We recognize this land we call home belonged to the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Cowlitz, and Molalla people until the Indian Removal Act of 1830 institutionalized the removal of Native people from their ancestral lands to make way for white settlers. We acknowledge the painful injustices Portland’s estimated 58,000 Indigenous people will suffer. Today we can only attempt to honor their sacrifice by supporting the programs, policies, and resources needed to heal and succeed.
Native American Community – Guide in Portland
https://www.travelportland.com/culture/native-american/
Portland’s urban Native community is descended from more than 380 tribes, and there are nine sovereign Native American nations located throughout Oregon. Each nation inhabits their own reservation and welcomes visitors in their own way, according to their respective customs and traditions.
- Read:
https://multcolib.org/taxonomy/term/1318/reading-lists
https://www.ohs.org/search-results.cfm
- Support Indigenous Organizations:
https://foodcorps.org/22-indigenous-led-organizations-shaping-social-justice/
With more than 62 million Hispanics living in the United States, there are plenty of organizations that aim to support the well-being, education, and professional pursuits of Latinx people. Consider donating to The Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA), the first Latino professional organization in the U.S., The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), which promotes higher education in the Spanish community, or The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (CPLC), which aims to combat discrimination in Latino and Spanish-speaking communities.
Walking Through Portland with a Panther: The Life of Mr. Kent Ford
https://mailchi.mp/vanportmosaic/blackpantherspdx?e=6d20c0eece
Link to The Black Tennis Hall of Fame
https://www.blacktennishalloffame.com/
This site reviews barriers to tennis, films about Black Tennis History (great film to get a historical perspective), Reference to the ATA – American Tennis Association.
Asian Tennis Association
North American Indian Tennis Association
https://www.indianz.com/News/2022/08/08/native-america-calling-native-tennis-players-hold-court/
Indian Tennis
Oregon Coalition Against Hate Crimes
AAPI Supporting Organizations to Stand with and Donate to
Support grassroot activism by making donations to:
- Hip Hop For Change
- Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
- Hollaback
- Act To Change
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon
Supporting HAPI Artists
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/index.cfm?&c=71327
Organizations fighting for Asian American rights
https://libguides.clackamas.edu/aapi#s-lg-box-26220462
Educate yourself: Oregon’s history
https://libguides.clackamas.edu/aapi#s-lg-box-26231939
Local and national AAPI-led organizations
https://libguides.clackamas.edu/aapi#s-lg-box-26208085
The ATA (American Tennis Association) The ATA was born when representatives from more than a dozen black tennis clubs met in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 30, 1916, It continues to establish opportunities for tennis and is a strong support in the sport today. To learn more, visit:
A selection of books to enhance your education on racial history, diversity, justice and equity
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Americanah by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Love Thy Neighbor by Ayaz Virji
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Land of Open Graves Jason de Leon
Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South by Mab Segrest
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones
Dying of Whiteness by Kimberly Jones
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Can We Talk about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Seeing White An Introduction to White Privilege and Race by Jean O’Malley
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The Difference by Scott Page
Waking up White by Debby Irving
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
White Tears / Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
So, You Want To Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi.
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Between Two Worlds by Ta Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Anderson
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resman Menakem
The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Medical Apartheid: The History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Antiracist Reading Curated by Blackness @ https://bookshop.org/lists/antiracist-reading-curated-by-blackness
Additional titles available from the University of Portland’s anit-racism library