This is a page in progress as I am still learning and exploring. As I know more I will share more. In the meantime, I offer these resources for your own exploration. Many are focused on black racism in the USA, but not all. I am trying to expand more and am looking for the best ways to be involved in change immediately and for the long haul, with my available skills and knowledge. I encourage you to do the same.
This list of resources has been compiled from a variety of sources. I cannot name all sources because many claim the info was milled from yet other sources. I present these to help lead others to knowledge, not as the fruit of my efforts. The gathering of info and links took hours and there may be some mistakes. Please send me a note if you find any.
Reading and watching the below can be very uncomfortable. I encourage you to tolerate the discomfort, feel it in your body, work it through your mind, and come through it a more compassionate, knowledgeable and activated human being. I have not personally researched every one.Take what resonates for you. Also be aware that the mind can only process so much. Do you take in more information visually, auditorily, through reading? Start with that format so you can begin to hear new language, new ideas, and then venture out from there.
FILMS, TV SHOWS
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Netflix
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- RACE: The Power of an Illusion - rentable here on Vimeo
VIDEOS:
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
PODCASTS:
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
- This is a particular podcast I listened to with Resmaa Menakem. It is full of powerful observations and ideas around how we hold trauma (and where that trauma stems from) in the body, for people of all races.
- Brené Brown talking with Professor Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, about racial disparities, policy, and equality. They focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
- This podcast brings a different perspective around the idea of race and argues against seeing racial categories as primary and fixed: https://youtu.be/QquaILWgrZY
- American Police: from NPR Throughline program https://www.npr.org/player/embed/869046127/869251991
Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:
- Books:
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
- 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
- Podcasts:
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
- Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
- Articles:
- PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
- Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
- The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
Organizations to follow on social media:
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Lives Matter: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
- ACLU Racial Justice Program: "aims to preserve and extend constitutionally guaranteed rights to people who have historically been denied their rights on the basis of race."
- Center for Racial Justice in Education – The Center for Racial Justice in Education’s mission is to train and empower educators to dismantle patterns of racism and injustice in our schools and communities. At the Center for Racial Justice in Education, we envision a world where all young people learn and thrive in racially equitable, liberating, and empowering educational spaces.
- The James Patterson Racial Healing & Reconciliation Circle is an Tounché initiative creating a sacred space for healing of the conscious and unconscious (language, beliefs, bias, traumas, etc.) perpetuating institutionalized racism. It’s a place of introspection & reflection, learning about the other, dialogue, truth telling, sacred witnessing, healing, transformation and reconnection. They are conducting open Circles on Saturdays via zoom.
PEOPLE TO FOLLOW:
- Thomas Chatterton Williams- cultural critic and writer on race, identity and cancel culture Facebook Instagram
- Rachel Cargle - a public academic, writer, and lecturer. Her activism and academic work are rooted in providing intellectual discourse, tools, and resources that explore the intersection of race and womanhood. Facebook Instagram
- Brittany Packnett Cunningham -Activist, Educator, Writer. Instagram Facebook
- Ericka Hines - a consultant, advisor, strategist, curriculum designer, and senior trainer who works with organizations to do two things: use diversity to their advantage and leverage leadership across levels. Facebook Instagram
- Shaun King - journalist, humanitarian, activist, columnist for The Intercept and the Writer-In-Residence at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project, Facebook Instagram
There are many other people who are speaking out and sharing information right now. Hopefully by following some of these you will learn of others as well.
ARTICLES:
- This is an article written by a writing coach. I found it personally helpful in looking at my own triggers when I hear the words "white fragility", "spiritual bypass" and "white privilege".
- This article takes a different perspective on "white fragility", and makes points around the idea that the book by the same name in particular, talks down to black people.
- This is a good article about what to do if you are witness to altercations.
- This article explains redlining. "During the Great Depression, the government wanted to understand which houses were likely to default or be at risk of foreclosure, so assessors from the HOLC surveyed neighborhoods’ property values. Based on their findings, the HOLC drew boundaries around desirable and undesirable neighborhoods—neighborhoods with the worst ratings were colored red, hence “red-lining.” (Conversely, a “good” rating was green). Ultimately, white and wealthier neighborhoods got better ratings than poorer neighborhoods home to mostly people of color."
- This is a really good page of a variety of resources around the expanded topic of racism and its history:
LITERATURE:
Anti-Racist Starter Kit:
- Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
- Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
- A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (There is a "young people's" version for elementary and middle school readers)
- So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
- Me and White Supremcy - Layla F Saad
- Stamped - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit:
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
- The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
- The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran
- Muhammad Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl
- A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki
- How to be an AntiRacist - Ibram X Kendi
- How the South Won the Civil War - Heather Cox Richardson
Anti-Racist Topic Specifics:
- Evicted - Matthew Desmond
- Nobody - Marc Lamont Hill
- Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
- The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
- Blackballed - Darryl Pinkney
- Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen
Anti-Racist Lit; Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives:
- The Warmth of Other Sons - Isabel Wilkerson
- The Fire Next time - James Baldwin
- Malcolm X - Alex Haley
- Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Killing Rage Ending Racism - Bell Hooks
- Becoming - Michelle Obama
- An American By Marriage - Tayari Jones
- A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
- The Myth Of Race - Robert Sussman
Anti-Racist Lit - Black Feminism:
- How we Get Free - Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor
- Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
- Ain't I a Woman Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks
- Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
- Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper
- In Search of Our Mothers Gardens - Alice Walker
- Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
- Women Race & Class - Angela Y Davis
- Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
- To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande
Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+:
- Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
- Zami - Audre Lorde
- Real Life - Brandon Taylor
- Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene A Carruthers
- No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies - E. Patrick Johnson
- Since I Laid My Burden Down - Brontez Purnell
- The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin
- No Ashes in the Fire - Darnell L. Moore
- The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie
- Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
- Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow
- Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identiy - C. Riley Snorton