Antiracism Resources for Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas

Compiled by Rabbi Marina Yergin and Ross Halfant

We are so glad that you are interested in educating yourself on issues of racism. Please use this resource guide as an opportunity to further your educational endeavors. This list is by no means exhaustive, but we will continue to update it as we can.

Note: While many of the resources can be placed in multiple categories, we are trying not to repeat materials throughout the list. For example, many of the books could fit into multiple categories, but we have placed them in the category we think they fit in the best.  

If you have any suggestions of other materials or have noticed that links are broken, please contact Rabbi Yergin at myergin@beth-elsa.org or Ross Halfant at ross@beth-elsa.org.

Categories of Resources:

Antiracism/Ally Education

San Antonio and Nationwide Action

Judaism, Jews of Color, and Jewish Involvement in Antiracism

Books and Book Lists

Music

Podcasts

Movies, Documentaries, and TedTalks

History

Children and Parenting Resources

White Supremacist Involvement in Racism

Criminal Justice System and Racism

Asian and Black Allyship

Antiracism/Ally Education

• Education/Training

• Anti-Racism Training ONLINE with Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
• Me and White Supremacy Workbook by Layla F. Saad 
• “Talking About Race” - Portal from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• “THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE”: From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001
• Anti-racism resources in a Google Doc
• Anti-Oppression Terms List from NCJW
• Everyday Feminism’s Online Learning School
• Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies 
• Checklist for White Allies
• Racial Bias Test
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism 
• Talking About Race
• Justice in June
• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

• Articles, Blog Posts, and Op-Eds:

• “For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies”
• “A Day in a Life: How Racism Impacts Families of Color [Infographic]”
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• "My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest"
• “5 Racist Anti-Racism Responses ‘Good’ White Women Give to Viral Posts” 
• “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge”
• Dear White People, This is What We Want You to Do
• 4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
• A White Woman, Racism and a Poodle
• “If you are white and asking ‘What can I do?’”
• What White Children Need to Learn About Race
• The Emotional Impact of Watching White People Wake Up to Racism in Real-Time
• Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests
• A Letter To My White Friends
• The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism 
• When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels 
• Dear White Moms, What I Need You to Know…
• “Take Your School Reform to White Kids So They Don’t Grow Up to Kill Black People”
• Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen Is So Important
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us”
• “The Intersectionality Wars”
• Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here
• Why I, a Minneapolis Rabbi, Changed My Mind About ‘Black Lives Matter’
• FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?

• On Facebook:

• Red Table Talk
• White People Doing Something
• The Conscious Kid
• JEDLAB

• Videos:

• Movement to End Violence’s “Racial Equity and Liberation Virtual Learning” recordings
• Animation Series: Something Happened In Our Town
• Let's Talk About Race
• Systematic Racism Explained
• Trevor Noah: “Black Americans Have Seen Their Principles Completely Delegitimized"

San Antonio and Nationwide Action

• San Antonio:

• List of Black-Owned Businesses to Support in San Antonio
• Carver Community Cultural Center
• "Ellis Alley: The Cradle of East Side Culture"
• San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum

• Black-Owned Bookstores
• Google doc of where to petition, donate, protest, and how to educate yourselves
• Showing Up for Racial Justice movement
• Articles:

• “75 Things for White People to do for Racial Justice”

Judaism, Jews of Color, and Jewish Involvement in Antiracism

• Resource sheet from Temple Emanu-El, Dallas
• Anti-Racism & Jewish Resources 
• Jews for Racial & Economic Justice - Jews of Color Caucus
• Jews of Color: Field Building Initiative
• Why I Am a Zionist for Black Lives Matter
• You Don’t Have to Choose Between Black Lives Matter and Israel
•  Anti-Racist Resources for Jews
• Ashkenormativity Is a Threat to All Jewish Communities
• “Ways Your Congregation Can Act Now for Racial Justice” from the Union for Reform Judaism
• Jewish Values and Reform Movement Positions on Racial Justice
• Religious Action Center
• Jewish Social Justice Roundtable - Pilot Racial Justice Framework
• Union for Reform Judaism
• George Floyd, Racism and Law Enforcement - ADL
• Global Jews   
• What to Read or Watch on Racial Justice and Jews
• The Challenge of Selma Photograph
• Union for Reform Judaism

• URJ’s Audacious Hospitality Pilot Toolkit
• Audacious Hospitality Community Assessment Workbook
• How to Assemble a DEI Working Group
• A Tool For White People Navigating Conversations About Race
• Take Action: Community Racial Justice Checklist
• Racial Justice Resources
• Reconsidering Being “Colorblind”

• Articles, Blog Posts, and Op-Eds:

• “13 Jews of Color to Follow on Social Media Right Now”
• “The Black Jews are Tired”
• “‘Believe Us’: Black Jews respond to the George Floyd protests, in their own words”
• Blog Posts from ReformJudaism.org with the tag “Jews of Color”
• “What will YOU do to end systemic racism?”
• Jews of Color, Covid-19, Civil Unrest — An Argument for Inclusion
• “I Helped Coin the Term ‘Jews of Color.’ It’s Time for a History Lesson.”
• “Black reverend: Here’s how white Jews can support black people right now.”
• Unetaneh Tokef for Black Lives
• The Forward: Articles on Jews of Color
• Reform Judaism - Jews of Color
• My Jewish Learning - Blacks & Jews
• My Jewish Learning - Jews in the Civil Rights Movement
• Mixed Multitude: Judaism and Racial Justice

• Sermons and Jewish teachings:

• “2min 53sec of Silence that Scream: #BlackLivesMatter” – Rabbi Sharon Brous
• Truth, Reconciliation and Repair in Engaging Racism: “Al Chet” By Yavilah McCoy

Books and Book Lists

Antiracism/Ally

• How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo
• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• White Rage by Carol Anderson
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
• Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell
• White Like Me by Tim Wise
• A Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by Eddie Moore Jr, Ali Michael, and Marguerite Penick-Parks
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• White Awake by Daniel Hill
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Book List from the Center for Racial Justice in Education
• Book List by Ibram X. Kendi and NYT

Judaism, Jews of Color, and Jewish Involvement in Antiracism

• The Color of Love by Marra B. Gad
• Moral Resistance & Spiritual Authority by Rabbi Seth M. Limmer and Rabbi Jonah Pesner
• Inside Seperate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews, and Latinos by David Shoem
• African Americans & Jewish Americans by Hedda Garza
• Troubling Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
• How to Fight Anti-semitism by Bari Weiss
• 20 Books by Black Jewish Authors You Should Read

For Children

• Something Happened in our Town by Marianne Celano
• Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson and Frank Morrison
• A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
• Teach Your Dragon About Diversity by Steve Herman
• No More, Free at Last, and Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round by Doreen Rappaport
• This Book is Antiracist by Tiffany Jewell
• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
• A is for Activist (Board Book) by Innosanto Nagara
• Black History Month Book List
• Black Lives Matter Instructional Library
• Children’s Books to Help Talk about Racism and Discrimination
• 31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
• Books to Teach White Children and Teens How to Undo Racism and White Supremacy 
• Teacher’s Reading List of Antiracist Books for Kids Goes Viral

For Teen/Young Adult

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi
• Social Justice Booklist with many themes to choose from (for children, young adults and educators)

History, Science, Current Events and Race

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
•  March by John Lewis (3-volume graphic novel series)
• How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
• They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
• Our Black Year by Maggie Anderson
• Thursday Night Lights by Michael Hurd
• Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What it Means to be Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today compiled by Nikesh Shukla
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community by Martin Luther King, Jr.
•  Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New American by Gilbert King
• Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude Steele
• Learning from the Germans by Susan Nieman
• The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History by Hampton Sides
• Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
• Book List: “A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters” by New York Times 

Criminal Justice and Racism

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
• White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race by Ian Haney López
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Novels, Memoirs, and Fiction involving Race

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
• Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Roots by Alex Haley
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
• Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
• Eloquent Rage by Britney Cooper
• Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Ed Salsow
• The Making Of A Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade by Charles Dew
• One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Lie - A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard
• The Fact of Blackness

Music

Albums

• Superfly (1972) – Curtis Mayfield
• Aquemini (1998) – OutKast
• To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) – Kendrick Lamar
• Black Panther: The Album (2018)
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) – Lauryn Hill
• A Seat at the Table (2016) – Solange
• Black on Both Sides (1999) – Mos Def
• 4 Your Eyez Only (2016) – J. Cole
• DAMN. (2017) – Kendrick Lamar
• Lemonade (2016) – Beyoncé

Articles

• Ideas for Incorporating the Music of African Americans during Black History Month and throughout the Year
• Library of Congress, African American Song
• A Cultural Crescendo: the Black Origins of American Music

Podcasts

Antiracism/Allyship

• Co-Conspired Conversations by Myisha T.
• The Code Switch Podcast from NPR
• The Culture Inside
• Basic Black
• Black History Podcast 
• What it means to “do the work” 
• About Race
• Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward
• NPR's In Black America
• Pod For The Cause from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
• Pod Save the People with DeRay Mckesson
• The Diversity Gap
• Side Effects of White Women
• Well Meaning White People
• A Decade on Watching Black People Die
• White Lies
• Uncivil
• The Witness Podcast Network
• Wholly Jewish
• Third Space
• Unlocking Us with Brené Brown’s Episode with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist

Judaism, Jews of Color, and Jewish Involvement in Antiracism

• Wholly Jewish

History

• The 1619 Project - The New York Times Magazine
• Seeing White - Scene on Radio

For Parents

• Parenting Forward podcast episode “Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt”
• Fare of the Free Child Podcast
• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
• School Colors
• Zinned Education Project
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
• How to Talk Honestly With Children About Racism 

Criminal Justice and Racism

• Criminal Injustice

Movies, Documentaries, and TedTalks

• On Netflix:

• 13th
• American Son
• Dear White People
• See You Yesterday
• When They See Us
• Teach Us All
• Moonlight
• American Son
• Pose
• Seven Seconds
• Kings
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story
• The Help
• Freedom Writers
• Let it Fall
• Cop Watchers
• LA 92

• On Hulu:

• If Beale St. Could Talk
• Green Book
• Black-ish
• Roots
• Detroit
• Monsters and Me
• Black and Blue
• For Life
• Hidden Figures
• Brian Banks

• On HBO:

• King in the Wilderness

• On Cinemax:

• The Hate U Give
• Blindspotting

• On Amazon Prime

• The Last Blackman of San Francisco
• Birth of a Movement
• Waves

• To Rent:

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
• Clemency
• Fruitvale Station
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Just Mercy (NOTE: For the month of June, this movie has been released as free to rent from places like YouTube, Vudu, Amazon Prime Video, and many more)
• Selma
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• A Walk on the River
• Fences
• Get Out
• Clemency

• PBS

• Slavery By Any Other Name
• Eyes On the Prize
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
• PBS' Race and Racism in America Streaming Content

• Disney+

• Black Panther
• Remember the Titans
• Ruby Bridges
• Glory Road

• TedTalks

• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them - Verna Myers
• We Need to Talk About an Injustice - Bryan Stevenson
• The Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberle Crenshaw
•  Color Blind or Color Brave - Mellody Hobson
•  The Danger of Silence - Clint Smith        
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion - Peggy McIntosh

• ELITalks

• Dignity of Difference: A Place for Everyone at the Shabbat Table - Abby Knopp
• Who Counts? Race and the Jewish Future - Ilana Kaufman
• The Rod and The Whip: Accountability for Law Enforcement - Aryeh Bernstein
• We Will Hear and We Will Profit: The Mitzvah of Inclusion - Howard Blas 

History

• Articles:

• “A Timeline of Events that Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising.” 
• “The Case for Reparations” 

Children and Parenting Resources

• Curriculum Resource Guide on Black Lives Matter at School
• Resources for Talking With Kids About Racism from PJLibrary (Includes books, podcasts, videos, articles, etc. for different age groups and parents, as well as a section on Jewish voices)
• 21 Anti-Racism Videos To Share With Kids
• BLM Homework
• Resources for Anti-racism Education & Activism
• Articles, Blog Posts, Op-Eds:

• “From Christian Cooper to George Floyd, a Letter to White Parents” 
• From Rebecca Peretz-Lange on how to talk about race with kids (Facebook post)

• Resource list: “Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup”
• CNN & Sesame Street Townhall on Racism

White Supremacist Involvement in Racism

• The Boogaloo Movement from the ADL 
• Articles:

• “Far-Right Extremists are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests into a New Civil War”

• Webinar Recording from NCJW “Weaponizing White Supremacy during COVID-19”

Criminal Justice System and Racism

• Articles:

• “Innocent African Americans More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted”
• “Rates of Drug Use and Sales, by Race; Rates of Drug Related Criminal Justice Measures, by Race”
• “Data Shows Affluent Black Kids Are More Likely to Be Incarcerated Than Poor White Kids” 
• “Researchers studied nearly 100 million traffic stops and found black motorists are more likely to be pulled over” 

• Reports and Studies:

• “Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System” 
• “All-White Jury Pools Convict Black Defendants 16 Percent More Often Than Whites”

• Press Releases:

• “Justice Department Announces Findings of Investigation into Baltimore Police Department” 
• “Justice Department Announces Findings of Two Civil Rights Investigations in Ferguson, Missouri” 

• The Equal Justice Initiative

Asian and Black Allyship

• Articles:

• “20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now” 
• “Dear Non-Black Asian-Americans (And Other Non-Black Folks), We Have a Real Issue With Appropriating AAVE, and it Needs to Stop.”
• “'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks”