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Resources
Champaign-Urbana Reparations Coalition Selected Resources
African American Redress Network https://redressnetwork.org/ provides advocacy tools, research, and capacity building to descendant communities in their efforts to secure racial justice and reparation initiatives
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness (2010).
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2016).
Andrews, Elizabeth A. “Douglass Community Center: Its History and
Development and the Place of Its Program in the Community.” MA Thesis.
University of Illinois, 1948. https://eblackcu.net/portal/archive/files/andrews_1945_eaf83cfab1.pdf
"The Big Payback" https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-big-payback/
on Evanston, IL, reparations effort
Barram, Michael, Drew G.I. Hart, Gimbiya Kettering and Michael J. Rhodes, eds. Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
Burns, Michael S. 2013. The Rhetorics of Community Space: Critical Events in Champaign-Urbana's Black Freedom Movement Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois.
https://core.ac.uk/reader/17354700
“California Votes oppose cash reparations for slavery, poll finds.” All Things Considered/NPR (Sept. 11, 2023). https://www.npr.org/2023/09/11/1198805444/most-california-voters-oppose-cash-reparations-for-slavery-poll-finds
California's Case for Reparations: An ABC7 Originals documentary. 2024 (~46 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLXrT_ncw8
Cha-Jua, Sundiata, M.F. Berry, and V.P. Franklin, eds. Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future. University of Illinois Press, 2024.
Cha-Jua talking about the book:”Why is the reparations movement gaining momentum in the US?” (April 18, 2024) https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/579962727
Charles, J. Brian, Mike Maciag, Daniel Vock. “Segregated in the Heartland: An Investigative Series.” Governing (January 14, 2019) https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-segregation-series.html
Chavez, Nicole. “Georgetown University and Jesuits Donate $27 Million…” CNN (September 14, 2023)
The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery https://dofdmenno.org/
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, "The Case for Reparations," The Atlantic (June 2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Cobb, Deirdre Lynn. “Jim Crow Room & Board: The Experiences of African American
Students at UIUC 1945 to 1955.” MA thesis, 1997. https://eblackcu.net/portal/archive/files/jim-crow-room-and-board-1997_f040df85f7.pdf
Coming to the Table reparations guide can be accessed and downloaded here:
https://comingtothetable.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CTTT-Reparations-Guide-July-2021.pdf Background on the Coming to the Table working group and additional resources can be found here: https://comingtothetable.org/reparations-working-group/
"The Cost of Inheritance: America Reframed." PBS, 2024 https://www.pbs.org/video/the-cost-of-inheritance-bdzmlq/
Conover, Adam. “Adam Ruins Everything: The Disturbing History of the Suburbs.” TruTV (2017?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR9qrVS17g
“The Cost of Inheritance (PBS Episode 1 of America Reframed).” 2024. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-cost-of-inheritance-bdzmlq/
Darity, William and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality (2022).
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671208/from-here-to-equality-second-edition/
Darity, William, A. Kirsten Mullen and Lucas Hubbard, eds. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (2023).
Davis, Allen J. "An Historical Timeline of Reparations Payments Made From 1783 through 2023 by the United States Government, States, Cities, Religious Institutions, Universities, Corporations, and Communities." https://guides.library.umass.edu/reparations
Dolinar, Brian. "Champaign Housing Authority Considers Demolishing a Third Black
Neighborhood." Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center. n.p., 24 Aug.
2012.
______."Consent Decree 101: The Mis-education of Champaign's Black Students." The
Public i. February 2007. https://publici.ucimc.org/2007/02/consent-decree-101-the-mis-education-of-champaign%e2%80%99s-black-students/
______. "Demolition of Historic Booker T. Washington Elementary Underway." The
Public i. 23 August 2011. https://publici.ucimc.org/2011/08/ten-years-of-indypendent-media-an-oral-history-of-the-public-i/
______. "Emails Reveal Champaign City Staff Working Behind the Scenes to Level
Bristol Place.” The Public i. 17 Sept. 2012.
"Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap" (2020 video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqrhn8khGLM
_____. "Soon to be displaced residents protest outside of housing authority." The Public
i. August 2011. https://publici.ucimc.org/2011/08/soon-to-be-displaced-residents-protest-outside-of-housing-authority/
Evanston Reparations Discussion on The 21st (December 11, 2023) with Robin Rue Simmons, Jeff Trask, Alvin Tillery https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/evanston-began-issuing-reparations-years-ago-so-whats-next-for-illinois-and-america
Fennell, Christopher. "Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois."
The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life. Jodi
Barnes, Ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. 173-189.
First Repair, Informing Local Reparations, Nationally. Resources:
https://firstrepair.org/research-resources/
Forty Acres and a Lie, 3-part podcast https://revealnews.org/podcast/40-acres-and-a-lie-part-1/
Franke, Carrie. "Injustice Sheltered: Race Relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1990.
Higher Ground, WEFT Radio (December 23, 2023): discussions on international and national reparations with Siphiwe Baleka (at 1:03:23-1:31) and Kamm Howard (1:36-end)
http://new.weft.org/audio/2023/higherground/HigherGround_2023-12-23.mp3
Hoffman, Chad. Executive Director Habitat for Humanity.
"Housing Equity"
Video presentation: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_o1bkslf0
Howard, Kamm. Laying the Foundation for Local Reparations:A Guide for Providing National Symmetry for Local Reparation Efforts (Self-published, 2020).
Kwon, Duke L. & Gregory Thompson. Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2021).
Library of Congress. “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-38.”
Love, Bettina. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reforms Harms Black Children and How We Heal (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2023). Especially ch. 12, “A Call for Educational Reparations”
Meacham, Jon. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House, 2022).
“New York Launches Commission to Consider Racial Reparations” (December 19, 2023) https://news.yahoo.com/york-launches-commission-consider-racial-180719182.html
Office of the Chancellor., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2017. A Home of Their Own. video
https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_ab663bb5
Patton, Carl Vernon. Urban Renewal and Negro Involvement (A Case Study of Negro
Politics in Champaign, Illinois). Thesis. U of Illinois, Spring 1968. https://eblackcu.net/portal/archive/files/patton_1968_6ccf928c04.pdf
Providence (RI) Municipal Reparations Commission. Report. (August 2022). https://www.providenceri.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ReparationsRecommendationsReport_FINAL.pdf
Reparations Narrative Lab. There Are New Suns: Building a Transformative Narrative for the Black Reparations Movement (2023).
https://www.reparationsnarrativelab.org/report
“Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation.” 4-part documentary on racially segregated housing and its impact on the wealth gap (2024). https://www.shameofchicagodoc.org/ [free to watch]]
"Slavery by Another Name," PBS, 2022. https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/
Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021).
Stack, Carol. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York: Basic, 1974.
“State Rep. Carol Ammons wants descendants of slaves in Illinois to have access to free DNA testing.” Illinois Public Media (February 28, 2024). https://will.illinois.edu/studentnewsroom/story/new-bill-urges-support-for-ancestry-dna-program-for-descendants-of-slaves-in-illinois
Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O. Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Trask, Jeff. "The Case for Reparations: Champaign County." Public i (April 2024) https://publici.ucimc.org/2024/04/the-case-for-reparations-champaign-county/
Washington, Jessica. "The Root's Guide to Reparations in the United States" (Updated July 8, 2023) https://www.theroot.com/a-guide-to-reparations-payouts-and-promises-in-america-1850520354
Urbana, City of. A RESOLUTION COMMITTING TO ENDING STRUCTURAL RACISM AND ACHIEVE RACIAL EQUITY (2021)
"Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America." (118-minute documentary)
https://thewhoweareproject.org/the-film
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House, 2020)
_______. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. (Vintage, 2010)
PLEASE NOTE: Additional Resources in pdf format can be found on our Google Drive:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lwGRbgZ6lbuOeGLeWYas99z61QK6wO-0yi9kCoIYFEA/edit
LINKS TO LOCAL ARCHIVES
The Doris Hoskins archives at the Museum of the Grand Prairie are valuable and a finding aid is here: https://eblackcu.net/portal/items/show/3
Oral history interviews can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@MuseumoftheGrandPrairie/videos
More on the Hoskins Collection: https://www.museumofthegrandprairie.org/Explore/Collections
Some digitized resources from the Hoskins archive are available on eBlack CU: https://eblackcu.net/portal/items/browse?collection=1
Background on the Coming to the Table working group and additional resources can be found here: https://comingtothetable.org/reparations-working-group/
Background on the Coming to the Table working group and additional resources can be found here: https://comingtothetable.org/reparations-working-group/
Updated October 2024