A COLLECTION OF RESOURCES FOR ANTI-RACIST SELF-EDUCATION: Non-Optical Accompliceship Toolkit

(Resources compiled via submission/personal recommendation)

plessenb@oberlin.edu email me for access or dm me on instagram (@growingthem) if you have additions to these lists

CONCEPTS YOU COULD BE PROCESSING:

Non-optical allyship: allyship that only serves at the surface level to platform the ‘ally’; it makes a statement but doesn’t go beneath the surface and is not aimed at dismantling systems of oppression which perpetuate that oppression

• Definition adapted from @mireillecharper instagram because I liked her phrasing!

Anti-Racism: as opposed to simply “not racist”, a white antiracist not only seeks to acknowledge their inherent racism and privilege, but also actively use that privilege to dismantle systems of oppression.

White Fragility: coined by Robin Diangelo, a white sociologist, this term defines the state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defense mechanisms.

Reparations: serves as an acknowledgement of an obligation of a state/individual (BOTH) to, in some way, contribute financially to repairing an American history white supremacy which has not prioritized Black economic independence enough to balance the racial generational wage gap.

Emotional Labor: the internal effort one must make to engage “regularly”; in a contemporary context, BIPOC are experiencing the most emotional labor during this time of unprecedented police brutality, but the term is not limited to only conversations on racial injustice

Virtue Signaling: the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue

WHAT YOU COULD BE READING:

Nonfiction

• black revolutionary texts
• Masterlist of Black Revolutionary Readings
• Black History Month Library
• Educational Readings List
• critical reading
• Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

• The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
• YEARNING: race, gender, and cultural politics - bell hooks
• Race Matters - Cornel West
• Between the World and Me - Ta- Nahesi Coates
• The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain - Langston Hughes
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Daniel Tatum
• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
• The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward
• You Can’t Touch My Hair - Phoebe Robinson
• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
• Black Looks: Race and Representation - bell hooks
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism - bell hooks
• Racism Without Racists - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson
• We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta Nehisi Coates
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
• Democracy in Black - Eddie Glaude, Jr.
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal
• How Not to Get Shot - D.L Hughley
• Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education - Mychal Denzel Smith
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Kiese Laymon
• What Truth Sounds Like - Michael Eric Dyson
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement - Wesley Lowery
• How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America - Moustafa Bayoumi
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - Cathy Park Hong

Activism

• Rules for Radicals - Saul D. Alinsky (white author)
• Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy - Andrea Smith
• Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook - Mark Bray
• Police: A Field Guide - David Correira and Tyler Wall
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century - Grace Lee Boggs
• Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin

Criminal Justice

• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
• Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
• Policing the Black Man - Angela J. Davis
• Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary - Dennis Childs
• Understanding Mass Incarceration - James Kilgore
• Slavery by Another Name - Douglas A. Blackmon
• On The Run: Fugitive Life in the American City - Alice Goffman
• Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology - Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
• Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill
• The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale
• Carceral Capitalism - Jackie Wang
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men - Paul Butler
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - James Forman, Jr.
• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform - John F. Pfaff
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? - Truthout
• Police Brutality - Jill Nelson

Antiracism

• How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• Me And White Supremacy - Layla Saad
• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race- Derald Wing Sue
• How We Fight White Supremacy - Akira Soloman + Kenrya Rankin
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Edda-Lodge
• Waking Up White - Debbie Irving
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work - Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
• Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm - Ruth King
• Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters - Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Reed (editors)

Whiteness

• White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
• White Rage - Carol Anderson
• Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan M. Metzl
• Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism - Shannon Sullivan
• Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege - Shannon Sullivan
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son - Tim Wise
• Learning to be White - Thandeka
• White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White - Daniel Hill
• Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority - Tim Wise

History

• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
• Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition - Cedric J. Robinson
• Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy - Moon-Kie Jung
• The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
• One Person, No Vote - Carol Anderson
• Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party - Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
• The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States - Paul Ortiz
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
• Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Edward E. Baptist
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism - Jemar Tisby
• Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - Lerone Bennett, Jr.
• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold Story of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America - Ira Katznelson
• An Indigenous History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

(Auto)Biography/Memoir

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
• Angela Davis: An Autobiography - Angela Davis
• From the Bottom of the Heap - Robert Hillary King
• Negroland - Margo Jefferson
• Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward
• The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore
• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
• Becoming - Michelle Obama
• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays - Damon Young
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde
• The Beautiful Struggle - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
• My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet
• No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore
• How We Fight For Our Lives - Saeed Jones
• Redefining Realness - Janet Mock

Science

• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century - Dorothy Roberts
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

Immigration

• West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story - Suzanne Model
• Anchor Babies and the Challenge of US Citizenship - Leo Chavez
• The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla (editor)
• Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move - Reece Jones
• No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexican Border - Justin Ackers Chacón and Mike Davis

Black Feminism/Womanism

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde
• Women, Race, and Class - Angela Davis
• Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America - Charisse Jones + Kumea Shorter-Gooden
• In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens - Alice Walker
• Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins
• Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America - Melissa V. Harris-Perry
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittney Cooper
• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America - Morgan Jenkins
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot - Mikki Kendall

Political Theory

• Black Anarchism: A Reader by Black Rose Anarchist Federation 
• The Racial Contract - Charles Mills
• Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty- Dorothy Roberts
• Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Asad Haider
• Mutual Aid - Pyotr Kropotkin

Chicano/Latinx

• Chicano Movement for Beginners - Maceo Montoya
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America - Juan González

Education

• Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools - Jonathan Kozol
• The Privileged Poor - Anthony Jack
• The Mis-Education of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
• We Want To Do More Than Survive - Bettina Love
• Pushout - Monique Morris
• Born out of Struggle - David Stovall
• Multiplication is for White People - Lisa Delpit
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood - Chris Emdin
• Dreamkeepers - Gloria Ladson Billings
• Everyday Anti-Racism - Mica Pollock
• The Trouble With Black Boys - Pedro Noguera
• Black Appetite. White Food. - Jamila Lyiscott
• The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys - Eddie Moore, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, and Allison S. Michael
• Ghosts in the Schoolyard - Eve Ewing
• The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession - Dana Goldstein

Fiction

• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• Monster - Walter Dean Myers
• Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
• The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• The Water Dancer - Ta Nehisi Coates
• The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
• Passing - Nella Larsen
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
• Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
• We Cast a Shadow - Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Underground Railroad - Coulson Whitehead
• A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
• Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
• Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

LGBTQ+

• Romance in Marseille - Claude McKay
• The Yellow Brownstone - Lisa K. Stephenson
• Real Life - Brandon Taylor
• Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Rainbow - Verde Arzu
• A Spectral Hue - Craig Laurance Gidney
• Lot - Bryan Washington
• In West Mills - De’Shawn Charles Winslow
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Juanauda Petrus
• By Any Means Necessary - Candice Montgomery
• Invisible Life - E. Lynn Harris
• Hood Witch - Faylita Hicks
• You Should See Me In A Crown - Leah Johnson
• Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett
• Little and Lion - Brandy Colbert
• The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie
• Juniper Leaves - Jaz Joyner
• In Case You Forgot - Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar
• Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta
• Black Deutschland - Darryl Pinckney
• The House You Pass on the Way - Jacqueline Woodson
• No Telephone to Heaven - Michelle Cliff
• Here Comes The Sun - Nicole Dennis-Benn
• The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez

Poetry

• From a Land Where Other People Live - Audre Lorde
• Build Yourself A Boat - Camoghne Felix
• Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Plays

• Dutchman - Amiri Baraka
• Fairview - Jackie Sibblies Drury
• A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
• Top Dog/Underdog - Suzan Lori Parks
• Clybourne Park - Bruce Norris
• Cry Old Kingdom - Jeff Augustin
• The Last Tiger in Haiti - Jeff Augustin
• The Century Cycle (10 plays) - August Wilson
• Little Children Dream of God - Jeff Augustin
• Intimate Apparel - Lynn Nottage
• Sweat - Lynn Nottage
• Corktown - Jeff Augustin
• Where The Mountain Meets The Sea - Jeff Augustin
• School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play - Jocelyn Bioh
• The Shipment/LEAR - Young Jean Lee
• We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… - Jackie Sibblies Drury
• Straight White Men - Young Jean Lee
• #NewSlaves - Keelay Gipson
• An Octoroon - Branden Jacob-Jenkins
• Little Baby Jesus - Arinzé Kene
• Babes in Ho-lland - Deneen Reynolds-Knott
• Baton - Deneen Reynolds-Knott
• Opposing Ophelia - Deneen Reynolds-Knott
• Eugene - Amina Henry
• Slave Play - Jeremy O. Harris
• Sunset Baby - Dominique Morisseau
• Skeleton Crew - Dominique Morisseau
• Pipeline - Dominique Morisseau
• Paradise Blue - Dominique Morisseau
• Detroit ‘67 - Dominique Morisseau
• Is God Is - Aleshea Harris
• The Death of the Last Black Man… - Suzan Lori-Parks
• The America Play - Suzan Lori-Parks
• Funnyhouse of a Negro - Adrienne Kennedy
• A Rat’s Mass - Adrienne Kennedy
• for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf - Ntozake Shange
• Insurrection: Holding History - Robert O’Hara
• 14: An American Maul - Robert O’Hara
• Antebellum - Robert O’Hara
• Bootycandy - Robert O’Hara
• Barbecue - Robert O’Hara
• And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi - Marcus Garley

INSTAGRAM POSTS YOU COULD BE SEEING:

• A Big Masterlisti
• Rachel Cargle @rachel.cargle
• The Conscious Kid @theconsiouskid
• Layla Thee Ancestress @laylafsaad
• Subversive Thread @subversive.thread
• Decolonize This Place @decolonizethisplace
• Ijeoma Oluo @ijeomaoluo
• Where Change Started @wherechangestarted
• Indya Moore @indyamoore
• The Great Unlearn (curated by Rachel Cargle) @thegreatunlearn
• The Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org (Bryan Stevenson)
• Afro-Latinx Diaspora: @inculturedco + @aintilatini
• Unapologetically Black @unapolageticallyblackseries
• United We Dream @unitedwedream
• Latina Rebels @latinarebels
• @parentingforrevolution
• Ericka Hart @ihartericka
• @jenerous
• @leftnortheast
• Gem! @urdoingreat
• @idealblackfemale
• @queerblackbaby
• Brittany Packnett Cunningham @mspackyetti
• Kimberly Drew @museummammy
• OlaRonke @thefreeblackwomenslibrary
• Decolonizing Fitness @decolonizing_fitness
• Patrisse Cullors-Brignac @osopepatrisse
• Movement for Black Lives @mvmnt4blklives
• @blackwomensblueprint
• Color of Change @colorofchange
• @showingupforracialjustice
• @unitedwedream
• @readlikearockstar
• @itswalela (centers black disabled existence!we cannot forget about disability justice in this fight!)

DOCUMENTARIES/FILMS YOU COULD BE WATCHING:

• 13th - Ava Duvernay (based off The New Jim Crow on reading list)
• I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO - Raoul Peck
• Do The Right Thing - Spike Lee
• BlacKkKlansmen - Spike Lee
• Zora Neale Hurston 1928 Fieldwork footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPrN-zYZc4
• When They See Us - Ava Duvernay on Netflix
• If Beale Street Could Talk - Barry Jenkins on Hulu
• Selma - Ava Duvernay
• See You Yesterday - Stefon Bristol
• Just Mercy - Destin Daniel Cretton
• Streets of Compton documentary series
• American History X - Tony Kaye
• Black Power Mixtape - Goran Olsson
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson - David France
• American Son (Netflix)
• See You Yesterday (Netflix)
• Mississippi Burning
• Tongues Untied - Marlon Riggs (Kanopy)
• The Watermelon Woman - Cheryl Dunye (Kanopy)
• Last Black Man in San Francisco - Joe Talbot (Amazon)
• Atlantics - Mati Diop (Netflix)
• Touki Bouki  - Djibril Diop Mambéty (Criterion Channel, YouTube)
• Sorry to Bother You - Boots Riley (Hulu)
• When We Were Kings - Leon Gast (Hulu, Amazon)
• Paris Is Burning - Jennie Livingston (Netflix)
• OJ: Made in America - Ezra Edelman (Hulu)
• 12 Years A Slave - Steve McQueen
• Tangerine - Sean Baker (Hulu)
• Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
• Clemency - Chinoye Chukwu
• Dear White People - Justin Simien (Netflix)
• The Hate U Give - George Tillman, Jr. (Hulu with Cinemax)
• Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thomspon Spires
• Mudbound - Dee Rees
• Get Out - Jordan Peele
• Whose Streets? - Sabaah Folayan (Hulu)
• LA 92 (Netflix)
• Freedom Riders - Stanley Nelson Jr
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening - Ramell Ross
• Freedom On My Mine - Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford
• Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings - Marco Williams (PBS)
• Let Fire Burn - Jason Osder

PODCASTS YOU COULD BE STREAMING:

• Code Switch - NPR
• Still Processing - The New York Times
• Stuff You Should Know: The Black Panther Party https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RJKw8xP97UTmcMoCv9zuc?si=1qTfGSrBS4awKYpCrOdtrQ 
• Malcolm Gladwell - Revisionist History: Mrs. Buchannan’s Period of Adjustment https://open.spotify.com/episode/5oTapxBG4wPgqOepnfzM9U?si=YXCS9AsTTou8ER-DuVH3gw 
• Loose Accents
• The Revolution Starts Now
• Fare of the Free Child
• Parenting Forward E.5: Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons w/ Cindy Wang Brandt
• Irresistible (formerly Healing Justice Podcast)
• Beyond Prisons
• The New York Times 1619 Project
• About Race
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Seeing White
• Pod for the Cause
• Pod Save the People
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Malcolm X Speeches

VIDEOS YOU COULD BE CHECKING OUT:

• Moving The Race Conversation Forward 
• How to be an Antiracist
• PRUITT-IGOE: Dream to Nightmare 
• Black Power Origins : Black Radicalism, 1919 1950 
• MUST WATCH! Lester Maddox and Jim Brown Get Into Heated Debate on Segregation | The Dick Cavett Show 
• Fred Hampton - On The Importance Of Education Prior To Action
• Dick Cavett with James Baldwin 
• Angela Davis 
• Malcolm X’s Fiery Speech Addressing Police Brutality 
• Malcolm X on Being American 
• MALCOLM X ON POLICE BRUTALITY 
• How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston 
• An artist's unflinching look at racial violence | Sanford Biggers 
• Racism has a cost for everyone | Heather C. McGhee 
• Let's get to the root of racial injustice | Megan Ming Francis | TEDxRainier
• Interactive Video with Usher’s “Chains” #don’tlookaway

PETITIONS YOU COULD BE SIGNING:

• Raise the Degree: https://www.change.org/p/minneapolis-district-attorney-raise-the-degree 
• Justice for Breonna Taylor: https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforbre-breonna-taylor-officers-fired?source=coc_main_website 
• Ahmaud Arbery: https://www.change.org/p/district-attorney-tom-durden-justice-for-ahmaud-arbery-i-run-with-maud 
• TEXT “FLOYD” TO 55156
• CALL (612) 673 - 3000 + DEMAND MINNEAPOLIS PD PROVIDES JUSTICE

WHERE YOU COULD BE  DONATING YOUR MONEY:

• Black Visions Collective: in South Minneapolis. Black + Queer led. Mission of dismantling systemic oppression and violence through cultural narrative organizing.
• Communities Against Police Brutality: support system for families and victims of police brutality (on day to day scale and on larger scale activism as well)
• Black Lives Matter 
• Black Travel Fund
• Campaign Zero
• George Floyd Memorial Fund
• Reclaim the Block
• North Star Health Collective
• Black Trans Womens’ Fund
• Peoples’ City Council Freedom Fund
• Nashville Bail Fund- call 615-495-5450 
• Atlanta Solidarity Fund
• National Bailout:
• Community Justice Exchange
• https://bailproject.org/ 
• Louisville Community Bail Fund https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/ 
• Brooklyn Bail Fund
• Black Disability Coalition
• Massachusetts Bail Fund
• Audre Lorde Project
• NAACP
• Equal Justice Initiative
• I Run With Maud
• ACLU
• Oakland’s People’s Breakfast (oakland based bail out)
• anti-Police terror project
• Florida LGBTQ Freedom Fund
• Chicago Community Bond Fund
• Groundswell Fund
• Black Trans Travel Fund — Devin Michael Lowe
• Center for Black Equity - Home
• Support the NYC LGBT Community Center | Donate Today
• Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP)
• Masterlist of bail funds + many other organizations across the country: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vMBNCGLahTZa50vQOEPFI_-7BQzyOPInwLj_jNMzR2c/mobilebasic
• Black Table Arts
• Support CTUL! | Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha PowerBase
• Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund organized by Chris and Shanelle Montana
• Little Earth Residents Association Inc
• Migizi Communications
• Minnesota Healing Justice Network
• Northside Business Support
• Pimento Relief Fund — ABEP
• Southside Harm Reduction
• Donate - SPIRAL COLLECTIVE
• Women for Political Change
• Unicorn Riot
• Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN)
• HEARD - provides support for deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, deafdisabled and disabled folx in the criminal justice system
• Disability Justice Culture Club
• G.L.I.T.S.
• The Okra Project

**** (White) Anti-racists should show up and set aside a portion of their funds to donate each month, whether they go to large Black-organizing initiatives or individual reparational causes ****

PROJECTS YOU COULD BE GETTING AFFILIATED WITH:

• The Whiteness Project http://whitenessproject.org/millennials
• FREE COURSE FROM YALE WITH FURTHER FREE RESOURCES https://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162
• Campaign Zero https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): get connected with a chapter!
• Local BLM chapter starting info https://blacklivesmatter.com/how-to-become-a-chapter/ 
• National Police Accountability Project https://www.nlg-npap.org 
• Anti-Racism Resources — Rachel Ricketts

ARTICLES YOU COULD BE READING:

• Women, Power, and Revolution: Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party - Kathleen Cleaver
• Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America - Hamilton + Ture
• https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/teaching-your-child-about-black-history-month 
• Sixteen Words and Definitions to Kickstart Your Anti-Racism Journey https://medium.com/@reneecherez/16-words-and-definitions-to-kickstart-your-anti-racism-journey-bd1100656b0d
• What is White Privilege, Really?- Cory Collins https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really
• 10 Examples that Prove White Privilege- Jon Greenburg https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/10-examples-that-prove-white-privilege-exists-in-every-aspect-imaginable-20170724
• White People Raised to Be Racially Illiterate- Robin DiAngelo https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-people-are-still-raised-be-racially-illiterate-if-we-ncna906646
• Things I Didn’t Know- James Mulhollan https://notetomywhiteself.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/things-i-didnt-know/
• White Americans’ Hold on Wealth Unshakeable- Brentin Mock https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/racial-wealth-gap-history-slavery-black-white-family-income/597100/
• The Feight to Redefine Racism (according to Ibram X. Kendi)- Kalefa Sanneh https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/the-fight-to-redefine-racism
• White Fragility- Robin DiAngelo https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116
• Becoming Trustworthy White Allies- Melanie S. Morrison https://reflections.yale.edu/article/future-race/becoming-trustworthy-white-allies
• Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation- Evelyn Nakano Glenn http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/journals/SRE/Jan15SREFeature.pdf
• White Supremacy Culture- Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun http://www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr-culture.html
• Vera Project Evidence Brief https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/for-the-record-prison-paradox_02.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2YdGw_EbMTynZnbFLvBD1pIuTWqx06kFgIvSRjxt4Mspghk4a_gY1L3ZE
• America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us - Adam Serwer https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/
• The Intersectionality Wars - Jane Coaston https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination 
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh http://convention.myacpa.org/houston2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf
• Who Gets to be Afraid in America - Ibram X. Kendi https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/ahmaud-arbery/611539/
• How Capitalism and Racism Support Each Other https://truthout.org/articles/how-capitalism-and-racism-support-each-other/ 
• The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
• A World Without Police
• The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde

https://www.muhlenberg.edu/media/contentassets/pdf/campuslife/SDP%20Reading%20Lorde.pdf

• Medical Apartheid Isn’t Some Far Off Myth: I’m Black and I Almost Died at White Memorial Hospital by Walela

https://medium.com/@itswalela/medical-apartheid-isnt-some-far-off-myth-i-m-black-i-almost-died-at-white-memorial-hospital-84c7177fa5f0

• #blackdisabilityhistory (not an article but a collection of twitter threads)

https://wakelet.com/wake/bcac0448-cecd-4a51-82f6-1bdce83180d3

Black Panther 10 Point Program

http://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/ 

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-works 

WHERE CAN I ACCESS THESE TEXTS FOR  FREE?

• https://z-lib.org 
• https://openlibrary.org
• https://manybooks.net 
• Your local library with apps like Libby and Overdrive!
• Scribd has a 30 day free trial and has lots of ebooks and PDFs

BLACK OWNED BOOKSTORES: (instagram usernames)

• @unclebobbies
• @keybookstore
• @mahoganybooks
• @semicolonchi
• @hakimsbookstore
• @harriets_bookshop
• @ashaybythebay
• @thelitbar
• @afriwarebooks
• Brave and Kind Books
• Brain Lair Books
• Detroit Book City
• Eso Won Books
• Cafe con Libros
• Frugal Bookstore
• Loyalty Bookstore
• Dare Books
• Listening Tree Books
• Underground Books
• Pyramid Books
• Black Dot Cultural Center
• Medu Bookstore Official Website
• Wild Fig Coffee & Books
• Olive Tree Books-n-Voices
• Revolution Books NYC
• Sisters Uptown Bookstore
• Source Booksellers
• Sankofa
• Turning Page Bookshop
• A Different Booklist

BLACK OWNED VINTAGE & SECOND-HAND SHOPS (CLOTHING):

• @aaricanichole 
• @decadesinretro 
• @devotionvtg 
• @ephrancevintage 
• @fyrevintage 
• @knooksvintage 
• @mawsupply 
• @secondhandshawty 
• @smallneeds
• @shopthrftd 
• @thriftedfeels
• @washingtonave
• @honeycutt_vintage (books, homegoods, relics)

BLACK OWNED BEAUTY & SKINCARE BRANDS:

• @mdmflow
• @thelipbar
• @juviasplace
• @ajcrimson
• @sashacosmeticsofficial
• @colouredraine
• @liquidcourage_cosmetics
• @ascensionearth
• @neworiginshop 
• @organicallybeautyinc 
• @propabeauty

QUESTIONS YOU COULD BE  CONSIDERING:

(be intentional about how you approach answering these questions - physically write them down; write your own goals!)

In what ways will I recognize and interrogate racism within my own self this week?

What can I do this week to show up for and support my BIPOC friends during this time?

What conversations will I both initiate and engage about police brutality and Black oppression?

How will I use my resources (time, attention, financial privilege, BODY if you are able/not immunocompromised) to support the anti-racist agenda and movement? How might I use my social media right now in ways that are not virtue-signaling? How can I challenge harmful narrative of respectability politics within the media which is painting protesters and radicals risking their lives  for justice right now as criminals? What next? What does a world look like post-COVID19? How will we articulate our demands for progress? What are those demands?