End the Silence
The End the Silence initiative was formed by a small coalition of CSUN faculty members in response to a surge in public criticism around police brutality sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Students, staff, faculty, administrators and community members are welcome to join us in learning, dialoging, and acting up against structural and interpersonal racism.
End the Silence, an initiative sponsored by the Health Equity Research and Education (HERE) Center and the Department of Deaf Studies, offers monthly guided discussions, reading groups, and web-based resources for learning and acting up against racism. Please join us!
Reading groups are a good way to educate ourselves about our history, to understand how white privilege, wealth, and advantage have accumulated since the inception of the United States, and how to join a long-standing struggle against racism.
Books for Previous Discussions:
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Birth of a White Nation by Jacqueline Battalora
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Podcast Discussed: On Being with Krista Tippett: Discussion with Resmaa Menakem and Robin DiAngelo
Future book considerations:
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- An African American and Latinx History of the US by Paul Ortiz
- White Logic, White Methods by Tukufu Zuberi & Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Red Pedagogy by Sandy Grande
- A Pedagogy for Liberation by Ira Shor and Paulo Freire
- Education at War by Tracy Buenavista & Arshad Imtiaz Ali
- Decolonizing Educational Research by Leigh Patel
- Trauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- How we Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
- The White Racial Frame by Joe R. Feagin
- So you Want to Talk about Race? by Ijueoma Oluo
- Power to the Transfer by Dimpal Jain, Santiago N. Bernal Melendez, and Alfred R. Herrera
- The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh
- What Does it Mean to Be White? By Robin DiAngelo