Significant Materials

On this page we'll be sharing meaninful content that we've came by, that in some way or form impacted the work we've been developing.

Could be Books, could be Music, could be Film, could be Theater…

If you want an avenue into what feeds our work, this is another way to go about it!

Samuel's:

• Books: Promise That You Will Sing About Me - The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar, The Black Panther Party Comic Book, Crônicas Exúziasticas

• Music albums: Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers, Kings Disease II, Cru  

• Films: Bacurau, The Blackening, The Get Down, SpiderMan Across The Spider-Verse

Wendy's:

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White 

Henry Wiencek 

My mother’s mother’s family.

Two early experiences that were very influential. 

Listening and reading 

Book 

Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race 

Debby Irving https://www.debbyirving.com/

Eula Biss on On Being with Krista Tippett

Talking About Whiteness

https://onbeing.org/programs/eula-biss-talking-about-whiteness/

Podcast 

John Biewen

Scene on Radio from Center for Documentary Studies 

Seeing White 

https://sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

14 episodes and study guides if you want to drop down the rabbit hole. 

This is choc full of experience and information 

From the website “Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explore the history and meaning of whiteness” This podcast was recommended to me by a Black Woman. 

Other books and podcasts 

Warmth of Other Suns 

Isabelle Wilkerson 

How to Be an Antiracist 

Ibram X. Kendi

Song in a Weary Throat 

Pauli Murray 

On Being Podcast, Krista Tippet interviews with 

Claudia Rankine 

Ruby Sales 

John Lewis

Ta-Nehisis Coates

Layla Long Shoulder