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RESOURCES

Here at The Elle Bee Show, we pride ourselves on being educated Bees. That means when we speak facts and truths, we have to back them up. Here are the resources we used to educate YOU on this season's topics!

Season 2: Double Standards

Books

The Creative Act: Rick Rubin

Finding Me: Viola Davis

Uphill: Jemele Hill

Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: Ursula Burns

Black Women Will Save the World: April Ryan

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Who's That Girl by Eve with Kathy Iandoli

Articles

The Two Lives of Sara Baartman: Gender, Race, Politics and Historiography of Mis/Representation By Andrew P. Lyons

Aesthetic Surgery Reality Television Shows: Do they Influence Public Perception of the Scope of Plastic Surgery?  

Rafael Denadai1 • Karin Milleni Araujo1 • Hugo Samartine Junior1 • Rodrigo Denadai1 • Cassio Eduardo Raposo-Amaral1  

Websites

Hhs.gov

Wnba.com

Simonebiles.com

Supremecourt.gov

Sentate.gov

Serenawilliams.com

Census.gov

cdc.org

​https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/yet-another-annoying-study-double-standards-social-
climbing-works-men-backfires-spectacularly-women.html

https://thehilltoponline.com/2024/11/12/the-double-standard-between-vp-harris-
and-president-elect-trump/

https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-rhode-island-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-
over-51-race-sex-based-scholarships/

https://www.whatimreading.net/p/northern-illinois-university-black-male-
initiative-complaint

https://alphanews.org/u-of-m-hit-with-federal-civil-rights-complaint-for-
segregated-racially-discriminatory-program/

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/education/cal-poly-
university/article295924534.html#storylink=cpy

https://medium.com/@mariasolpons/the-paradox-of-
double-standards-5e08a717fd2b

https://hbr.org/2018/10/how-men-get-penalized-for-straying-from-masculine-norms
https://inpowercoaching.com/double-standard-for-women/
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/03/01/the-enduring-grip-of-the-gender-pay-gap/
https://danielle-li.github.io/assets/docs/PotentialAndTheGenderPromotionGap.pdf

Season 1: Colorism

Books

Finding Me: A Memoir Viola Davis Published by Harper 20022
Four Hundred Souls: A community of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi, editor, Keisha N. Blain, - editor, et.al
Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Sean Kingsley, Simcha Jacbovici, Brenda Jones
October 2022

Articles

The Harvard Crimson: Country Music Has a Problem: It’s Not Beyonce March 2024 By: Michael F. Bido https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/5/beyonce-tops-country-charts-first-black-womanhistory/#:~:text=Country%20music%20is%20a%20genre,the%20creation%20of%20the%20genre. Harvard University
Timeline of African American Music CarnegieHall.com 2022
A Darker Hue: Race and Adoption in Richmond, Virginia, 1959 Sarah L. Trembians 2017
Women, Gender, and Familmies of Color (Vol 5. Issue 1 Univeristy of Illinois Press

Websites

“What’s ‘Colorism’?” David Knight, Issue 51, Fall 2015,
HTTPS://WWW.LEARNINGFORJUSTICE.ORG/MAGAZINE/FALL-2015/WHATS-
COLORISM, RETRIEVED MAY 30, 2024

https://ballardbrief.byu.edu/issue-briefs/racial-inequality-in-public-school-discipline-for-black-
students-in-the-united-
states#:~:text=Black%20students%20tend%20to%20experience,suspension%20than%20their%2
0White%20peers.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=61#:~:text=7%20percent%20of%20faculty%20were,American%20Indian%2FAlaska%20Native%3B%20and

https://colorismhealing.com/what-is-monochromatic-diversity/

​https://www.inhersight.com/blog/diversity/colorism-in-the-workplace

www.soulbird.com
www.aliciakeys.com

www.grammys.com
www.oscars.com
www.imbd.com
www.beyonce.com
www.applemusic.com

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