Resources

We've created a list of resources for you to use as you continue to strategize and implement.

ORGANIZATIONS

Southern Poverty Law Center

The SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.

Robin DiAngelo

Dr. DiAngelo is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In addition to her academic work, Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant, educator and facilitator for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice. She has worked with a wide-range of organizations including private, non-profit, and governmental.

BOOKS

History

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Joy DeGruy Leary

• White Rage, Carol Anderson

• The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein

• Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X Kendi

• The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. Debois

• A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

• From Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation, Keeanga-Tamahtta Taylor

• Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

• So, you Want To Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo

• Tears We Cannot Stop, Michael Eric Dyson

• Between the World and Me, Ta’Nehisi Coates

• Eight Years in Power, Ta’Nehisi Coates

• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

Systems

• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

• Racism without Racists, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

• Pushout, The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Monique W. Morris

• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

• CASTE, Isabel Wilkerson

• So, You Want to Fight White Supremacy?, Ijeoma Oluo

• What Does it Mean to Be White, Robin DiAngelo

• Is Everyone Really Equal? Robin DiAngelo

• Blind Spot, Hidden Biases of Good People, Anthony Greenwald

• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, Beverly Daniel Tatum

• So, They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Kuhn-Cullors and Ashe Bandele

MOVIES/VIDEOS

• How Implicit Bias Works

• Implicit Bias Isn't Eliminated, It's Recreated

• The Bike Thief – How Implicit Bias Works

• Talking about Race: TED talk by Jay Smooth

• Doll Test/ How children as young as 3 years old absorb racism in this country.

• Not Racists Be Like: The Top 10 Phrases Used by People Who Claim They Are Not Racist

• Is Reverse Racism a “Thing?”

• Implicit Bias – You have it too

• 13th, A documentary focused on 13th amendment and incarceration in this country,
  A Netflix production directed by Ava DuVernay

• The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes

• Tim Wise on White Privilege

• White like Me/A History of whiteness in the USA, Tim Wise

• Rev. Barber on White Supremacy

• The Talk: Race in America

• The Racist History of American Medicine

• The Racist History of Illegal Immigration

• The Secret Racist History of Square Dancing

• How Race Settled the Suburbs (How Redlining worked)

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

ARTICLES

• To White Folks Who Feel Defensive About Race.

• Why Talk about Whiteness? (Teaching Tolerance)

• White Americans Are Still Confused About Racism – Here’s “The Talk” We Need To Have

• White House Correspondent Gets Detained Because of Race.

• The History of Where “Whiteness” Originally Came From

• The Racist Things People Said To Me For 2 Weeks

• Racism 101 for White People in Seattle

• Will Racism Ever End, Will I Ever Stop Being a N****r 

• 18 Thing White People should Know Before Discussing Racism

• Harvard Implicit Bias Project

• My New Year’s Wish for Whites, Le Mun Wah

• What White Children Need to Know About Race, Ali Michael

• My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest

• 10 Examples That Prove White Privilege Exists in Every Aspect Imaginable

• Privileged, Kyle Korver – April 2019

• Why Talk about Whiteness?

• There is no Such Thing as Race, Newsweek

• In the 1930s, we illegally deported 600,000 U.S. citizens because they had Mexican heritage

• 40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really

  Owes Black America:

• CDC article about the Myth of the Absent Black Father

• Extensive Data shows punishing reach of Racism for Black Boys, New York Times –

  March 2018

• Red lining in Seattle

• The Term Caucasian

• A Day in a Life: How Racism Impacts Families of Color 

• African Americans are the only racial group in U.S. still making less than they did in

  2000

• No, I Won’t Stop Saying “White Supremacy” Robin DiAngelo

• The Racist History of Portland, the whitest city in America, The Atlantic

• The Most Damaging Myths About Slavery, Debunked

• How Racism Began as White-on-White Violence

• Report: No progress for African Americans on homeownership, unemployment and

  incarceration in 50 years

• The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic – Ta’Nehisi Coates

• The First White President, The Atlantic – Ta’Nahisi Coates

• Bryan Stevenson on what well-meaning white people need to know about RACE, Pacific

  Standard Magazine

• 7 Ways We know Systemic Racism is Real, www.Benjerry.com

• A Timeline of the Events that Led Up to the 2020 Fed-Up Rising