Educate.
Museums and galleries have a huge part to play in addressing historic oppression and institutional racism. As a volunteer-based, student-run, not-for-profit gallery the Norman Rea’s core aim is to provide opportunities for budding curators; we feel that we have a responsibility to address race from the beginning of our careers. We see to instill in student curators a sense of social responsibility and agency.
Non-exhaustive list of Anti-Racism Resources
Black Women Who Should Be In Science Textbooks
by Nina Chhita
The Memeification Of Breonna Taylor's Death
A demonstrator holds up the image of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville police officers, during a protest in Denver on June 3.
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Books
Black Vernacular (Martine Syms) in Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century by Lauren Cornell (Editor), Ed Halter (Editor)
The Appended Subject (Jennifer Gonzalez) in Race in Cyberspace by Beth Kolko (Editor), Lisa Nakamura (Editor), Gilbert Rodman (Editor)
Get at a way of telling - Simone Brown
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of colourblindess - Michelle Alexander
What "defund the police" really means
10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship
by Mireille Cassandra
Dear Anti-Racist Allies: Here’s How to Respond to Microagressions
Books
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
I am Not your Baby Mother - Candice Brathwaite
Girl, Woman, Other- Bernadine Evaristo
Being Young, Successful, and Oppressed by the Notion of Blackness
Books
Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
The Imperative of Integration - Elizabeth Anderson
When White Women Cry: How White Women's Tears Oppress Women of Color
by Mamta Motwani Accapadi
Books
Why I am no longer talking to white people about race - Renu Eddo-Lodge
Digitizing Race - Lisa Nakamura
Dark Matters: On surveillance of blackness - Simone Browne
Another Country - James Baldwin
Why are black women 'five times more likely to die in childbirth'?
The History and Meaning of Juneteenth
Breonna Taylor & Toyin Salau Prove That Black Women Get Forgotten In The Fight Against Systemic Racism
Opinion | Why Juneteenth Matters by Jamelle Bouie
A group of freed slaves during the Civil War.
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Race Today: Marginality, Inequality, Creativity and Belonging in Britain
Black is the Color
A documentary that highlights key moments in the history of African-American visual art, from Edmonia Lewis's 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Books
How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi
Me and white supremacy - Layla F Saad
Culture and Imperialism - Edward Said
Passing for White, Passing for Black - Adrian Piper