ANTI-RACIST RESOURCES

[Last Updated 12/6/22]

Subsections include the following:

• Actions You Can Take
• How to Avoid Derailing/Centering Your Whiteness
• How To Talk About Racism
• Colorblind Ideology, Post-Racialism, and the White Racial Frame
• Reverse Racism and Other White Supremacist Myths
• Understanding Whiteness, Dismantling White Supremacy
• White Tears, White Fears, and White Guilt
• White Supremacy Has Its Privileges
• Intersectionality
• White Feminism
• Accomplices not Allies

• Racism, Ableism, and Disability Justice

• Settler Colonialism and the Need to Abolish Genocidal Holidays
• Confronting Anti-Black Racism
• Orientalism, Anti-Asian Stereotypes, and Coronavirus Racism
• Islamophobia
• Latinxs and The Persistence of Xenophobia
• Blackface, Yellowface, Playing Indian, and Other Racist Masquerades
• Halloween, Culturally Offensive Costumes, and Racist Theme Parties
• Cultural Appropriation and Hipster Racism
• Sh*t You Should Never Say to BIPOC
• Bingo Cards
• Racism in Academia and the Limits of Diversity Talk
• Campus Racism, Safe Spaces, and Student Protest Movements
• Survivance Tips
• Crowd-Sourced Syllabi
• Toolkits and Reading Lists

Actions You Can Take

• Antiracist  Allyship  Starter Pack
• Resources for Accountability and Action Towards Justice for Black Lives
• 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the StreetsOpportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
• Dear White People, This is What We Want You to Do
• To the White People Who Keep Asking How to ‘Help’
• Your Anti-Racism Education Begins
• Political Education in a Time of Rebellion
• Some Practical Strategies For Becoming an Equity-Minded Scholar
• 10 Ways Good White People Can Help Black America (If 'Good White People' Exist)

How To Avoid Derailing/Centering Your Whiteness

• How To Tell People They Sound Racist [Jay Smooth]
• How to Derail an Argument about Racism
• We Heard It Before (Common Responses to Posts on Racism)
• You Have an Opinion Relating to a Discussion about Race [Flow Chart and Guide]
• Derailment Mondays: You Just Want Me To Feel Guilty
• Derailment Monday: I’m 1/48th Cherokee
• Derailment Monday: No One Ever Gave ME Anything
• Derailment Monday: “I Have Black Friends.”
• Derailment Monday: But They Say…
• Derailment Monday: But What About Oprah?
• Derailment for Dummies*

*This site includes sections on the following:

•        If You Won't Educate Me How Can I Learn

•        If You Cared About These Matters You'd Be Willing To Educate Me

•        You're Being Hostile

•        But That Happens To Me Too!

•        You're Being Overemotional

•        You're Just Oversensitive

•        You Just Enjoy Being Offended

•        Don't You Have More Important Issues To Think About

•        You're Taking Things Too Personally

•        You’re Not Being Intellectual Enough/You’re Being Overly Intellectual

•        You're Interrogating From The Wrong Perspective

•        You're Arguing With Opinions Not Facts

•        Your Experience Is Not Representative Of Everyone

•        Unless You Can Prove Your Experience Is Widespread I Won't Believe It

•        I Don't Think You're As Marginalized As You Claim

•        Aren't You Treating Each Other Worse Anyway

•        But You're Different To The Others

•        Well I Know Another Person From Your Group Who Disagrees!

•        A In B Situation Is Not Equivalent To X In Y Situation

•        Who Wins Gold in the Oppression Olympics?

•        You Have A False Consciousness

•        You're Not Being A Team Player

•        You've Lost Your Temper So I Don't Have To Listen To You Anymore

•        You Are Damaging Your Cause By Being Angry

•        You're As Bad As They Are

•        Surprise! I Was Playing “Devil’s Advocate” All Along!

How To Talk About Racism

• SURJ Toolkit: Calling People in Around "Violence"
• Smithsonian’s Talking About Race Portal
• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
• Anti-Racist Educator Questionnaire & Rubric
• Resources on conversations in difficult times
• Anti-Racism Resources For White People
• Anti-Racism For All Ages [Padlet]
• Children’s Books About Police Brutality
• How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
• From Woe to Wonder (For Black and Brown Parents)

Colorblind Ideology, Post-Racialism, and The White Racial Frame

• Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the US [Eduardo Bonilla-Silva] [PDF]
• Inaugurating Multiculturalist White Supremacy [Dylan Rodríguez]
• The White Racial Frame: A Reprise [Joe Feagin]
• The White Liberal Conundrum
• Progressive Racism [Sara Ahmed]
• 23 Quotes That Perfectly Explain Racism (To People Who Don’t “See Color”)
• Colour-blind racism
• Racism With No Racists: The President Trump Conundrum

Reverse Racism and Other White Supremacist Myths

• How to Be a 'Reverse-Racist': An Actual Step-by-Step List for Oppressing White People
• Reverse Racism [Aamer Rahman] [VIDEO]
• “This Course Is Racist (Toward Whites)!”
• A Look at the Myth of Reverse Racism
• What Is "Reverse Racism"? Here's Why It Doesn't Actually Exist in the United States
• The Color of the Race Problem is White [VIDEO]  
• The history white people need to learn
• Affirmative Action for Dummies: Explaining the Difference Between Oppression and Opportunity

Understanding Whiteness, Dismantling White Supremacy

• The Racial Contract [Charles Mills]
• Whiteness as Property [Cheryl Harris]
• The Possessive Investment in Whiteness [George Lipsitz]
• White Fragility [Robin di Angelo]
• The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the Discourse of White Privilege [Zeus Leonardo]
• Making Whites from the Dark Side: Teaching Whiteness Studies at San Francisco State University [Amy Sueyoshi]
• Aggrieved Whiteness: White Identity Politics and Modern American Racial Formation
• Teaching About Racism in a Post Racial Age: The Pleasures of Deconstructing Colorblind Racist Speech Online
• What Whites Don’t Know About Racism
• What White Children Need to Know About Race
• Privilege 101: A Quick and Dirty Guide
• Why We Need a White History Month [Amber Ruffin Video]
• White Fragility in the Workplace [Video]

White Tears, White Fears, and White Guilt

• I, Racist
• Good White Person
• Nice, decent folks
• Grieving The White Void
• A word for white people, in two parts
• White Guilt is Actually Narcissism
• Do More Than Acknowledge Your White Guilt
• White Women’s Tears
• The Feelings of White People
• Hari Kondabalou on Racism vs. White Guilt [Video]
• White fear and fragility will be the death of us all
• It's not my job to absolve white friends of racism, but it can seem that way
• An End To Self-Care
• I am not your nice ‘Mammy’: How racist stereotypes still impact women

White Supremacy Has Its Privileges

• White Privilege: A Multimedia Analysis
• How White Privilege Works
• Understanding White Privilege (Frances Kendall)
• White Privilege and the Deadly Effect of Silence
• How To Know You Are White
• The Privilege of Politeness
• 'When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression'
• Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity
• Coming Out as Biracial
• Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege
• "Check my what?" On privilege and what we can do about it
• 4 Ways to Push Back Against Your Privilege
• Emptying the White Knapsack
• Unpack That! How White Privilege Works [Video]
• No, We Won’t Calm Down – Tone Policing Is Just Another Way to Protect Privilege [Comic]

Intersectionality

• A Primer on Intersectionality
• White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood [Hazel Carby]
• ‘I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics [Jasbir Puar]
• MY FEMINISM WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE BULLSHIT!
• Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
• Interlopers on Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color and Oppression
• There is No “We”: V-Day, Indigenous Women and the Myth of Shared Gender Oppression
• Feminism And Race: Just Who Counts As A 'Woman Of Color'?
• Racelighting: A Prevalent Version of Gaslighting Facing People of Color

White Feminism 

• The Trouble with White Feminism*

*This site includes sections on the following:

• White Women and U.S. Slavery: Then and Now
• White Women & the Defense of Lynching
• The Racial Origins of Feminism
• Learning to be a White Woman
• White Women, White Motherhood
• The Second Wave: Trouble with White Feminism
• “Leaning In” to (White) Corporate Feminism
• White Women and Affirmative Action: Prime Beneficiaries & Opponents
• Hillary Clinton: Good for White Feminism, Bad for Racial Justice
• White Women in American Popular Culture
• White Women Warriors, Tourists and Saviors  
• Lena Dunham and the Trouble with (White) ‘Girls’
• Rachel Dolezal and the Trouble with White Womanhood
• Roseanne Arquette’s Oscar Speech
• White Feminism and V-Day
• #Hashtag Activism and Viral Videos
• Slut Walk and more #Hashtag Activism
• Erica Jong + Why Critiquing White Feminism is Necessary
• Trouble with White Women: Caitlyn Jenner Edition
• Trouble with Cisgender White Feminism

• Why We Need to Talk About White Feminism [Video]
• An Open Letter to White Liberal Feminists
• Dear White Feminists: Your Good Intentions Aren’t Good Enough
• White Women, You Need to Talk About Racism
• White Feminists: It’s Time to Put Up Or Shut Up on Race
• Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to white women
• 5 Ways White Feminists Can Address Our Own Racism
• 6 Ways White Feminists Should Not Respond to Racism Accusations
• Sh*t White Feminists Say to Black Feminists (and How to Counter Them)

Accomplices Not Allies

• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex
• There is No Such Thing as a White Ally
• Dear White Allies: Don’t Appropriate Our Anger
• For Our White Friends Desiring To Be Allies
• Performative Allyship Is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead)
• Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism [Sara Ahmed]
• Challenging Racism and the Problem with White “Allies”: A Conversation with David Leonard
• A Beginner’s Guide to Anti-racism for White People, By a Fellow White Person
• On the Fixed State Ally Model vs. Process Model Ally Work
• Love letter to white people
• 8 Ways Not To Be An “Ally”: A Non-Comprehensive List
• 7 Ways Not to React When Asked to Check Your Privilege
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally
• Ally-phobia: On the Trayvon Martin Ruling, White Feminism, and the Worst of Best Intentions
• Intent vs. Impact: Why Your Intentions Don’t Really Matter

Racism, Ableism, and Disability Justice

• Disability Solidarity: Completing The ‘Vision For Black Lives’ [The Harriet Tubman Collective]
• Deaf Poets Society
• Disease is Not A Metaphor [Cyree Jarelle Johnson]
• We can’t address disability without addressing race. Here’s why. [Lydia Z. Brown]
• Ableism is not "Bad Words." It's Violence [Lydia Z. Brown]
• “You Do Not Exist To Be Used”: Dismantling Ideas of Productivity in Life Purpose [Gillian Giles]
• Mia Mingus on Disability Justice [VIDEO]
• Beyond Disability Rights; Disability Justice: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha [VIDEO]
• Thinking With Disability Studies [Nirmala Erevelles]
• Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies [Sami Schalk]
• Sick Woman Theory [Johanna Hedva]
• The ‘Right’ to Maim: Disablement and Inhumanist Biopolitics in Palestine [Jasbir Puar]
• Disability/Access Organizing

Settler Colonialism and The Need to Abolish Genocidal Holidays

• Decolonization is not a Metaphor [Eve Tuck and Kat Yang]
• Settler Colonialism and The Elimination of the Native [Patrick Wolfe]
• A History of Settler Colonialism - Discussion with Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz [Video}
• Taking Children, Taking the Land - Nick Estes with Rebecca Nagle [Video]
• Native History: Columbus—Icon and Genocidal Maniac—Lands in New World
• North America is a crime scene: The untold history of America this Columbus Day
• The Myth-Keepers of Columbus
• The Truth Behind Columbus [VIDEO]
• 8 Myths and Atrocities About Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day
• A Sociologist Explains Why Columbus Day Is Racist
• Mutilation and Other Carnage: War Crimes Committed by Columbus
• Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
• Christopher Columbus Was A Demon [Hari Kondabolu Video]
• Columbus Day - How is This Still A Thing?  [John Oliver Video]
• Native Blood: The Myth of Thanksgiving
• Genocide and THE THANKSGIVING MYTH
• The Myth of Thanksgiving
• How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to Be Afraid
• No Thanks to Thanksgiving
• Everything You Know About Thanksgiving is WRONG [Franchesca Ramsey Video]
• Decolonizing the History of Thanksgiving

Confronting Anti-Black Racism

• The Case for Reparations [Coates]
• What White People Really Mean When They Say #AllLivesMatter
• They See Us as Hulks
• Stereotypology: Angry Black Women [Video]
• Envisioning Whiteness
• Black People Have Every Right To Distrust You for Being Light-Skinned
• “A matter of death and death”: Confronting anti-black racism among Latinos
• “Latinx for Black Lives”Is Erasure, Not Allyship
• The Mattering of Black Lives for Non-Black People of Color
• Asians 4 Black Lives: Structural Racism is the Pandemic, Interdependence and Solidarity is the Cure
• A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter
• Complicating our Complicity: Interrogating Anti-Blackness & Settler Colonial Power in the Death of Akai Gurley [PDF]
• Lifting the veil on conditional whiteness: A wake-up call to Asian Americans still holding on to the Model Minority Myth
• My Asian American Identity Demolition Project
• The Asian American Reply to Pandemic-Era Racism Must Be Cross-Racial Solidarity
• Asian Americans need to talk about anti-blackness in our communities
• Meeting People Where They Are: The Seed Crystal of the Letters for Black Lives Project
• Why and How Asian Americans Must Mobilize for Black Lives
• Paula Deen, the N-word, and Sh*t Black Folks Can't Say

Orientalism, Anti-Asian Stereotypes, and Coronavirus Racism

• Orientalism [Edward Said]
• Yellow Peril and the American Dream
• Yellow Peril - Then and Now [Video]
• Anti-Asian violence and US imperialism [PDF]
• The long history of anti-Asian hate in America, explained
• Model Minority Trope Explained [Video]
• Who You Calling a Model Minority? New Report Dispels Myths About Asian Americans
• The Culture Canard of the Model Minority Myth: how racial gaps in academics aren’t due to cultural pathology
• The 'model minority' myth: Why Asian-American poverty goes unseen
• Five ways the myth of the “model minority” hurts all of us
• Chua on This: Busting the ‘Tiger Mother’s” Model-Minority Stereotype
• You’re a Model Minority Until You Are Not
• Far Away From Me [On Exoticism]
• “Me Love You Long Time” Sticks Around For A Really Long Time
• How Asian women are relentlessly objectified in American culture
• Stereotypology: Submissive China Dolls [Video]
• To be an Asian woman in America
• #NotYourAsianSidekick [Video]
• Orientalism in the Age of COVID-19
• Coronavirus fears show how 'model minority' Asian Americans become the 'yellow peril'
• The ‘Chinese Flu’ Is Part of a Long History of Racializing Disease
• The Rise of Anti-Asian Hate in the Wake of Covid-19
• Responding to Anti-Asian Xenophobia during the Pandemic: Part 1
• Coronavirus, Racism, and the Health of Our Communities
• The Alien and the Sovereign: Yellow Peril in Pandemic Times
• Anti-Asian racism and COVID-19
• Anti-Asian Violence Resource List

Islamophobia 

• Digital Dialogue: The Unruly [Podcast with Falguni Sheth]
• Terrorist Assemblages [Jasbir Puar]
• Compulsory Whiteness:  Towards a Middle Eastern Scholarship [John Tehranian]
• The Citizen and the Terrorist [ Leti Volpp]
• Race, Civil Rights, And Immigration Law After September 11, 2001: The Targeting Of Arabs And Muslims [Susan Akram and Kevin Johnson]
• Chinese Exclusion, and the Dangerous Islamophobia of Donald Trump
• Stereotypology: Oppressed Arab Women [Video]

Latinxs and Xenophobia

• When Whites Attack: The Deadly Consequences of Anti-Latina/o Violence
• Awash Under a Brown Tide: Immigration Metaphors in the Media [Otto Santa Ana]
• The Latino Threat Narrative [Leo Chavez]
• Xenophobia and Racism [David Kim and Ronald Sunstrom]
• The Immigration Industrial Complex: Why We Enforce Immigration Policies Destined to Fail [Tanya Golash-Boza]
• Shades of Brown; The Law of Skin Color [TRINA JONES]
• Latinxs Still Alien Citizens
• Stereotypology: Spicy Latinas [Video]

Blackface, Yellowface, Playing Indian, and Other Racist Masquerades

• A Brief History of Blackface 
• Just Say No to Blackface: Neo-Minstrelsy and the Power to Dehumanize [David Leonard]
• Unpacking the Racism of Digital Blackface in the Information Age [Video]
• A History of Yellowface
• Redface!- The History of Racist American Indian Stereotypes
• Majoring in Minstrelsy: White Students, Blackface and the Failure of Mainstream Multiculturalism
• Campus Minstrelsy: On "Compton Cookouts" and More
• Blackface, and the Violence of Revulsion

Halloween, Culturally Offensive Costumes, and Racist Theme Parties

• Anti-Racist Halloween Resources
• What’s up with Racism and Halloween?
• Costume #Fails [Franchesca Ramsey Video]
• Culturally Offensive Costume Outbreak [Video]
• Halloween Has a Blackface Issue and It’s a Racism Problem
• Halloween Has Already Become a Horror Show [Aura Bogado]
• 10 Days until Halloween: Step Away from the “Indian” Costume
• The one stop for all your “Indian costumes are racist” needs!
• So your friend dressed up as an Indian. Now what?
• Open Letter to the PocaHotties and Indian Warriors this Halloween

Cultural Appropriation and Hipster Racism

• Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance  [bell hooks]
• Who’s Doin’ The Twist? Notes on Cultural Appropriation [Coco Fusco]
• Working Through Appropriation [Richard Fung]
• Cultural Appropriation: When ‘Borrowing’ Becomes Exploitation
• Cultural Plagiarism
• What’s the Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation?
• the critical fashion lover's (basic) guide to cultural appropriation
• But Why Can't I Wear A Hipster Headdress?
• Unintentionally Eating the Other
• White Denial and a Culture of Stereotypes [David Leonard]
• When We Talk About Cultural Appropriation, We’re Missing The Point
• A Guide to Every Troll You Meet When You Talk About Cultural Appropriation
• Slip On These "Whiteness Goggles" And The Violence Of Cultural Appropriation Disappears
• A Historical Guide to Hipster Racism
• Fashionable Bigotry 101 – A Crash Course on Hipster Racism
• Understanding Hipster Racism: Lester Bangs' 1979 "White Noise Supremacists"
• Hipster Racism
• The Problem With Ironic Liberal Racism & Social Justice Fads

Sh*t You Should Never Say to BIPOC 

• It may not be racist, but it's a question I'm tired of hearing
• Tired of being asked, ‘No, where are you really from?’
• How to Ask Someone About Their Ethnicity Without Being an Asshole
• What Kind of Asian are you? [Video]
• Things Asians Hate [Video]
• Shit White People Say to Asians [Video]
• Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls [Video]
• Shit White Gay Guys Say to Black Gay Guys [Video]
• Shit White Girls Say to Latinas [Video]
• Shit White Girls Say to Desi Girls [Video]
• Shit People Say To Arabs [Video]
• Shit White Guys Say to Brown Guys [Video]
• If Black Women Said The Stuff White Men Say [Video]
• If Black People Said The Stuff White People Say [Video]
• If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say [Video]
• If Latinos Said The Stuff White People Say [Video]

Bingo Cards

• Derailment Bingo
• White Liberal Bingo
• Racist Bingo
• Gringo Bingo
• Cultural Appropriation Bingo
• Post-Colonial Bingo
• BLM Bingo

Racism in Academia and The Limits of Diversity Talk

• Is Your University Racist?
• On the Whiteness of Academia
• White Academia: Do Better!
• White Fragility in Teaching and Education: An Interview With Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• 'Dear Professor': On Anti-Blackness and Learning
• Dismantling Whiteness in Academe: Part I and Part II
• Demystifying and Democratizing Tenure and Promotion
• Colleges Must Change to Retain BIPOC Women Faculty
• What BIPOC Professors Need From Students
• Latinxs in Academe
• Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word
• “We’re all just different!” How Intersectionality is Being Colonized by White People
• Shackles and Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America's Elite Colleges

Campus Racism, Safe Spaces, and Student Protest Movements

• The Open Secret of Campus Racism
• Teachers Must Hold Themselves Accountable for Dismantling Racial Oppression
• Rules for White Mentors 
• Half-Truths About Race on Campus
• Racial Literacy on Campus with Jessie Daniels [Podcast]
• Historical Roots of Fraternity Racism
• Black Study, Black Struggle
• Thank You for Your Unreasonable Demands
• The White Racial Innocence Game {Eduardo Bonilla-Silva]
• Race and The Free Speech Diversion
• Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling [Richard Delgado]
• Here Are The Demands From Students Protesting Racism At 51 Colleges
• Students’ demand for diverse faculty is a demand for a better education
• Cultural Spaces on Campus Reduce Minority Students’ Stress
• Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People
• on identity based housing and anti-racism praxis

Survivance Tips

• Resources for Black Healing
• 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
• Honoring Ourselves and Each Other Through Burnout
• Feeling Depleted [Sara Ahmed]
• Selfcare as Warfare [Sara Ahmed]
• Some Striking Feature: Whiteness and Institutional Passing [Sara Ahmed]
• On Quitting
• Up to here with trolls? Tips for navigating online drama
• A Handy Template for Online Trolls

Crowd-Sourced Syllabi

• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
• Critical Race Syllabus [With Links To PDFS]
• Police Violence Syllabus
• Black Lives Matter Syllabus
• Tulsa Syllabus
• Baltimore Syllabus
• Charleston Syllabus
• Ferguson Syllabus
• Orlando Syllabus
• #AtlantaSyllabus
• #BuffaloSyllabus
• #NoDAPL Syllabus
• Standing Rock Syllabus
• Colin Kaepernick Syllabus
• Trump 2.0 Syllabus
• #Islamophobiaisracism Syllabus
• Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border Microsyllabus

Toolkits and Reading Lists

• Racial Capitalism: A Reading List 
• Readings on intersections of disability and race
• Teaching in an Uprising: Readings on Race and Democracy
• Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List
• #Lemonade: A Black Feminist Resource List
• Black Speculative Fiction: Imagining Otherwise for Racial Justice
• The Anti-Racist Reading List
• Anti-Racism Resources for White People
• Stop Asking People Of Color To Explain Racism–Pick Up One Of These Books Instead
• Because several folks keep asking for a reading list for children (0-12)
• Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
• A George Floyd Uprisings Collaborative Resource List
• Political Protests and Movements of Resistance
• Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
• Resources for Abolishing Policing
• Resources for non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness
• Antiracist Toolkit, Department of Asian Studies
• Yellow Peril Teach-In Resources
• Black And Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
• Historical Readings on #BlackAsianSolidarity