Resources
Racial Equity Tools: Glossary
Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. We discovered that even the most frequently used words in any discussion on race can easily cause confusion, which leads to controversy and hostility. It is essential to achieve some degree of shared understanding, particularly when using the most common terms. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.
Fall 2023: Classes to Take
African American & Black Diaspora Studies
Tuesday, Thursdays, 9:00am-12:30pm
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10:10am-11:00am
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 11:15am-12:05pm
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 1:25pm-2:15pm
English
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10:10am-11:00am
Political Science
CAS PO 330: Special Topics in Comparative Politics, Section W1: Democracy and Protest in the Global South with Marcus Walton
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00pm-3:15pm
Sociology
(meets with AA 207)
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30pm-4:45pm
Thursdays, 12:30 pm-3:15 pm
Tuesdays, 12:30pm-3:15pm
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Thursdays, 3:30pm-6:15pm
BU Resources
Department Resources
How to Grow Abolition on Your Campus (from African American Studies)
The Center for Antiracist Research: Affiliated Researchers (find professors and grad students who are involved with anti-racist research at BU)
Student Group Resources
Q: BU's Queer Activist Collective
Allies & Accomplices: Moving Beyond the Fear of Accountability (from a training event held by Q and BU Student Government)
Additional BU Anti-Racist Resources
Uprooted & Rising at BU (food justice & sovereignty)
Gender Non-Conforming Resource
Literary Resources
*Disclaimer: read this article from The Atlantic about why reading anti-racist work is only the first step to activism. If you have a recommendation for our list, please send us an email with the title of the work.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
NONFICTION
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
The Warm of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
FICTION/PROSE
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance by Saidiya Hartman
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
POETRY
Collection of poems by Langston Hughes
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Coal by Audre Lorde
Social Media Resources
*Disclaimer: we have assembled these lists as resources for exploration rather than as direct endorsements of these individuals/organizations. If you have a recommendation for our list, please send us an email with the Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter handle.
ORGANIZATIONS
@deathtomuseums (Art History specific)
@monument_lab (Art History specific)
INDIVIDUALS
Decolonization Resources
Food Sovereignty & Dining in Boston
Indigenous Peoples & Nations
Native-Land.ca (use this resource to find out which Indigenous peoples lived on the land you occupy now)
Communism is the Horizon, Queer Indigenous Feminism is the Way (by The Red Nation)