Portland's African American Boys - Resources
Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me during our class. I hope that you gained something of value that will help you in your works. As promised I have collated some resources to further your study and expand your understanding. As I took some time to reflect on our experience I struggled with deciding the best resources to point you towards to expand your understanding. This struggle was compounded by events that have transpired since our time together that I felt compelled to incorporate in this document. In reality I could not deliver on that intention here, but I hope I have given you some threads to follow that will lead to some discovery. Please take this as a source of study and reflection. Take the best part from that which you engage and resist the urge to make everything make sense to you at the time you engage with it. I have included all the items I shared between classes. I apologize for the long delay. Significant life changes have dominated my time since our time together. I will be adding things to this page as they come to me. Thank you again. Peace.
3 Focus Issues In Portland:
Disproportionate Policing
Disparate education outcomes
Serial displacement
Movies
The 13th - Directed by Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
Get Out - Directed by Jordan Peele
Do The Right Thing - Directed by Spike Lee
I Am Not Your Negro - Directed by Raoul Peck
Bastards of the Party - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjYQHQLcUM
OJ And The Making of America - Ezra Edelman (Hulu)
Priced Out - https://www.pricedoutmovie.com
Art and Artist
Damali Ayo - I can Fix Racism - https://vimeo.com/22860782
http://damaliayo.com/pdfs/I%20CAN%20FIX%20IT_racism.pdf
Knowledge Bennett
Kehinde Wiley - http://kehindewiley.com
Kerry Marshall - https://www.artsy.net/artist/kerry-james-marshall
Khalik Allah - http://khalikallah.tumblr.com
Carrie Mae Weems - http://carriemaeweems.net
Kara Walker - http://www.karawalkerstudio.com
Intisar Abioto - http://theblackportlanders.com
greenHAUS Gallery - http://www.greenhausgallery.com
Books
The Residue Years - Mitchell S. Jackson
The Half Has Never Been Told - Edward E. Baptist
Slavery By Another Name - Douglas A. Blackmon
The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940 - Elizabeth McLagan
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Dr. Joy DeGruy
Articles
Black Male Economic Outcomes (Just published on the Upshot)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html
Portland Gang List Data - https://projects.oregonlive.com/police/gang-list/
Research and Reports
State of Black Oregon - https://ulpdx.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/State-Of-Black-Oregon-2015.pdf
Bleeding Albina -http://kingneighborhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BLEEDING-ALBINA_-A-HISTORY-OF-COMMUNITY-DISINVESTMENT-1940–2000.pdf
Coalition of Communities of Color Report - http://allhandsraised.org/content/uploads/2012/10/AN20UNSETTLING20PROFILE.pdf
Media Impact On the Lives of Black Men - http://racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/Media-Impact-onLives-of-Black-Men-and-Boys-OppAgenda.pdf
Criminalizing Normal Adolescent Behavior https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1067/8f5d951d14403337e7e17c27890ae08649d4.pdf
Dr. Carl Bell’s Seven Field Principles - http://whgbetc.com/carl-bell-youth-violence.pdf
CDC Fathers - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf
Harvard Implicit Bias Test - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Black Lives Matter Fall Syllabus 2016 - http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/fall2016/
Podcasts
My podcast and blog. The permanent home of this document.
www.askyouroldhead.libsyn.com/rss
The Combat Jack Show -The longtime host Reggie Osse passed away in January. His show captured a great deal of Hip Hop history and culture. He was a influential in the business prior to revolutionizing podcasting.
http://podbay.fm/show/412308823
Denzel Washington Is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period - W. Kamua Bell and Kevin Avery
http://www.earwolf.com/show/denzel-washington/
Programs & Sites
Self Determination - Kujichagulia
Peace
Self determination is one of the most important concepts you will need to learn youngster. If you are going to grow up and be a high level human being or at least a half-decent human being self determination will be one of the most useful tools in your bag.
What is it? Why is it important? These are good questions, I may or may not answer them to your liking in the following lines, why? Because giving you all the answers does not help anyone. Proper guidance is a mix of answers, questions, examples, directions, and blank stares. I am here to set you on the path, not build the house for you. You have to have the self determination to build your own place with the bricks, boards, and tools shared with you.
This is askyouroldhead.com not Itakeordersfromtheoldhead.com, learn something.
Awe wait don’t tell me you are leaving.
You pulling the rip cord, because I tell you, you have something to learn, but I didn’t give you all the information? I didn’t show you where to find it in the book? I didn’t give you clear instructions? There are somethings you can learn in any book, but will not find in the text. Dig me? You tell a man your hungry, he gives you a stick and points you towards the river, get the message.
Without learning to see the world within the design of your own mind you will not see the best part. You can use some guides and tools, we all do, but you have to walk it yourself. You have to question your assumptions, beliefs, and experiences. You have to challenge you elders, your peers, and the world around you show and prove that what they are selling you is not a hot plate of manure. You have to risk embarrassment, shame, and rejection to get to a place of confidence and clarity. You may have to skip some holidays, break some hearts, and occasionally be the asshole.
In the end I hope you will find your path and be better people. Get after it.
Peace