Racial Justice Resources

SEIU’s Racial Justice Task Force

At our 2016 Convention, SEIU member delegates passionately debated and passed a resolution proclaiming that in order to win economic justice, we must win racial justice. Our fights for $15 and a union, immigrant and environmental justice are connected to our fight for racial justice. There can be no economic justice without racial justice. Learn more.

• 2023-24 Markers of Progress

• Using a Racial Justice Lens

• SEIU Race Class Analysis One-Pager

• Racial Justice Framework - the Spheres of Systemic Racism

• Racial justice discussion points for SEIU members and staff

• Racial Justice Resource Inventory for SEIU Locals

• SEIU: Race and Class Narrative Project

• SEIU Stands with the Movement for Black Lives 

• Messaging Freedom to Vote to Voters of Color

• Ending Anti-Black and Structural Racism: a Vision for A Just Society for All

Activities, Education & Training

• Key Equity Terms and Concepts

• Racial Justice Term Glossary

• Racial Justice Literacy Game Board

• Land Acknowledgement Interactive Map

• Why Start Racial Equity Work & What Are Its Implications?

• Movement for Black Lives official website

• Every Worker in Australia

• YWCA Resources Collection

• Identities Flower Power Activity

• Justice at Work: Community Analysis Workbook

• Freedom Lifted (Justice and Equity Training)

• Learning Lab: Justice At Work self-paced training

• Ten Tips For Putting Intersectionality into Practice

• The Race Gap by Reuters

• From Safe Space to Brave Space

• A History of Racial Justice (online calendar from Equal Justice Initiative)

Toolkits

• Language Justice Toolkit for Organizers

• Continuum of Becoming a Transformative Anti-Oppressive Organization

• In it Together: A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups

• Race Forward Toolkits

• Racial Justice Toolkit

• The Progressive Style Guide

• Visions Values Voice: Communications Toolkit

Racial Justice and Wellness

• Rest Resistance

  • The Nap Ministry

• Burnout isn’t a personal problem, it’s an organizational problem

• Wellbeing Blueprint 

• Full Frame Initiative

• Work Human

• Mary's Center for Health and Community

• African American Wellness Project

Language Justice

• SEIU Language Justice Guidance

• Language Justice 1-Pager

• Language Justice - Bring a Racial Justice Lens

  • English

  • Spanish

Videos

• How to Understand Power

• Power, Privilege, and Oppression

• The Urgency of Intersectionality

• There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

• What does “Defund the Police” mean to communities of color?

• 13th (also available on Netflix) 

• White Supremacy: America’s Roots, Luther Young TedTalk

• Ally vs Co-conspirators (Bettina Love, Critical Race Theorist and author of We Want to Do More Than Survive)

• Somatic Abolitionism (Resmaa Menakem, Sounds True, Jan 2021)

• Color blind or color brave? (Mellody Hobson)

• Video on Colorism

• Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Spencer Wells)

• Bree Newsome Removes Confederate Flag in SC

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race, Jay Smooth - TEDxHampshireCollege

Podcasts

• Whiteness at Work: Understanding White Privilege and White Fragility

• Anti-Racisit Podcast List

• Reformed: A Criminal Justice Podcast

• Code Switch, NPR, fearless conversations about race

• Tamarindo, a Latinx empowerment podcast discussing politics, culture, and how to keep your calm

• Asian Enough

• Hear to Slay, Roxanne Gay

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Irresistible, integrating collective healing and social change, with Alicia Garza, of Black Futures Lab and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter

Reading List: Articles

• Munya Andrews, 7 Ways to Improve Your Leadership by Drawing from Aboriginal Wisdom

• Jamelle Bouie

  • Let’s Talk about the Economic Roots of White Supremacy

  • Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction

• Rachel Cargle

  • White Entrepreneurs Need To Stop Capitalizing On Black Culture

  • Why You Need To Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”

  • When Feminism Is White Supremacy In Heels

• Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Civil Rights Protests Were Never Popular

• The Great Fire

• Cory Collins, What Is White Privilege Really?

• Aja Couchois Duncan and Kad Smith, The Liberatory World We Want to Create: Loving Accountability and the Limitations of Cancel Culture

• Harmeet Kaur, ‘In the Heights’ reignites long-standing conversations about colorism in the Latinx community

• John Lewis, Together, You Can Redeem The Soul Of Our Nation

• Peggy Mcintosh, White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack

• Tema Okun

  • White Supremacy Culture (1999 article)

  • Website remix of the article

• Science.org, Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago

Reading List: Books+

• Muhammad Ali:

  • I Am Still The Greatest

  • Muhammad Ali Performs His Poetry

• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

• Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

• Frederick Douglass:

  • The Colored Orator

  • The Meaning Of July Fourth For The Negro

  • Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

  • Collected Articles

• James Balwin, Notes Of A Native Son

• Amiri Baraka, Selected Poems

• Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 

• Stanley Crouch, The Jazz Cadence Of American Culture

• Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Between The World And Me

• Angela Davis

  • Women, Race And Class

  • If They Come In The Morning

• Robin Diangelo, White Fragility

• Frantz Fanon

  • The Wretched Of The Earth

  • Black Skin, White Masks

• Nicole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

• Charles Hamilton, Kuame Ture, Black Power: The Politics Of Liberation

• Nora Neale Hurston, Collected Writings

• Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center

• Donna Rich Kaplowitz, Shayla Reese Griffin, and Sheri Seyka, Race Dialogues: Facilitators Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom

• C.L.R. James, Collected Writings

• Ibraham X Kendi

  • How To Be An Anti-Racist

  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

• Middleton A. Harris (Editor), Ernest Smith (Editor), Morris Levitt (Editor), Roger Furman (Editor), Toni Morrison (Foreword), The Black Book

• Martin Luther King Jr., 

  • Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos Or Community?

  • I Have A Dream…

• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

• Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

• Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others

• Larry Neal, Selected Poems

• George Padmore, Collected Writings

• Layla Saad, Me and White Supremacy

• Sonia Sanchez , Collected Poetry

• Kate Schatz, W. Kamau Bell, Do the Work! An Antiracist Activity Book

• Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands

• Toni Morrison

• The Bluest Eye

• Beloved

• Margaret Walker, Jubilee

• Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents

• Malcolm X

• The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

• Collected Speeches