Anti-Racism Resource List

Anti-Racism Resources

This is not an exhaustive list and is a living document.

A large portion of what is on here was found from other lists, which I linked.

* I tried my best to note the Black/Black-led sources but some I wasn’t sure of. If any are incorrect, please let me know.

Please email me anything you think should be added -- psgreen94@gmail.com

CURRENT ACTIONS:

Find your House Representative

SCRIPT: “Hi, my name is ___ and I am from ___ (city, state). I am a constituent of _______(representative). I wanted to let _____ (representative) know that I (support or don’t support) ______ (name of issue or bill). Thank you.”

Find your State Attorney General & find out when they’re up for re-election. Put pressure on them to support legislation to address police brutality, racial profiling, use of excessive force and budgeting for policing. Make it clear that you will not be voting for them when they are up for re-election unless they address these issues.

READ ABOUT 8 to ABOLITION

Call your House Representative

Research who your local representatives are and find out how they’ve approached the allocation of funds for policing. Call them and express your demands for criminal justice reform and reallocation of funding for community services. Remember to always utilize re-election as pressure!

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* = Black author/Black-led

*** = Reproductive Justice-specific

(for birth workers looking for resources)

BOOKS

* Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
* So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

* The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
* Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty - Dorothy E. Roberts ***
* Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Dr. Brittney Cooper
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century - Grace Lee Boggs
* The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
* Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
* This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - multiple authors
* When and Where I Enter - Paula J. Giddings ***
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
* Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
* The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
* Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
* The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
* Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum
We Gon’ Be Alright - Jeff Chang
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot ***
* Dismantling Race In Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness & Decolonizing the Academy - Jason Arday & Heidi Safia Mirza
Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage - Daria Roithmayr
The Emotional Politics of Racism - Paula Ioanide
The Habits of Racism - Helen Ngo
* Reproducing Race - Khiara M. Bridges ***
* Black Bodies, White Gaze: The Continuing Significance of Race in America - George Yancy
* Undivided Rights - Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross & Elena R. Gutierrez ***
* Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine
* The Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B. Du Bois
* The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives - Eloise Greenfield ***
Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South - Jenny M. Luke ***
* Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
* We Were Eight Years In Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates
* Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Crisis - Julia Chinyere Oparah, Helen Arega, Dantia Hudson, Linda Jones, Talita Oseguera ***
* How To Be An Antiracist - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
* Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
* Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
* White Rage - Carol Anderson
The Archaeology of Mothering: An African American Midwife’s Tale - Laurie Wilkie ***
* Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Power - Elaine Pinderhughes
* Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A. Washington ***
* Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America - Michael Eric Dyson
* Policing The National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization - Jael Silliman and Anannya Bhatacharjee ***
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare to Reform to Foreclosure to Trump - Laura Briggs ***
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States - David Zirin
* Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism - Bell Hooks
White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color - Ruby Hamad
* The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
* This Book is Anti-Racist - Tiffany Jewell

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FILMS & VIDEOS

13th
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
When They See Us
If Beale Street Could Talk
Just Mercy
The Hate U Give
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
I Am Not Your Negro
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
Selma
OJ: Made in America
Blindspotting
The Last Black Man in San Francisco

RACE: The Power of an Illusion -- docuseries (for purchase)

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? -- docuseries (full videos for purchase) ***

When the Bough Breaks
Kim Anderson’s Story -- Racial disparities in maternal outcomes
Racial differences in infant mortality

Fault Lines -- docuseries ***

The U.S. Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery ***

* Black Women Speak: The Politics of Coronavirus

* Ancient Song Black Maternal Health Week Panels ***

* TEDx Coming to Terms with Racism’s Inertia: Ancestral Accountability

* The Loudest Silence mini-doc ***

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ARTICLES

Race & Racism

* For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies - Courtney Ariel
* Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
White Debt - Eula Biss
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Race
* Why You Need To Stop Saying All Lives Matter - Rachel Cargle
* The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Slavery and Capitalism - Sven Beckert
* How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder - Trymaine Lee
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice - Corinne Shutack
* Spiritual Activist Rachel Ricketts Challenges White Women to Rethink Wellness - Erin Bunch
* How to Talk to Your Family About Racism on Thanksgiving - Rachel Cargle

COVID-19

* The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying - The Atlantic
The Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. - APM Research Lab
* The First 100 - ProPublica
Combat Racial Disparities Like Never Before: A Post-coronavirus Imperative - NY Daily News
* Coronavirus, Racism and Injustice: No One Is Coming To Save Us - Roxane Gay

Reproductive Justice + Black Maternal & Child Health

Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving’s Story Explains Why - NPR

Life and Death from Unnatural Causes: Health and Social Equity in Alameda County - Alameda County Public Health Department

Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the U.S. - NPR & ProPublica

America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis - New York Times

To Prevent Women from Dying in Childbirth, First Stop Blaming Them - Scientific American

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PARENTS -- Resources for Children

Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Black Books Matter: Children’s Books Celebrating Black Boys
The Conscious Kid
These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids - Jessica Grose
NPR Podcast Ep - ‘Raising White Kids’ Author on How Parents Can Talk About Race
Family Equality Black History & Anti-Racist Toolkit for LGBTQ+ families
* Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X - Ilyasah Shabazz
* Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters - Andrea Davis Pinkney
* Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice - Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard
* My Hair is a Garden - Cozbi A. Cabrera
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation - Duncan Tonatiuh
* Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library - Carole Boston Weatherford
* The Day You Begin - Jacqueline Woodson
* Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Carole Boston Weatherford
Happy in Our Skin - Fran Manushkin
* Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History - Vashti Harrison
* Hair Love - Matthew A. Cherry
When God Made You - Matthew Paul Turner
The Story of Ruby Bridges - Robert Coles
* What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions - Claire Heuchan & Nikesh Shukla