Introductory Video
Chandra Arthur discusses the cost of code-switching as an underrepresented minority (URM) in technology:
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The Privileged Poor by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019Getting in is only half the battle. The struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus.
Black in white space : the enduring impact of color in everyday life by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2022Anderson shows that due to expansions in racial equality over the past fifty years, Black Americans increasingly gain access to elite white spaces. But instances of discrimination and harassment serve to remind us that racial barriers are firmly entrenched-- for the elite, the middle-class, and the poor alike.
Thick : and other essays by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
I'm Not Yelling : a Black woman's guide to navigating the workplace by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2022Explore the data and hear the accounts of Black women in business who face, work through, and rise above workplace discrimination.
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Feature Films
A Black telemarketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) finds success when he uses his white voice in Sorry to Bother You:
Documentaries
The Language and Life Project at NC State University produces documentaries and educational media about language and identity. Black ASL is the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. Black ASL has become a symbol of solidarity and a vital part of identity within the Black Deaf community:
