Current Issues
COVID-19 & Structural Inequality
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We recommend following our specific issue area pages for the most updated list of course offerings. Issue areas relevant to this subject are:
We also encourage you to explore the Health & Societies Faculty-lead initiative. Open to Swarthmore staff, students, and faculty who are interested in the cultural, ethical, economic, social, and political questions that relate to health on local, regional, and global scales, the central goal of the Health & Societies group is to highlight the important intersection of health and social justice, and the vital contributions that the social sciences and humanities make on understanding and addressing human health—past and present.
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- World Health Organization: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- NPR: Harvard Researchers Find 'Inequality On Top Of Inequality' In COVID-19 Deaths
- Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality: Poverty, Inequality, and COVID-19
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- Movement Alliance Project (MAP) project for Internet Access During COVID-19
- Pennsylvania Immigration & Citizenship Coalition (PICC) COVID-19 Resources
- Philly Mutual Aid Network
Police Brutality in the U.S.
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We recommend following our specific issue area pages for the most updated list of course offerings. Issue areas relevant to this subject are:
We also encourage you to learn more about Urban Inequality & Incarceration program, which seeks to seeks to explore intersections of race, inequality, mass imprisonment, and policy and their connections to the carceral disparities present in our local and global communities.
Finally, the Office of Include Excellence has created a resource list to support community learning around this issue.
Learn
- Environmental & Climate Justice Resources from the NAACP
- Global Nonviolent Action Database
- Historical Context: Origins of the police state; timeline of events leading to the 2020 protests around police brutality and racism in the U.S.
- Indigenous Environmental Network
- Lesson planning resource for educators by Chalkbeat
- Of Course There Are Protests. The State is Failing Black People by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness (compiled by The Abusable Past Collective, the digital arm of the Radical History Review)
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- 2020 Summer Reading Series hosted by the Caucus of Working Educations, Teacher Action Group - Philly, and the Racial Justice Organizing Committee
Act
- 26 Ways to Help the Struggle Beyond the Streets
- Black Lives Matter Philly
- Movement for Black Lives (Black Lives Matter)
- Philly Thrive
Recommended Readings from the Provost
- Racism Without Racism: Color-Blind Racism in the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
- Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- The Search for Common Ground by Howard Thurman
- Fit for Freedom, Not Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye