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Subconscious Bias

The US Bishops offer this information and activity to discuss subconscious bias.

Louis Armstrong 
Louis Armstrong, the famous musician, had a special relationship with a Jewish family that fostered his talent.  Read about it here.
 
A Black Catholic Reading List
US Catholic offers this reading list specific to the Black Catholic experience.

Critical Race Theory
What is Critical Race Theory and how does it connect - or not - with Catholic teaching on racism?  This article offers a point of view for Catholic schools.

Tulsa Race Riots

May 31  marked the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history, the Tulsa Race Massacre. Back in 1921, a mob of white people tore down and burned the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla. — a segregated part of the city so prosperous and bustling, it was known as Black Wall Street.  According to some historians, over 1,200 homes and buildings were destroyed by the violence, killing between 100 and 300 people. But thanks to white-dominated power structures in the city of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma, news about the massacre was wiped from many official sources for decades.   NPR recommends these documentaries to learn about this shameful chapter of American history.

Asian-American Experience
Here are some book lists about the Asian American Experience
From Business Insider
From the New York Magazine
From Social Justice Books - includes books for children and young adults

“Between the first step, which is to come close and allow yourself to be struck by what you see, and the third step, which is to act concretely to heal and repair, there is an essential intermediate stage: to discern and to choose. A time of trial is always a time of distinguishing the paths of the good that lead to the future from other paths that lead nowhere or backward. With clarity, we can better choose the first.”

-Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

Check out this 38-day Discernment Series on Racial Justice from St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco.


Cultural Appropriation
What is culture? Can it even be appropriated? Is there a difference between appreciation and appropriation? Join Danielle in the theoretical minefield!
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American Like Me
Actress America Ferrara America invited thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all.