ANTIRACIST RESOURCES
(a sampling)

ORGANIZATIONAL LINKS

• Fractured Atlas Anti-Racism resources: https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/anti-racism-resources-arts-nonprofits

• National Museum of African American History and Culture, Being Anti-Racist: https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist

• National Arts Educator Association, Constructing an Anti-Racist Agenda: https://www.arteducators.org/advocacy-policy/articles/692-black-lives-matter

• Anti-Racist Alliance: http://www.antiracistalliance.com/

ENGAGE

• http://checkyoself.info

• https://mastersinsocialworkonline.org/resources/implicit-bias/

WHAT TO READ

• The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html 

BOOKS

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

• A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt

• Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

• Waking Up White by Debby Irving

• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

• Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady

• They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by
  Austin Channing Brown

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel

• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice by Fania Davis

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (Martin Luther King Jr. called this “the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement.)

• Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

• Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

• The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

WHAT TO WATCH

•   https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/

•   The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America

•   Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama

• The 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley

• Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour

• When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five

• 13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system

• I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish

• Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement

• Whose Streets?, a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson

• Fruitvale Station, a film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant

• American Son, a film with Kerry Washington about an estranged interracial couple waiting for their missing son

• The Central Park Five, a documentary from Ken Burns

• A Class Divided, a Frontline documentary