#BlackInTheIvory

• #BlackInTheIvory website

• Blackademic Lives Matter: An Interview with Lavelle Porter. By Patricia A. Matthew. LA Review of Books. September 9, 2020

• How Black Lives Matter Came to the Academy. By Kristal Brent Zook. The New Yorker, Jan 30 2021

• A Black Professor’s Colleague Called the Cops on Him. What the School Did Next Made It Much Worse. By Jackie Flynn Mogensen. Mother Jones, December 17, 2020

• Vernon, K. (2020). The Outside of the Inside: Blackness and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Life. The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7(3), 258-265.

• Amplifying Black Voices: The convenient narratives that perpetuate racism (part 1). By Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe. The Source Thu Oct 1 2020

• Interrogating Allyship in Cross-Race Doctoral Advising Relationships. By Shana E. Rochester and Nell K. Duke. Medium. Feb 24 2021.

• CUNY dean quits after less than a year, citing workload and racism. By Melissa Klein. New York Post. October 17, 2020

• Microaggressions Really Are Aggressive. by Monnica T Williams. Psychology Today. Oct 31, 2020

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White people's attitudes to Meritocracy and race

• Meritocracy or Bias? By Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed August 13, 2013

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Anthropology and Archaeology specific resources

• Laster Pirtle, W. N. (2021). We, too, are academia: Demanding a seat at the table. Feminist Anthropology.

• Archaeology In The Time Of Black Lives Matter. A panel discussion held on Thursday June 25th 2020. Sponsored by the Society of Black Archaeologists, Theoretical Archaeology Group (North America), and Columbia University Center for Archaeology

• Flewellen, A., Dunnavant, J., Odewale, A., Jones, A., Wolde-Michael, T., Crossland, Z., & Franklin, M. (2021). “The Future of Archaeology Is Antiracist”: Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter. American Antiquity, 1-20. 

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Resources and exercises to explore your own biases

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. By Peggy McIntosh

• SEED project guide to Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. (Scroll to the end of the page to see questions for facilitators, which can guide you through your reading and response to the text.)

• Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege

• The RESPECTFUL model, to help you think about your multiple identities, and potential areas of privilege. (Additional pdf version)

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