Resources for the Fight Against Racism
GUIDES ON Talking about RACe & RACISM
Talking About Race - The National Museum of African American History & Culture
Ten Lessons for Talking About Race, Racism, and Racial Justice - Academized (originally posted at The Opportunity Agenda)
Anti Racism Tools - Trying Together
Anti-Racism Discussion Guide - YWCA
Conversation Guide: Talking about Race, Racism, Care, and Caregiving - Caring Across Generations
Anti-Racism Discussion Guide - Hanover Research
Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege - USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Let’s Talk! Discussing Race, Racism, and Difficult Topics with Students, Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance
TEACHER RESOURCES - AmERICAN SLAVERY
Teaching Hard History - Southern Poverty Law Center
Teaching the History of Slavery and Resistance = The Zinn Education Project
ANTI-RACIST READING LIST
This list is adapted from Ibram X. Kendi’s “The Anti-Racist Reading List,” published in The Atlantic
Definitions of Race:
Fatal Invention - By Dorothy Roberts
Definitions of racist and anti-racist:
How To Be An Antiracist - By Ibram X. Kendi
Mass Incarceration:
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime - By Elizabeth Hinton
The New Jim Crow - By Michelle Alexander
Are Prisons Obsolete? - By Angela Davis
Just Mercy - By Bryan Stevenson
Reparations:
The Case for Reparations - By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Reconstruction:
Reconstruction - by Eric Foner
Jim Crow:
The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 - by James D. Anderson
The Condemnation of Blackness - By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Color of Law - by Richard Rothstein
The Origins of the Urban Crisis - by Thomas J. Sugrue
Slavery by Another Name - By Douglas A. Blackmon
The Great Migration:
The Warmth of Other Suns - by Isabel Wilkerson
Economics:
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - By Heather McGhee
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class - By Ian Haney López
Talking About Race:
So You Want to Talk About Race -By Ijeoma Oluo
Racism Without Racists - By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
FILMS TO WATCH
13th, Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.
I Am Not Your Negro, In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
MLK/FBI, Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Owned, Is the “American Dream” of home ownership a false promise? While the government’s postwar housing policy created the world’s largest middle class, it also set America on two divergent paths – one of perceived wealth and the other of systematically defunded, segregated communities.
THe IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST
According to statistics from the Implicit Association Test (IAT), very few of us are totally without prejudice of one form or another. Project Implicit is a long-term research project based at Harvard University that aims to measure people's preferences for certain social groups over others. Take the Race IAT at the link below.
DAMALI AYO's "I CAN FIX IT- RACISM"
Damali Ayo's interactive art project. 2000 people were asked for 5 things individual people can do to end racism. Here are the solutions in our own words.