Anti-Racism Resources

Here is a collection of resources to continue to do the work necessary to fight for Black lives. This is constantly growing and evolving

Things to read

Pulled from various resources and lists

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

• 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

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• 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 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• 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

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel

• Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business by Pamela Newkirk

• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice by Fania Davis

• Black Food Geographies by Ashanté M. Reese

• Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by
  Mehrsa Baradaran

• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (Martin Luther King Jr. called this “the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement.)

• Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

• Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Things to watch

• Netflix

  • 13th (Ava DuVernay)

  • American Son (Kenny Leon)

  • Dear White People (Justin Simien)

  • See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)

  • Selma (Ava DuVernay)

  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)

  Hulu

  • Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)
    via Cinemax

  • If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)

  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)
    via Cinemax

  HBO

  • King In The Wilderness

  • True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s FIght for Equality*

  Rent

  • Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975

  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

  • Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
    Free in the U.S. in June

  • I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc)
    Also available on Kanopy via your library

  • Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)

  • Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)