Inspiration & Resources in and around the Williams College and Williamstown
Academic & Williams College Curated Resources
- Anti-Racist & Racial Bias information by academic focus (Division 1, Division 2, Division 3)
- Williams College CLIA: Resources For Anti-Racism Research & Advocacy Work
- Williams College CLIA: Summer 2020 Online Tech and Training Resources (mostly free)
- Williams College Library's available resources on racism & anti racism (last update June 2020)
- Black Williams: A Written History by the Black Student Union (BSU)
- Black at Williams: an Instagram project
Racism and the Legacy of Enslavement in and around Williamstown, MA
- On the Books, Unenforceable: Restrictive Covenant an Echo of Williamstown's Racist Legacy
- Higher Education and Slavery in Western Massachusetts (PDF)
- Ephraim Williams' Bill of Sale for an Enslaved Person
- Slavery and the North Berkshires (Berkshire Eagle article from local historian)
- The Underground Railroad in North Berkshire County (local historian blog)
Podcasts & Ted Talks
- NPR Podcast: Code Switch
- Ted Talk: The Urgency of Intersectionality
- Ted Talk: The Danger of a Single Story
- Ted Talk: Are You Biased? I Am
Netflix Documentaries
- 13th: Discussion Guide 1
- 13th: Discussion Guide 2
- Mass Incarceration Facilitation Guide
- When They See Us Guide 1
- When They See Us Guide 2
Implicit Bias Tests
Organizations & Fundraising
- Organizations to Donate To (#1 in the link)
- Organizations to Donate To Part 2 & Petitions
- Black-Owned Businesses
- Virtual Fundraising
Facilitation
- General Dialogue Facilitation
- Group Development Activities
- Self-Reflection Activities
- Discussion about Race
- Facilitation Techniques(PDF
LITERATURE & MEDIA
Williams College Library's available collection on racism & anti racism PDF
NONFICTION:
- How To Be Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi (Amazon / Bookshop)
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (Amazon / Bookshop)
- Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines by Jenna Arnold out June 23, 2020 (Amazon / Bookshop)
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele (Amazon / Bookshop)
- How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal M Fleming (Amazon / Bookshop)
- So You Wanna Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Amazon / Bookshop)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Amazon / Bookshop)
- White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad (Amazon / Bookshop)
- The End of Policing: How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative by Alex S. Vitale (Amazon / Bookshop)
- Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals have Reinviented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by (Amazon/Bookshop)
CURATED BOOK LISTS
- Massive Reading List
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31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance (webpage)
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‘No reader is too young to start’: anti-racist books for all children and teens (webpage)
- Six Graphic Novels That Tackle Racism (webpage)
- CommonSense.org: Books About Racism and Social Justice (webpage)
- Recommended antiracist literature for Middle School/High School/Young Adult Community (PDF)
Another awesome #dcblockparty #williamscollegedaviscenter in the books! Mark your calendars: the next will be Tues 05.14.24 and we`ll be in our new space: it`ll be bigger than ever (building and block party)!
Special thanks to #zambezimarimbaband #williamscollege `s #zambeziband for the heroics of getting those beautiful #marimbas to and from Chapin and for providing amazing tunes!!! And to #zilkhacenter and #williamscollegeclia and #williamscollegeJRC and the CSS team...all...and the groups...and the weather... so appreciative of our community!
Now the fall semester has truly started 😉
You know it`s real when the best sign I ever made comes out.
Be there or be squared.
Plan to swing by the Stetson Court on Tuesday 09_19_23! Fun for all, young and young at heart.
So much good food! Live performances! Games! Tacos, elote, beef patties, mango sweets, skewers! Something for everyone. Some MinCo groups will be tabling...so much!
With our neighbors including the JRC, CLiA, CSS, IWS and admissions, we have lots of great things planned...
Lets have fun and make new friends!
We will share more about this soon. But plan to be at Stetson Court on Tuesday 09_19_23 5p-8p
Happy Summer! The basement kitchen is finally open! It is open during all DC building hours: m-f 9am-midnight (swipe after 5) and sat-sun 9am-midnight (swipe only)...
Get cookin`
This space is great for hanging out in general.
Wow! Now that was a great #dcblockparty #thedc #daviscenter #williamscollege
THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME AND CELEBRATED THE END OF A GREAT YEAR WITH US!!
Also thanks to all the campus partners that helped make the event so great!
Seniors who have been part of any DC/MinCo group or event: come get your cord and enjoy great cocktail party fare at Dodd...5pm
Next Tuesday the 16th 5p-8p
DC Block Party!
This Wednesday (virtual)
Go to bit.ly/3LUZi5a to register and get your access to this awesome event.
The DC is seeking members for their 23-24 CEF team! Applications are due 04-07-23
(Enjoy the spring break, too!)
bit.ly/40eCzp6
The Bascom House will be open every day from 8am to midnight (sleep in your bed, friend). There are oodles of lovely spaces for you to chill--whether it is by yourself or with a group of friends. There`s lots of screen options, a shiny new karaoke machine, so many fantastic board/card games and puzzles, old school video games, treadmills, great snacks (healthy, international and junky/sweet/salty)... let the Bascom House be part of your HAPPY HOLIDAY BREAK (and winter study!) We love you! @williamscollegeiss @williamsinternationals
Get to know the DC team! Meet Devika, a DC Community Outreach Fellow!
Get to know the DC team! Meet Shannon, a DC Community Outreach Fellow!
Come and marcy and celebrate!
Get to know the DC team! Meet Cyrus, a DC Community Outreach Fellow!
It`s Intersex Awareness Day!!! Swipe to learn more information about intersex folks.
Get to know the DC team! Meet Bilal, Co-Director of the DC! #williamscollege @williamscollegeminco #williamscollegedaviscenter @williamsdaviscenter @shepherdofunherd
HAPPY QUEER HISTORY MONTH!!!
This Friday`s Heritage History Highlight is Harvey Milk to celebrate Queer History Month!
Get to know the DC team! The DCMedia intern, @jessicajiang102, created a great collection of questions to help you get to know the team better. Each week we`ll share another profile of a DC team member and the Community Engagement Fellows (CEF)! Thanks again JJ!
Join Aly as the DC hosts Lemy, Nina and Erin as they reflect upon their Summer Opportunity Grants! Erin will talk about their work with the #stockbridgemunseebandofthemohican to support #repatriation efforts and the return of cultural items from museums....Lemmy will reflect on the film project they produced investigating the relationship between #queeridentity and #indigeneity...and Nina wants to share their experience with #playwriting about #queercharacters and #transgendercharacters #williamscollege #lunchandlearn2022 #DavisCenter @williamsdaviscenter @williamscollegeminco @wcqsu @williamscollege
LUNCH PROVIDED
write AWC5 for more details or special food requests
#daviscenter #thedaviscenter #wallisondavisandjohnadavislecture #blackhealth #reproductivejustice #DorothyERoberts #medicalracismisreal #williamscollege #justiceisjustice
Register at bit.ly/3RUxdL3
VIRTUAL EVENT--TUES. 10-18-22 at 7:00pm register to get link to this event
Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and George A.
Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, with
joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the
Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell
Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also Founding Director of the Penn
Program on Race, Science & Society. An internationally acclaimed scholar, public
intellectual, and social justice activist, Roberts has written and lectured extensively
on the interplay of race, gender, and class inequities in U.S. institutions and has been
a leader in transforming thinking on reproductive justice, child welfare, and
bioethics. She is author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body: Race,
Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child
Welfare (2001); and Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create
Race in the Twenty-First Century (2011), as well as more than 100 articles and book
chapters, including “Race” in the 1619 Project. Her latest book, Torn Apart: How the
Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer
World (2022), culminates more than two decades of investigating racism in family
policing and calls for a radically reimagined way to support children and their
families.
Roberts has served on the boards of directors of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, Black Women’s Health Imperative, Center for Genetics & Society,
Juvenile Law Center, and National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, and her
work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National
Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Fulbright Program, Harvard
Program on Ethics and the Professions, and Stanford Center for the Comparative
Studies in
#daviscenter #HeritageHistoryHighlights
It`s FRIDA FRIDAY, friends!
In an attempt to highlight and celebrate the overlapping heritage months of Hispanic/Latine/x/a/o Heritage and LGBTQ+ History, our intern pointed us aptly toward the ever-amazing and inspirational Frida Kahlo.
Beyond the intersectionalities we can see obviously, did you also know that Frida was a champion of disabled rights? Frida SURVIVED`s significant injuries that then helped inspire her art inasmuch as her gender, sexuality, or other societal inputs.
Hooray for this intersectionality hero! Plus, if you didn`t know already: AWESOME ART!
Check out a gallery of her art where she not only presses society to look at ideas of gender, sexuality, and ableness--but also things like societal concepts of beauty.
Where to begin or stop with Frida! Thanks, DC Media intern for this selection--Frida Friday, indeed!
Happy Mountain Day, Ephs!
https://www.frida-kahlo-foundation.org/
We hope, dear audience, that you`ve noted that the DC is being more active online and in social media! We are building a media team right now with new initiatives.
Every Friday will now by "heritage history highlights " day! We will focus on an individual or moment that reflects the different heritage weeks and months . As it is still Hispanic/Latine/Latinx heritage month, we chose to start with Sonia Sotomayor. Thanks DC media intern @jessicajiang102 for getting this started. We look forward to sharing more with you each week!
More to come! Thanks!
DINÉ forever.
♡Free screening.
♡weds. 10-12-2022, 7:30pm
♡DC social change film series
♡@imagescinema (50 Spring St.)
♡talkback with Cyrus Naider and Aly W. Corey
♡indigenous rights ans activism
♡social and environmental justice
FIELD TRIP TIME!
Join the DC on a trip to the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington on Saturday the 8th of October to witness the "Honoring Native America" performance hosted by the Alliance for a Viable Future. FREE RIDE/FREE TICKETS!--though space is limited! #nativeamericanheritage #indigenouspeoplesdayweekend2022
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Curious about how the building project is going? Would you like to see what`s going on yourself? Would you like a great lunch at the Williams Inn? Join the building project team as they share all this and more! @williamscollege RSVPs needed for this: please get yours in before 10-11-22. bit.ly/DavisCenterRSVP_Oct22
Did you know that the DC has a food program??? We put out fresh fruits and international snacks!!! We have tea and coffee as well!!!
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month!!!!
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@williamscollegeminco
A collaboration between three of `our` MINCO groups!! So excited to see this inspired programming and look forward to more! Make sure the DC knows so we can support fully.
GOODRICH*FRI. 09.23.22 AT 5PM.
Tonight is the fall Block party and it`s bigger than ever. We made it a true Block party--the neighbors @williamsadmission, the JRC and CLIA have joined! More to do, more to eat! Dance party in the street at 7pm. Two barbers, a braider and more! Please join us.
5-8pm, dance party with lights st 7. Stetson Court. Be there or be square. @wcvistagram @socawc @williams_vsa @aasiaatwilliams @wcblackstudentunion @wc.bstem @ourstem_williams @caso.williams @findyourrootz @zilkhacenter @williams.msu @jewishephs @williams_africans @williamsinternationals @cisa_wc @wcritmo @kow.williams @williamscollegeclia @sisterhood_at_williams @williamsdsu @wcmosaics @williamscollege
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