Anti-Racism Resources + Tools
ARTICLES
On Whiteness
| 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice | Corinne Shutack |
| How White Womens' Tears Threaten Black Existence | Cameron Glover |
| When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels | Rachel Cargle |
| The Souls of White Folk | Stephen Jamal Leeper |
| What do we do with white folks? | Anthony James William |
| White People Have No Culture | Lorena Wallace |
| White Fragility | The Conscious Kid |
| Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: 'Some Very Fine People on Both Sides' |
Rosie Gray |
| Discourse & Debate: Is performative activism inherently bad? | Kayla Abrams |
| Amy Cooper, White Spaces, and the Political Projection of Whiteness | Wear Your Voice Magazine |
| The White Space | Elijah Anderson |
On Racism, Blackness in America
Anti-Blackness in the fashion industry
| Business of Fashion 500 is now 499. | Kerby Jean-Raymond |
| What It's Really Like to Be Black and Work in Fashion | Lindsay Peoples Wagner |
Anti-Blackness in the Asian community
| Model Minority' Myth Again Used as a Racial Wedge Between Asians and Blacks |
Kat Chow |
| 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now |
Michelle Kim |
| 6 Ways Asian Americans Can Tackle Anti-Black Racism in Their Families |
Kim Tran |
| The Asian American Reply to Pandemic-Era Racism Must Be Cross-Racial Solidarity | Kelsey Liu and Monica Hahn |
On Liberation
| Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done with Other People | Eve L. Ewing interviewing Mariame Kaba |
| Free Us All | Mariame Kaba |
| The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon |
| Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire |
| Assata: An Autobiography | Assata Shakur |
On Police Violence
| How Videos of Police Brutality Traumatize African-Americans and Undermine the Search for Justice |
Kia Gregory |
| What to Do Instead of Calling the Police | Aaron Rose |
| The Case for Delegitimizing the Police | William C. Anderson |
| Abolish the Police? | Maya Dukmasova |
| Alternatives to the Police | Evan Dent, Molly Korab, Farid Rener |
| Calling Someone Other Than the Cops | Conor Friedersdorf |
| finding ways not to call the police | Caroline -- |
| Twitter Flags Trump, White House for 'glorifying violence' in George Floyd protest tweets |
Travis Pittman |
| Abolish the Police (Part 1 and Part 2) | brian bean |
| How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct | Palika Makam |
| 11 Things You Can Do to Help Black Lives Matter End Police Violence | Lincoln Anthony Blades |
| Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. |
Mychal Denzel Smith |
| The Myth of Police Reform | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Community Safety Looks Like... | Project NIA |
| Summer Heat | Mariame Kaba |
OTHER RESOURCES
COMPILATIONS
BOOKS
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
| How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi |
| Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools | Monique W. Morris |
| Caste | Isabel Wilkerson |
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson: https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/ |
| From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor |
| As Black as Resistance | Zoe Samudzi |
| When Affirmative Action was White | Ira Katznelson |
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo |
| White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism |
Robin DiAngelo |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
| Freedom is a Constant Struggle | Angela Davis |
| Women, Race and Class | Angela Davis |
| Sister Outsider | Audre Lorde |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| Song of Soloman | Toni Morrison |
| Who do you serve? Who do you protect? | Alicia Garza, Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price |
| Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Eric A. Stanley |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley and Malcolm X |
| Race Matters | Cornel West |
| Noname Book Club (monthly) | Noname |
| How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor |
| Crunk Feminist Collection | Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn, Crunk Feminist Collective |
PETITIONS/DONATIONS
| Minnesota Freedom Fund | |
| Reclaim the Block | |
| George Floyd Memorial Fund | |
| Black Visions Collective | |
| Justice for Breonna Taylor | |
| Black Lives Matter | |
| Campaign Zero | |
| Justice for Big Floyd | |
| Justice for George Floyd | |
| #JusticeforFloyd | |
| texting "FLOYD" to 55156 | |
| texting "JUSTICE" to 55156 | |
| texting "ENOUGH" to 55156 | |
| NAACP Legal Defense Fund | |
| Equal Justice Initiative | |
| Center for Policing Equity | |
| Live Free - Faith in Action | |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | |
| Black Visions: Reclaim the Block |
PDFs
| On Being White | James Baldwin |
| White Fragility | Robin DiAngelo |
| The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: the Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America |
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva |
| Race, Power & Policy: Dismantling Structural Racism | the Grassroots Policy Project |
| Words Matter: Thoughts on Language and Abolition | Critical Resistance Abolition Toolkit Workgroup |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy McIntosh |
PODCASTS/EPISODES
| Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest | NPR Code Switch |
| Dismantling White Fragility "...DiAngelo calls on white people to let go of guilt and to pick up responsibility. When you break free from the urge to defend yourself and start doing the inner work, it can be fantastically liberating..." |
The goop Podcast |
| Racism Cont'd | What a Day |
| About Race with Renni Eddo-Lodge | |
| Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Renni Eddo-Lodge |
| "The Negro In American Culture" 1961 | James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Emile Capouya, Alfred Kazin |
FILM/VIDEO
| Time: The Kalief Browder Story | Netflix |
| 13th | Netflix |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Youtube, Amazon, Google Play |
| James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965) | Youtube |
| James Baldwin on Dick Cavett | Youtube |
| What happens when I try to talk race with white people | Youtube |
| White People, Enough: A Look at Power and Control | Youtube |
| Black & Asian Solidarity in NYC: What We've Learned | Facebook (recorded live) |
| Angela Davis |
NOTEWORTHY FIGURES/AUTHORS
| Angela Davis | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| bell hooks | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Toni Morrison |