Know the different types of racism. Learn about Black history and how systemic racism is in our present day culture. Use these resources to learn more and understand how action is necessary.
Types of racism include casual (indirect), direct and systemic. Check out this article: Understanding Racism and How to Spot it.
Resources on Anti-Racism
1) List of resources modified from June 17, 2020 Abington Friends document
- Articles for a basic understanding of Critical Race Theory:
- https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/so-much-buzz-but-what-is-critical-race-theory/
- https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil-rights-reimagining-policing/a-lesson-on-critical-race-theory/
- 9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting Defensive by Sam Dylan Smith. Originally written for LGBTQIA, this applies to race as well and is a good way to fight against white fragility on a person-to-person basis. https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/05/allies-say-this-instead-defensive/
- What is Anti-Racism? The Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre has a section on antiracism that’s a good primer with plenty of definitions for understanding a focus on antiracism. https://www.aclrc.com/antiracism
- 106 Things White People Can Do for (sic) Racial Injustice. https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice
- Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice from White Accomplices, which provides ideas and resources mostly from people of color. https://www.whiteaccomplices.org/
- All Our Griefs: What Do We Do Now? by Sharon Browning https://justlistening.net/all-our-griefs-what-do-we-do-now/.
- Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines by Jenna Arnold. https://www.jennaarnold.com/book.
- A Conversation About Growing Up Black
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000003670178/a-conversation-about-growing-up-black.html - A Conversation With Police on Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/opinion/a-conversation-with-police-on-race.html - Racialized Tax Inequity: Wealth, Racism, And The U.S. System of Taxation is a scholarly journal article that looks at wealth by race. https://scholarlycommons.law. northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1200&context=njlsp
- No Where Else to Go, a 20-minute film from The Marshall Project and Frontline on an undocumented family dealing with detention, homelessness, and Covid-19. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/08/11/nowhere-else-to-go
- 5 Tips for being an Ally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. From Britain, this is a quick discussion of her book by the same name, originally started with a post to her blog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJZdeSqfFY
- Three videos from Abington Friends Antiracism Workshop, 7/20/20:
- Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYyvbgINZkQ
- Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy: A Trip to the Grocery Store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9QBnPK6Yg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiKtZgImdlY Clint Smith: The Danger of Silence
- Birth of a White Nation by Dr. Jacqueline Battalora. This 36-minute video is a comprehensive history of when and why the term “white” was invented. https://youtu.be/TM6ehzu3p4c
- NPR NEXT Morgan Springer interview an activist who advocates calling-in instead of calling-out. https://www.wnpr.org/post/listen-longtime-activist-loretta-ross-speaks-out-against-call-out-culture
- The Color of Wealth in Boston https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/one-time-pubs/color-of-wealth.aspx
- A Conversation with White People on Race
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000003773643/a-conversation-with-white-people-on-race.html - Davidson College Apologizes for Role in Perpetuating Slavery, Systemic Racism https://youtu.be/M854i7Ck5a4
- Whitey on the Moon (1970) a song written and performed by Gil Scott Heron. Think about where we are now as a country compared to then. https://youtu.be/3nzoPopQ7V0.
- Stranger Fruit, a powerful Photo Essay entitled that puts visual images to the fear of loss and trauma that is constant for America’s Black mothers. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/jon-henrys-stranger-fruit-shows-black-mothers-constant-fear-of-loss-and-trauma?
- Anti-Racism Reading Recommendations from Friends Journal: https://www.friendsjournal.org/quaker-antiracist-reading-list/
- The National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian, has a useful page of tools and resources to think and talk about race. https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
- Measure your behavior to see where you are in your goal to being an ally using this checklist created by Dr. John Raible: https://johnraible.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/revised-2009-checklist-for-allies.pdf
- Take the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge created by Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. (creator of the White Privilege Conference), Debby Irving, and Dr. Marguerite Penick-Parks. https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge
- Play the Race Game. Thandeka, an African American Unitarian Universalist minister invented the Race Game, described in her 1999 book Learning to Be White: Money, Race and God in America. For a week, use a racial/ethnic descriptor whenever you mention someone. For instance, “my Latinx boss,” “my white husband,” “my Black son-in-law,” “my Arab neighbor.” Observe any feelings that come up as you step outside of the norms for describing people and then talk to someone about your experience.
2) Additional resources
The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones. https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf
How to be a Young Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone (see a video introduction)
A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansbury (format, book & film)
The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee
Fit for Freedom Not for Friendship, by Donna McDaniel & Vanessa Julye
Five Days, by Wes Moore
White Privilege, by Robin Di Angelo
Anything about Sarah Mapps Douglas and her life as a Quaker
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Davis
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
The Choice – The Issue of Black Survival in America, by Samuel Yette
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
How to be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, by Crystal Fleming
Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown
Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins
Everyone’s Son, by Thrity Umriga
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Finding Me. by Viola Davis (Marcia’s 1/29/23 recommendation)
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Citizen, by Claudia Rankine
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown
Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins
Everyone’s Son, by Trinity Umrigar
Biased, by Jennifer Eberhardt
Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat
Black Is the Body, by Emily Bernard
White Rage, by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.
Why Are All the Black Kids Siting Together in The Cafeteria? by Beverly D Tatum, Ph, D.
My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
A Black Women’s History of the U.S., by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Well Read Black Girl, by Glory Edim
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula Giddings (about Ida B. Wells)
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical, by Sherie M Randolph
Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance (offered as a demographic likeness to a counter stratified outcome)
What the Eyes Can’t See, by Mona Hanna Attisha
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
When They Call You a Terrorist – A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Homecoming, by Yaa Gyasi
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique Morris https://pushoutfilm.com/watchparty
- White Lies, Ijeoma Oluo On Privilege, Power, And Race. https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/516/white-lies
46 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2018. https://electricliterature.com/46-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2018-70a0bf5bf4f2