Anti-Oppression Resources

In its research, the Center for Hunger-Free Communities has identified a clear link between experiences of discrimination and food insecurity in Philadelphia and beyond. Because of the pervasive nature of oppression in perpetuating poverty, it is important to ensure that the Center's research, programs, and advocacy, as well as all efforts to address poverty and hunger, are rooted in a framework that acknowledges the many forms of oppression, identifies their impact on individuals and communities, and takes efforts to mitigate those effects and imbalance of power.

Noting the complex nature of oppression, the Center's team has committed to ongoing personal and group education on the various forms of oppression as an essential element of its work in an effort to address the power imbalances present its community and beyond.

The following resources have been found to be helpful.

Center for Hunger-Free Communities Reports

To learn more about the link between lifetime experiences of discrimination and household and child food insecurity, view Children's Health Watch report From Disparities to Discrimination: Getting at the Roots of Food Insecurity as well as an in-depth discussion of and recommendations on four major areas including schools, the workplace, housing, healthcare, public assistance, judicial system, and on the streets in the Center's Discrimination Spotlights.

Policy and Communication Fellow Sabea Evans shares two perspectives in addressing issues of systemic racism and trauma from a healing-centered mindset in her Policy Brief on Systemic Racism and Trauma: Why Healing-centered Two-generation Approaches are Crucial to Poverty Alleviation (June 2019) and her more creative Love Brief: A Third Universe is Possible (June 2019) [PDF].

Additionally, hear first-hand from Witnesses to Hunger members Tiana Gaines-Turner in her Kerner Commission Report (May 17, 2018) and Sherita Mouzon in her opinion article for the Philadelphia Inquirer, (December 3, 2018) and perspective article From Systemic Oppression to Love and Healing (June 2019).

General Anti-Oppression/Racism Resources and Articles

(New York Times Magazine)
(Medium)
(Inside Higher Education)
(Camara Jones, TEDxEmory)
(Medium
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(NBC News)
(The Atlantic)
(Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers)
(Jane Elliot)
of prisons (The Marshall Project)
(The Atlantic)
(AORTA: Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance)
(Purdue Global)
(Syracuse University)
(MSW Degrees)
(Peggy McIntosh, TEDxTimberlaneSchools)
(Janet Stovall, Ted@UPS)
(Deray Mckesson)
(The Drexel InterView)
(United Nations)
(Megan Ming Frances, TEDxRanier)
- legal abstracts centered on race, racism and racial distinctions
(Northwestern University)
(Nicola Carpenter)
(Tatiana Mac)
(Princeton Theological Seminary)
(Kimberle Crenshaw, TEDTalks)
(How Matters)
(Georgie Williams)
(Teaching Tolerance)
(Peggy McIntosh)
(Medium)
(The Atlantic)
(Brookings)

Financial Literacy

(Race in the Marketplace)
(University of Missouri-Kansas City)
(Brookings)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
(Iowa PBS) - Explore the Black experience on the causes of poverty and the wealth gap in Iowa.

Podcasts

(New York Times)
(NPR)
(Kimberlé Crenshaw)
(Healing Justice Podcast)
(The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
(Crooked Media)
(Scene on Radio)

Films and TV Series

13th - Netflix
American Son - Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
Clemency
Dear White People - Netflix
Do the Right Thing
Fruitvale Station
I Am Not Your Negro
If Beale Street Could Talk - Hulu
Just Mercy
King In The Wilderness - HBO
See You Yesterday - Netflix
Selma
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Hate U Give - Hulu
When They See Us - Netflix

Books

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Dark Days by James Baldwin
Diversify by June Sarpong
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
White Supremacy and Me by Layla F. Saad
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

Poverty and Oppression Resources

(Teaching Tolerance)
(Saporta Report)
(Non-Profit Quarterly webinar)
(Brookings)

Racism and Hunger/Food System Resources

(Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems, 2019)
(Breeze Harper and Eric Holt-Giménez, Food First, March 2016)
(Edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman, MIT Press, 2011)
(Joshua Sbicca, University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
(Joshua Sbicca, Agriculture and Human Values, 2012)
(Feeding America and Tableau)
(webinar, Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems, 2018)
(Bread for the World)

Healing from the Trauma of Oppression

(Defining Wellness)
- mental health and substance use resources for the AAPI community
(Black Lives Matter)
(Dignity and Power Now)
- providing equal access to mental health and substance use resources specifically for people of color.
(Innerbody)
(Black Women's Health Alliance Philadelphia)
(Vice)
(Yasmine Cheyenne)

Taking Action

(Vice)
(National Lawyers Guild Sacramento)
and Social Media (LogoDesign.net)
(Black Lives Matter)

Resources for Parents

(Embrace Race)
(New York Times)
[PDF]
podcast
(Parenting Forward)
(PBS)
(PBS)

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