Date: February 4, 2022
Workshop Recording (Part I, Part II)
Featured Speaker(s)
Sonia Jarvis is an accomplished scholar whose research and teaching focus on race, politics, and the media. She has written several book chapters and papers, and is currently completing a book entitled Through a Prism, Darkly: The Media’s Impact on Race and Politics in America Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She is an active member of several professional associations and academic organizations. In addition to her scholastic work, she has served in a number of administrative positions, including most notably as the executive director of the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation, Inc. A frequent commentator on public issues, she has been interviewed by almost every major media outlet in the country, such as National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and CNN. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on media politics, and she brings a wealth of practical and theoretical knowledge to the courses she teaches at Baruch. She graduated with a JD from Yale University.
Angie Beeman is an Associate Professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs and Affiliate Faculty with Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College-CUNY. Her work examines the evolution of racism, its intersection with economic inequality, and how this process affects institutional practices, identities, and interracial organizing. Dr. Beeman’s research has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes Magazine, The Wire, Sociological Forum, Social Science Quarterly, the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Violence Against Women and as chapters in several edited volumes. She has been quoted in the Huffington Post, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Galveston Daily News, Wallethub, and College Magazine. Dr. Beeman has shared her work with multiple audiences and is frequently invited by organizations to speak on the issues of racism, social justice, allyship, advocacy, and cultivating inclusiveness in the workplace. Her forthcoming book, “Liberal White Supremacy” examines divides among progressives and the role of liberal ideology in silencing racial and class oppression.
Resources Shared
- The history of Black History Month: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month
- The legacy of Civil Rights Lawyer Constance Baker Motley, who drafted the brief for Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954): https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2020/02/20/constance-baker-motley-judiciarys-unsung-rights-hero
- A new documentary, playing in theaters now: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/movies/who-we-are-a-chronicle-of-racism-in-america-review.html
- So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.sealpress.com/titles/ijeoma-oluo/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781580056779
- A Promise and a Way of Life by Becky Thompson: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-promise-and-a-way-of-life
- Be a Better Ally: https://hbr.org/2020/11/be-a-better-ally
- How to Retain Diverse Faculty by Kerry Ann Rockquemore: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/01/06/how-retain-diverse-faculty-essay
- Chapters on anti-racism in “White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism” by Ashley (Woody) Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva: https://www.routledge.com/White-Out-The-Continuing-Significance-of-Racism/Doane-Bonilla-Silva/p/book/9780415935838
- Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top by Margaret Chin: https://nyupress.org/9781479816811/stuck
- The “Angry Black Woman” Stereotype at Work: https://hbr.org/2022/01/the-angry-black-woman-stereotype-at-work
- Ilana Shapiro’s, Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: https://rrapp.hks.harvard.edu/in-depth-study-provides-summary-comparison-and-analysis-of-ten-antiracism-training-programs-across-the-united-states
- Harvey Wingfield on African Americans in academia: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/the-plight-of-the-black-academic/420237
- Harvey Wingfield also wrote a piece on the professional burdens of being a model minority: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/professional-burdens-model-minority-asian-americans/485492