Running List of Suggested Antiracism Resources
Curated by Carrie Hutchinson on behalf of Showing Up for Racial Justice, Santa Barbara. Join us here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The Shortlist: Top 5 Resources We Recommend for Beginners
Resources For White People Seeking to Practice Antiracism
Entertainment Media Featuring BIPOC Leads
CONTENTS
The Shortlist: Top 5 Resources We Recommend for Beginners
- Podcast Playlist: Antiracism Podcast Playlist
- Book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
- Film: 13th
- Self-paced educational experience: Kirwan Institute Implicit Bias Series
- Webinar: White Backlash - Why It Happens And How We Fight Back
Supporting Black Lives
Support The Movement for Black Lives
Support with Accountability (for white people)
Guidelines for Participating in Organizing
Donate to black-led organizations
Support Black Owned Businesses:
Online at WeBuyBlack
Download the App: The Black Wallet
Official Black Wall Street- platform for black businesses
Shop Etsy hosts many BOBs. Ask if it’s black owned before buying
Black-Owned Bookstores: Semicolon, Mahogany Books, Ashay by the Bay, Uncle Bobbies, Key Bookstore
Engage in Black History All Year Long:
Beginner’s Guide to Black History Month Overview
Black History Cards Educational Tool
Black History Daily Email
Black History in Two Minutes Podcast
Supporting Black Lives Toolkits and Tips
M4BL National Demands for COVID-19
Talking Points for Calling People In About “Violence”
26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America by Business Insider
Resources For White People Seeking to Practice Antiracism
Info About SURJ National
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org
Info About SURJ SB
Local Radio Interview About SURJ SB
Zoom Presentation: Moving From Ally Accomplice
Find us on the web
Toolkit For White Antiracism Study Groups: Disrupting Racism: Foundations for Concerned White People
What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?
White Allyship 101: Common Missteps in Racial Justice Work
Tools for White Anti-Racist Organizing developed by the Catalyst Project
Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed
Notes on Racial Justice from an Aspiring White Ally/Accomplice/Collaborator
White Responses to Discussions About Racism
White Fragility- original article
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack & WP Checklist by Peggy McIntosh White Liberals Still Don’t Understand White Supremacy
How White Americans’ Hatred of Racism Supports Racism Instead of Solves It
Books Especially for Aspiring Allies
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
Uprooting Racism (2017) by Paul Kivel
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2017) by Carol Anderson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
But I’m NOT Racist! Tools for Well-Meaning Whites by Kathy Obear
Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk
Websites for White People
White People Challenging Racism
Specific Subjects
Land Acknowledgements
A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement
Example of a Meaningful Land Acknowledgement- not for copying, just for and example
Ingrained Biases
Kirwan Institute Implicit Bias Series
Podcast: In the Air We Breathe
10 Ways White People Are More Racist Than They Realize
Take the Implicit Association Tests
Parenting and Teaching
(*See end of this document for resources on HOW to talk to kids about racism)
Dear Non-Black Teens of America…
It’s My Job to Raise Children Who Are Not Only Not Racist But Actively Anti-Racist
I Was a Racist Teacher and I Didn’t Even Know It
The Hard Talk: White Parents Discussing Racism with White Children
On Being White: A Raw, Honest Conversation
Miss Buchanan's Period Of Adjustment
Forget Grit. Focus on Inequality
Higher Education
Whites Dominate California College Faculties While Students Are More Diverse, Study Shows
Why Are You Shoving This Stuff Down Our Throats?
Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate
Facing History and Ourselves
Religion and Spirituality
When Spiritual Bypassing Meets Racism Meets Gaslighting
Jennifer Harvey's Dear White Christians
Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Michael Emerson and Christian Smith’s Divided by Faith
Lenny Duncan’s Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S.
Christena Cleveland’s Disunity in Christ
Curtiss Paul DeYoung's Coming Together in the 21st Century
Edward Gilbreath’s Reconciliation Blues
Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Racism in Policing
SURJ Defund the Police Resource Guide
What do we mean by ‘defund the police’?
What do we mean by the ‘prison industrial complex’?
What do we mean by divest and invest?
Resources and Examples of Local Defund Police Campaigns
Resources and Examples of Alternatives to the Police
Creating alternatives ways of dealing with conflict and harm
Interested in Continuing to Learn More about Policing, Imprisonment & Abolition?
Curated Podcast Playlist on Policing
The Washington Post: Fatal Force
The Marshall Project: Policing
Real Time Map of Police Violence: Mapping Police Violence
The Code Switch Guide To Race And Policing
Racism and Healthcare
Article: New mom Serena Williams had to talk her hospital staff through saving her life
Code Switch Podcast Episode: This Racism Is Killing Me Inside
Article: Finding Good Pain Treatment Is Hard. If You’re Not White, It’s Even Harder.
TED Talk: The problem with race-based medicine
Podcast: A Life-or-Death Crisis for Black Mothers
Racism in Lending and Housing
The red line: Racial disparities in lending
Location, Location, Location (Code Switch addresses Redlining)
Hate on the march: White nationalism in the Trump era
Racism in the Workplace
White Supremacy Culture by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun
Talking to Kids About Racism
(From SBUSD Student Engagement TOSA)
Parent Toolkit • How to Talk to Kids About Race and Racism (Spanish)
Common Sense Media • How to Talk With Kids About Racism and Racial Violence (Spanish)
Children's Alliance • Talking About Racism and Bias
NYTimes • Talking to Kids About Racial Violence
Children's Community School • They're Not Too Young to Talk About Race
Kojo for Kids • Jason Reynolds Talks About Racism and the Protests (24 minute podcast)
NPR • Talking Race with Young Children (20 minute podcast)
Healthy Children • Talking to Children About Racial Bias (also in Spanish)
American Psychological Association • Talking to Kids About Discrimination
Penn GSE • Talking to Children After Racial Incidents
Children's Community School • Social Justice Resources
Books for Littles • Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to Talk About Race
Embrace Race • 31 Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
General Resources
Books
Purchase online from a Black Owned Bookstore or borrow free from the public library:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Booklists
Santa Barbara Public Library • Anti-Racist Reading List
NYTimes • These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids
Common Sense Media • Books About Racism and Social Justice
Common Sense • Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
Oakland Public Library • Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice reading list for all ages
Social Media: Follow These
Color of Change
Huff Post Black Voices
BeVisible Latinx
Showing Up for Racial Justice, Santa Barbara
White Nonsense Roundup
White People Challenging Racism
Podcasts
Scene on Radio Presents: Seeing White
CodeSwitch
It’s Been a Minute
The Stoop
Our National Conversations About Race
Reveal
The Nod
Historically Black
Us and Them
Websites
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Race: The Power of an Illusion
Films
I Am Not Your Negro. Feature length film.
13th: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. Available for streaming on Netflix.
Raised in the System. Actor Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire) embarks on a personal journey to expose the root of the American mass incarceration crisis: the juvenile justice system.
Two Fists Up. An examination of how the Black Lives Matter movement sparked activism at the University of Missouri, its football team, and across the rest of the United States.
A Class Divided. PBS film featuring Jane Elliot's Brown Eyes Blue Eyes Exercise showing intergroup dynamics.
The Spies of Mississippi. A documentary about the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, 57 min.. This film asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity. Designed for dialogue, the film works to disentangle internal beliefs, attitudes and pre-judgments within, and it builds skills to address the structural drivers of social and economic inequities.
Video Clips
How Microaggressions are Like Mosquito Bites
5 Things You Should Know About Racism | Decoded | MTV News
Curriculum
Some of these are free and others are paid:
Understanding the System of Racial Inequity
World Trust: Social Impact Through Film and Dialogue
Developing Transformative Leaders To Support Everyday Antiracism Practices
Scaffolding Anti-Racism Resources
Entertainment Media Featuring BIPOC Leads
Queen Sugar
Insecure
Dear White People
The Carmichael Show
Blackish
Grownish
Atlanta
2 Dope Queens
Black Panther
A Wrinkle in Time
Get Out
Girls Trip
Mudbound
How to Get Away with Murder
Scandal
The Cloverfield Paradox
Sorry to Bother You
Blindspotting
BlacKkKlansman
Little
If Beale Street Could Talk
Queen and Slim
PBS’ Great Performance of Much Ado about Nothing