Vanessa Roberts, MA

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***LINK TO AFROPUFF LEDERHOSEN WORKSHOP RESOURCES***

TEXT RESOURCES

Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." Theatre Journal December 1988: 519-531.

Fanon, Frantz. “Racism and Culture.” I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy. Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lsana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee, eds. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. 172-81. 

hooks, bell. Yearning: race, gender and cultural politics. Boston: South End Press,1990.

hooks, bell and Cornel West. Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Cambridge: South End Press, 1991.

Mills, Charles. The Racial Contract. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Outlaw Jr., Lucius T. On Race and Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Root, Maria P.P. The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Fronteir. California: Sage Publications, Inc., 1996.

West, Cornel. Race Matters. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.



ONLINE RESOURCES

Art of Using Humor in Public Speaking:

http://www.squaresail.com/auh.html



Mixed Race Info and Support:

http://drmariaroot.com

http://thenewvoters.news21.com/mixedrace/

http://www.scoop.it/t/mixed-american-life/p/415703686/forced-to-choose-a-race-birth-certificate-dictatorship

www.mavinfoundation.org

http://www.salon.com/2008/02/05/obama_race_2/singleton/

Mixed Race Article from the NY Times in 1989:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/24/us/mixed-race-generation-emerges-but-is-not-sure-where-it-fits.html

Cultural Diversity at Work:

http://www.diversityhotwire.com/business/diversity_statistics_month_09_08_mixed-race_americans.html

Family Conversations:

www.teachingtolerance.org

Applied Research Center - Race and Social Change:

www.arc.org

Tests for Unconscious Bias:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/