SJE Video Resources for Learners
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAGE
The Social Justice Education video resource page for learners lists several videos ranging from discussions on diversity and inclusion, prejudice and discrimination, and racism that are meant to develop and strengthen your understanding of social injustice and justice by guiding your self-exploration and self-learning.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
- “Cultural Diversity: The Sum of Our Parts | Hilda Mwangi | TEDxUCSD”
- “Diversity & Inclusion: Talking Change, Making Change | Lamont Sellers | TEDxUSD”
- “Diversity Makes You Smarter | Kathleen Nalty | TEDxCU”
- “How to Go Beyond Diversity and Inclusion to Community and Belonging | E’Ula Green | TEDxOU”
- “Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion, and Collusion: Helen Turnbull at TEDxDelrayBeach”
- “INCLUSION over Diversity | Kenyona Matthews | TEDxAkron”
- “On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion | Anthony Jack | TEDxCambridge”
- “Practical diversity: taking inclusion from theory to practice | Dawn Bennett-Alexander | TEDxUGA”
- “The Paradox of Diversity: Dr. Marilyn Sanders Mobley at TEDxCLE 2013”
- “The science of inclusion: Quinetta Roberson at TEDxVillanovaU”
- “Why diversity initiatives fail.. | Khalia Newell | TEDxCityUniversityLondon”
POWER AND PRIVILEGE
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”: Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools”
- “Recognizing Privilege: Power to All People | Michael Yates | TEDxTexasStateUniversity”
- “Rethinking Privilege | Mariam Veiszadeh | TEDxSydney”
- “Students Learn A Powerful Lesson About Privilege”
- “TEDxEMU - Justin Ford - Pedagogy of Privilege”
- “The power of privilege: Tiffany Jana at TEDxRVAWomen”
- “Understanding My Privilege | Sue Borrego | TEDxPasadenaWomen”
- “What is Privilege?”
- “Your Privilege is Showing | Lillian Medville | TEDxBeaconStreet”
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
- “Are you biased? I am | Kristen Pressner | TEDxBasel”
- “Discrimination: Crash Course Philosophy #41”
- “Discrimination in America: African American Experiences”
- “How the biases in the back of your mind affect how you feel about race”
- “How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias | Valerie Alexander | TEDxPasadena”
- “How Prejudiced Are You? Recognizing and Combating Unconscious Bias | Jennifer Witter | TEDxAlbany”
- “Implicit Bias -- how it effects us and how we push through | Melanie Funchess | TEDxFlourCity”
- “Implicit Bias - How We Hold Women Back | Maureen Fitzgerald | TEDxSFU”
- “It’s About Time We Challenge Our Unconscious Biases | Juliette Powell | TEDxStLouisWomen”
- “Just belonging: finding the courage to interrupt bias | Kori Carew | TEDxYouth@KC”
- “Mind Your Bias | Ed Maxwell | TEDxUWMadison”
- “Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige”
- “Prejudice and Discrimination: Crash Course Psychology #39”
- “Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination: Crash Course Sociology #35”
- “The prejudice you don’t know you have | Havi Carel & Richard Pettigrew | TEDxUniversityBristol”
- “Unpacking and Transforming Your Biases for a Better Community | Denise Hernandez | TEDxSanAntonio”
- “Unpacking the biases that shape our beliefs | Mike Hartmann | TEDxStJohns”
- “We all have implicit biases. So what can we do about it? | Dushaw Hockett | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon”
- “Where does racial bias come from?”
RACE AND ETHNICITY
- “A Conversation on Race | A series of short films about Identity in America” by the New York Times
- “Anti-Racism Educator Jane Elliot: ‘There’s Only One Race. The Human Race’ | NBC BLK | NBC News”
- “Eddie Huang: Racial Identity in the New America”
- “Dr. Nell Irvin Painter - “The History of White People”
- “How to Talk about Race: Eric Deggans at TEDxBloomington”
- “Ijeoma Oluo On Talking About Race and Racism”
- “Let’s Get Uncomfortable: It’s Time to Talk About Race | Lori Mayo | TEDxWCMephamHigh”
- “Let’s Talk About Race | Jennifer Chernega | TEDxTrondheim”
- “Nell Irvin Painter: The History of White People”
- “Race & Ethnicity: Crash Course Sociology #34”
- “Race is a fiction. Racism is not: Francys Johnson at TEDxUGA”
- “RACE vs ETHNICITY | EasyEducation”
- “So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | Talks at Google”
- "The First Time I Realized I was Black" by CNN
- “The Origin of Race in the USA”
- “What Can ‘The History of White People’ Teach Us About Race in America?”
- “What is Ethnicity?”
- “What is race? What is ethnicity? Is there a difference?”
- “Why Are White People Called Caucasian?”
- “Why race matters and how to talk about it: Alex Kajitani at TEDxEncinitas”
- “Why White People are Called Caucasian (Illustrated)”
RACIAL INEQUALITY AND INJUSTICE
- “Black Lives: Agents of Change. Failing schools versus community education in America”
- “Black Lives: Deadlock. Black Lives Matter vs. the KKK: Racial tensions spark anger in the USA”
- “Black Lives: Doom. Choosing between good and bad in black US neighbourhoods”
- “Black Lives: Illusion. Teenage motherhood, single-parent families, and the child poverty trap.”
- “Black Lives: Liberty Maze. Inside America’s homeless epidemic”
- “Black Lives: Struggle. Still dreaming of racial justice in St. Louis’ black neighbourhoods”
- “Black Lives: Trap. Why civil rights aren’t enough to make the American Dream come true”
- “Black Lives: Truths. Residential segregation legacy keeps America divided”
- “Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’”
- “Explained | Racial Wealth Gap | FULL EPISODE | Netflix”
- “Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | NPR”
- “How One Street Symbolizes America’s Racial Divide | NowThis”
- “Let’s get to the root of racial injustice | Megan Ming Francis | TEDxRainier”
- “Nancy Isenberg - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America”
- “Social Stratification: Crash Course Sociology #21”
- “We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson”
- “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide”
- “35th Portier Lecture: “White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America”
RACISM
- “A framework for civil discourse about race and racism | Wornie Reed | TEDxVirginiaTech”
- “Allegories on race and racism | Camara Jones | TEDxEmory”
- “Brown eye blue eye, Jane Elliot”
- “Elaine Massacre: The bloodiest racial conflict in U.S history | Dark History | New York Post”
- “History of Racism in America, Part II”
- “History of Racism in America, Part III”
- “How to be an Antiracist”
- “How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston”
- “Ibram X Kendi: Stamped from the Beginning”
- “Jane Elliot Interview on Race, Education and Racism”
- “Jim Crow and America’s Racism Explained”
- “Jim Crow Museum Documentary Ferris State”
- “Race, Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination - What are they?”
- “Racism has a cost for everyone”
- “Racism in America: A History in Three Acts”
- “Racism -- what will it take to end it? | Cynthia Silva Parker | TEDxSarasota”
- “The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi”
- “The Event: How Racist Are You? With Jane Elliott (Channel 4) (FULL)”
- “The Nations Biggest Collection of Racist Objects Are All in A Michigan College Basement”
- “The New Jim Crow Museum”
- “Three Myths about Racism | Candis Watts Smith | TEDxPSU”
- “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America with Jeffrey Robinson”
- “1946 Columbia Race Riot”
- “50 years of racism -- why silence isn’t the answer | James A. White Sr. | TEDxColumbus”
COLORBLIND RACISM
- “The Exceptional Negro: Fighting to be Seen in a Colorblind World | Traci Ellis | TEDxHarperCollege”
- “The problem with racial color blindness | Phill Mazzocco | TEDxMansfield”
- “WATCH: Why ‘colorblindness’ is not the right approach to race”
- “Why Color Blindness Will NOT End Racism | Decoded | MTV News”
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
- “Exploring institutional racism in the U.S.”
- “Institutional racism in US explained through a Michael Jackson song”
- “Institutionalized Racism | Sociology | Chegg Tutors”
- “Jane Elliot provides an example of how institutional racism exists through the educational system.”
- “Shirley Anne Tate | Whiteliness and institutional racism: Hiding behind unconscious bias”
- “The link between racist, anti-Black policing and racist, anti-Black education”
- “The New Jim Crow” - Author Michelle Alexander, George E. Kent Lecture 2013”
- “The Racist Origins of U.S Law”
- “The US medical system is still haunted by slavery”
- “Understanding Systematic Oppression and Institutionalised Racism | Kyol Blakeney | TEDxYouth@Sydney”
SYSTEMIC RACISM
SLAVERY
- “Ex Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA”
- “Ibram X. Kendi | Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, Key Concept 9”
- “Jim Crow and America’s Racism Explained”
- “Life Aboard a Slave Ship | History”
- “Slavery - Crash Course US History #13”
- “The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24”
- “The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America”
- “The 1619 Project: How Slavery Has Defined America Today | MSNBC”
*Please note that this page will be updated regularly because this is not an exhaustive list of video resources for learners