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Articles:
10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools, by Jamie Utt
21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis, by Heben Nigatu
Climbing the White Escalator, by Betsy Leondar-Wright
Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person, by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
Guide to Allyship, Created by Amélie Lamont
For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies by Courtney Ariel
It’s Not Just the South: Here’s How Everyone Can Resist White Supremacy, by Sarah van Gelder
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus A list of free articles on the context/history of institutionalized racism available through JSTOR
Making America White Again, by Toni Morrison
Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap, by Amy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Mescheded, & Tom Shapiro
What White Children Need to Know About Race, by Ali Michael and Elenora Bartoli
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
My President Was Black, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?, by Ibram X Kendi
The Injustice of This Moment Is not an ‘Aberration,’ Michelle Alexander
White mom to racists: ‘Don’t use my child to further your hate-filled ignorance,’ by Rev. Edith Love
People of colour have to ‘code-switch’ to fit in with white norms by Natalie Morris
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
On Being White and Other Lies by James Baldwin
“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer
The 1619 Project (all the articles) The New York Times Magazine
The Combahee River Collective Statement Statement on the foundations of Black Feminism
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists)
“Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathis
What's Race Got to Do With ______? a series of articles by Sojourners Magazine on the interconnectedness of humanity and the ways race converges with gender, eco-justice, sexuality, leadership, technology and more.
Articles specific to our current context:
“Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb
“Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
“This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji
“You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black,” by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate
“It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha
“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not by Danielle Cadet
“I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak
“Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
“I’m Black. My Mom is White. This Is The Talk We Had To Have About George Floyd’s Killing,” by Kimberly J. Miller
Defund the Police? Here’s what that really means. by Christy Lopez
Robin DiAngelo: How 'white fragility' supports racism and how whites can stop it interview with Sandee LaMotte
Regularly updated lists of ideas/resources:
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack
Anti-racism Resources (a google doc)
Scaffolded Anti-Racism Resources (a google doc)
Books:
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by
Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
West Indian Immigrants:: A Black Success Story? by Suzanne Model
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Edited by Glory Edim
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
Conversations in Black edited by Ed Gordon