Tisch School of the Arts IDBEA Resource Library

A sampling of readings and resources:

Sample Selections from syllabi:

Dissidence/Resistance:

• Sean Parson. 2014. Breaking Bread, Sharing Soup, and Smashing the State: Food Not Bombs and Anarchist Critiques of the Neoliberal Charity State,” Theory in Action, 7(4): October.
• Nahed Eltantawy. 2008. “Pots, Pans, & Protests: Women's Strategies for Resisting Globalization in Argentina,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 5:1, 46-63.
• Jane Bennett. 2010. “Edible Matter,” in Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things, 13pp. 

Memory:

• Myron Beasley, ed. 2019. “Re.Past.Malaga,” Liminalities,15(2);
• Cara DaSilva, Bianca Steiner Brown, and Michael Berenbaum. 2006. In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. Lanham: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Video Interview: In Memory’s Kitchen: Saving the Culinary Legacies of the Women of Terezín 

Commodities:

• Monarch Butterflies, Avocados, Climate Change and Narco-traffic
• Tessa Moran and Ben Crosbie. 2018. The Guardians, Eidolon Films, 

Food and Labor:

• Sarah K. Khan– Migration of people, plants, and ideas.
• Queens’ Street Carts of Desire: Luis Alfonso Marin, Street Vendor, Queens NY
• Street Carts of Desire: Évelia’s Courageous Tamales
• Portraits of Taste and Women Farmers in India

Remembering Colonialism from Latin America:

• Danilo Barata and Ayrson Heráclito. 2004. Barrueco [Baroque], (analogizes the Middle Passage and loss of Black Lives using Turner’s “Slave Ship” as metaphor)
• Black is the Color: Of My True Love’s Hair, Nina Simone, 1971 (Scottish folksong)
• Tiago Sant’Ana’s extended narratives on the legacy of race and colonial sugar production:
  • https://tiagosantanaarte.com/
  • https://www.pipaprize.com/artists/tiago-santana/
  • https://www.instagram.com/tiagosantanaarte/?hl=en

Disabilities Studies:

• Sins Invalid (performance group)
• Sins Invalid (documentary)
• Saturation (On race and the art world with strong disability components edited by Hentyle Yapp)
• Disability Studies Reader
• Jasbir Puar, The Right to Maim
• Susan Schweik, The Ugly Laws

Exhibitions/Installations:

• Leslie Lohman Museum of LGBTQ Art
• Art After Stonewall
• On Our Back: Revolutionary Queer Sex Work
• Rubbish and Dreams – Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble
• https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/rubbish-and-dreams-the-genderqueer-performance-art-o
• AIDS Quilts
• Gees Bends Quilts
• Faith Ringgold
• The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago

Indigeneity:

• National Museum of the American Indian
• Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean | Taíno: herencia e identidad indígena en el Caribe
• T.C.Cannon exhibit at National Museum of American Indian
• At the Edge of America
• Of God and mortal men : T.C. Cannon
• Horace Poolaw
• Horace Poolaw, photographer of American Indian modernity
• The National Museum of the American Indian : critical conversations
• Amy Lonetree; Amanda J. Cobb 1970-
• Institute of American Indian Arts ( school and museum)

Dislocation and Resistant Memory:

• Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence (translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon; Archipelago Books, 2011)
• Suheir Hammad, Suheir Hammad - First Writing Since on Def Poetry Jam
• We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, Ed by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel
• Joyce Zonana, Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile’s Journey
• Tom Haviv
• Ella Shohat, "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew," Movement Research: Performance Journal # 5 (Fall-Winter, 1992)
• Forget Baghdad 
• Bamako Sigi-Kan (Manthia Diawara, 2003)
• Ella Shohat, “Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography” (Jadaliyya, 1 April 2013)
• Rethinking Borders
• Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Lahore With Love; Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani-Style (Syracuse University Press 2010)

Contemporary Caribbean Art, Curatorial Practices and the Politics of Visibility:

• Curating in the Caribbean, edited by David A. Bailey, Alissandra Cummins, Axel Lapp and Allison Thompson, The Green Box, Berlin, 2014.
• Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation, by Patricia Mohammed, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010.
• Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean. Rethinking Art's Histories, by Leon Wainwright, Manchester University Press, 2011.
• An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Picturesque, by Krista Thompson, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
• Brooklyn Museum: Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art, 2008.
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• El Museo del Barrio
• Queens Museum of Art: Caribbean Crossroads of the World, 2012.
• Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans: EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, 2015.
• National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, N8 Exhibition, 2017.
• National Gallery of Jamaica, Jamaica Biennale, 2017.
• “Race, Tradition, and the Construction of the Caribbean Aesthetic,” by Belinda Edmondson
• “Caribbean curatorial agencies: A Cultural Object’s unruliness and its affective aftermaths,” by Carlos Garrido Castellano
• “What is an island? Caribbean studies and the contemporary visual artist,” by M. Stephens M, 

Additional Resources:

• ARC Magazine
• Repeating Islands
• Small Axe (Columbia University)
• Transition Journal (Harvard University)
• “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimananda Adichie
• Poets.Org 
• SplitThisRock.org
• Poets in Unexpected Places
• Cave Canem
• Urban Word
• Kundiman
• Vona
• Bowery Poetry Club
• St. Marks Poetry
• PEN America
• Poets House
• Words Without Borders
• YES Magazine
  

Suggested Reading List for incoming students

Newsletters

Books on Racism/Black Experience:

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Why Are All The Black Kids Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Dreams from my Father by Barak Obama
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhKtDfuDxM&list=PLdEhRH7l_3sqUH-V5Te57joH5-MypX4hw&index=5&t=5237s Video of Dr Edwin Nichols speaking of the Axiology of Cultural Differences
• https://newjimcrow.com/ by Michelle Alexander
• Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Me and white supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
•  Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Pedagogy Material:

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
• Radical Dharma by Reverend Angel kyodo Williams
• Being Black: Zen and the Arts of Living with Fearlessness and Grace by Reverend Angel kyodo Williams
• The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza 
• The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir Puar
• Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
• The Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines
• Inclusive Pedagogy by Karen Shimikawa, Fred Carl & Chanel Ward
• Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World by Nyama McCarthy-Brown
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Teaching Community by bell hooks
• Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire
• Teaching Critical Thinking by bell hooks
• Talking Back by bell hooks
• belonging by bell hooks

Articles on Race, Dance & Decolonizing:

• Decolonizing Dance Curriculum in Higher Education One Credit at a Time by Nyama McCarthy-Brown
• Peeling Back the Skin of Racism Real History and Race in Dance Education by Julie Kerr-Berry
• Rebalancing dance curricula through repurposing black dance aesthetics by Ayo Walker
• Strategies for Including African and African American Culture in an Historically Euro Centric Dance Curriculum by Karen W. Hubbard & Pamela A. Sofras

On Technology & Social Media:

• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
• You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier
• Who Owns the Future by Jaron Lanier
• Irresistible by our very own NYU Professor Adam Alter
• igods by Craig Detweiler

Books on Coping:

• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
• Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

Choreography:

Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice by Nyama McCarthy-Brown

The Department of Design for Stage and Film has several physical libraries that center the work of BIPOC storytellers. Celebrating Black Voices, which specifically centers Black designers and cultures, was curated and purchased from a Black owned bookstore to provide resources to enhance research for students and faculty. The Department of Design for Stage and Film also has a physical library centered around Native American cultures. 

In addition, The Department of Design for Stage and Film has created a list of 21 Important Plays by Black Playwrights and shared with the whole community. All of the plays on this list have been purchased and added to our library, in support of the writers. The list is updated on a yearly basis.

Archive of Voices: Drama’s Archive of Voices (AOV) is a digital database of creative works from underrepresented voices, populations, viewpoints, and aesthetics. The AOV is a resource for Drama faculty, studios and students, currently listing some 500 sources searchable by criteria that includes author, plot, theme, and geographic, historic, and cultural origins, and more. New materials are added to the database on an ongoing basis. Each year, Drama’s full time faculty are invited to submit suggestions for additional works. A faculty committee is appointed and charged to coordinate the submission process and vet and incorporate new works to the archive. 

Additional Resources from Drama’s Theatre Studies Program:

• African American Drama (compiled by Pamela Bloom) 
• Black Drama, 3rd edition
• Hemispheric Institute Digital Library of Performances
• The Parity Database - Parity Productions
• Latinx Theatre Commons
• Howlround

Graduate Acting has a physical lending library available to Grad Acting students on the 5th floor.

A Sampling from that library: 

Additional Resources:

• Kilroys List
• New Play Exchange 
• Black Plays Archive

Graduate Musical Theatre Writing BIPOC/IDBEA Required Reading and Resources

The following resources are provided by faculty in Open Arts/Collaborative Arts, gathered from faculty syllabi and professional practice across the disciplines represented in the program.

Artists:

Additional Resources:

• BechdelTest.Com
• Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Black Women Directors Digital Library
• Black Classic Movies Database
• Scenes for Latinx Actors, 
• Monologues for Actors of Color
• World Peace and Tolerance Institute
• Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work (2011), K. Bhatti-Sinclair
• Anti-Racist Social Work (2019), G. Singh & S. Masocha
• Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), P. Helguera
• Queer Filmmakers of Color, Pratt Institute Archive
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• The Chicano Studies Reader, Chon A. Noriega (Editor)
• Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art, Karen Kramer Russell
• Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, Jill Ahlberg Yohe
• Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Mindy N. Besaw
• Contemporary Native American Artists, Suzanne Deats 
• Native American Art in the Twentieth Century, W. Jackson Rushing III
• A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art, Alejandro Anreus, Robin Greeley, Megan Sullivan, Dana Arnold
• Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill 
• Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America by Jacqueline Barnitz
• Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010, Bill Kelley
• Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Tumelo Mosaka
• Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere, Carlos Garrido Castellano
• Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology, Jennifer A. González
• We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85: New Perspectives, Catherine Morris
• Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Mark Godfrey
• Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, Antwaun Sargent (Author, Editor)
• African American Art and Artists, Samella Lewis
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 
• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
• White Fragility, Robin diAngelo
• Queer Dance, Claire Croft
• How to be an Anti-Racist (2019) I. Kendi;
• The Art of Being and Becoming (1982), H Inayat Kahn
• This Muslim American Life (2015) M. Bayoumi
• Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable Populations, and the Life Cycle (pp. 14-28,
• 2nd ed.). New York: Columbia University Press
•  “Truth and reconciliation”: Workers’ fears of conflict in groups. Kendler, H. (2002)
• The dynamics of mutual aid (1986). Social Work with Groups, 8(4), 51-60, L. Shulman
• Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), FP. Helguera
• Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre (2013), N. Bowles & D-R Nadon, eds.
• Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance (2020), A. Fisher & J. Thompson, eds.
• We Want to do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (2019), B. Love
• Teaching to Transgress (1994), bell hooks
• Teaching Community (2003), bell hooks
• Pedagogy of Freedom (1998), P. Freire
• Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Anna Furse, ed.)
• Education for Socially Engaged Art (Pablo Helguera)
• Theatre as Life (Paul Marcus with Gabriela Marcus)
• Creating Together (Diane Conrad & Anita Sinner, eds.)
• Staging Social Justice (Norma Bowles & Daniel-Raymond Nadon, eds.) 
• Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches (Sharrell D. Luckett, ‎Tia M. Shaffer)
• Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (Ayana Thompson)
• Shakespeare in a Divided America (James Shapiro)

Performance Studies faculty have compiled an informative resource page with links to various sites to assist our students and alumni. It can be challenging for students studying performance studies to find specific resources that might not turn up in popular search engines, especially those that can aid in research for a course, project, job, or dissertation. We created this diverse resource as a starting point and hope to expand on it over time.

PS Resource Guide - Performance Studies

Additional Resources:

• Ecologies of Migrant Care
• Decolonial Theories and Practices
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• The Lesbian Herstory Archives

Equitable ITP/IMA  a working group for racial justice and equity

ITP/IMA Equitable Syllabus Project

General Resources 

• They Them Pronouns Info Sheet 
• The game industry D&I Resource List — (pixall.org)

Accessibility in Games

• Guidelines for accessibility in design and UI for games
• AbleGamers - Combating Social Isolation Through Play

Game Databases 

• The LGBTQ Video Game Archive
• Games Archive - Games For Change
• GameDevs of Color Expo

Reports on Diversity in Games

• The Double-Edged Sword of Online Gaming: An Analysis of Masculinity in Video Games and the Gaming Community - See Jane 
• The Virtual Census 
• View of THE VIRTUAL CENSUS 2.0: A CONTINUED INVESTIGATION ON THE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND AGE IN VIDEOGAMES

Articles, Video Essays, and Bibliographies

• Queer Game Studies: Introduction to the Field + UPDATED Bibliography / Our Glass Lake
• Feminist and Queer Game Studies - Communication
• Feminist Frequency – Conversations with pop culture
• Critical Distance (as a general source)
• Boing Boing Offworld Archive

Resources

• Resources on Anti-Racism Work - from the Authority Collective  
• The  Authority Collective is  Womxn/non-binary/trans/gender non-conforming people of color reclaiming their authority in photo, film and VR/AR. IG @authoritycollective
• Black Lives Matter Resources
• Download the Vision & Justice free curriculum from the convening at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute on Vision and Justice in 2019 including thirty-one texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice.
• For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action The Ultimate Playbook: commit to a world of healing, listening and justice
• The Wide Awakes, an open-source network who radically reimagine the future through creative collaboration
• Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives: bit.ly/BlackLivesAction
• Black History Month Library  - Do not know who put this together but a huge and generous collection of historical and contemporary texts and books. 
• Safety Advisory: Covering U.S. Protests Over Police Violence
• (Committee to Protect Journalists)
• How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct Teen Vogue
• Antiracism Education Resource List
• from the NYU office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation
• #StopAsianHate - Fight Anti-Asian Racism
• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus jStor
• Resources and Ways to Take Action
• National Resource List  for  Protestors (advice, legal services, bail funds, and more)
• Race, Inequality and Pain An Open Source Syllabus and Reading List 
• A LONG WALK HOME
  gender equity and racial justice for girls and women
• Anti Racism Resources for White People
• Unicorn Riot alternative media
• 11 Anti-Racist Social Media Accounts That Are Worth Following
• Teaching People's History | The Zinn Education Project & follow on Instagram 

Photography Related

• The Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography
• The  Authority Collective, a Womxn/non-binary/trans/gender non-conforming people of color reclaiming their authority in photo, film and VR/AR, in partnership with Photo Shelter.
• Do No Harm: Photographing Police Brutality Protests via Authority Collective 
• The Racial Bias Built Into Photography by Sarah Lews, The New York Times 
• Photography as Snitch: The Truth of Photography in the Classroom  by Lisa Rathje
• PHOTOGRAPHERS COLLECTIVES
  • DiversifyPhoto
  • INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPH
  • Color Positive
  • Black Women Photographers 
  • Black Photographers Covering Protests 2020
  • The Photography Collectives Telling New Stories Across South Asia
  • Women Photograph 
• Decolonizing Photography: A Conversation With Wendy Red Star Aperture
• Dawoud Bey on visualizing history
• Opinion | Carrie Mae Weems: 'Scenes & Takes' Carrie Mae Weems, The New York Times, see also Carrie Mae Weems on Art 21
• Making George Floyd's Life Matter photos and text by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
• Now More Than Ever, We Need Images of Black Dignity and Resistance By Jamel Shabazz, The Nation and Magnum Foundation
• How Do We Photograph Freedom? A Conversation with Leigh Raiford
• Arthur Jafa and Tina Campt, Love is the Message, the Plan is Death
• Wendel White Red Summer Project  - See also The Red Summer of 1919, Explained, Teen Vogue 
• Gordon Parks’s 1960s Protest Photos Reflect the Long History of Police Brutality in the U.S.
• Hyperallergic: Crystal Z Campbell. 99 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, an Artist Reflects
• The State of Latinx Photography — The Latinx Project at NYU
• Photographers Reflect On What It Means To Be Asian American : The Picture Show
• Asian Americans Share Experiences of Racism During COVID-19 Photographs by Haruka Sakaguchi, text  by Anna Purna Kambhampaty, TIME
• The 1945 project by Haruka Sakaguchi  In commemoration of the  August 6 and 9, 1945, US dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki  with in-depth testimonies, a historical timeline and resources.
• How Do Photographs Reveal a History of Asian American Erasure? by Stephanie Hueon Tung
• The Trump Revolution Bronx Documentary Center
• Black Portraitures 
• Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library 

More Readings

• The Schomburg Center at NYPL Black Liberation Reading List 
• Talking About Race National Museum of African American History & Culture
• The 1619 Project The New York Times 
• An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi in The New York Times 
• Tulsa race massacre at 100: an act of terrorism America tried to forget The Guardian’s five-part 360 video series by Bayete Ross Smith (DPI faculty). Essay by JImmie Briggs 
• “No, I Am Not Okay”: A Black Journalist Addresses His White Friends by Jimmie Briggs
• Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life, Teen Vogue 
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reflects on George Floyd protests LA TIMES
• “America, This Is Your Chance” by Michelle Alexander, 
NY Times
• Opinion | Chris Cooper Is My Brother. Here’s Why I Posted His Video. by Melody Cooper,  The New York Times 
• Opinion | George Floyd's Death Shows the State Fails Black People by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New York Times 
• Enough Already with the Statements of “Solidarity,” Arts World by Kaisha S. Johnson
• Looking Back to Step Forward Sheila Pree Bright shares a reflection of historical moments through images from her #1960Now series.
• Race and Policing in America: An Atlantic Reader
• How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
• ‎Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi: Ableism & Racism: Roots of The Same Tree - Ibram X Kendi and Rebecca Cokley [podcast]
• The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism

Books, Films, and Online Talks (just a few)

• Films about the black experience, many screening online for free, from IFC
• Isaac Julien and Deborah Willis in Conversation, Aperture Events
• The Black Civil War Soldier by DPI Chair Deborah Wiliis, Ph.D. 
• Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the present by Deborah Willis, Ph.D.
• Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, edited by Deborah Willis, Ph.D.
• Deborah Willis | On Her Life's Work & "Picturing Us" 
• Through a Lens Darkly, The first documentary film to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present 
• I am not your Negro, a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember 
• Titus Kaphar: Can art amend history? | TED Talk
• Black Art: In the Absence of Light, documentary film directed by Sam Pollard 
• Visualizing Abolition What does it mean to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote? Series of online events at UC Santa Cruz, 2020-21
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals  by Saidiya Hartman 
• How To Be  An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Ibram X. Kendi Ted 2020 Talk:  How to build an antiracist world
• Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine 
• Just Us by Claudia Rankine
• Program Videos  from NYU Institute of African American Affairs/Black Visual Culture
• Wendy Red Star – Aperture Conversations at Photoville
• Many more online talks of interest from Photoville 2020

Music Playlists, Curated by the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

There are far too many BIPOC-themed music playlists and podcasts to mention meaningfully or comprehensively in this space. As an introductory primer, however, you may start with:

• "Black History Is Now" on Spotify
• ‎Black History Month on Apple Music
• ‎The Evolution of Black Music on Apple Music
• NPR Music’s R&B Playlist, Curated by Recorded Music Chair Jason King
• Episode 3: the Birth of American Music (New York Times’ 1619 Project)

SELECTED MUSIC BOOKS, CURATED BY THE CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE

• A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and the American Experimental Music – George E. Lewis
• African-American Music: An Introduction – Mellonee Burnim, editor, Portia K. Maultsby
• Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South – Deborah Gray White
• As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution – Val Wilmer
• Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll  – Maureen Mahon
• Black Music – Amiri Baraka
• Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America – Tricia Rose
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday – Angela Y. Davis
• Blues People: Negro Music in White America – LeRoi Jones
• Bob Marley, Conquering Lion of Reggae – Stephen Davis
• Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation – Jeff Chang
• Celebrating the Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes – Ralph Gleason
• Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo – Ned Sublette
• Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta – Robert Palmer
• Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music – Amiri Baraka
• Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye – David Ritz
• Flyboy in the Buttermilk – Greg Tate
• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on A Tribe Called Quest – Hanif Abdurraqib
• Jazz People – Val Wilmer
• Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound – Daphne Brooks
• Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Music – Peter Guralnick
• More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction – Kodwo Eshun
• New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone – Raquel Rivera
• Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race – Carol Cooper
• Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock ‘n Roll – Kandia Crazy Horse, ed.
• Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong – Gary Giddins
• Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, Black Folk Music to the Civil War – Dena J. Epstein
• Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large – Carolyn Cooper
• Stomping the Blues – Albert Murray
• The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop – Dan Charnas
• The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness – Paul Gilroy
• The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Album of the Century – Vivien Goldman
• The Motherlode: 100 Women Who Made Hip-Hop – Clover Hope
• The Rap Attack 3 ­– David Toop
• The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church – Michael W. Harris
• The Vibe History of Hip Hop – Alan Light, ed.
• Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original – Robin Kelley
• They Came in Chains: Americans from Africa – J. Saunders Redding
• To Be or Not to Bop – Dizzy Gillespie with Al Frser
• When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down – Joan Morgan

BOOKS – GENERAL INTEREST, CURATED BY THE CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE

• Frantz Fanon. 1952. Black Skin White Masks
• Edward Said. 1978. Orientalism
• Achille Mbembe. 2019. Necropolitics
• Adom Getachew. 2019. Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
• George Lipsitz. 1998. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
• Angela Davis. 2003. Are Prisons Obsolete?
• Angela Davis. 1981. Women, Race, Class
• Ruha Benjamin. 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
• Charlene Carruthers. 2018. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
• C. Riley Snorton. 2017. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
• Assata Shakur. 2001. Assata: An Autobiography.
• Andrea Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr. 2020. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.
• Andrea Ritchie. 2017. Invisible No More: Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.
• Paul Butler. 2017. Chokehold: Policing Black Men
• Jeff Chang. 2016. We Gon’ Be Alright.
• Cedric Robinson. 1983. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
• Michelle Alexander. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
• J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. 2018. Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
• Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vazquez. 2019. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial.
• Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell. 2018. Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
• bell hooks. 2000. Feminism is for Everyone: Passionate Politics. 
• Angela Davis. 1981. Women, Race, Class
• Sarah Ahmed. 2017. Living a Feminist Life.
• John Foran, co-editor et al. 2003. Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development
• Gloria Munoz Ramirez. 2008. The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement.
• Sian Lazar, editor. 2017. Where Are The Unions?: Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.
• Larry R. Salomon. 1998. Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color
• Tsung-gan Kong. 2019. As Long As There Is Resistance, There Is Hope: Essays on the Hong Kong Freedom Struggle in the Post-Umbrella Movement Era, 2014-2018.
• Angela Davis. 2016. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.
• Chris Crass. 2013. Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy.
• Heather McGee. 2021. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Racism and How We Can Prosper Together
• Achille Mbembe. 2019. Necropolitics
• Asad Haider. 2018. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.
• Joshua Clover. 2019. Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings
• Adom Getachew. 2019. Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
• Ruha Benjamin. 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.

AUTHORS OF NOTE, CURATED BY THE CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE

• Aime Cesaire
• Hannah Arendt
• Manning Marable
• Angela Davis
• Howard Zinn
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Arundhati Roy
• Imani Perry
• Michael Omi
• Audre Lorde
• James Baldwin
• Michel Foucault
• Bell Hooks
• John Foran
• Naomi Klein
• Cathy J. Cohen
• José Esteban Muñoz
• Paul Gilroy
• C.L.R James
• Judith Butler
• Paulo Freire
• Cornel West
• June Jordan
• Rebecca Solnit
• Edouard Glissant
• Karl Marx
• Robin D.G. Kelley
• Frantz Fanon
• Kong Tsung-gan
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Gloria Anzaldua
• Lee Edelman
• Samir Amin

SELECTED MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES, CURATED BY THE CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE

• Afro-Punk, dir. James Spooner
• Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, dir. Les Blank 
• Deep Roots Music (series), dir. Howard Johnson
• Hip-Hop Evolution (Netflix Series)
• Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy, dir. Carlos Ortiz
• Miles Electric: a Different Kind of Blue, dir. By Murray Lerner
• Nosotros, la musica, dir. By Rogelio Paris
• Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story, dir. by Jeremy Marre
• Rock ‘n Roll (10 part PBS documentary by Robert Palmer)
• Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, dir. Robert Mugge
• Wattstax, dir. Mel Stuart
• WildStyle, dir. Charlie Ahearn
• World According to John Coltrane, dir. Robert Palmer 
• ‘Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), dir. Questlove
• 20 Feet from Stardom, dir. Morgan Neville

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES, CURATED BY THE CLIVE DAVIS INSTITUTE

• Black Lives Matter Resources
• The Equal Justice Initiative
• Anti-racism resources
• The 1619 Project

More Resources

• Master List of Black Revolutionary Readings
• Black Girls Code
• Anti-Asian Violence Resources  

Cinema Studies Department Community Screening List, est. June 2020

AS A BODY, the Cinema Studies department has long reckoned with the power of the image. The power to testify, the power to record. The power to preserve, the power to dwell. We know that moving images have captured, and are still capturing, countless struggles against hate, injustice, and greed. If there's a common thread linking the heterogeneous items here, it's that they record some aspect of the insurgent energies--rage, protest, and collectivity--that have made history in the past, and which are bursting to life in the present. The list aims to meet the needs of people who are looking for something different to watch. Something that takes you out of the social media and news reporting zone. It is in no sense an exhaustive list; in fact it’s a work in progress, a starting point in what will surely be a longer process of seeing, listening, sharing, and acting. 

If you’d like to add a title to the list, here’s a Google form for submissions.

Additional reading:

• “The Literature of White Liberalism”, Melissa Phruksachart, Boston Review

• “Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity”, Robin Dembroff, Dee Payton, Boston Review

• “The Art of Women’s Struggles Is the Art of Building Community and Making Alternative History”, Social Text

Websites:

• Array Now
• RESOURCES | artequity.org
• Center for Asian Americans in Media
• Color Of Change – Color Of Change helps you do something real about injustice.
• Film Independent
• HowlRound Theatre Commons
• Muslim Pacific Affairs Council: Hollywood Bureau
• NALIP | #WeAreInclusion
• Respect Ability - Fighting Stigmas. Advancing Opportunities
• Sundance Inclusion Resource Map 
• Visual Communications
• Fellowship & Writing Programs for Screenwriters Masterlist — The Writers Guild Foundation
• Women in Film – Advancing Equality in the Screen Industries

Books:

• Akhtar, Ayad - Homeland Elegies
• Alexander, Michelle - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Baldwin, James - The Fire Next Time
• brown, adrienne maree - Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
• Bulosan, Carlos - America Is in the Heart
• Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne - An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
• France, David - How to Survive a Plague
• Freire, Paulo - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• hooks, bell - Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
• Hudes, Quiara Alegría - My Broken Language
• Lorde, Audre - Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
• Lorde, Audre - A Burst of Light: Essays
• Morrison, Toni - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
• Rankine, Claudia - Citizen: An American Lyric
• Shulman, Sarah - Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
• Snorton, C. Riley - Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
• Valdez Quade, Kirsten - A Night At The Fiestas: Stories
• Valdez Quade, Kirsten - The Five Wounds: A Novel
• Wilkerson, Isabel - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns
• Wilson, August - The Ground on Which I Stand
• Woodson, Carter G. - The Mis-Education of the Negro
• Zinn, Howard - A People’s History of the United States

Articles, Etc:

• 10 Essential Podcasts from AAPI Creators
• 12 Free Documentaries And Shows About Black History And Racism In America
• 1619 Project from The New York Times 
• Segal Center's Arab Stages Journal
• Black Lives Matter Syllabus
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations” 
• Identity Development Theory in the Classroom"
• The Kilroys
• Works by Tony Kushner 
• Macintosh, Peggy, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
• Tatum, Beverly, "Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial The Say It Loud, a PBS Digital Studios Series
• Paula Vogel's Indecent

Plays:

• Ahktar, Ayad - The Invisible Hand
• Alfaro, Luis - The Greek Trilogy
• Hudes, Quiara Alegría - Water by the Spoonful
• Fornes, Maria Irene - Plays (includes Mud, The Danube, Sarita, and The Conduct of Life.)
• Jackson, Michael R -  A Strange Loop
• Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden - An Octoroon
• Johnson, C.A. - All the Natalie Portmans
• Jung, Hansol - Wild Goose Dreams
• Kushner, Tony- Angels in America
• Lew, Mike - Teenage Dick 
• Lopez, Matthew - The Inheritance
• Love, Donja - one in two
• McCraney, Tarell Alvin - The Brother/Sister Plays
• Morisseau, Dominique - The Detroit Project: Three Plays
• Nguyen, Qui - Vietgone
• Park, Jiehae - Peerless
• Piñero, Miguel - Short Eyes: A Play
• Raffo, Heather - Iraq Plays
• Raine, Nina - Tribes
• Vogel, Paula - Indecent
• Yee, Lauren - Cambodian Rock Band

Films:

• 2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright - directed by Spike Lee, 2016
• 13th - directed by Ava DuVernay, 2016
• Crip Camp - directed by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham, 2020
• How to Survive a Plague - directed by David France, 2012
• Immigration Nation - directed by Jacob Hickey and Ben Shackleford, 2011
• Beyoncé: Lemonade - directed by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Khalil Joseph, Dikayl Rimmasch, Todd Tourso, Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, and Mark Romanek, 2016 
• Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement  - directed by Laurens Grant, 2016
• The Rest I Make Up - directed by Michelle Memran, 2018

Podcasts:

• Asian Enough
• Latino USA
• Self Evident Asian America's Stories

Theaters and Writing Groups

• Ars Nova Play Group
• Classical Theater of Harlem
• Crossroads Theater Company
• Emerging Writers Group Public Theater
• Global Gab Cross Cultural Conversations with a Focus on International Artists
• INTAR Theater
• La MaMa, Theater For The New City
• The Lark
• Latinx Playwrights Circle
• May-Yi Theater
• May-Yi Theater Writers Lab
• Playwrights' Center
• The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship
• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
• The Segal Center 
• The Sol Project
• WP Theater

TV and Film Fellowships Specifically for Underrepresented Groups:

• Cape New Writers Fellowship
• Film Independent’s Project Involve
• Inevitable Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship
• LA Skins Fest Writers Workshop
• Made In New York Writers Room
• NALIP Emerging Content Creator Initiative
• National Hispanic Media Coalition TV Writers Program
• Ojalá Ignition Lab
• Outfest Screenwriting Lab
• Pacific Islanders in Communications Funding
• Sundance Indigenous Program
• Sundance Outreach & Inclusion Program
• Tribeca All Access
• Universal Writers Program
• Vision Maker Media Funding
• WarnerMedia Access Writing Fellowship (formerly HBO Access)
• The Writer's Lab NY
• Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program
• Women at Sundance
• Women In Film Programs

Theater Prizes

• Leah Ryan Prize
• MIRANDA FAMILY VOCES LATINX NATIONAL PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
• Princess Grace Award
• Yale Drama Series Prize

Museums with Good Resource Pages:

• The Hispanic Museum and Library
• Japanese American National Museum
• Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
• National Museum of African American History and Culture
• National Museum of the American Indian

NYU Grad Film Watch List 2021-22

Additional readings and resources:

• Gordon Parks Photography Archive
• Hiram Maristany | Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Black Stories Matter – NYU Production Lab
• NOTABLE FILMS BY BLACK DIRECTORS – Movies List on MUBI
• Celebrating Black Women Directors: 11 Filmmakers You Should Know
• The 50 Best Films by Black Directors | The Takeaway
• The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time
• Breakout Women Directors to Know in 2020
• 2019 in Film: Change Remains Slow for People of Color in Hollywood
• 28 Movies Directed by Women That You Can Watch in 2020
• Liberated Genius | Creation-Space for Equity, Access and Wellness
• Show Don't Tell: Decolonize your classroom, syllabus, rules, and practices
• https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
• DML Database - a collection of commercial films, Tisch student works, and film scripts searchable by Directors of Color, International, LGBTQ+, and Women Directors.

Kanbar Databases:

• Diversity Research & Resources For Media Makers
• Media for Diversity in Filmmaking - a catalog created by Kanbar faculty of films, television, books, and resources 
• DML Database - a collection of commercial films, Tisch student works, and film scripts searchable by Directors of Color, International, LGBTQ+, and Women Directors.
• Diverse Docs - a list of documentaries

Additional Resources:

• Ableism Video
• Race In the Writers Room
• The NewFest LGBTQ Films
• New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival
• Light Cone Cinema
• Collectif Jeune Cinéma
• African Diaspora Film Festival
• Margaret Meade Film Festival
• Neflix.com - Black Lives Matter Collection  
• New York Times' Race Related
• artforum.com
• ubu.com
• umc.tv
• medium.com
• hyperallergic.com
• artsy.net
• asianfilmfestivals.com
• americanindian.si.edu/explore/film-media/festival
• editmedia.org