14 books and documentaries about racism you should know

The author tries it with many clear examples, exercises and anonymous diaries of former students Tupoka Ogette together with the readership anti-racist perspective to work out.

The author makes contact in the form of a letter to his son Ta Nehisi jackets his personal history with the American. Coates shows how tight racial violence woven into American identity and that people must come to terms with their past in order to overcome racial discrimination.

Fighting racism means understanding it first and foremost. That is the starting point of the German black-and-white author Noah Sow. With clear language and humour, she explains the everyday racism in Germany and tries to show ways to overcome it.

Author Layla F. Saad’s book shows readers white privilege and involvement in the White domination On. Saad tries to explain how to understand and break this dominance.

In the New York Times bestseller, author Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex realities of today’s racial landscape — from white privilege to police brutality.

The English journalist and blogger Reni Eddo Lodge traces the historical roots of racial prejudice and shows what it means to be black in a world where being white is the norm.

Alice Haster patiently and persistently explains why it’s already racist to ask someone where they’re from or if you want to know if you can burn as black. The young German talks about her Daily life as a black woman and shows that racism is not only a problem of the far right of society.

“We are all racists, whether we realize it or not,” says the author Ibram X Kendi. Kendi shows that in his book neutrality in the fight against racism is not a valid option. One must become actively anti-racist to avoid discrimination.

The documentary is about the history of racism in America. The focus is on the American prison system and the vast majority of incarcerated African Americans.

Of the mysteries–horror–thriller depicts a young black man meeting his white girlfriend’s family. During the visit, he discovers a gruesome secret and realizes that the initially friendly and open-minded nature of the white community is deceptive. The film focuses on the everyday racism in the United States and won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2018.

A four-part miniseries about five black Harlem teens who wrongly a rape in Central Park accused became. The series is based on true events and was one of the most streamed Netflix series of fall 2019.

“Black people were shown as animals in the 19th and 20th centuries.” With this sentence, the Arte documentary “The Wild Ones in the Human Zoos” begins. The movie is about one dark Chapter of European history: until the 1950s, some cities had so-called human zooswhere black persons could be seen as caged animals.

At his death, writer and activist James Baldwin left behind an unfinished script. In it he writes about the performance and the murder the known civil rights activists Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Director Raoul Peck works with Baldwin’s manuscript in the documentary as he attends the story from racism in modern America.

Blue-eyed people are dumber and less valuable than brown-eyed people. This is the starting position experiments «The racist in us», in which 39 people participate. The documentary impressively shows how deceptive that is feeling current can be and how mechanisms of racism function.

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