Powerpoints and Lectures created by me
I wanted to share this great resource that I have been putting together to spread awareness about the complexity and deeply rooted issues of racial inequality in the United States.
As many of you may know, I am duel degreeing in Government & Politics and Sociology with two minors in Demography and Law & Society where my main focus is on social inequality. Through courses, internship and research opportunities that I've had throughout college, I have learned a wealth of information and access to data and articles that have helped me develop a broader understanding of race relations. In these courses, I have been exposed to topics that were never covered in K-12 and things that people would otherwise never learn if they didn't go out of their way to seek this information. However, I think that it is very hard to find information that you aren't even aware of existing.
My main goal with this project is to give everyone a free resource to online lectures and sources that can better inform people about specific issues within racial inequality such as the history of police, discriminatory policies, mass incarceration, education, housing, wealth, health, and cultural appropriation. Many of these things I was extremely shocked to learn because none of this is ever mentioned in school. Since I believe that education is extremely stratified in this country and some people may not ever have access to courses like these because they're expensive or don't have the opportunity to go college, I wanted to spread the knowledge to let everyone make their own informed judgements. I tried to explain everything to the best of my ability to make it accessible for anyone to understand even if this isn't their field of study or have little to no background knowledge on the subject. I hope that through learning these things that are often swept under the rug or whitewashed, people will come to understand that racism in the United States is much deeper than actions or opinions; it is structural and systemic and has been affecting Black Americans for generations. The #BlackLivesMatter movement goes much farther than a call to end police brutality; it is a demand for a restructuring of our society to make it more equitable no matter who you are. While I am not necessarily an "expert" on these topics, as I still have one year left of college, I have spent every semester taking courses and doing research on these particular issues. After college, one of my goals is to become a Sociology professor, and this has reinforced how important that is to me still. The majority of the information I shared is directly from sources that were used to teach my classes or from websites such as Pew Research Center and the Census.
Please use this link to access the powerpoints, video lectures, pdfs of articles and journals, fall course suggestions, and other sources to donate to #BlackLivesMatter movement. Feel free to share this among your friends and family who you think might benefit from learning the side of history that is often forgotten or hidden.
Please be kind, but also feel free to give me feedback on anything that seems inaccurate, confusing, etc.
