February 2024 - Building Trust/Caucusing/Racial Affinity Groups

• Elijah Anderson: This is What it Feels Like to be Black in White Spaces

• Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People

• Building and Effective White Caucus

• And, if you are interested in exploring more, there are many excellent readings and resources on racial affinity groups/caucusing at Racialequitytools.org — Caucus and Affinity Groups

November 2023 - In-person Guided Black History Walking tour with Gia White

• Black Lives at Cal has self-guided version of tour and RSVP to sign up for additional in-person tours.

October 2023 - Revisiting Pay Equity: Action

• Ombuds Report (esp pg 21-22) 

• Anti-Racist Change: A Conceptual Framework for Educational Institutions to Take Systemic Action

September 2023 - The Scandal of Cal & Geographies of Racial Capitalism

• “The Scandal of Cal,” by Tony Platt [Berkeleyside article] Chapter 2 [image pdf , text]

• “Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore” [video, transcript]

August 2023 - Whiteness and Affirmative Action w/Rachel Roberson 

• Whiteness as property cheryl harris – ssrn, google drive

• Message from Femi Ogundele: Supreme Court & Affirmative Action

July 2023 - People & Culture w/Katrina Pantig Naval

March 2022

• Kellie Brennan, New Draft UC Policy on Anti-Discrimination 

February 2022

• Staff Ombuds Office team about their 2020-22 Biennial Report, focus on pay equity

December 2022

• Discuss draft letter regarding Bishop Berkeley for campus leadership and the campus identity committee, and next steps.

• Members to share thoughts about the year ending, successes, and challenges and generally check in and connect. 

October 2022

• Discussion of how to address fact that Bishop Berkeley (UCB's namesake) was a slave owner: Dismantling Racism at UC Berkeley: Grappling with the Legacy of Bishop Berkeley, Slave Owner 

September 2022

•  What Does It Take to Have Civil Discourse in the Classroom

•  How to talk someone out of bigotry

July 2022

• Reparations: 

  • Karen Hughes, MPH Project Director at University Health Services-Health Promotion on Reparation Generation, an organization she helped create. 

    • Advance reading: sample 1-2 background resources featured on Reparation Generation's Inspiration, News, or Truth-Telling pages

  • Erika Weissinger, PhD Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy on What are reparations and why are they needed?

  • Kellie Farrish, a professional Genealogist and participant in the AB3121 California Reparations Task Force meetings on eligibility based on race or lineage on Reparative Genealogy is powerful and less complex and costly than ever before. 

    • Advance reading: CA Reparations Task Force Preliminary Report and Recommendations

June 2022:

• Exploring the language we use: discussions of "racism", "racist", "anti-racist", "anti-racism" (contrasted with "diversity, equity, and inclusion")

• Inter-relationship between internalized, individual racism and systemic racism?

• Draft of DR proposal for Becoming an Anti-Racist Campus

May 2022:

• Conversation allowing members to share how racism is impacting them, in world events and/or in the workplace

• Brainstorm of anti-racist actions/projects our group could initiate on campus, possibly funded by a Becoming an Anti-Racist Campus grant

April 2022:

• Anti-racism in higher ed: Should Colleges Make Anti-Racism Part of Their Mission? Proposal at UMass-Boston Alarms Critics. (You should have free access to the Chronicle with your berkeley.edu identity)

• Prep for future guest speaker Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion Dania Matos: Identify questions to ask, as well as what we'd like her to learn from us 

Feb 2022:

• Deeper dive into Anti-Racism Learning and Reflection Tool - self-reflection tool on being a anti-racist supervisor/leader, focus on Anti-Racist Practice #3: "Cultivating psychological safety for BIPOC staff." 

Jan 2022:

• bell hooks Theory as Liberatory Practice 

Nov 2021:

• Imagining an Anti-Racist UC - CORO Project

  • Executive Summary

  • Anti-Racism Learning and Reflection Tool - self-reflection tool on being a anti-racist supervisor/leader

  • Full Report

  • Presentation

Oct 2021:

•  Dismantling Racism steering cmte application form (by October 31)

• “We Will Not Cancel Us” - by Adrienne Maree Brown

• NFL, players agree to end ‘race-norming’ in $1 billion settlement

• Microaggressions at the office can make remote work even more appealing

Sept 2021: Kellie Brennan,  Executive Director of Civil Rights & Whistleblower Compliance

• History: Difference and overlap between Title VI (employment discrimination), Title VII (race/color/national origin), and Title IX (sex/gender) - who is protected and how; Why there is a divide between SVSH and everything else

• Systemwide anti-discrimination workgroup - revising policy and developing procedures - Fall 2023 target implementation date - campus bridging the gap until then

• Purpose of my role and one stop shop; Berkeley’s SVSH process and input on whether that works for other areas of discrimination (racism specifically)

July 2021: 

• BIPOC Staff Concerns Regarding Returning to Campus

June 2021: Discussion with Campus Leadership Assoc Chancellor Griscavage, AVC-HR Whitlock, Exec Dir Brennan, Dir Henderson

May 2021: prep mtg

March 2021: Sarah Thacker 

• Ombuds Report

Feb 2021: Ian Haney Lopez

Jan 2021: Race-Class Academy

• Race Class Academy

Dec 2020: 

• Baldwin v Buckley debate video

Nov 2020: Lasana Hotep

• ISSI: https://www.socialjusticefutures.org/home

• Former Eugenics Fund at UCB School of Public Policy

Sept 2020: 

• OMB Memo

• Law School Deans Message

Aug 2020: Guest Alicia Sheares

• To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must be Willing to Give Up Their Power

July 2020: Racism and Wealth

• Economic Injustice & equitable resolutions: Reparations to ADOS  The Black-White Economic Divide is as Wide as it Was in 1968 and Infographic of Economic Damage:  A Trillion-Dollar Debt that the U.S. Owes Black America  (Discussion of how this economic chasm translates to work life of Black UC Berkeley Staff)

• White Backlash to Black Lives Matter Was Swift.  It Was Also Expected.  (Discussion of how anti-Black violence shows up on our campus and in our local communities, and what White-identified colleagues/other allies can do.)

• Interview with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law

OPTIONAL IN-DEPTH READINGS:

ADOS 101 by Antonio Moore & Yvette Carnell

What is Owed by Nikole Hannah-Jones (audio version also available)

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Need to Give Up Their Power

June 2020: Reforming/Defunding/Abolishing Police

• Law Students of African Descent, 2020-2021 Call for UC Berkeley to Stand Against Police Violence 

• Addl' readings under separate header below

May 2020: 

• Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step. Here Are the Next 7

• Hiring a Chief Diversity Officer Won't Fix Your Racist Company's Culture

• New Member Welcome

Feb 2020: Hiring at Cal with Karie Frasch, Director of the Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare

• https://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/life_sciences_inititatve.year_end_report_summary.pdf

• https://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/rubric_to_assess_candidate_contributions_to_diversity_equity_and_inclusion.pdf

• https://www.thecollegefix.com/uc-berkeley-threatened-with-lawsuit-for-mandatory-diversity-statements-in-hiring/

Nov/Dec 2019: Action Brainstorming

Sept/Oct 2019: “The Idea of America” by Nikole Hannah-Jones

• 1619 Project: PDF

• 1619 Project: podcast

The following is a list of books, articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and reflection exercises about race and racism, were initially compiled by members of the Whiteness, Privilege and Power (WPP) Study Group, a study group of UC Berkeley staff members that was active between 2015 and 2019 and reconstituted as part of the Dismantling Racism Study & Action Group.

• Dear White Allies: Stop Unfriending Other White People Over Ferguson Spectra Speaks

Responsibilities of white people to engage with racism. (Includes link to essential Jon Stewart teach-in)

• Media: Staged bicycle theft by: white guy, black guy, white woman (4:40)

• Media: Structural Discrimination: The Unequal Opportunity Race (4min)

• Of smog and moving walkway analogies, Beverly Daniel Tatum

“I sometimes visualize the ongoing cycle of racism as a moving walkway at the airport. Active racist behavior is equivalent to walking fast on the conveyor belt. The person engaged in active racist behavior has identified with the ideology of White supremacy and is moving with it. Passive racist behavior is equivalent to standing still on the walkway. No overt effort is being made, but the conveyor belt moves the bystanders along to the same destination as those who are actively walking. Some of the bystanders may feel the motion of the conveyor belt, see the active racists ahead of them, and choose to turn around, unwilling to go in the same destination as the White supremacists. But unless they are walking actively in the opposite direction at a speed faster than the conveyor belt—unless they are actively antiracist—they will find themselves carried along with the others. So not all Whites are actively racist. Many are passively racist. Some, though not enough, are actively anti-racist. The relevant question is not whether all Whites are racist, but how we can move more white people from a position of active or passive racism to one of active antiracism. The task of interrupting racism is obviously not the task of Whites alone. But the fact of White privilege means that Whites have greater access to the societal institutions in need of transformation. To whom much is given, much is required.”

• -> [required reading] White Fragility R. DiAngelo 

Characteristics of “Whiteness” that may seem “normal American” 

• White Women’s Tears and the Men Who Love Them R. DiAngelo 

“The following are some of the reasons why white women’s tears in cross-racial interactions are problematic:

“There is a long historical backdrop of black men being tortured and murdered based on a white woman’s distress and we bring these histories with us. Our tears trigger the terrorism of this history, particularly for African Americans. As my colleagues of color have said, “When a white woman cries, a black man gets hurt.

Whether intended or not, when a white woman cries over some aspect of racism, all the attention immediately goes to her, demanding time, energy and attention from everyone in the room when they should be focused on ameliorating racism. While she is attended to the people of color are yet again abandoned and/or blamed. As Stacey Patton states in her excellent critique of white women’s tears, “Then comes the waiting for us to comfort and reassure them that they’re not bad people.” That is analogous to first responders at the scene of an accident rushing to comfort the person whose car struck a pedestrian, while the pedestrian lies bleeding on the street.

White tears are a reminder to people of color that white people don’t notice racism on a daily basis; we only notice racism when the media presents it to us loudly enough. We need to reflect on when we cry and when we don’t, and why. In other words, what does it take to move us?”

• The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging john a. powell

UC Berkeley’s own Professor of Law and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies and internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy.

• Media: 13th (on Netflix 1hr 40min) OR America Never Abolished Slavery, How the 13th Amendment didn’t really abolish slavery

• Activity: 21 Day Diet, Moore

• Activity: 72 Hour Autobiography

Other Member Recommendations

• Seeing White Podcast Series (transcripts available): Especially Part 7: Chenjerai’s Challenge: “How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Part 8: Skills and Skin: Racial scientists claims of proof for racist hierarchies. Part 10: Citizen Thind: Changing legal definitions of Whiteness in response to Asian citizenship petitions.

• Bryan Stevenson: Get Proximate. Change the Narrative. Stay Hopeful. Be Willing to Do Uncomfortable Things. (Also his book Just Mercy and movie Just Mercy)

• The Color of Law [book and NYT article]

• Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race Debbie Irving

• CodeSwitch podcast and website

• George Berkeley: UC Berkeley and City of Berkeley’s namesake

“Berkeley's sermons explained to the colonists why Christianity supported slavery, and hence slaves should become baptized Christians: "It would be of advantage to their [slave masters'] affairs to have slaves who should 'obey in all things their masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, as fearing God;' that gospel liberty consists with temporal servitude; and that their slaves would only become better slaves by being Christian"

• Executive Summary of last Campus Climate Survey (infographic)

The Emancipators’ Vision (by Sean Wilentz) Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?

Descendant

Chief Oren CNR Commencement Address starting with The Words Before All Words 

Native people take a different view of Thanksgiving (UC ANR Food Blog)

We Are Still Here: Native American Heritage Month Film Collection

Native Cinema Showcase

Shuumi Land Tax

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes

What Does it Take to Have Civil Discourse in the Classroom 

Deep Canvassing/Motivational Interviewing

• How to talk someone out of bigotry (Deep Canvassing)

• How We Got Trump Voters to Change Their Mind (Radical Empathy)

• The Only Way to Change a Voter's Mind

• Effective Conversations Training (Motivational Interviewing)

3 Things That Won't Change a Trump Voter's Mind

Deep Canvass Institute

In a time of growing division and strife, we need to build our capacity to talk to people who don’t agree with us without writing them off. We live at the crossroads of multiple crises and the decisions we make in the coming days and years about how to respond will have tremendous consequences.

Will we turn toward one another or against each other?

Deep canvassing is the only scientifically proven method to influence constituents by using empathy and understanding to bridge gaps across differences.

• https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/villanueva-launches-fund-to-aid-native-american-communities-during-pandemic/ - explicit reparations and community focus

  • The featured alumni references his  "first job in philanthropy at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.”

  • This trust, which seems to do good work serving "the poor and the needy," was established through the will of the wife of William Neal Reynolds, chairman of the RJ Reynolds tobacco company. Kate Reynolds was RJ Reynolds's sister-in-law.

  • The wealth of the Reynolds family was originally established through tobacco farming and slave-holding.

  • In 2019 the trust had $560 million in assets, and awarded $23 million in grants.

  • It could be argued that true reparations could be achieved by dissolving the trust and distributing its assets to descendants of slaves in North Carolina, through direct cash payments, tuition payments, mortgage subsidies, or some other mechanism. 

  • Of course, dissolving the charitable trust would end tax benefits for the Reynolds family descendants.

  • I understand that the author is working from inside philanthropy to make it more just--rather than calling for dissolution, he is working hard to make sure grants are distributed more equitably, and this is admirable work. I just thought I would share a more radical critique of philanthropy that I have encountered.

•  Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance overall still views philanthropy as something that could be "reformed" into justice vs The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex abolishing philanthropy and/or capitalism and the beliefs that guide them entirely

•  Racial Capitalism, particularly from the speaker from Resource Generation, 

• Anand Girardharadas - Aspen Speech and/or his City Arts & Lecture talk ...the latter of which is based on his latest book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, which "explores the ways in which the global elite’s efforts to 'change the world' through philanthropy preserve the status quo and obscure their own role in causing the problems they later seek to solve." 

• Nonprofit AF 

• spending-down efforts, the Giving Pledge (not enough are systemic - the onus still often rests on the individual)

Black Minds Matter Webinar Series

Healing Around Race – Creative Writing Workshops Saturdays, July 11 and July 25, 2020 , 1-3pm 

Becoming an Anti-Racist Leader July 15 (4 weeks)

Black Minds Matter  Five Part Series Beginning July 16, 2020

Educate Yourself: Online Racial Equity Workshops (Eventbrite, not an exhaustive list of events on platform)

Abolitionist Futures Reading & Discussion Group June 30-Sept 8, 2020, Tuesdays 10:30-12 PDT

Why Black Marxism, Why Now?

Reparations Monday Resources

Economic Injustice & equitable resolutions: Reparations to ADOS  The Black-White Economic Divide is as Wide as it Was in 1968 and Infographic of Economic Damage:  A Trillion-Dollar Debt that the U.S. Owes Black America  (Discussion of how this economic chasm translates to work life of Black UC Berkeley Staff)

White Backlash to Black Lives Matter Was Swift.  It Was Also Expected.  (Discussion of how anti-Black violence shows up on our campus and in our local communities, and what White-identified colleagues/other allies can do.)

Interview with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law

The Financial Activist Playbook for Supporting Black Lives

Resource Generation's resources and publications (RG is a group focused on mobilizing young people 18-35 who grew up with, have, and/or will have class privilege or access to wealth to redistribute wealth, land, and power)

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

Bay Area Black-Owned Restaurants

#BuyBackBlackDebt - Apply to Participate

What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Redlining in the New Deal Map - Berkeley/Albany

Robert Self’s American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

Reparations Toolkit by Movement 4 Black Lives

Grassroots Reparations Resource List

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

First conversation with Resmaa Menakem, a clinical therapist and racialized trauma expert

Resmaa with Krista together with Robin DiAngelo

My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Listen | “Self-Reflection and Social Evolution” with Darnell Moore -  The writer and key figure in the Movement for Black Lives connects self-reflection with social change in his On Being conversation.

Read | “The Truth of Change in Every Solidarity” by Sharon Salzberg - The meditation teacher brings the wisdom of mindfulness and interdependence to examine ideas like complicity, responsibility, and action. 

Listen | “Sidling Up to Difference: Social Change and Moral Revolutions” with Kwame Anthony Appiah -  The philosopher and writer draws connections between the quality of our interpersonal relationships and social change. 

Watch | A Guide to Embracing Chaos - Krista was recently in conversation with Lulu Miller at the 2020 Aspen Ideas Festival. They talk about the problem with categories and the power of words to destroy or remake the world.

Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap Fresh Air/Terry Gross interview of Nikole Hannah-Jones about the case for reparations. 

• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Berkeley

• Berkeley's sermons explained to the colonists why Christianity supported slavery, and hence slaves should become baptized Christians: "It would be of advantage to their [slave masters'] affairs to have slaves who should 'obey in all things their masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, as fearing God;' that gospel liberty consists with temporal servitude; and that their slaves would only become better slaves by being Christian" (qtd. in Berkeley, 347. See his sermon preached in Newport, October 1729).”

• http://www.yaleslavery.org/Endowments/e2schol.html#berkslav

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/12/20/oxford-college-commissions-slavery-plaque-amid-student-pressure/

•  https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/Home/History_of_Bishop_Berkeley.aspx 

You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument

UN's decision to recognize rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity

They Were Her Property - White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

• Interview with Prof. Jones-Rogers  about her book

• Sarah and Angelina Grimké, sisters born in the South in early 1800s as white slave-owners who went on to become outspoken abolitionists

Women weaponizing their femininity and causing violence and murder against Black men. Content warnings for lynching and other description of brutality, and mention of rape

Ethnicity & Disease Newsletter

Ta-Nehisi Coates' panel with Heather McGhee discussing the impact of racism during this covid crisis recording

https://www.policylink.org/covid19-and-race/commentary

BERKELEY CONVERSATIONS > COVID-19 Race, law, and health policy

Chancellor’s Independent Advisory Board on Police Accountability and Community Safety

Berkeley Talks: Can you imagine a future without police?

Berkeley City Council Agenda 7/14/2020 (items 18a-e)

Law Students of African Descent, 2020-2021 Call for UC Berkeley to Stand Against Police Violence

Abolition

Abolitionist UC Reading Group

Marshall Project's collection of reporting on abolition

Truthout's The Road to Abolition series

Level (on Medium) Abolition for the People series

NPR's Throughline podcast: American Police

• strongly recommended and highly informative, 1 hr episode focusing on an in-depth interview of the history of police in the U.S. with Black historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad.

• "Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries. This week, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system."

NPR's Code Switch: How Much Do We Need the Police?

• Article by Code Switch's editor Leah Donnella, a Black woman. She interviews Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing. 

• "In it, he argues that rather than focus on police reform or officer retraining, the country needs to reconsider fundamentally what it is the police should be doing at all. I spoke with Vitale about what roles police should and shouldn't play, what he makes of the current protests and what actual change in the way police in this country do their jobs might look like."

Mariame Kaba for the New York Times: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

"Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration."

Are Prisons Obsolete? book by Angela Davis

"In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole."

We Keep Us Safe book by Zach Norris

"We Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized so they can participate fully in life, in society, and in the fabric of our democracy."

 8ToAbolition

"While communities across the country mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Jamel Floyd, and so many more Black victims of police murder, Campaign Zero released its 8 Can’t Wait campaign, offering a set of eight reforms they claim would reduce police killings by 72%. 

As police and prison abolitionists, we believe that this campaign is dangerous and irresponsible, offering a slate of reforms that have already been tried and failed, that mislead a public newly invigorated to the possibilities of police and prison abolition, and that do not reflect the needs of criminalized communities. 

We honor the work of abolitionists who have come before us, and those who organize now. A better world is possible. We refuse to allow the blatant co-optation of decades of abolitionist organizing toward reformist ends that erases the work of Black feminist theorists. As the abolitionist organization Critical Resistance recently noted, 8 Can’t Wait will merely “improve policing’s war on us.” Additionally, many abolitionists have already debunked the 8 Can’t Wait campaign’s claims, assumptions, and faulty science."

#DefundPolice Toolkit from Movement 4 Black Lives

If You're New to Abolition: Study Group Guide

Critical Resistance's resource list

MPD100's resource list

TransformHarm.org: Resource hub for ending violence

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

'Defund the police' movement could offer sexual assault survivors a different path for justice, experts say

If Justice is the Destination, Abolition is the Only Path

We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver

6Ds Until She's Free (video)

Care Not Cops: Youth Safety Planning in a World Without Policing (video)

On the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way (video)

Aching for Abolition

Let's Talk About Abolition curriculum by Nikkita Oliver

Abolition Means Removing Policing From Our Teaching and Thinking

Abolition Event Series (from Center for Advanced Study)

The Case for Abolition, for Skeptics

Abolition Toolbox

Bay Area organizations:

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

Critical Resistance

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights - Resources (Zach Norris is their Executive Director)

• Scroll down to "For people organizing against criminalization and mass incarceration" for an excellent list of further resources about the violence of policing and incarceration, and visions and strategies for alternative ways of being.

• "We are named after Ella Baker, a brilliant, black hero of the civil rights movement. Following in her footsteps, we organize with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong."

Transgender, Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project

• TGI Justice's leadership is essential because Black trans women of color are the backbone of LGBTQ liberation movements, and continue to be disproportionately targeted by state violence, especially by police and in prisons. 

• "We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self- determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. The mission of TGIJP is to challenge and end the human rights abuses committed against TGI people in California prisons, jails, detention centers and beyond."

Anti Police-Terror Project

"The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. APTP began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee."

Decarcerate Alameda County

No New SF Jail Coalition

POOR Magazine

Disability Justice Culture Club

• "DJCC is a collective of disabled and/or neurodivergent queer people of color operating out of East Oakland/Chochenyo Ohlone land. Our organizing efforts center the lives of QTBIPOC."

Learn more about the DACA decision: UC Immigration Legal Services Center webinars are taking place tomorrow (Friday), Monday and Tuesday at 5pm: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/95141492034?pwd=a2dtbUJjTEJRUDI5aHlVa3RzRkhSdz09



Joint Medical Program Students are very engaged - https://belonging.berkeley.edu/toward-abolition-biological-race-medicine-webinar


Military-style policing does not make people feel safer, does not result in "safer neighborhoods" https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805161115

colleges divesting from policing (includes the Univ of MN): https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/02/heels-george-floyd-killing-colleges-have-moral-imperative-not-work-local-police


good example of something UCB is doing but it’s only one person who is far too thin-stretched: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/07/31/uc-berkeley-social-worker-ari-neulight-puts-people-first-in-peoples-park

https://twitter.com/ZachWNorris


Alex Vitale: We Need To Defund the Police Now

• https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police

Difference between reformist reforms and abolitionist steps

Defunding

NYT: After Protests, Politicians Reconsider Police Budgets and Discipline

Defund OPD Campaign

Reform

8 Cant Wait

• https://twitter.com/emma__glennon/status/1269030207526260737?s=21

• https://twitter.com/SWOPTampa/status/1269330404835840001/photo/1

UCPD

• 2019 Report of the Presidential Task Force on Universitywide Policing

• Jan 30, 2020 Updates on campus policing initiatives

• Jun 4, 2020 My commitment to serve our community

ACLU’s Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual

Not a Gun

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/04/after-this-crisis-policing-should-never-be-same/

Campaign Zero

Equal Justice Initiative

https://ellabakercenter.org/blog/2015/11/slave-patrols-and-the-origins-of-policing

https://www.justsecurity.org/70507/white-supremacist-infiltration-of-us-police-forces-fact-checking-national-security-advisor-obrien/

https://policingequity.org/what-we-do/a-policy-plan-for-policing-in-america

https://opportunity4all.org/about/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-voters-will-be-asked-whether-to-repeal-15364002.php 

Black students at UC Berkeley spearheaded statewide initiative to restore affirmative action (you can email Kyndall Dowell at kyndall0926@berkeley.edu if you wish to be added to a listserv to advocate for ACA 5/Prop 16)

unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/12/living-on-ohlone-land/ 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zLw5vxiN9HdTNSUldHODBwNWdxbHN3RkplcVRYakp0MXlJ/view

Resources for addressing systemic racism in tech and beyond (Berkeley I School)

On Being Black in Computing During These Days

An Open Letter & Call to Action to the Computing Community from Black in Computing and Our Allies 

MediaJustice.org

https://fpf.org/2020/06/23/remarks-on-diversity-and-inclusion-by-michael-mccullough/

Policing Without the Police: Race, Technology and the New Jim Code (also check out books by Ruha Benjamin)

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/06/juneteenth-celebration-hope/

• https://diversity.berkeley.edu/juneteenth-2020

• https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htmhttps://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm 

https://www.particlesforjustice.org/

https://www.shutdownstem.com/

White Academia: Do Better

Addressing Anti-Blackness on Campus

Black Minds Matter

• Black Minds Matter syllabus

https://j20strikeforblacklives.org/ 

• Actions for George Floyd 

• Fighting systemic and systematic racism in our justice system

• ACLU’s Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual. (https://www.aclu.org/other/fighting-police-abuse-community-action-manual)

• Donate to support local Black organizers in Minneapolis through Black Visions at https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2 and called Jacob Frey at 6192 968 4443 and 612 673 2100 to demand that he defund the police. Tomorrow I will be part of a Black Lives Matter human billboard at Lake Merritt, then participating in a Justice for Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Car Caravan organized by the Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP): http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-events/justice-for-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-053120. This is a public action that people are invited by APTP to join, by RSVP on their Facebook page. The Ella Baker center has a weekly online candlelight vigil on Sundays 8-9 pm for lives lost to police violence, sign up here:  https://www.facebook.com/ellabakercenter/photos/gm.250083089425722/10157360624693602/?type=3&theater. 

• East Oakland Collective

• List of Bay Area Protests (still being updated as of Aug 2020)

• White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching. The belief that passive viewership can translate into structural justice is an idea as misguided as it is old.

Places to donate if you have the means:

• Anti-Police Terror Project

• Black Visions Collective

• Campaign Zero

• Reclaim the Block (Reclaim the Block has put together a list of more places to donate in Reclaim the Block: fund our broader movement)

• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

• “We are not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.” (student)

• We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope john a. powell Othering & Belonging Institute

• Thoughts from your Black Colleague (Marco Lindsey)

• Assistant Vice Chancellor & Dean of Students 6/1/2020 video message (Sunny Lee and Samuel Santos)

• Berkeley Law Conversations: Race and Policing -- an excellent panel of Berkeley Law Scholars: Roxanna Altholz, Khiara M. Bridges, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Osagie K. Obasogie

• Higher Ed’s Toothless Response to the Killing of George Floyd (free account w/UCB email) (CMU)

• Crissy Stachl’s research about Belonging in the Chemistry Department

• Race, Racism, and Racialization in History: An Ethnic Studies Perspective

• Migration and Xenophobia across the Pacific

• Race, Voting and Elections

• Join Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with Professors Kathy Abrams, Abhay Aneja, Taeku Lee, Ian Haney López, and Bertrall Ross for a discussion of how race affects our electoral system, especially in an election amidst a pandemic.

• To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must Be Willing to Give Up Their Power - UCB Ph.D. Candidate Alicia Sheares

• Ibram X. Kendi on How to be an Antiracist, at UC Berkeley “We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to be not racist. Now let’s know how to be antiracist.” —Ibram X. Kendi

• Michelle Kim ’11: 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now and 30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday

• 6 Ways Asian Americans Can Tackle Anti-Black Racism in Their Families

• Asian Americans, Anti-Blackness, and COVID-19

• Let’s Eviscerate the Model Minority Myth: “We are either helping to facilitate death or radically dismantling the systems of evil that long to domesticate us.”

• Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit

• Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List

• Letters for Black Lives - Open letters in 20+ languages to talk to family about Black Lives Matter

• IN DEFENSE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: A GUIDE FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS

• questions on (the limits & effects of) (asian american) allyship

• Addressing Anti-Blackness Within the Vietnamese/Chinese & Asian Community

• Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) - MOCA FORUM: Asian American Allyship for Black Lives Matter - Part 1 ft. Gov. Gary Locke and Frank Wu w. Nancy Yao Maasbach

• Caste discrimination in tech: how the H1B visa system that ties legal status to an employer prevents caste-oppressed workers from India from speaking up for fear of deportation, the lack of understanding by HR departments, and the movement to make caste a protected class in the US. 

• Caste in the United States: A Survey Of Caste Among South Asian Americans

• Unlearning Scarcity, Cultivating Solidarity: A Toolkit for the Asian American Community Part 1, Part 2

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

• Anti-Racist Actions, Learning, and Engagement

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

• Resources for Accountability and Action for Black Lives

• Anti-Racist Actionables Google Drive collection

• Racism Under the Rainbow series - focused primarily on LGBTQ+ community and addressing racism, particularly anti-Blackness, from both white folks and non-Black POC: (associated with Queer Healing Arts Center which was recently started, next to the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center)

• https://m4bl.org/

• The 10 Commitments Companies Must Make to Advance Racial Justice

• excellent historic description about the Great Migration and the context and consequences across the entire nation - The Warmth of Other Suns

• Social Justice and Liberation Centered Books, Websites and Articles (list by InclusiveTherapists)

• Your Anti-Racism Books are a Means, Not an End

• Confronting DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter; Glorifying White Authors like DiAngelo Erases Decades of Black Writing on Whiteness

• White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching

• In Defense of Looting (written in 2014)

• The work of bell hooks

• Understanding Structural Racism in the U.S. Government: Public Education

• Understanding Structural Racism in the U.S. Government: Immigration Law

• Understanding Respectability Politics

• Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange

• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

WPP1 Assigned Readings

WPP2 Assigned Readings

WPP Resources

https://eastbaymeditation.org/

https://eastbaymeditation.org/about/radical-inclusivity/resources-for-white-people/

https://eastbaymeditation.org/about/radical-inclusivity/radical-inclusivity-practices/  -- Agreements for Multicultural Practice at EBMC

https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail -- What works: 1) engage managers in solving the problem, 2) expose them to people from different groups, and 3) encourage social accountability for change

https://hbr.org/2019/07/does-diversity-training-work-the-way-its-supposed-to

Why Most Performance Evaluations Are Biased, and How to Fix Them

Designing a bias-free organization: it's easier to change your processes than your people

Staying Informed & Taking Action:

It may be difficult to find words and even more difficult to find actions that are effective and feel true to our values, but we must find our own ways to do both, especially those of us who do not live the Black experience day in and day out.

• Resource Guides & UC Berkeley Statements

  • Anti-racism resources compiled by Sarafina Nance, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley: This resource includes petitions, links for donations, suggested reading, and a list of Black-owned businesses. 

  • Anti-racism Resource Guide: This [extensive] anti-racist resource guide was crafted amidst the anger of the [then-]latest black body turned hashtag #AhmaudArbery. It is consistently being updated to address the current climate [...] and the personal growth needed to sustain this life-long journey.

  • Anti-Racist Resources from the Greater Good Science Center: In response to the killing of unarmed black people by police, the Greater Good Science Center gathered pieces that explore our potential to reduce prejudice in society and in ourselves.

  • UC Berkeley People & Culture Anti-Racism statement

  • UC Berkeley “Standing Together” statement

• Police in the United States

  • Mapping Police Violence

  • Police Scorecard 

  • Grassroots Law Project

  • Anti Police-Terror Project: The APTP is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.

  • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (free eBook from Verso Books)

• Prison Policy Initiative

  • Following the Money 

  • Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 

  • The Crippling Effect of Incarceration on Wealth 

Berkeley Law Staff Circle on Anti-Racism.   (Nancy Donovan, Trish Keady)

Dismantling Racism (Lisa Ho, Michele Rabkin, Rebecca Ulrich, Tyrone Wise)

Haas Staff DEI Group (David Moren)

DEI/AntiRacism Working Group (Lisa White, Helina Chin, Ashley Dineen,  Seth Finnegan, Sara Kahanamoku, Tara Lepore, Kat Magoulick, Charles Marshall, Alexis Williams, Joshua Zimmt)

Graduate Diversity Task Force

UC Museum of Paleontology DEI/AntiRacism Working Group

• Uprising 2020: A collection of resources to navigate this moment from UCB's Othering & Belonging Institute

• Anguish and Action - Resources to create a more just and equitable world

• Anti-racism Resource Guide

• Anti-Racist Resources from the Greater Good Science Center

Graduate Diversity Community of Practice Member Recommended Readings (Catherine Cronquist Browning, Joelle Miles, and Larissa Charnsangavej)

Berkeley's Dismantling Racism staff group invites you to share information about any DEIB groups (including anti-racism groups) you participate in and/or are aware of on the Berkeley campus. Information about these groups will be compiled and shared with our Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Lasana Hotep, and may be used for group members to connect and collaborate. Please help spread the word to your campus colleagues to share information. 

• University of California Museum of Paleontology Diversity, Equity and Inclusion/Anti-Racism Working Group

• Chemistry Graduate Life Committee

• Grad Diversity Community of Practice

• Haas Staff DEI Group

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

• Building Anti-Racist White (history) Educators

• Berkeley Underground Scholars/Underground Scholars Initiative

• Environmental Health Sciences Task Force on Anti-Racist Action

• Coalition for Education and Outreach (CEO)

• J-School Anti Racism Working Group

• Resource Development Group

• UCMP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Anti-racism Working Group

• Statistics Department Anti-Racism Reading Group

• Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Implementation Team

• DICE: Diversity Inclusion Community Equity

• Berkeley Law Staff Circle on Anti-racism

• Staff Circle on Anti-Racism

• COEH Diversity Working Group

• "Keeping it Real"

• Marshall/Finnegan joint lab group meeting

• I School Diversity & Inclusion Working Group

• Ben & Jerry's statement

• "The Mythology of Karen: The meme is so powerful because of the awkward status of white women."  (The Atlantic)

https://www.wicys.org/resources-race

Books to Read:

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Barnes & Noble - Amazon - Kindle - Audible

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Barnes & Noble - Amazon - Kindle - Audible

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barnes & Noble - Amazon - Kindle - Audible

Videos / Documentaries / Movies: 

When They See Us - Netflix

A limited four-episode series by Ava DuVernay, When They See Us the story of The Exonerated Five, also known as The Central Park Five. It’s based on a 1989 case where five seventh- and eighth-grade students of color from Harlem were falsely accused of a brutal attack of a white woman in Central Park. They all served time for a crime they didn’t commit.

Freedom Riders - Amazon

Freedom Riders is a documentary that tells the story of over 400 Black and white Americans who risked their lives to challenge the segregated interstate travel system.

13th - Netflix

Directed by Ava DuVernay. The documentary 13th analyzes the criminalization of African Americans and the prison boom in the United States. The title is derived from the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime.

Where to Donate:

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Official GoFundMe to support the Floyd Family.

Black Lives Matter

Support the Black Lives Matter movement and their ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever.

Black Visions Collective

A black, trans, and queer-led organization that is committed to dismantling systems of oppression and violence, and shifting the public narrative to create transformative long-term change.