Ok, here's some of the CRT books that I've taught and read over the years: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Shaped the Movement (1995)
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I am going to say a few quick things about the implications of the UNC situation. 1. The evaluation of Jones peers and the faculty was that she should be appointed as a full professor. Overriding that assessment is a clear obstruction of the principle of academic freedom. 2. UNC is a state institution. And thus already subject in some distinct ways to political whims. Overriding the judgment of scholars and faculty in the institution is a red flag.

I want to say something about historic analogies... In some important ways what we see now is *worse* than lynching. Because it isn't a mob that engages in extra-legal violence. It is an agent of the state, with the authority of the state, killing people without any process... No due process. No protection of the right to life and liberty. In earlier generations sheriffs wore hoods to hide their involvement in extra-legal racist killing... Now we have a broad daylight reality.

I teach a course on race in legal history. I always teach Asian American history in that course because you cannot teach serious history of US law as an instrument of racial injustice without the history of Asian Americans... And today, the patterns of racial violence that are predicated on a notion of Asian Americans as “not belonging” are directly tied to that history.

Black History Month is in February because of Lincoln’s and Frederick Douglass’s (chosen) birthday being Feb 12 & 14. “Negro History Week” was first organized around those dates, before expanding to Black History Month in the 70s... I just mention that because every year I hear people saying “why February?”

My message for today: Talk to freedom movement elders. They are everywhere and have so much to share. I’m also going to share a few books/sites that I cherish about the movement. Important websites about the movement: kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/ab…, crmvet.org, sncclegacyproject.org

I wrote a book that is a love letter and homage to the culture and communities Black Americans built in the face of Jim Crow and racism at every level. For ppl who feel deeply about Blk history & life, I’m resharing info for holidays: uncpress.org/book/978146963… I saw this photo in the Shuttlesworth Airport yesterday and it made me think of how deep my conviction was about writing that book and telling a neglected story about rituals/traditions/self regard and ways of being in Black America