Anti-Racism Resources Table of Contents

Anti-racism Resources Organized by Topics/ Competency Level For SAYMA / Quaker Meetings

Notes for the user:

Welcome. This list of anti-racist resources is a constant work in progress, as we are able to review and approve new material. If you have questions, comments or statements concerning our choices, please contact the Sharon “Star” Smith, clerk of SAYMA-URJ at [email protected] or Shannon Roberts Smith, clerk of the ad hoc Working Group on Racial Justice at [email protected]

 This PDF has a navigable table of contents. Click on a topic in the table of contents to jump to that section.  Usual order of items within a topic goes from short to longer, basic to more complex.  Videos and online articles are mixed with books. Where appropriate we have attempted to clearly identify types of resources.  Thanks to Sharon Star Smith for recommending most of these resources.

Table of Contents

OVERVIEWS / GENERAL ...... 3

WHITE PRIVILEGE/ WHITE FRAGILITY/ WHITE DOMINANT CULTURE NORMS ...... 4

BOOKS BY WHITE SCHOLARS ON RACE ...... 5

INVENTION OF WHITENESS, PURPOSES, AND IMPACTS ...... 6

IMPLICIT BIAS, MICRO-AGGRESSIONS, TRANSFORMING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE ...... 7

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS/QUAKERS AND RACISM ...... 8

FAITH COMMUNITIES AND RACISM ...... 10

BLACK HISTORY, HISTORY OF RACISM, RACIAL TRAUMA...... 11

COMBINING PERSONAL HISTORY, PERSPECTIVES ON SYSTEMIC RACISM, AND ANTIRACISM...... 12

SYSTEMIC/ STRUCTURAL RACISM ...... 13

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES / NATIVE AMERICANS ...... 15

IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ...... 17

SLAVERY ABOLITION (MASS INCARCERATION)...... 18

EDUCATION AND PARENTING ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES ...... 19

PODCASTS ...... 21 WORKBOOKS/ BOOKS WITH DISCUSSION GUIDES ...... 22

ANTI-RACISM TRAINING /WORKSHOPS/ WEBSITES ...... 23

HISTORY AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY ...... 24

Overviews / General

“5 Things You Should Know About Racism” | Decoded | MTV News (humorous short video that covers a lot of ground) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eTWZ80z9EE

“Race: The Power of an Illusion”, video documentary, California Newsreel, released in 2003 and shown on PBS. There are 56 min. segments: “Race: The difference between us,” “Race: The Story We Tell,” and “Race: The House We Live in.” An updated companion website (2018) from California Newsreel includes info, discussion guide, and excerpts from the film, new videos, handouts, lesson plans, and interviews. Main site is https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/ Also click on “videos”, “resources” or “explore” for more. The DVD is no longer available. You can rent “Race the Power of an Illusion” for streaming from Vimeo for $2.95 for each section or $4.95 for the whole documentary: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/race

“Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity”, DVD or online video by Shakti Butler, World Trust, 2012. It covers the system of racial inequity, culture & identity, privilege, interpersonal racism, internalized racism, institutional racism, and structural racism. The main “Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity” website includes ways to stream the film for $4.95, order film, download conversation guide, and learning modules. https://crackingthecodes.org/ You can also rent to stream for $4.95 at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/crackingthecodes Some short film clips are also on YouTube. (Atlanta Friends Meeting, Quakers for Racial Equality owns a copy of the DVD)

White Privilege/ White Fragility/ White Dominant Culture Norms

“Why ‘I’m not racist’ is only half the story”, video (6 min.) Robin DiAngelo, Oct. 1, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=kzLT54QjclA&feature=emb_logo

“Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin Di Angelo” Vital Conversations, General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church, retrieved from https://vimeo.com/147760743

“Why Does Privilege Make People So Angry?” | Decoded | MTV News retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeYpvV3eRhY

“Colorblind Denial and White Privilege” by Tim Wise, retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPJnVbHYxw

“White Supremacy Culture” From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Jones, K, & Okun, T. (2001). Retrieved from https://collectiveliberation.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/01/White_Supremacy_Culture_Okun.pdf

“White People, Stop Centering Yourself”, by Annalissia Padilla, retrieved from https://conversationswith.net/white-people-stop-centering-yourself/

“How Racism harms White Folks”, interview with John Bracy, excerpt from Tim Wise film, White like Me. YouTube. http://www.timwise.org/2013/06/john-bracey-jr-on-how-racism- harms-white-folks-from-white-like-me-film/

Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debbie Irving, Elephant Room Press, 2014 (includes questions for discussion)

Lifting the White Veil, A Look at White American Culture by Jeff Hitchcock, Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Incorporated; 1st paperback edition, November 1, 2011

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide” video with Carol Anderson, Ph.D. Apr 13, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUET24K1c&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2ldntF- OO20EpxsQ_ne59H2lhrEIyWl4v6tPtrJe6BoM5moTMBYT4KhpM

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, PhD. Bloomsbury USA, 2017

“65 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice” by Corinne Shutack, Equality includes You, Aug. 13, 2017

Books by White Scholars on Race (List compiled by Sharon Star Smith. Also see “Invention of Whiteness” section.)

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D., Beacon Press, 2018

What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy, by Robin DiAngelo, PhD., Peer Lang, Inc., 2012

The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege, by Robert Jensen, PhD. City Lights Publishers; First Edition, September 1, 2005

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America, By Joseph Barndt, Fortress Press, 2007

Uprooting Racism, 4th Edition, How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel, New Society Publishers, 2017

When Affirmative Action Was White: The Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America, by Ira Katznelson. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005

Invention of Whiteness, Purposes, and Impacts (List compiled by Sharon Star Smith)

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo- America, by Theodore W. Allen and Jeffrey B. Perry, Verso, Nov 20, 2012

Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today, by Jacqueline Battalora, PhD, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLC, 2013

Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, by Steven T. Newcomb

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race, by Ian Haney Lopez, New York University Press, 1996

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star.” Fulcrum Publishing, January 1, 2007

“Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South, (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.) by Theda Perdu University of Georgia Press, March 28, 2005

Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, by Jack D. Forbes, University of Illinois Press; 2 edition, March 1, 1993

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, by Margaret Ellen Newell. Cornell University Press; 1 edition, May 21, 2015

The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670- 1717, by Alan Gallay, Yale University Press, March 1, 2002

That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia, by Arica L. Coleman

Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life, by Rev. David Billings, Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc., 2016

Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism and Terrorism, by Jack D. Forbes, Seven Stories Press; Revised edition, November 4, 2008

Implicit bias, micro-aggressions, transforming conversations about race

“You can help stop the violence against young black men” Verna Myers TEDxBeaconStreet Dec 1, 2014, 18 minutes (Connection between history of violence against black men and stopping implicit bias) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qTfX4U6C_0

“The Danger of a Single Story”, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie TEDGlobal 2009 https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=e n#t-409236

“How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful” video interview with Dr. Derald Wing Sue about racial microaggressions, PBS News Hour, Nov 13, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvjnxr6OCE&feature=youtu.be

Project Implicit: Implicit Association Test https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/iatdetails.html

Religious Society of Friends/Quakers and Racism

“Are We Ready to Make the Necessary Changes” Friends Journal, January 2019 Vanessa Julye, https://www.friendsjournal.org/racial-diversity/

“Building White Racial Stamina” Friends Journal, January 2019 Elizabeth A. Oppenheimer https://www.friendsjournal.org/white-stamina/

“How does culture influence Quaker Worship?” Quaker Speak http://quakerspeak.com/how-does-culture-influence-quaker- worship/?fbclid=IwAR1q6SWlcqo8rO8BwqothXvTfXLFXq8tm_va1KSPXpZjeEmQwHkiq0Jfm10

Dreaming of Wholeness: Quakers and the Future of Racial Healing Sterling Duns, QuakerSpeak Apr 19, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=33&v=Ah9kB1XI5Oo&feature=emb_logo

“There Is Hope” by Gabbreell James, October 1, 2014 Friends Journal https://www.friendsjournal.org/hope/

“Witness to Quaker Racism: A Cautionary Tale” Friends Journal, October 2014 Sharon Star Smith https://www.friendsjournal.org/witness-quaker- racism/?fbclid=IwAR05ci6pymXkbyaYKSbEbd3W1yHXndykvkA_suoycC0J6-Ugj0WCcbytd8c

Friends in Africa, Friends Journal, Oct. 2019. Half of the world's 400,000 Friends live in Africa, most of whom worship in pastoral meetings https://www.friendsjournal.org/2019/friends-in-africa/ Life at Lumakanda Friends Church Empowering Women against Gender‐based Violence The Place of God’s Own Choosing Quaker Christianity in Kenya

“Quaker Indian Boarding Schools”, Friends Journal, Oct. 2016 https://www.boulderfriendsmeeting.org/wp-content/friends9x4Q/2013/06/Friends-Journal- Quaker-Indian-Boarding-Schools-Oct-2016.pdf

“Black Power’s Challenge to Quaker Power”, by Barrington Dunbar, originally published in Friends Journal in 1968 and included in the book, Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights. The AFSC blog, “Acting in Faith” blog includes queries for meetings. 2018 https://www.afsc.org/blogs/acting-in-faith/black-power%E2%80%99s-challenge-to-quaker- power

“Slavery in the Quaker World: Christian Slavery and White Supremacy” by Katharine Gerbner on September 1, 2019 https://www.friendsjournal.org/slavery-in-the-quaker-world/

“My Experience as an African American Quaker” by Avis Wanda McClinton, Friends Journal, October 1, 2014 https://www.friendsjournal.org/experience-african-american-quaker/

“Honoring Those Known Only to God”, by the Honoring Project https://www.friendsjournal.org/honoring-project/ Friends Journal, March 2017

“Dear Friend/Good White Person” by Regina Renee on October 1, 2014 Friends Journal https://www.friendsjournal.org/dear-friendgood-white-person/

Friends Center for Racial Justice fcrj.org Contact, Director Angela Hopkins (607) 319-2644, 227 North Willard Way, Ithaca, NY

The Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center Recommended abolitionist and antiracism resources for educational purposes. Books, films, documentaries, discussions, lectures etc. https://www.facebook.com/AbolitionistCenter/

New England Yearly Meeting Resources on Race and Racism https://neym.org/social-justice-resources

New York Yearly Meeting (includes youth resources) https://www.nyym.org/content/quaker-resources-racism

Northern Pacific Yearly Meeting Uprooting Racism Resources https://npym.org/sites/default/files/UprootingRacismResources.pdf

Friends General Conference Resources on Race and Racism https://www.fgcquaker.org/resources/yearly-meeting-resources-race-and-racism (Includes Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting, and New York Yearly Meeting resource links)

FGC Spiritual Deepening e-retreats: Weaving a Wider Welcome (Offered annually, next date: 9/27-10/23/2020) and Understanding and Healing White Supremacy (offered annually, next date: 10/25-11/20/2020) https://www.fgcquaker.org/deepen/spiritual-deepening/spiritual-deepening eretreats?mc_cid=9d21ba5dfc&mc_eid=a510b32796

Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship, Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye, Quaker Press of FGC, 2009, new edition 2018

Black Fire: African American Quakers Speak on Spirituality and Human Rights, by Hal Weaver, Paul Kriese, and Steve Angell, Quaker Press, 2012

Faith Communities and Racism

“Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Institution” (link to pdf) Originally by Crossroads Ministries © Crossroads Ministry, Chicago, IL: Adapted from original concept by Bailey Jackson and Rita Hardiman, and further developed by Andrea Avazian and Ronice Branding; further adapted by Melia LaCour, PSESD. https://www.aesa.us/conferences/2013_ac_presentations/Continuum_AntiRacist.pdf

A similar chart is also found in the book, Becoming an Anti-Racist Church: Journeying Toward Wholeness, by Joseph Barnt, (Specifically for faith community leaders) Fortress Press, 2011

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallace, Brazos Press, 2016

“Why White Churches are Hard for Black People” by Isaac Adams, 9Marks.org (Points are relevant for many faith communities although written from a Baptist pastor’s perspective.) https://www.9marks.org/article/why-white-churches-are-hard-for-black-people/

Black History, History of racism, racial trauma

“Black explorers we should celebrate instead of Columbus” By Ronda Racha Penrice, October 12, 2015, The Grio, https://thegrio.com/2015/10/12/explorers/

“Why 1526 Is As Deserving Of Commemoration As 1619” retrieved from https://afropunk.com/2019/09/why-1526-is-as-deserving-of-commemoration-as-1619/

1619 Project - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/howard-university-law- school.html

The 1619 Project Curriculum Pulitzer Center Education 2019 https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum

“Slavery to Mass Incarceration” Equal Justice Initiative, 5-minute video, https://eji.org/videos/slavery-to-mass-incarceration

They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Journal of African Civilizations) by Ivan Van Sertima Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 23, 2003)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, 2017

A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross, Beacon Press, 2020

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Yale University Press (February 19, 2019)

“Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder” (1 hour 21 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjSday7f_8

“Dr. Joy Degruy on empathy for Black people in America” (11:53 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yayOUiQFkOY

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary, Uptone Press, 2005. There is also a workbook recommended for African Americans which can be ordered.

The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage Books, 2011

Combining personal history, perspectives on systemic racism, and antiracism

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, 2015

How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibrahim X Kendi, One World, 2019

Systemic/ Structural Racism

“Racism is Real” Brave New Films (brief examples of systemic/ structural racism) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcSVQJ2h8g&feature=youtu.be

Systemic Racism – videos on wealth gap, employment, housing discrimination, government surveillance, incarceration - Race Forward, 2016 https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism

“Pyramid of White Supremacy” Adapted from Ellen Tuzzolo and Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence’s diagram, in Pdf by Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom https://sosspeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Appendix-1-Pyramid-of-White- Supremacy.pdf

“Segregation by design” Val Brown, Monita K. Bell, interview with Richard Rothstien, author of The Color of Law, Teaching Tolerance, Issue 60, Fall 2018 https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/segregation-by-design

“Umbrellas Don’t Make it Rain: Why Studying and Working Hard Isn’t Enough for Black Americans” is debunking the myth that “classism is the new racism.” The New School, retrieved from https://rollingout.com/2017/08/13/average-white-high-school-dropout-earns-more-than- black-college-grad/

“White Americans’ Hold on Wealth Is Old, Deep, and Nearly Unshakeable” by Brentin Mock, Sep 3, 2019, retrieved from https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/racial-wealth-gap- history-slavery-black-white-family-income/597100/

“How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder” by Timothy Lee, New York Times Magazine 1619 project, August, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html?smid=fb- share&fbclid=IwAR3qr3U6WSzHDr1tZTPvLfIlIc68ZYFiniAb7sKZAHG48luZajGbQzD9xbg&mtrref =m.facebook.com&assetType=REGIWALL

The Color of Wealth: The Story of the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. By Lui, Miezhu, et al. United for a Fair Economy. New York, NY. The New Press. 2006

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein, Liveright, 2017

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva. Forward by Jeniffer and Peter Buffett. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 3 edition, November 16, 2009

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society, by Manning Marable, Haymarket Books; Reprint edition, October 27, 2015

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist, Basic Books; 1 edition, October 25, 2016

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in the Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, by Gerald Horne, Monthly Review Press; 1 edition, March 12, 2018

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in the Twentieth Century, by Ira Katzenelson. W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, August 17, 2006

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet Washington, Little Brown, 2019

Indigenous Peoples / Native Americans

Truth and Healing Toolkit – Native Americans (includes links to other sites and resources such as interactive maps, books, database https://nativephilanthropy.org/truthandhealing/toolkit-2/

Oyate Bookshop: http://www.oyate.org/index.php/shop-new (also listed in Education and Parenting section)

It's time to revoke the Doctrine of Discovery, Lakota People's Law Project, 5- minute video, on YouTube, Oct. 2, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=4NmlJcy7RrA

6 Native leaders on what it would look like if the US kept its promises, Vox, Sept. 23, 2019 https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/9/23/20872713/native-american-indian- treaties?fbclid=IwAR33F4Pd5srtAoLPks7Uk7Wr5jiXRB76J96Sy_jRUAkpA1kMiDtimZHNMiY

“Columbus: In His Own Words” Let's Talk Native TV, Oct. 12, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd8K7GGt2YU

“The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” DVD by 38 plus 2 productions and Steven T.Newcomb (Atlanta Friends Meeting Quakers for Racial Equality have a copy of the DVD) https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1532075156933986&id=407570359384477&sf nsn=mo&d=n&vh=e

“Indian Slavery: An Unspoken History” by panel of scholars Brown University, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ8A52AC2LI&t=649s

Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Christian Doctrine of Discovery, by Steven T. Newcomb, Fulcrum Publishing; 3d edition, January 1, 2008

Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller, Bison Books, July 1, 2008

Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Genocide, By George E. Tinker, Fortress Press; First Edition, First Printing edition, September 1, 1993

Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah, IVP Books, November 5, 2019

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2015

All the Real Indians Died Off: and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Beacon Press; First PB Edition, First Printing edition, October 4, 2016

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann, Vintage; 1st edition (October 10, 2006) (Also see youth version, Before Columbus in the education and parenting section)

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, by Jack Weatherford Broadway Books; 1 edition, August 3, 2010

Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America, by Jack Weatherford, Ballantine Books; Reprint edition, June 10, 2010

The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670- 1717, by Alan Gallay Yale University Press, March 1, 2002

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, by Andres Resendez Mariner Books; Reprint edition, April 18, 2017

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star.” Fulcrum Publishing, January 1, 2007

Immigrant Justice

The Question is “What Will We Do?” American Friends Service Committee blog, “Stories Beyond Borders” Andy Myers, 2019 https://www.afsc.org/blogs/acting-in-faith/question-what- will-we-do?emci=468f74b2-c1f1-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&emdi=5f1a5d93-6df2-e911 b5e9%20%202818784d6d68&ceid=237961#utm_source=weekendreading101919&utm _medium=email&utm_campaign=weekendreading

SAYMA region groups working for immigrant justice (recommended by Anton Flores- Maisonet, founder of El Refugio, and currently Friend in Residence at Atlanta Friends Meeting)  Adelante: Alabama Worker Center  Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice  El Centro of Henderson County, NC  El Refugio Ministry at Stewart Detention Center  Freedom University  Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights  Innovation Law Lab  North Carolina Sanctuary Coalition  Project South  Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative of the SPLC  Southeast Immigrants Rights Network  Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

“How we can counteract Islamophobia in our schools – and our communities” American Friends Service Committee News & Commentary | By Hafsa Siddiqui, Sep 5, 2019 https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/how-we-can-counteract-islamophobia- our-schools-%E2%80%93-and-our-communities

Slavery Abolition (Mass Incarceration)

Mass Incarceration page, Equal Justice Initiative website: https://eji.org/racial-justice

“When They See Us” – 2019 - Netflix 4-part limited series directed by Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five. https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549

13th – 1 hr. 40min - 2016 Documentary Film directed by Ava DuVernay analyzing the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

“Slavery by Another Name,” film, PBS, 2012, Films for Action, https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/slavery-by-another-name/

“Healing Justice” film/ DVD or streaming, World Trust, 2018, 1 hour 6 min. See information and/or purchase the film https://www.world-trust.org/healing-justice (Atlanta Friends Meeting has a copy of the DVD). Free download of conversation guide. Individual streaming for $4.95 at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/healingjustice

Abolition Today - Max Parthas, www.abolitiontoday.org Sponsored by SAYMA-URJ. (Also listed in podcasts)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, by Michelle Alexander, The New Press, 2012

Just Mercy: A story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson, New York, Speigel & Grau, 2014

Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas A. Blackmon, Anchor Books, 2008

Education and Parenting Anti-racism Resources

“Embrace Race: Raising a Brave Generation” website: https://www.embracerace.org/  Children’s books filter includes a variety of book lists https://www.embracerace.org/resources/childrens-books  “26 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance” https://www.embracerace.org/blog/26-childrens-books-to-support- conversations-on-race-racism-resistance  Tip Sheets – talking with kids about race https://www.embracerace.org/tip- sheets.html

My Reflection Matters (MRM) website: online parent-teacher educational resources to support the healthy development of Black and Brown youth’s racial and cultural identities. http://www.myreflectionmatters.org/resources/?mc_cid=701c85b354&mc_eid=7306e23a60

Zinn Education Project Website: https://www.zinnedproject.org/

Oyate Bookshop: http://www.oyate.org/index.php/shop-new (also listed in Indigenous Peoples/ Native Americans section)

“They’re not too young to learn about race” http://www.childrenscommunityschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/theyre-not-too- young-1.pdf

“Bias Isn’t Just a Police Problem; It’s a Preschool Problem.” Let’s Talk, NPR https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-itm-001&hsimp=yhs- 001&hspart=itm&p=npr+preschool+teachers+bias+youtube&guccounter=1#id=1&vid=c256b d91f88d8f807f965b4cf18e2f46&action=click

“Teaching Tolerance Interviews Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility in the Classroom” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxNjdewAAA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1tdyrIN- RSRjx-uLve80OPO4AwVwsjZ2zqMQMZMZDiKs4IB4tqoMI2E0Y

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, by Jennifer Harvey, Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2017

“A Museum. A Memorial. A Message” by Josh Moon, Teaching Tolerance, Issue 60, Fall 2018 (teaching students about the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) National Memorial for Peace and Justice and their Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration) https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/a-museum-a-memorial-a-message

“Teaching the Hard History: American Slavery”, Teaching Tolerance https://www.tolerance.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery

Decolonizing Thanksgiving a toolkit for combatting racism in schools https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/decolonizing-thanksgiving-a-toolkit-for-combatting- racism-in- schools5d4e3023a2f8?fbclid=IwAR3XjJULlO0WSJEZN9AMqfewOfS29alIvkBA31LY5y9Pe3beYKd 4jJE3h9I

Native Knowledge 360: Transforming Teaching and Learning about Native Americans, National Museum of the American Indian https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360

“American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving,” National Museum of the American Indian https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/thanksgiving_poster.pdf

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Lowen Atria Books; Revised edition, October 16, 2007

Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491, by Charles C. Mann (young readers version) Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: A Psychoanalyst Explains the Development of Racial Identity, By Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, (Basic Books 2017) (updated version)

A Young People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Rebecca Stetoff, Kindle, MP3 CD, and hard cover (hard cover- Seven Stories Press 2009). (Kindle Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition, June 21, 2016.

A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) Triangle Square; 1 edition, October 16, 2012 (Free accompanying Teacher's Guide)

Podcasts

Seeing White https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

Code Switch https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

Good Ancestor Podcast – Layla Saad http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast

Abolition Today - Max Parthas Sponsored by SAYMA-URJ www.abolitiontoday.org

Workbooks/ Books with Discussion Guides

White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press 2018. Discussion guide by Gail Forsyth-Vail, Nov. 2018, Unitarian Universalists Association, Discussion Guide for White Fragility © 2018, Unitarian Universalist Association http://www.beacon.org/Assets/PDFs/white_fragility_disc_guide.pdf

Waking Up White: And finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debbie Irving, Elephant Room Press, 2014 (includes questions for discussion at the end of each chapter)

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad, Sourcebooks, January 28, 2020 (includes questions for journaling at the end of each chapter.)

Anti-racism Training /Workshops/ websites

Equal Justice Initiative website - racial justice, children in prison, mass incarceration, death penalty, timeline of racial injustice https://eji.org/racial-justice

Undoing Racism: The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, national website: http://www.pisab.org/ (offers Undoing Racism workshops and other programs) Atlanta office offers workshops periodically: (985) 240-5660 or [email protected] Main Points of Contact Kanika Taylor (678.362.7752) or Darryl Haddock (WAWA404.216.5759), WAWA c/o PISAB 1442 Richland Rd SW, Atlanta, GA 30310. See also this PI-associated site for more resources and opportunities for learning: http://www.antiracistalliance.com/index.html

Center for the Study of White American Culture (CSWAC) A multiracial team of trainers offers workshops (including webinars), informative blog posts, and resources for anti-racism work. (The founders are Quaker.) http://www.euroamerican.org/about/Who-We-Are.asp

Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training: Dismantling Racial Justice Institutions (institutional racism assessment and training) http://crossroadsantiracism.org

Anti-racist Alliance: Undoing Structural Racism in Our Lifetime http://www.antiracistalliance.com/index.htmlfbclid=IwAR0Z8a6WUXzHAXop6Fd6uUIFvg_qPq1 KEzYU97216trvE8jlM2FL_kDnH08

Friends Center for Racial Justice offers in-person and online training. 227 N. Willard Way, Ithaca, NY. 14850, fcrj.org

Racial Equity Tools.Org. Click on the top categories of “Fundamentals”, “Plan”, “Act,” “Evaluate,” and “Curricula” to see lots of links and suggestions for workshops. Join to get a monthly update. This site also has several films connected with it. https://www.racialequitytools.org/home

History and Critical Race Theory (list compiled by Sharon Star Smith)

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reissue edition (November 17, 2015) A People's History of the United States tells America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. (Also see youth version in Education and Parenting section)

An African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz Beacon Press; 1st Edition, January 30, 2018

A different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, by Ronald Takaki, Back Bay Books; Revised edition, December 8, 2008. (See youth version in Education and Parenting section)

Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, by Jack D. Forbes, University of Illinois Press; 2 edition, March 1, 1993 (Also listed in Invention of Whiteness section)

American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, by David E. Stannard. Oxford University Press, USA; Reprint edition (November 18, 1993)

All the Real Indians Died Off: and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Beacon Press; First PB Edition, First Printing edition, October 4, 2016 (Also listed in Indigenous Peoples/ Native Americans)

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2015 (Also listed in Indigenous Peoples / Native Americans)

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann, Vintage; 1st edition (October 10, 2006) (Also listed in Indigenous/ Native Americans. See youth version, Before Columbus in Education and Parenting section.)

Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today, by Jacqueline Battalora, PhD, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLC, 2013 (Also listed in Invention of Whiteness)

Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, by William Loren Katz Atheneum; 1st ed edition, June 30, 1986

Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, by Margaret Ellen Newell. Cornell University Press; 1 edition, May 21, 2015 (Also listed in Invention of Whiteness)

Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship, Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye, Quaker Press of FGC, 2009, new edition 2018 (Also in Quakers)

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society, by Manning Marable, Haymarket Books; Reprint edition, October 27, 2015 (Also listed in Systemic Racism)

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, by Jack Weatherford Broadway Books; 1 edition, August 3, 2010 (Also listed in Indigenous Peoples / Native Americans)

Loaded: A disarming History of the Second Amendment, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, City Lights Publishers, January 23, 2018

“Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South, (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.) by Theda Perdu University of Georgia Press, March 28, 2005 (Also listed in Invention of Whiteness section)

Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America, by Jack Weatherford, Ballantine Books; Reprint edition, June 10, 2010. (Also listed in Indigenous Peoples / Native Americans)

Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas A. Blackmon, Anchor Books, 2008 (Also listed in Mass incarceration/Abolition of Prison Slavery section)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, 2017. (Also listed in Black History/ Racism/ Racial Trauma section)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein, Liveright, 2017 (Also listed in Systemic Racism)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist, Basic Books; 1 edition, October 25, 2016 (Also listed in Systemic Racism section)

The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670- 1717, by Alan Gallay Yale University Press, March 1, 2002 (Also listed in Indigenous Peoples / Native Americans)

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo- America, by Theodore W. Allen and Jeffrey B. Perry, Verso, Nov 20, 2012 (Also listed in Invention of Whiteness)

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, by Dr. Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star.” Fulcrum Publishing, January 1, 2007 (Also listed in Indigenous Peoples/ Native Americans)

They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Journal of African Civilizations) by Ivan Van Sertima Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 23, 2003) (Also listed in Black History/ Racism/ Racial Trauma section.)

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Yale University Press (February 19, 2019) (Also listed in Black History/ Racism/ Racial Trauma) 25

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in the Twentieth Century, by Ira Katzenelson. W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, August 17, 2006 (Also in Systemic Racism)

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, PhD. Bloomsbury USA, 2017 (Also listed in White privilege/ White fragility/ White Dominant Cultural Norms)

Columbus and Other Cannibals, by Jack D. Forbes Seven Stories Press; Revised edition, November 4, 2008 (Also listed in Invention of Whiteness section)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire, Continuum; 30th Anniversary edition, September 1, 2000

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary, Uptone Press, 2005. There is also a workbook recommended for African Americans which can be ordered. (Also listed in Black History/ Racism/ Racial Trauma)

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 3 edition, November 16, 2009 (Also listed in Systemic Racism section)

Struggle for Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America, By Ward Churchill, Preface by Winona LaDuke, Common Courage Press, October 1, 1992

The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance, Edited by M. Annette Jaimes, South End Press; First Edition, July 1, 1999

The Wretched of the Earth: A Negro Psychoanalyst’s Study of the Problems of Racism and Colonialism in the World Today, by Frantz Fanon Grove Press, Inc., 1963

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: A Psychoanalyst Explains the Development of Racial Identity, By Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD. 2017 (Also listed in the Education and Parenting section)

Women, Race, & Class, by Angela Y. Davis Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition, February 12, 1983