Antiracism Resource Guide: Do Five Things ​

“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.” Ijeoma Oluo, Author of So You Want to Talk About Race ​

Five Articles/Essays to Read 1. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X Kendi (The Atlantic, May 2020) ​ ​ ​ 2. What is Whiteness? by Nell Irvin Painter(The New York Times, June 2015) ​ ​ ​ 3. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, June 2014) ​ ​ ​ 4. How Redlining’s Racist Effects Lasted for Decades by Emily Badger (The New York ​ ​ Times, August 2017) ​ 5. The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020 by Cathy Park Hong (The New York Times, ​ ​ April 2020)

Five Podcasts to Listen To 1. Uncivil 2. 1619 3. Code Switch 4. Seeing White 5. Intersectionality Matters!

Five Foundational Texts to Read 1. The Combahee River Collective Statement (1974) ​ 2. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984) ​ 3. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1962) ​ 4. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh (1989) ​ 5. The Other America by Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) ​

Five Books to Read 1. Fatal Intervention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts ​ 2. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi ​ 3. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin ​ ​ DiAngelo

4. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle ​ Alexander 5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by ​ Richard Rothstein

Five Accounts/Organizations to Follow on Social Media 1. The Conscious Kid [Instagram] [Facebook] [Twitter] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2. Audre Lorde Center [Instagram ] [Facebook] [Twitter] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 3. Colorlines [Instagram] [Facebook] [Twitter] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 4. Antiracism Center [Instagram] [Facebook] [Twitter] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 5. MPowerChange [Instagram] [Facebook] [Twitter] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Five Films and Docuseries to Watch 1. 13th (available on Netflix) ​ 2. I Am Not Your Negro (available on Netflix and Kanopy) ​ 3. The House I Live In (available on Amazon Prime and Kanopy) ​ 4. Slavery by Another Name (available on PBS) ​ 5. Asian Americans (available on PBS) ​

Five Books to Read to Your Child 1. Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez And Her Family’s Fight For Desegregation by ​ Duncan Tonatiuh 2. Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann ​ Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin 3. I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian ​ Newland 4. The Day You Begin Jaqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael Lopez ​ 5. Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester, illustrated by Karen Barbour ​

Five Books to Read with Your Teenager 1. Stamped from the Beginning: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and ​ Ibram X Kendi 2. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ​ 3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo ​ 4. Black Boy, White School by Brian F. Walker ​ 5. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ​ 6. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei ​

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