The following links and resources have been compiled by members of the Eugene DSA chapter, but the content therein has not been developed by members of the DSA Eugene chapter and Eugene DSA does not take credit or responsibility for the content therein. If you have ideas about additional resources that might be added to these lists, please email us at: DSAEugene@gmail.com
Anti-Racist Resources
Here are some readings you might find helpful:
- This Anti-racist Resource Guide
- Accomplices Not Allies
- 12 things to do instead of calling the cops
- BLM Resources Eugene, OR
- Talking About Race – National Museum of African American History & Culture
- National Resource and Education Tool
- Book*: Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Laylah F. Saad
- Buy from a Black-owned bookstore, rather than Amazon – on back order as of 6/15/20
*Can’t find what you need at our local library? Make a purchase request here.
Support BIPOC Organizations and Businesses in Eugene, Oregon
Here are some local groups to follow for events and actions:
Here are some local BIPOC-owned businesses to support (original reference list posted on BLAC: Black Led Action Coalition Facebook page and expanded list found on reddit):
Food:
- Addis Ethiopian Cuisine
- One Bad Dawg
- Noisette Pastry Kitchen
- Taco Intrusion
- Straight Outta Soulfood
- Irie Jamaican Kitchen
- Addis Ethiopian Cuisine
- Equiano Coffee
- BBQ by Tony
- Once Famous Grill
Goods
- Elev8 Cannabis
- Made with Sol
- Sweet Skins Organic Apparel
- Juiced Up Vapors
- Hatchet Originals
- Roots ‘n Earth Handmade
- De La Terracotta
Services:
Beauty:
- Mos Faded Barbershop
- Bianca’s Retreat
- Blessings Hair Design
- Beauty by Kinaya
- Boldly Rooted Studios
- Glamourbya
- Nails by Nyaah
- Kings Klaws
- Sherocks Locks
- Treu Hair
- Yarbs and Roots
Training/ Sports:
Food:
Other:
Why center anti-racism as an anti-capitalist, democratic socialist organization?
Racism upholds the system of de facto white supremacy in the United States, providing the foundation of ruling class power and dividing working people against each other. Some on the socialist Left have argued that race is a distraction from class struggle, but as Eugene DSA, we recognize that to challenge capitalism and build working class power we must directly confront and combat racism. Read our full chapter statement on anti-racism here.
Eugene & Oregon’s Racist History
We cannot know what is necessary to get where we want to be unless we know where we have been. Eugene, Oregon, and the rest of the United States (indeed, the world) have an ugly history of racism that we must reckon with. Here are some starting points for learning about that history in our town and state:
- Racing to Change: Oregon’s Civil Rights Years – The Eugene Story
- Exhibit at the UO Museum of Natural & Cultural History – on view through September 13, 2020.
- Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon
- Looking Back in Order to Move Forward – An Often Untold History Affecting Oregon’s Past, Present, and Future – A Timeline of Oregon and U.S. Racial, Immigration and Education History
- Oregon’s founders sought a ‘white utopia,’ a stain of racism that lives on even as state celebrates its progressivism
- How Oregon’s Racist History Can Sharpen Our Sense of Justice Right Now
- Marc Carpenter, University of Oregon PhD candidate, writes about pioneer violence against Native Americans in early Oregon. His presentation for the Oregon Humanities Center is titled “Memory and Erasure of Settler Violence in Early Oregon, 1848–1928.” Watch on YouTube.
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