“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” ___ Angela Davis
“One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism.”
__ Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.
__Ijeoma Oluo
more Black bodies fall into the bag of my heart continuous rage
__Tasha K
Anti-racism Resource Guide
Last Updated: Juneteenth 2020
This anti-racist resource guide was crafted amidst the anger of the latest black body turned hashtag #AhmaudArbery. It is consistently being updated to address the current climate of our country and the personal growth needed to sustain this life-long journey. Please note that this document was and will continue to be a group effort. Suggested additions or other feedback can be emailed to me at the address below. I have tried extremely hard to thoroughly comb through these resources before they were listed, but always seeking new material. It took a lot of time and energy, emotional and mental labor to get this document to its current update. Some have asked about financially supporting the continued work of this anti-racism resource guide, that info is also below. This is just a resource, not a map leading to a destination, but help along the way, a strong start. The tendency to try and get through this list in its entirety and feel accomplished or to get overwhelmed by the ever growing list are real reactions we should leave behind. Again, this IS LIFE-LONG WORK that we choose to enter into, a journey for an anti-racist traveler that will take a lifetime. Starting Your Journey begins on page three and is based on Ibram X. Kendi’s anti-racism syllabus. There are four steps to guide you into the other resources that begin on page four. If you don’t feel quite ready to begin your journey, you can start below with some suggested pre-reading. Throughout the guide you will notice, White authors are noted, books are alphabetized by author, and podcasts, movie trailers, and organization websites are all linked. It is strongly encouraged that if you choose to purchase a book, you find it on a site that benefits the writer the most. It is important to start somewhere, even though there is no end point. This is a tool. This does not even brush the surface of anti-racism resources, but it is a start. Learning, re-learning, and decolonizing history are all necessary pieces of this journey, but should coincide with other things like listening, taking action, financially supporting, decentering whiteness, etc. For those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) engagement with these resources may be triggering. These materials are intended to help you further understand oppressive systems, and provide more tools and resources to fight these systems while recognizing how your own bias contributes to your prejudices. For those of you who are White, engaging with these resources could bring a negative or defensive reaction. I encourage you to challenge your own culture, privilege, and bias while continuing the fight against oppressive systems that you benefit from. I truly believe that this ongoing work is a journey of empathy and care for humanity, individually and collectively. We must engage if we want to do intentional anti-racism work in our families, our classrooms, our conversations, our meetings, our community, our country, and our world. Tasha K Email/Paypal: antiracismresourceguide@gmail.com Venmo: @tatortash Ca$hApp: $tatortash |
SUGGESTED PRE-READING
Blindspot
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism And The Persistence Of Racial Inequality In America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Biased
Jennifer L. Ebernhardt, PhD
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen (white author)
So You Want To Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
STARTING YOUR JOURNEY
Define Race
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, Big Business,Re-create Race In The 21st Century Dorothy Roberts
- Define Racism & Anti-racism
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas In America
Ibram X. Kendi
How To Be Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
or
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds
- Settle Your Feelings
BIPOC Learners should read:
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment In Black America
James Forman Jr.
or
White Learners should read:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Race
Robin Di’Angelo (white author)
- Continue Your Journey
Anti-racism is life-long work for all of us, there is no finish line. May we continue to move forward, instead of backwards. Start somewhere, start anywhere.
Page four begins the evolving list of resources organized by topic, and medium. Feel free to use the outline on the left to navigate the resources.
CONTINUING THE JOURNEY
How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young And Arab In America
Moustafa Bayoumi
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century
Grace Lee Boggs
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America
Michael Eric Dyson
Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side
Eve L. Ewing
How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy And The Racial Divide
Crystal M. Flemming
A Short History Of Reconstruction 1863-1877
Eric Foner (white author)
Tell Me Who You Are
Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work
Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand
Why We Can’t Wait
Martin Luther King, Jr.
America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States
Erica Lee
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement
Wesley Lowery
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems In Race, Political Economy And Society
Manning Marable
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
American Lynching
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
The Politics Of The Veil
Joan Wallach Scott (white author)
The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality In Postwar Detroit
Thomas Surgue (white author)
A Different Mirror A History Of Multicultural America
Ronald Takaki
A People’s History Of The United States
Howard Zinn (white author)
MEMOIRS
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
Maya Angelou
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
The Best We Could: An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui
Between The World And Me
Ta-nehisi Coates
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Brittney Cooper
Lakota Women
Mary Crow Dog & Richard Erdoes
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversation (Graphic Novel)
Mira Jacob
When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Paper Sons
Dickson Lam
Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon
Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock
Citizen 13660 (Graphic Novel)
Miné Okubo
I Love Yous Are For White People: A Memoir
Lac Su
The Auto-Biography Of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
ESSAYS
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine
Emily Bernard
We Were Eight Years In Power:An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation
Jeff Chang
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, And The Foundations Of A Movement.
Angela Y. Davis
If They Come In The Morning...Voices Of The Resistance
Edited by Angela Davis
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
Bad Feminist
Roxanne Gay
Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches
Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color
Edited By Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now
Andre Perry
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
Jesymn Ward
FICTION
Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
A Negro And And An Ofay: The Tales of Elliot Caprice
Danny Gardner
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Welcome To Braggsville: A Novel
T. Geronimo Johnson
The Other Americans
Laila Lalami
The Year Of The Dog
Grace Lin
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Americanah
Chimamande Ngozi Adichie
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds
We Cast A Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
The Paragon Hotel
Lyndsay Faye (white author)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Something Happened In Our Town
Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
I Am Not A Number
Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland
Anti-Racist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
Dim Sum For Everyone!
Grace Lin
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez And Her Family’s Fight For Desegregation
Duncan Tonatuih
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock
Aslan & Kelly Tudor
The Day You Begin
Jaqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom
Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Hot Hot Roti for Dada-ji
F. Zia, Illustrated by Ken Min
The Boy And The Wall
Palestinian Children in the Aida Refugee Camp
New Kid
Jerry Craft
PARENTING
The First R: How Children Learn Racism
Debra Van Ausdale & Joe R. Feagin (white author)
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting In America
Nefertiti Austin
Teaching Your Kid About Black History Month (Article)
Nefertiti Austin
Parenting Forward
Cindy Wang Brandt
Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Front Lines
Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams
Raising White Kids:Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America
Jennifer Harvey
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
Dani McClain
ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER STUDIES
The Myth Of The Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin (white author)
Two Faces Of Exclusion: The Untold Story Of Anti-Asian Racism In The United States
Lon Kurashige
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
Deepa Iyer
The Making Of Asian America
Erika Lee
On Gold Mountain
Lisa See
Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Ronald Takaki
They Called Us Enemy (Graphic Novel)
George Takei
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats (white author)
Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White
Frank H. Wu
Alien Nation: Chinese Migration In The Americas From The Coolie Era Through World War II
Elliott Young
The Good Immigrants: How The Yellow Peril Became The Model Minorities
Madeline H. Ysu
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence Of An American People
Helen Zia
Asian Americans (Mini-Series)
PBS
Long Distance (Podcast)
Self Evident(Podcast)
CHICANX/LATINX STUDIES
Borderlands/La Frontera
Gloria Anzaldúa
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of A Continent
Eduardo Galeano
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
Laura E. Gomez [Available August 2020]
De Colores Means All Of Us
Elizabeth Martinez
Latinos Who Lunch (Podcast)
INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Native: Identity, Belonging, And Rediscovering God
Kaitlin Curtice
An Indigenous People’s History Of The United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (white author)
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Daniel Heath Justice
Braiding Sweetgrass: Idigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, And The Teaching Of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, And The Pursuit Of Justice For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Jessica McDiarmid (white author)
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez
Seven Fallen Feathers
Tanya Talaga
All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma In The Shadow Of Colonialism
Tanya Talaga
All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward
Tanya Talaga
Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask
Anton Treuer
Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life
David Treuer
BLACK STUDIES
The Education Of Blacks In The South, 1860-1935
James D. Anderson
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capatalism
Edward E. Baptist (white author)
The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran
A Black Women’s History Of The United States
Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In The Building Of A Nation
Daina Ramey Berry
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness And Political Thought
Patricia Hill Collins
Selma(movie)
Directed by Ava Duverney
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks
March Trilogy (Graphic Novels)
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
North Of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States, 1780-1869
Leon F. Litwack (white author)
Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers In The Twenty-First Century
Monique M. Morris
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique M. Morris
40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of The Black Athlete
William C. Rhoden
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A More Beautiful And Terrible History: The Uses And Misuses Of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
The Underground Railroad (Historical Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
The Warmth of Other Son:The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present
Yale University AFAM 162, Free Online Course
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Just Medicine: A Cure For Racial Inequality In The American Health Care System
Dayna Bowen Matthew
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot (White Author)
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present
Harriet A. Washington
Flatlining: Race, Work, And Healthcare In The New Economy
Adia Harvey Wingfield
LAND AND HOUSING
Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City
Matthew Desmond (white author)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History on How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein (white author)
TEACHING
For All You White Folks Who Teach In The Hood...And The Rest Of Ya’ll Too
Christopher Emdin
Not Light, But Fire: How To Lead Meaningful Race Conversations In The Classroom
Matthew R. Kay
Culturally Responsive School Leadership
Muhammad Khalifa
We Want To Do More Than Just Survive: Abolitionist Teaching And The Pursuit Of Educational Freedom
Bettina L. Love
Start Where You Are But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, And Teaching In Today’s Classroom
H Richard Milner IV
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
Gholdy Muhammad
White Teachers Need Anti-racist Therapy (article)
Bettina L. Love
Everyday AntiRacism: Getting Real About Race In Schools
Mica Pollock (white author)
“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria” And Other Conversations On Race
Beverley Daniel Tatum, PhD
Conversation Starters with #schooltalking
A Framework For Teaching American Slavery
Teaching Tolerance Classroom Resources
Zinn Project Teaching Materials
IMMIGRATION
Create Dangerously:The Immigrant Artist At Work
Edwidge Danticat
My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero
Call Me American
Abdi Nor Iftir
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions
Valeria Luiselli
Enrique’s Journey
Sonia Nazario
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
VOTING
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Carol Anderson
Give Us The Vote: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights In America
Ari Berman
MASS INCARCERATION
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II
Douglass A. Blackmon (white author)
Choke Hold: Policing Black Men
Paul Butler
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
From The War On Poverty To The War On Crime: The Making Of Mass Incarceration In America
Elizabeth Hinton
An American Marriage (Fiction)
Tayari Jones
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
The Nickel Boys (Historical Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
Solitary: Unbroken By Four Decades In Solitary Confinement My Story of Transformation And Hope
Albert Woodfox
13th (Movie)
An American Documentary Directed by Ava Duvernay
When They See Us (Mini-Series)
Netflix Original Co-Written and Directed by Ava Duvernay
WHITE STUDIES
The Invention of The White Race: Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Theodore W. Allen (white author)
The Invention of The White Race: Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America Theodore W. Allen (white author)
White Rage Carol Anderson
What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy Robin DiAngelo (white author)
We Talk Different Episode #63-The ‘What Does It Mean To Be White’ Edition with Robin Di’Angelo (Podcast)
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America
Margaret A. Hagerman
Waking Up White
Deby Irving
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter
Me And White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change The World, and Become A Good Ancestor Layla F. Saad
White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son Tim Wise (white author)
HEALING AND RESTORATION
The Little Book on Race and Restorative Justice
Fania E. Davis
The Innerwork of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness Rhonda V. Magee
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma And The Pathway To Mending Our Broken Hearts And Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systematic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
Annealiese A Singh, PhD, LPC
FOR THE CHURCH
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy Of The Doctrine Of Discovery
Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion And The Problem Of Race In America
Michael O. Emerson & Christian Smith (white author)
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating For Justice That Restores
Dominique Du Bois Gilliard
The Very Good Gospel
Lisa Sharon Harper
White Awake: An Honest Look At What It Means To Be White
Daniel Hill (white author)
Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing The Way The Church View Racism
Drew Hart
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Nyasha Junior
Recovering From Racism: City Ministry In “Post-Racial” America
Larry Lloyd (white author)
Woke Church: An Urgent Call For Christians In America To Confront Racism And Injustice
Eric Mason
Road Map To Reconciliation: Moving Communities Into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
Brenda Salter McNeil
Introducing Womanist Theology
Stephanie V. Mitchem
The Long Repentance (Bible Study)
Mako Nagasawa
Let Justice Roll Down
John Perkins
Prophetic Lament: A Call For Justice In Troubled Times
Soong-Chan Rah
Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
Sarah Shin
Urbana 1970: Racism & World Evangelism (Sermon)
Speech by Tom Skinner
Jesus And The Disinherited
Howard Thurman
The Color of Compromise
Jemar Tisby
Footnotes with Jemar Tisby (Podcast)
Reconstructing The Gospel: Finding Freedom From The Slaveholder Religion
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (white author)
Centering: The Asian American Chrisian Podcast (Podcast)
ARTICLES
On Being Comfortable with Discomfort: Tiffany Jewell Explains What It Means To Be Anti-racist
Vanessa Willoughby
Ta-nehisi Coates
Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
EJI Lynching In America Interactive Resource
Equal Justice Initiative
Are All White Americans Police Officers?
Andre Henry
White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh
America,The House That Slavery Built
Tasha Williams
Edward S. Shapiro (white author)
MOVIES & CLIPS (Linked)
#1619 Project Interview with Hannah Jones
Campaign Zero Interview on MSNBC On Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
Written by James Baldwin and Directed by Raoul Peck
Directed by Ryan Coogle
PBS
Directed by Kenny Leon
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
Peggy McIntosh
Mudbound
Directed by Dee Rees
Black Feminism & The Movement For Black Lives
Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
Directed by George Tillman Jr.
OTHER RESOURCE LISTS (Linked)
13 Lists Of Ways To Learn And Show Up As Anti-Racists In This World
30+ Resources To Help White Americans Learn About Race and Racism
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
A Running List Of Anti_Racism Resources
Anti-Oppression Resource Guide
Anti-Racism Resource Guide for White People
Anti-Racism For White People: From Resource To Action
Educate Yourself: An Essential Anti-Racism Reading Guide
Joe Truss's 40+ Books For Anti-Racist Teacher Book Club
Rachel Ricketts' Anti-Racism Resources
Resources For White People To Learn And Talk About Racism
Teaching While White Foundational Texts
PODCASTS (Linked)
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
What Would Our Ancestors Think
FOLX TO FOLLOW
Rachel Cargle
Jelani Cobb
Mari Copeny
Sybrina Fulton
Elwing Suong Gonzalez
Britt Hawthorne
Ally Henny
Andre Henry
Myisha T. Hill
Bernice King
Rainer Maningding
Deray Mckesson
S. Lee Merritt, Esq.
Latasha Morrison
Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Sam Sinyangwe
Clint Smith
Tori Williams Douglass
Christina Xu
Jenny Yang
[Any Author Listed Above]
ORGANIZATIONS/PATREONS(Linked)
Campaign Zero
Equal Justice Initiative
The King Center