The Deeper Dive recommendations come from a diverse array of facilitators, participants, and advisors. They’ve been curated by a curriculum review committee that will also periodically revise/update the lists. The lists are by no means comprehensive.
The materials are offered for the sake of individual use, and circles may also decide to create structured use. For example, participants could sign up to review one or more of the supplementary materials for a particular session, and then offer insights during that particular session’s circle meeting. Or, circles that have completed the curriculum may find they wish to reconvene and create their own curriculum from these suggested resources.
- Films and Videos
- “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” (2013), the other episodes (2-6), PBS series, available on Kanopy
- “The Cotton Economy and Slavery” (2013), from PBS series “Many Rivers to Cross”
- “Africa’s Great Civilizations” (2017), PBS series, available on Kanopy
- Books
- “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” (2021), Nikole Hannah-Jones
- “The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery” (2018), Noel Rae
- “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (The Autobiographies #1)” (1845, 2004), Frederick Douglass
- “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861, 2001), Harriet Jacobs
- “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (2014), Edward Baptist
- “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019″ (2021), Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain
- Articles and Essays
- “The 1619 Project” (Aug. 14, 2019), Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times project