Special thanks to our contributors:
Isabel Altamirano, Eric Brower, Ameet Doshi, Jay Forrest, Katie Gentilello, Elizabeth Holdsworth, Shandra Jones, Lisha Li, Alexis Linoski, Amanda Pellerin, Kevin Quick, Stella Richardson, Sharon Riehl, Leslie Sharp and Joseph Zima.
Understanding Black Lives Matter and The Black Experience in the United States
Remembering John Lewis
- E-book: "John Lewis and Desegregation" by Gerry Boehme
- E-book: "March" by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
- E-book: "Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America" by Wesley C. Hogan
- Streaming film: "Minds that Matter: John Lewis"
- Streaming film: "John Lewis Marches On"
- Streaming film: "American Experience: Freedom Riders Interview with John Lewis"
- Article: "Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle" by Glenn T. Eskew in the American Studies journal, January 2012, Issue 56, p.4
- Article: "John Lewis's 'serious revolution': Rhetoric, resistance, and revision at the march on Washington" by Garth E Pauley in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, August 1998, Vol.84(3), pp.320-340
- Article: New York Times Op-Ed
- Primary sources: John L. Lewis invitation to speak at NAACP annual conference, involvement in third party movement, and relations between organized labor and Black Americans (correspondence)
- Primary sources: From the National Archives
- Primary sources: Congressman John Lewis, Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage presented by the Georgia Institute of Technology
Starting Your Self-Education
In 2013, community organizers Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors worked to create the hashtag for Black Lives Matter and the start of the social media discussion on how Black people experience violence in the United States. The now global organization brings awareness to issues that affect peoples of African descent, from systematic injustice to the disproportionate suffering from diseases, such as Covid-19.
Further Critical Readings
Race without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize Racist Institutional Norms by Shaun R. Harper in The Review of Higher Education
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo in the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh in the Independent School Journal
Georgia Tech Voices
The following selections represent work related to the Black experience created by Georgia Tech faculty.
Books & Reports from Tech Lecturers & Professors
The Crunk Feminist Collection, edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana Morris and Robin M. Boylornby
Calling Cards Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture by Jacqueline Jones-Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins
Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City by Ruth Carbonette Yow
Book Chapters
Public Housing Demolition and Neighborhood Revitalization by Thomas “Danny” Boston from Planning Atlanta: Ruins and Resurgence
Gender, (In)equity, and the Scientific Workforce by Mary Frank Fox, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, and Marcela Linková in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Articles, Lectures & Presentations
Science Librarianship and Social Justice: Part One Foundational Concepts by Jeffra D. Bussmann, Isabel M. Altamirano, Samuel Hansen, Nastasha E. Johnson and Gr Keer
Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S.: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust by Willie Belton, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Yameen Huq in the Review of Economics and Institutions
Environmental Equity and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Tree Canopy in Atlanta by Bon Woo Koo, Nico Boyd, Nisha Botchwey, and Subhrajit Guhathakurta in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
Impact of a Youth Advocacy Policy, Systems and Environmental Change Program for Physical Activity on Perceptions and Beliefs by Nisha Botchwey, Jasmine Jones-Bynes, Katie O'Connell, Rachel A. Millstein, Anna Kim, Terry L. Conway in Preventive Medicine.
Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis by Andre Brock in New Media and Society
Black joy as a frame for digital practice by Andre Brock
Interrogating digital Blackness by Andre Brock
A Decade-Long View of Multidimensional Deprivation in the United States by Shatakshee Dhongde and Robert Haveman in SSRN
On the front lines of disclosure: A conceptual framework of disclosure events by Tiffany Johnson in Organizational Psychology Review
The Trigger Effect by Hallie Lieberman in The Atavist Magazine
When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own by Jacqueline Jones-Royster in College Composition and Communication
The OUTKAST Imagination by Joycelyn Wilson
For those who love God ... and Trap Music by Joycelyn Wilson
The Music of the Murders by Joycelyn Wilson in The Bitter Southerner
Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: The First Death of Afrofuturism by Lisa Yaszek and Isiah Lavender, III from Extrapolation
From the Archives
These lectures and presentations represent work recorded by the Georgia Tech Library for inclusion into the SMARTech digital repository. They are presented in playlist format.
An Assessment of Social and Health Equity in Atlanta Streets Alive Events by Katherine Perumbeti
Mirror, Mirror On the Wall Show Me Documents That Represent Us All: Using Archival Records To Create Inclusive Lessons in the Classroom by Amanda Pellerin and Miranda Westerman
Intertwined Integration: The Story of Desegregation at Three Major Georgia Universities by Amanda Pellerin, Steven Armour, Laurel Bowen and Katherine FIsher
Library Resources
The following resources are provided, free of charge, from the Georgia Tech Library for students, faculty and staff. Many of the articles require a Georgia Tech login.
- Sprawl City : Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta by Robert D. Bullard, Angel O. Torres, and Glenn S. Johnson
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism And Wrecked The Middle Class by Ian Haney López
- Habits of Whiteness : A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance MacMullan
- The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz
Special Topics: Black Science Fiction
On-Campus Resources
Free Tools for Future Research
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide by Carol Anderson
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
We Need to Talk About an Injustice by Bryan Stevenson
How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time by Baratunde Thurston