This website features the hand painted info-graphics created by WEB Dubois and his students to comment on race and racism during the 19th century. Online: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900?fbclid=IwAR13LSSo4w-F7RzrbX_aJxx1bGzJr3Sid7zuPhqAuqu0ez1cWANng69Q1hU
In this 2016 TED Talk, Kimberlé Crenshaw, the scholar who coined the term intersectionality, speaks passionately about the idea of intersesctionality in relation to violence against Black women. Online: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?fbclid=IwAR0Isi_keH9nlHgV3wecEpwiqbfDxfkIpZQSdLh9LbgK9VP6KOrETxbSXxI
Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But the story also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built community — within and despite — the red lines that these restrictive…
Includes some primary source materials from the UCLA Libraries, some of which may be useful for ethnic studies. Some examples include old photos of Los Angeles Latino families, oral histories collected across subjects, and papers and audiovisual recordings from the Women Against Violence Against Women (particularly the Los Angeles Chapter of the organization). The oral…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s digitized objects. Objects include banners, quilts, photographs, letters, and so on. Everything is available for you to use with a CCo license. Online: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection
“Smithsonian Open Access allows anyone to download, share, and reuse nearly three million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections. These assets may be used for any purpose without causing or contributing to copyright infringement. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, gardens, and…
One of the projects of Community Stories, funded by the California Humanities. “MiHistoria.net is a collaborative storytelling project that bears witness to the Latina experience, strengthens inter-generational ties, builds bridges of understanding between urban and rural women, and empowers Latinas to become the authors of our own stories.” Online: https://mihistoria.net/
Contains individual resources from the Smithsonian, as well as collections organized by theme, educational use, learning strategy. Allows individuals to use Smithsonian resources to create their own collections and share them with others. Online: https://learninglab.si.edu/
The New York Times aligns their journalism with lesson plans. They are organized by subject area but also just listed. Some examples include learning about slavery using primary sources Online: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/learning/learning-about-slavery-with-primary-sources.html
A Pulitzer-prize winning project focused on the history of slavery. Includes a few lesson plans and other curricular resources, and some are tied fairly closely to New York Times articles. Online: https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum