It is the month that Canada and the United States celebrate the strides and achievement black people have accomplished over the centuries and how they have shaped American, Canadian and European History. The Stuart Center will be featuring links to stories highlighting the culture and narratives of black people in the United States and Canada,…
An issue of Heart magazine has been dedicated entirely to JPIC. Read the online version now to get an up-close look at some of our activities as Stuart Center and as the United States-Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart. We hope the words and images will inspire and encourage you in our shared efforts…
TED Talk from Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow.
Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. “There’s a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system,” he says in this animated interview. “The enduring view of African Americans in this country is as a race of people who are…
Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilisation, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews. But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues – it is designed to keep the hierarchy of race intact.
“The New Jim Crow” author and Ford Foundation senior fellow Michelle Alexander in conversation with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker on racial justice, mass incarceration, and #BlackLivesMatter.
Structures of racism and privilege continue to put a serious toll on the African American community’s health — and contribute to the fact that black Americans are still dying younger than white Americans…
The myth of racial difference created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.
Great article on racism in public education system. “…add it all up and it’s a little weird that we progressives spend so much time talking about fixing brown people as opposed to the public institutions we’ve created for them and still control.”
How self-segregation and concentrated affluence became normal in America
Last year, a pair of researchers from Duke University published a report with a bold title: “The End of the Segregated Century.” U.S. cities, the authors concluded, were less segregated in 2012 than they had been at any point since 1910. But less segregated does not necessarily mean integrated–something this incredible map makes clear in…
“…white resentment simply found a new target for its ire is no coincidence; white identity is often defined by its sense of being ever under attack, with the system stacked against it. That’s why Mr. Trump’s policies are not aimed at ameliorating white resentment, but deepening it.”