Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible. We will continue to add resources.

Immediate action list: Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives

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Documents containing resources used in this list: Anti-racism resources for white people (Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein - May 2020) Read about Helms’ White Identity Development

Stage of White Identity Resources What to do next? Development (Helms) and their *When purchasing books, please corresponding beliefs/thoughts/ purchase directly from authors or local actions bookstores -- here’s one online suggestion. CONTACT Activities: Understanding and 1. White Privilege: Unpacking the utilizing resources • “I don’t see color.” Invisible Knapsack (Peggy about racial • “Talking about race brings McIntonsh) inequality and bias is disunity.” Podcasts: the first part of this • Belief that racism is 1. NPR episode about Whistling work -- educating caused by talking about Vivaldi yourself is important. race. Videos: • Belief that you aren’t 1. Interview about I’m Still Here Reject the desire to racist if you don’t 2. Interview about White Awake ask black folks, purposely or consciously Articles: indigineous folks or act in racist ways. 1. Walking While Black (Garnette people of color Cadogan) (BIPOC) to explain How folks move from this racism for you. stage: by being confronted with Books: Instead, find active racism, real-world 1. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting resources created by experiences that highlight their Together in the Cafeteria (Beverly BIPOC to help whiteness. Tatum) educate yourself, or 2. I’m Still Here (Austin Channing offer to financially Brown) compensate folks 3. Whistling Vivaldi (Claude Steel) who are educating 4. White Awake (Daniel Hill) you!

Start reading about concepts like white privilege and racial bias. DISINTEGRATION Activities: Do not let guilt (white • “I feel bad for being 1. Racial Bias Test - this will help guilt) or shame stop white.” you understand what your biases you from doing anti- • May feel like you’re stuck. are for yourself racist work.

How folks move from this Videos: Ask folks how you stage: by participating in anti- 1. White Fragility - short video can support. racist work. summarizing the book by Robin DiAngelo Find a way to support *Big caution for this stage: guilt anti-racism. Some can be overwhelming. Be examples might aware that sitting in guilt or include attending a shame might move us to the training, joining an reintegration stage allies group, participating in a protest. Keep working to grow, instead of settling into shame. REINTEGRATION Activities: Remember that • “It’s not my fault I’m 1. Look over the graph below and moving forward is white.” reflect on your past, current important. It might be • “I have a black friend/ thoughts/beliefs, and implications helpful to revisit child/relative, etc.” of these convictions. some of the previous • May notice yourself resources to help feeling defensive when remind you of why talking about race. this work is important. How do folks move past this stage? By combating these Find a way to support feelings of defensiveness, anti-racism. Some shame or superiority. examples might include attending a training, joining an allies group, participating in a protest. Keep working to grow, instead of settling Podcasts: into shame. 1. Side Effects of White Women Podcast Episode with Amanda Seales 2. Smartest Person in the Room’s episode on Well Meaning White People Articles: PSEUDO-INDEPENDENCE Podcasts: Begin having difficult • “How can I be white and 1. Code Switch podcast A Decade conversations with anti-racist?” on Watching Black People Die white friends and • Belief that privilege is not Books: family about racism based on merit, but on 1. ’s So You Want to and inequality. bias & racism. Talk About Race • Rely on BIPOC to 2. Why I No Longer Talk to White Begin to think about address racism. People about Race by Reni how you might use • Might affirm or seek to Eddo-Loge your privilege to comfort the BIPOC who is 3. The Fire This Time by Jesmyn support anti-racist addressing racism. Ward work. Documentary: 1. 13th (Ava DuVernay) Poem 1. White Privilege (Kyla Lacey) Videos 1. How We Can Win (David Jones) IMMERSION Activities: Complete the journal • Begins to work against 1. Reflective Journal Prompts: prompts and consider systems of oppression, 1. Think about the country that you completing some of rather than seeing racism live in. What are some of the the action items laid as individual actions. national racial stereotypes-- out in these • Is able to embrace their spoken and unspoken, historic resources! own white identity & what and modern--associated with their whiteness means, Black women? Black men? while also working 2. How do you see colorism at work alongside BIPOC in this country? How do you see • Works actively to be anti- colorism at work in your own racist. prejudicial thoughts? 3. How have you expected Black women to serve or soothe you? 4. How have you reacted in the presence of Black women who are unapologetic in their confidence, self-expression, boundaries, and refusal to submit to the white gaze? Podcasts: 1. Still Processing episode on Kaepernick 2. White Lies (NPR) Articles: 1. Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Case for Reparations 2. Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen Is So Important (Kimberley Lawson) AUTONOMY Activities: • Embodied anti-racism: Answer these questions (written by Nii being willing to step in the Addo Abrahams, M.A., M. Div. / Twitter way of racism when & Instagram @_nickyflash_) possible, engage in • Does your solidarity last longer protests than a news cycle? • Has done the work to • Does your solidarity make you recognize their own lose sleep at night? identity, so that they can • Does your solidarity put you in effectively be anti-racist. danger? • Recognizes that growth is • Does your solidarity cost you continual, and they might relationships? need to revisit previous • Does your solidarity take away stages. time from other things you could be doing? • Does your solidarity change the way you spend your money? • Does your solidarity make you a disruptive presence in white spaces? • Does your solidarity challenge your country’s values? • Does your solidarity make you think you’re not racist? • Does your solidarity change how you read your Bible? • Does your solidarity change how you preach? • Does your solidarity happen when no one is looking? Social media accounts to follow in any stage:

Instagram: Twitter: @wokebrownfem @clintsmithIII @nowhitesaviours @keeangayamahtta @theimtiredproject @DrIbram @rachel.cargle @MsPackyetti @advancementproject @britthawthorne @JBouie @indyamoore @thearmchaircom @wearyourvoice @RevJacquiLewis @ckyourprivilege @drchanequa @alokvmenon @ava @theunapologeticallybrownseries @YNPierce @austinchanning @esglaude @theconsciouskid @antiracismctr @jemelehill @_nickyflash_ @_nickyflash_ @heyqueenyoucute @nhannahjones For those who want to be a better anti-racist in thier faith traditions

Christian Church: 1. Jennifer Harvey's Dear White Christians 2. Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism 3. Michael Emerson and Christian Smith’s Divided by Faith 4. Lenny Duncan’s Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. 5. Christena Cleveland’s Disunity in Christ 6. Curtiss Paul DeYoung's Coming Together in the 21st Century 7. Edward Gilbreath’s Reconciliation Blues 8. Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America 9. Trouble I’ve Seen 10. Chanequa Walker-Barnes’s I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation

Jewish Racial Justice Resources

If you’d prefer to read a novel: 1. Angie Thomas’s The Hate You Give 2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah 3. Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing 4. Toni Morrison’s Beloved 5. James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On the Mountain Podcast recommendations: 1. White Lies by NPR 2. The 1619 Project by the New York Times 3. Uncivil by Gimlet Media 4. The Witness Podcast Network - Pass the Mic 5. Seeing White

For those in education: 1. Anti-Racist Educator Self-Questionnaire and Rubric 2. Anti-Racist Student Self-Questionnaire Accessible resources for the youth:

Antiracist Baby Kwame Alexander’s the Crossover series This Book is Antiracist Books to Teach White Children and Teens How to Undo Racism and White Supremacy

Young Adult Literature: by Nic Stone by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina

Middle grades; A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes New Kid by Jerry Craft

Resources for parents: Raising White Kids (Jen Harvey) -- article here: 'Raising White Kids' Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race

Document created by: Anna Stamborski, M. Div Candidate (2022) Nikki Zimmermann, M. Div candidate (2021) Bailie Gregory, M. Div, M.S. Ed.