Histories Remixed: An Audio-Visual Blog Experience
May 10, 2022
Two members of our Racial Justice & Public Policy team, Anissa Waterhouse and Luna Allen-Bakerian, prepared a conversation about the ways we are taught history and what new and alternative resources are helping them in an ongoing journey of learning and unlearning. Check out the video below for an audio-visual experience on topics ranging throughout U.S. history!
Resources for Further Learning
Videos
- Is America Possible? Building a Multiracial Democracy in an Era of Political Division - Facing Race Conference 2018
- The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes – Vox
- #APeoplesJourney: African American Women and the Struggle for Equality – National Museum of African American History and Culture
Articles
- James Madison Museum Will Now Have Input From Descendants of People He Enslaved – NPR
- What Can We Learn From the Germans About Confronting Our History – Lizzie Widdiecombe, The New Yorker
- How America’s rejection of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany haunts our refugee policy today – Dara Lind, Vox
- The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies – Daniel A. Gross, Smithsonian Magazine
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panther Party Shared Many of the Same Ideologies – Holly Genovese, Teen Vogue
- Misremembering Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X – how America rewrote a legacy – David Judson, UrbanitUs
- How White Backlash Controls American Progress – Lawrence Glickman, The Atlantic
- North American First Nations and Horse Nation Have A Revered Bond – Alberta Native News
- The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys – Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian Magazine
- The Intersectionality Wars – Jane Coaston, Vox
- Unlearning History: The Women’s Suffrage Movement – Paula Hill, PBS
Books
- A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn / Zinn Education Project
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
- The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir – Thi Bui
- A Different Pond – Bao Phi and Thi Bui
- Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence – Doris Pilkington and Nugi Garimara/ Rabbit-Proof Fence – dir. Phillip Noyce (film)
Blogs & Web Resources
- 20 Native Women to Know – YWCA Minneapolis
- Beyond the Barbed Wire: Japanese Americans in Minnesota
- 20 Asian American and Pacific Islander Women to Know – YWCA Minneapolis
- Jackson Sundown – USDA Forest Service
Podcasts
- Order 9066 – APM Reports & Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Museums
Let us know what histories you’ve remixed in your life and learning, and what topics you think we should cover next! Donate to YWCA Minneapolis Racial Justice programsLearn More about YWCA Minneapolis Racial Justice Programs