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Equity Resources
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The District's Equity Initiative has generated interest in using supplemental resources,
including DVDs and Novel Sets, in classrooms and for staff development. To check out any of
the materials below, email the Multimedia Library at
multimedia@pps.net with your name, location and date
the item(s) are needed. You may also click on the title to reserve these materials online.
DVDs
Race: The Power of an Illusion (H00580)
Examines the contemporary science, including genetics, that challenges our common
sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally
different groups according to their physical traits. Features interviews with historians,
biologists, anthropologists, and scientists who study the biology of race and speak to
the genetic differences of the human population. This DVD contains three episodes:
"The difference between us"; "The house we live in"; "The story we tell." (2003, 60 minutes per episode)
If you are interested in streaming "Race: The Power of an Illusion (recommended for
single-user viewing only) send an email (only) to
multimedia@pps.net. Our streaming license is
restricted to PPS school and administration personnel only -- please use your
District email address when making the request.
The Color of Fear - Part 1 (H00863)
The Color of Fear is an insightful, groundbreaking film about the state of race relations
in America as seen through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European,
Latino and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic
confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused them.
What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust.
This is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.
(1994, 90 minutes)
Last Chance for Eden - Part 1 (H00864)
Last Chance for Eden is a documentary about nine men and women discussing the issues of
racism and sexism in the workplace. They examine the impact of society’s stereotypes on
their lives in the workplace, in their personal relationships and within their families
and in their communities. In the course of their dialogue, they also explore the differences
and similarities between racism and sexism – an area that has seldom been researched, but
has heatedly become a very important issue needing to be understood and dealt with.
Local Color
The Professional Library carries "Local Color" on DVD, a 1991 OPB documentary chronicles
the little known history of racism in Oregon and the story of people who worked for civil rights.
You can request to borrow this DVD by sending an email to
libraries@pps.net.
Video on Demand
Future Portland
A video produced by Brushfire Creative Partners and Ifanyi Bell,
inspired by his essay
"The Air I Breathe" in the Fall/Winter 2014 issue of Oregon
Humanities magazine, "Quandary."
Novel Sets
Learning to be white : money, race, and God in America(N00260)
Thandeka explores the politics of the white experience in America. Tracing the links between religion, class,
and race, she reveals the child abuse, ethnic conflicts, class exploitation, poor self-esteem, and a general
feeling of self-contempt that are the wages of whiteness. (24 copies)
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? and other
conversations about race (N00256)
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria.
Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some
regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same phenomenon can be observed
in college dining halls, faculty lounges, and corporate cafeterias. What is going on here? Is this
self-segregation a problem we should try to fix, or a coping strategy we should support? How can we get
past our reluctance to talk about racial issues to even discuss it? And what about all the other questions
we and our children have about race? (59 copies)
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