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THOSE PEOPLE : FILM
THOSE PEOPLE : FILM

"Those People"; Simply People : about the premiere at the Garde of the new documentary about New London Youth Talent Show which was co-founded by two PARJE members Curtis Goodwin and Frank Colmenares.

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We are not soley responsible for curating all of these resources, so we want to thank the countless people working together to change the course of history.

This is a movement, not a moment, and taking action will help impact our community and world.