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Oakland Press
Available online from Dec. 1991-Dec. 1997. Available on microfilm from 1835-2007.
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Call number for microfilm:
AN2. P6 O3

White Gazes of Black Detroit: Miliken v.Bradley I, Postcolonial Theory, and Persistent Inequalities by Muhammad Khalifa, Ty-ron M. O. Douglas, and Terah Venzant Chambers
This article employs critical policy analysis as it examines the historical underpinnings of racialized policy discrimination in Detroit. It considers histories, discourses, and oppressive structures as it seeks to understand how policies have been and
currently are implemented by Whites in predominantly Black urban areas.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
This selection of images, freely available with creative commons licenses, represents a broadly based interpretation of African American culture, presenting diverse histories including the enslavement of the people, protest and civil rights movements, and the lives of celebrated citizens and everyday people. It provides most of the museum’s online offerings including art, artifacts, fashion, musical instruments, letters, portrait photographs and cartes de visite, books, broadsheets, political buttons and all types of ephemera, collectively documenting the lives of African Americans from around 1700 to the 2010s.
Performance Still From On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide by Dread Scott
Subject Headings:
Slavery;
Genocide;
21st century;
Performance art;
Contemporary art;
Photography;
Activist art;
African Americans;
Black culture;
Freedoms

Ways Of Seeing by John Berger
3rd Floor Kresge Library -
Call # - N 7430.5 .W39 1972