This week’s New York Times list of best-selling books shows a country reading all about race and racism, suggesting this turbulent but promising moment has our nation’s attention.
On the latest episode of Critical Value, Urban Institute staff compile their own reading (and watching) list. You’ll hear about the books, movies, and documentaries they are reflecting on to contextualize antiracism, structural racism, police brutality, and privilege in this moment.
If James Baldwin’s Beale Street could talk, what would it say about the human experiences of love, striving, and racism?
How does Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel inform our thinking about human civilization and its sheer gaps in power, technology, and wealth across the planet?
How do we answer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s razor-sharp query: have Black lives ever mattered?
Tune in to hear what Urban staff are reading (and watching) to reflect on race, power, and privilege.
