Resources
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Articles
Frances E. Kendall, How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege
Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack
Allan Johnson, Excerpt from Privilege: Power and Difference
Margaret Biser, I used to lead tours on a plantation. You wouldn’t believe the questions I got about slavery.
Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me!, Voices of WOC & Allies
Levana Saxon, Allyship and Accountability Glossary
Ryan Struyk, Blacks and whites see racism in the US very very differently
NPR: Michael Martin, Fear of the Black Man, How Racial Bias Impacts Crime/Labor
Ernest Owens, 10 Messages of Wisdom We Need to Give Black Youth Right Now
Goyette and Scheller, 15 Charts that Prove We’re Far From Post Racial
Nicholas Kristof, When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Parts 1-7
Shane Safir, Before Maslow’s Hierarchy: The Whitewashing of Indigenous Knowledge
Books
Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, 2nd Edition (2015) Glenn Singleton
Race Amity: A Primer on America’s Other Tradition, Natl Center for Race Amity
White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, Paula Rothenberg
Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice, Eric Mason
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
Privilege: Power and Difference, Allan Johnson
Privilege: A Reader, Michael Kimmel & Abby Ferber
Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
America’s Original Sin : America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis
Slavery By Another Name, Douglas Blackmon
When Affirmative Action Was White, Ira Katznelson
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: The Forgotten Story of How Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White, Daniel Hill
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert
Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, Calvin Schermerhorn
The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
My Grandmother’s Hands, Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, Resma Menakem
Care Work, Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Rest is Resistance, Tricia Hersey
The Will to Change, bell hooks
Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
Films
13th, Ava DuVernay
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay
The Color of Fear, Lee Mun Wah
I’m Not Racist Am I?, Andre Lee
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business, PBS documentary
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II, PBS based on book by Douglas Blackmon
Reconstruction, PBS based on book by Eric Foner
Videos
White Lies We Tell Our Children, Colin Stokes
The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality, Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic
How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations on Race, Amanda Kemp
The Future of Race in America (on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
A Conversation with Black Women on Race, New York Times Op-Docs Series
A Conversation with White People about Race, New York Times Op-Docs Series
How Race Settled the Suburbs, Upworthy (Adam Ruins Everything)
Equity vs Equality, Carneades
Coaches & Consultants
Sweet Livity
Hella Social Impact
Olayinka Credle Consulting
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