Working Papers

Over the years people in Crossroads’ network have applied the analysis of racism to a variety of issues. These video clips and PDF documents are made available to enhance your anti-racism/anti-oppression work in your institution or community. When utilizing these resources, please be sure to include the proper citation(s).

This video contributed by Chiara Sottile, journalist and activist for social justice.

• An Interfaith Reflection for the Holidays: Crossroads Statement on Mel Gibson’s The Passion (Anti-Racism and Anti-Semitism) PDF

This video contributed by Chiara Sottile, journalist and activist for social justice.

• Haudenosaunee Confederacy PDF
• Anti-Racist Transforming Values PDF
• Borderlands PDF
• Historical Development of Institutional Racism PDF
• Immigration Reform and Civil Rights PDF
• Racial Identity Caucusing Strategy PDF
• Racism, Classism and Worker Injustice: A Historical Wagging Tail PDF
• Racial Disparities in the United States PDF – based on Kerner Commission Report. The complete forty-year update of the Kerner Commission Report can be found at http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/kerner.php
• Resisting War at Home and Abroad (joint statement with Crossroads and the Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond) PDF

In 2004 Crossroads commenced a Documenting Institutional Anti-Racism Organizing Project funded by the C.S. Mott Foundation. This project provided critical insight into successes and challenges anti-racism teams that had been in place a minimum of five years encountered in their institutions.

Published in 2007, this report provided an incredible amount of data that has allowed us to develop new resources and tools for anti-racism organizers to assist institutional anti-racism teams: Documentation & Evaluation Final Report PDF