Past Confronting Racism Panels

• Rasul Mowatt, Indiana University; Professor, School of Public Health; Departments of American Studies and Geography
• Candace Miller, Indiana University; Visiting Assistant Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
• Rebecca S. Wingo, University of Cincinnati; Assistant Professor, Director of Public History

Moderators:

Books

• A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930 - Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck
• Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure - Ian Lamond and Karl Spracklen
• Riot. Strike, Riot: The New Era of Uprisings - Joshua Clover
• Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line - Enobong Hannah Branch and Christina Jackson

Articles

• "Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry," Marcus Hunter, Mary Pattillo, Zandria F. Robinson, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Theory, Culture & Society 33, no. 7–8 (December 2016): 31–56.

Organizations

• Rondo Avenue, Inc.: Website | Facebook
• Close the Workhouse - a grassroots organization dedicated to closing the St. Louis medium security jail, those imprisoned are overwhelmingly poor and cannot afford high cash bails
• ActionSTL - an organization dedicated to building political power for Black residents of St. Louis

• Khalil Muhammad - Harvard University; Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
• Simon Balto - University of Iowa; Assistant Professor, African American History
• Jeannine Bell - Indiana University; Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law; Maurer School of Law

Moderator:

Books

• Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power - Simon Balto
• Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime - Jeannine Bell
• Hate Thy Neighbor: Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing - Jeannine Bell

Interviews and Roundtables

• Mariame Kaba interview with Chris Hayes
  "I'd highly recommend that people engage Mariame Kaba's work. She's the best articulator of abolitionist arguments that I know of." - Simon Balto
• African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) roundtable on Dr. Balto's book "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Organizations

• Campaign Zero: Solutions
  "Campaign Zero's website, particularly their solutions has an overview of a fairly progressive and comprehensive campaign to attack police violence from several different approaches." - Jeannine Bell

• Stephanie Huezo - Fordham University
• Matthew Countryman - University of Michigan; Associate Professor, Department of American Culture and Department of History; Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
• Cristal Chanelle Truscott - Northwestern School of Communication; Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Theatre
• Maisha Wester - Indiana University; Associate Professor, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Department of American Studies

Moderators:

• Dina Okamoto - Indiana University; Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
• Vanessa Cruz-Nichols - Indiana University; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Books

• Playing in the Dark - Toni Morrison
• Horror Noire - Robin Means Coleman

Articles

• "2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle in America," Matthew Countryman, June 7, 2020.
• "DEFUND THE POLICE: Protest Slogans and the Terms for Debate," Austin McCoy, June 12, 2020.
• "The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership: The current uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like," Barbara Ransby, July 2, 2020.
• "Nada sobre nosotros sin nosotros: Reflections on the TPS Movement and their fight to Permanent Residency," Stephanie Huezo, Latino Studies Journal 18, (1), 2020.
• "A 'Journey for Justice": Immigrant Mobilization in Response to the Revocation of TPS," AC Frost, in Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy, 2020.

Organizations

• National TPS Alliance
• Shadow and Act

• Ryan Comfort - Indiana University; Ph.D. Student and Associate Instructor, Media School
• Danielle Kilgo - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; John & Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Wendy Chun - Simon Fraser University; Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, School of Communication
• Marissa Moorman - Indiana University; Professor, Department of History

Moderator:

• Janae Cummings - Indiana University; Director of Communications and Marketing, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Books

• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Safiya Umoja Noble
• Race After Technology - Ruha Benjamin
• The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication - Valerie Alia
• Science and Native American communities: Legacies of pain, visions of promise - Keith James

Articles

• "Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest," Danielle Kilgo, May 29, 2020.
• “'Honestly, everything is not burning': An interview with Dr. Danielle Kilgo”, Cinnamon Janzer, in Columbia Journalism Review, June 22, 2020.

Organizations

• Indian Country Today
• Native American Journalists Association
• Lucy Parsons Lab

Panelists:

• Michael Harriot - The Root
• Leah Derray - Indy10 Black Lives Matter
• Kyra Harvey - Indy10 Black Lives Matter
• Clint Smith - Emerson Fellow, New America

Moderator:

• Brooke Harris Garad - Indiana University; Assistant Research Scientist, Center on Education and Lifelong Learning, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community

Books

• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime - Elizabeth Hinton

Articles

• "A Letter Not From a Birmingham Jail," Michael Harriot

Organizations

• Kheprw Institute
• The Bail Project

Panelists:

• Liza Black – Indiana University; Assistant Professor, Department of History; Assistant Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program
• Julie L. Reed – Penn State University; Associate Professor of American Indian and American History
• Joseph M. Pierce – Stony Brook University; Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
• Chief Ben Barnes – Vice Chairman and Second Chief of The Shawnee Tribe in Miami, Oklahoma

Moderator:

• Nicky Belle – Indiana University; Director, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center

Books

• Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 - Liza Black
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Articles

• "What does it mean to be Black and Native in 2020?" - Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today

Media

• Finding Cleo

Organizations

• Decolonize This Place
• Women on the Border
• Native Appropriations

Books

• Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar

• Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
• The End of Empires: African Americans and India - Gerald Horne
• Colored Cosmopolitan: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India - Nico Slate

• To Turn this Whole World Over - Keisha Blain and Tiffany Gill (eds.)
  

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History - Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson (eds.)

• The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain - Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe (eds.)
• Showing our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out (English translation) - May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz (eds.)
• European Others: Queering Ethnicity in PostnationalEurope - Fatima El-Tayeb
• Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro‑German History - Sara Lennox
• London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race - Kennetta Hammond Perry
• African Europeans: An Untold History - Olivette Otele
• Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson - Barbara Ransby

Articles

• "What B.R. Ambedkar Wrote to W.E.B. Du Bois" - Manan Desai, South Asian American Digital Archive
• "Intifada and Independence" - Edward Said, Social Text

• "Lessons Learned from Comparing the Application of Constitutional and Federal Discrimination Laws to Higher Education Opportunities of African-Americans in the U.S. with Dalits in India" - Kevin Brown and Vinay Sitipatias, as part of “Race Across Boundaries” symposium, Harvard Blackletter Law Journal

• “African-American Perspective on Common Struggles: The Benefits for African-Americans Comparing Their Struggle to the Dalit Liberation Efforts” - Kevin Brown, The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections

• “Afro-German Cultural Identity and the Politics of Positionality: Contests and Contexts in the Formation of a German Ethnic Identity” - Tina Campt, New German Critique

Media

• Angela Davis's Lecture in Mumbai

Organizations

• Equality Labs
• ​Panthers Paw Publications
• Each One Teach One (EOTO)
• ISD Bund or Initiative of Black People in Germany
• Generation ADEFRA
• Berlin Postkolonial