2021 Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talk Suggested Readings, Book & Articles
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape
- CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM – What We Do
- ‘Make Farmers Black Again’_ Fighting Discrimination To Own Farmland _ NPR
- ttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/podcasts/1619-slavery-sugar-farm-land.html
Podcast from the 1619 Project, The Land of Our Fathers
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Writing While Black: The Afrofuturistic Writer
- http://www.nisishawl.com/CCHBSF.html
A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction by Nisi Shawl
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Race & Care of the Soul
- https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/11/20/racism-sickness-soul-can-jesuit-spirituality-help-us-heal
Racism is a sickness of the soul. Can Jesuit spirituality help us heal? Bryan N. Massingale - https://www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/northstar/volume6/pierce.pdf The Soul of DuBois Black Folks by Yolanda Pierce
Sunday, February 28, 2021
It Happened In New Hampshire: Black History in the Granite State
- http://slavenorth.com/newhampshire.htm
- Soul singer Sharon Jones reflects on life, race, and her decision not to go to business school – Entertainment_ – seacoastonline.com – Portsmouth, NH
- https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/02/29/809740346/the-cruel-story-behind-the-reverse-freedom-rides
Sunday, March 7, 2021
The Power of Place: Martha’s Vineyard and the Growth of the Black Elite
- https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a6668/oak-bluffs-african-american-community/
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Skip Finley, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Valerie Jarrett, Vernon Jordan, and Stanley Nelson share personal stories of Oak Bluffs. - https://narratively.com/the-real-story-of-black-marthas-vineyard/
“Beyond the beautiful beaches and glitzy galas, Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summers all claim as their own.” - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/history-green-book-african-american-travelers-180958506/
Sunday, March 14, 2021
On Shaky Ground: Students of Color in Predominantly White Institutions
- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/21/scholars-talk-about-being-black-campus-2020
Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely. - https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/23/racism-fuels-poor-mental-health-outcomes-black-students
Black students continuously experience, fight against and bear emotional scars from racism, which can lead to increased anxiety and poor mental health outcomes. Some colleges are just starting to address these issues. - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-and-education/
This article lays out the history of inequality between the races in terms of access to high-quality education.
