Tatum Dorrell RESOURCES & TOOLS REGARDING RACISM & ANTI/BLACKNESS Matt Herndon & How to be a Better Ally Jourdan Dorrell
ARTICLES NOTES 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 Rosie Gray People on Both Sides' 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 In Defense of Looting Vicky Osterweil This Is What Black Burnout Feels Like Tiana Clark Amy Cooper Knew Exactly What She Was Doing Zeba Blay Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race Renni Eddo-Lodge Black Lives Matter & COVID-19: An Activist Roundtable Aislinn Pulley, brian bean, Frank Chapman, Damon Williams, Alyx Goodwin, Todd St. Hill, Khury Petersen-Smith, Haley Pessin more Chicago-focused We're Sick of Racism, Literally Douglas Jacobs Letter From a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. If Beale Street Could Talk and the Urgency of Black Love Hannah Giorgis Embracing Sadness When Joy & Rage Are the Only Options the Zhailon Levingston World Offers to Black People How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Elly Belle Institutional Racism What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants Kim Kelly I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye Ta-Nehisi Coates interesting read 1619 Project New York Times compilation on the lasting legacy of slavery in the US The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration Ta-Nehisi Coates The Case for Reparations Ta-Nehisi Coates Where is the outrage for Breonna Taylor? Renee Nishawn Scott Forget "Looting." Capitalism is the Real Robbery William C. Anderson A Timeline of the Events That Led to the 2020 Uprising Michael Harriot Why Protest? (Zine) Chicago Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Teaching Collective --- 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 Kat Chow Asians and Blacks 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-RacialKelsey Solidarity 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 Kia Gregory Undermine the Search for Justice 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 Canada-focused but relevant discussion 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 Travis Pittman Desert Sun 'looting' quote source George Floyd protest tweets Super in-depth, goes into historical origins of American Abolish the Police (Part 1 and Part 2) brian bean policing How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct Palika Makam Still consider ways in which to share information without perpetuating Black trauma 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 Mychal Denzel Smith Political Equality. The Myth of Police Reform Ta-Nehisi Coates Community Safety Looks Like... Project NIA Summer Heat Mariame Kaba COMPILATIONS Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Jon Greenberg Subcategories: Race and Racism - Reading Articles Written Specifically for White Americans - Understanding Whiteness, White Privilege, Microaggressions, & a History of Racial Discrimination - Joining Groups - Parenting Racially-conscious Children Anti-Oppression: Anti-Racism Guide Simmons University SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Resources Whiteaccomplices.org Resources Taking a Stand Against Police Violence Teen Vogue compiled links to articles & stories Antiracism resources for white people JusticeforBreonna compiled articles, organizations, other resources Abolitionist Resources Critical Resistance Antiracism Resources GoodGoodGood
BOOKS The Fire Next Time James Baldwin Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz I just read this and thought it was an amazing historical perspective How to be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Monique W. Morris From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor As Black as Resistance Zoe Samudzi When Affirmative Action was White Ira Katznelson This was a great historical perspective! 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 Your Silence Will Not Protect You 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 They Can't Kill Us All Wesley Lowry Racism Without Racists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva This Bridge Called My Back Compilation, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Redefining Realness Janet Mock Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther PartyJoshua Bloom Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
PETITIONS / DONATIONS Bails out people who can't afford bail, immigrants, & Minnesota Freedom Fund protestors; read FAQ Reclaim the Block Organizes Minneapolis community & city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city's budget that truly promote community health and safety; read their Digital Toolkit George Floyd Memorial Fund Black Visions Collective Justice for Breonna Taylor Read description Black Lives Matter Campaign Zero Justice for Big Floyd Justice for George Floyd #JusticeforFloyd texting "FLOYD" to 55156 Text code shortcuts 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 Compiled list of other organizations to donate to
PDFS On Being White James Baldwin White Fragility Robin DiAngelo Not the full book but a great introduction 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 PIC = Prison Industrial Complex White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
PODCASTS / EPISODES (Spotify links) Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest NPR Code Switch Dismantling White Fragility The goop Podcast Disregard that it's from Goop; No Gwyneth Paltrow "...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 Timestamps and start doing the inner work, it can be fantastically liberating..." 1:15-30:40, 33:40-62:02 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 audio version of aforementioned article "The Negro In American Culture" 1961 James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Youtube link to audio 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 Subject: Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro? 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 Youtube Black Power Mixtape: 1967 - 1975 Youtube, Google Play Just Mercy Youtube, Amazon, Google Play
NOTEWORTHY FIGURES/AUTHORS (expanding beyond Anti-Blackness in the United States) Angela Davis Audre Lord Gwendolyn Brooks bell hooks James Baldwin Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Toni Morrison Assata Shakur
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS WORTH READING &/OR SHARING Amandla Stenberg via Instagram Isata Yansaneh via Instagram Akilah Hughes via Instagram Reasons Why White People Have Rioted via Twitter Thread of Prison Abolitionist Readings via Twitter Barack Obama's statement on the death of George Floyd via Twitter Gabriella Karefa-Johnson Reflecting on Ahmaud Arbery's Murder via Instagram Building a Police-Free Future: Frequently Asked Questions via Instagram see image 2/8 Rachel Cargle via Instagram Thread of readings for feeling radicalized in this moment via Twitter
ANTIRACIST RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Anti-Racist Lesson Plans & Resources for Educators Compilation Here Are 21 Free Resources for Teaching Social Justice in the ClassroomMegan DeMatteo