COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

Compiled by UNY Conference Commission on Religion and Race Members and the General Commission on Religion & Race

Online Resources

Study Links – GCORR

Lenten Study Series: Roll Down Justice: Six-session study guides and videos www.gcorr.org/series/lenten-series-roll-down-justice/

Racial Justice Conversation Guide www.gcorr.org/racial-justice-conversation-guide/

Is Reverse Racism Really a Thing? Study guide & video www.gcorr.org/is-reverse-racism-really-a-thing/

Wait…That’s Privilege? Article with Privilege Quiz www.gcorr.org/wait-thats-privilege/

Study Links – Other Sources

United Methodist Women’s Lenten Study on Racial Justice www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/lent www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITxqC0Sze4

Eye on the Prize – a PSB documentary series (14 episodes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpY2NVcO17U

UMW Tools for Leaders: Resources for Racial Justice https://s3.amazonaws.com/umw/pdfs/racialjustice2012.pdf

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Websites

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): https://www.naacp.org

Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org

General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR): http://www.gcorr.org/

Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com

Local groups involved in anti-racism action in your area

Podcasts www.insocialwork.org/list_categories.asp

Videos

Getting Called Out – How to Apologize: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xJXLYL.8pU&feature=youtube).UnderstandingMy Privilege The Danger of a Single Story www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcr ipt?languafe=en

PBS, "Race: The Power of an Illusion." Three one-hour videos with discussion questions, 2003. https://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm

Crossing the Color Line | Brennon Thompson | TEDxSUNYGeneseo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQUT4LMhAw

"Free Indeed," a video drama about racism and white privilege, available at UNY Resource Center.

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Mass Media

Movies

“Hidden Figures”, 20th Century Fox, 2016 “Crash”, Lionsgate Films, 2004 “Amistad”, DreamWorks Pictures, 1997 “I Am Not Your Negro”, Magnolia Pictures, 2016 “BlacKkKlansman”, Focus Features, 2018 “The Help”, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, 2011 “Schindler’s List”, Universal Pictures, 1993 “Hotel Rwanda”, Lions Gate Films, United Artists, MGM, 2005 “Fences”, Paramount Pictures, 2016 “12 Years a Slave”, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2013 “The Mission”, Warner Bros., 1986 “13th”, Netflix, 2016 “I’m Not Racist, Am I?”, 2014

TV Films/Miniseries

“Roots”, miniseries on ABC, 1977, available on all streaming services “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”, originally aired CBS, NBC Universal Television Distribution, 1974 “Race: the Power of Illusion”, PBS, 2003

TV Programs

“United Shades of America”, W. Kamau Bell, CNN “Westworld”, HBO “Sesame Street”, PBS “Crash”, STARZ “Dear White People”, CW

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UNY Resource Center

“Race, the Power of an Illusion” 3 1-hr.videos with discussion questions “Free Indeed” video drama about racism and white privilege

Books

Non-fiction

Akwesasne Notes, ed., Basic Call to Consciousness, Native Voices, an imprint of Book Publishing Co., 2005 Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow, The New Press, 2012 Boyd, Rev. Malcolm, Race and Prayer, Morehouse Publishing, 2003 Churchill, Ward, Indians Are Us, Common Courage Press, 1999 Coates, Ta-nehisi, Between the World and Me, Spiegel & Grau, 2015 DiAngelo, Robin, What Does It Mean to Be White, Peter Lang Inc., 2012; White Fragility, Beacon Press, 2018 DeGruy, Joy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Uptone Press, 2005 DeWolf, Thomas, Inheriting the Trade, Beacon Press, 2008 Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Library of America, 1845. DuBois, WEB, The Souls of Black Folk, Millennium Press, 1903 Dyson, Michael Eric, Tears We Cannot Stop, St. Martin’s Press, 2017; What Truth Sounds Like, St. Martin’s Press, 2018 Griffin, John Howard, Black Like Me, Houghton Mifflin, 1961 Hacker, Andrew, Two Nations, Simon & Schuster, 1992 Harding, Vincent, There Is a River, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1981 Irving, Debby, Waking Up White, Elephant Room Press, 2014 Johnson, F. Willis, Holding Up Your Corner, Abingdon Press, 2017 Kelsey, George, Racism and the Christian Understanding of Man, Scribner, 1965

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Kendi, Ibram X., Stamped From the Beginning, Nation Books, 2016; How to Be an Antiracist, One World, 2019. Kivel, Paul, Uprooting Racism, 3rd Ed, New Society Publishers, 2002 Law, Eric, Inclusion: Making Room for Grace, Chalice Press, 2000 Long, Nancy Ann Zrinyi, The Life and Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune, Pearson Publisher, 2004 Malcolm X and Haley, Alex, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Grove Press, 1965 McBride, James, The Color of Water, Penguin Group, 1995 McKinstry, Carolyn Maull, While the World Watched, Tyndale House Publishers, 2013 McPherson, James, Crab Cakes, Simon & Schuster, 1998 Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye, Holt McDougal, 1970; Beloved, Alfred Knopf, 1987 Obama, Michelle, Becoming, Crown Publishing, 2018 Oluo, Ijeoma, So You Want to Talk About Race, Basic Books, 2018 Sapphire, Push, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Saslow, Eli, Rising Out of Hatred, Doubleday, 2018 Simon, Rita, In Their Own Voices, Columbia University Press, 2000 Tatum, Beverly Daniel, Why Are all the Black Kits Sitting Together in the Conference and Other Conversations About Race, Perseus Books Group, 1997 Thurman, Howard, Jesus and the Disinherited, Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1949 Tochluk, Shelly, Witnessing Whiteness, Rowman & Littlefield Education Publishers, 2010 Tyson, Timothy B., Blood Done Sign My Name, Crown Publishing, 2004 Wallis, Jim, America’s Original Sin, Brazos Press, 2016 Washington, Harriet, Medical Apartheid, Doubleday, 2007 West, Cornel, Race Matters, Beacon Press, 1993 Williams, Lena, It’s the Little Things, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 Wise, Timothy, Dear White America, City Lights Books, 2012; Under the Affluence, City Lights Books, 2015; White Like Me, City Lights Books, 2015 Wright, Richard, Black Boy, Harper & Bros., 1945

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Fiction

Ellison, Ralph, The Invisible Man, Ishi Press, 1952 Morrison, Toni, Beloved, Alfred Knopf, 1987. Moore, Yvette, Freedom Songs, Puffin Book, 1991 Senna, Danzy, Caucasia, Rivehead, 1998 Thomas, Angie, The Hate You Give, Harper Collins, 2017 Walker, Alice, The Color Purple, Simon Schuster Trade, 1982

Miscellaneous

DeYmaz, Mark, Building a Healthy Multiethnic Church, 2007, Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church, 2013 Multiethnic Conversations, 2013, Wesleyan Publishing House McIntosh, Peggy, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", 1988, $4.00; “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies” 1988, $4.00., both from Wellesley College Center for Research on Women

Sermon

“The Drum Major Instinct”, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (November 14, 2019)

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