"Spirituality is a calling of responsibility to each other and to our world. It is a calling to act and not just reflect, to engage and not just contemplate." David Spangler
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racial healing and reconciliation resources
This is a page in progress as I am still learning. As I know more, I will share more. I offer these resources for your own exploration. I am looking for the best ways to be involved in permanent change with my skills and knowledge. I encourage you to do the same. Due to my origin, much of this is USA-focused, but not all.
The list has been compiled from various sources, many of whom claim their information was milled from other sources. I present these to help point others to knowledge, not as the fruit of my efforts. There are varying opinions on the below. Reading and watching some of 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 piece. Take what resonates for you, and also be aware that the mind can only process so much at a time. Do you take in more information visually, auditorily, or through reading? Start with that format to understand the language and ideas, and then venture out from there.
FILMS, TV SHOWS
13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Netflix
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
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
The Color Purple
Hidden Figures
Set it Off
Roma
Frida
VIDEOS:
A complex and authentic conversation between musician India Arie and comedian Trevor Noah: https://youtu.be/XYcn8a13Rw4
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
PODCASTS:
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: https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/
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 ourselves: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brené-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/id1494350511?i=1000476611079
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’
Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
Articles:
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
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): 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.
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
Many other people are speaking out and sharing information right now. Hopefully, by following some of these, you will learn from others.
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." http://leesareneehall.com/expressivewritiDng-prompts-to-use-if-youve-been-accused-of-whitefragility-spiritualbypass-or-whiteprivilege/?fbclid=IwAR1ZCN65y9GRdqHVv6s2aXe6YHZn39bgNbLpTipf5cHfw60oMHfCnpsyCg8
This article takes a different perspective on "white fragility" and points out that the book by the same name talks down to black people. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/
This is a good article about what to do if you are witness to altercations. https://www.ihollaback.org/bystander-resources/?fbclid=IwAR1hJBUU5Nvpq28xNJvsVwExF00IQ6_JIje5nhge-NujV4BQ9VPE9CfBEt0
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 most people of color." https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/red-lining-36762878?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=managed&fbclid=IwAR18JaFAQOhnPChimeMBk_AWuD99PL8P5DwsuMxaD6HpIHmQOTBSxIAR1R4
This is a really good page of a variety of resources around the expanded topic of racism and its history: https://whiteawake.org/self-education/themes-and-resources/?fbclid=IwAR2Kg7bRcdCM4VtbXGy_FWu_ZKtcmerudQ7pBdsP_PZKmp7a3F1djTMqnVI
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 Supremacy - 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 Identity - C. Riley Snorto
WHITE WOMEN AND RACISM IN THE USA:
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s - Kathleen M. Blee
Hood Feminism - Mikk Kendall
White Feminism - Koa Beck