Anti-Racism Resources

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:

Books:

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

Podcasts:

Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

Fare of the Free Child podcast

Articles:

PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month

Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

Articles to read:

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
  
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
  
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
  
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
  
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
  
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
  
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
  
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
  
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
  

Videos to watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
  
• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
  

Podcasts:

• 1619 (New York Times)
  
• About Race
  
• Code Switch (NPR)
  
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
  
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
  
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
  
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
  
• Seeing White
  

Books to read:

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
  
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
  
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
  
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
  
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
  
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 
  
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
  
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
  
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
  
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
  
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
  

Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
  
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
  
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
  
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
  
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
  
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
  
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
  
• King In The Wilderness  — HBO
  
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
  
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
  
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
  
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
  
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
  

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center
• Audre Lorde Project
• Black Women’s Blueprint
• Color Of Change
• Colorlines
• The Conscious Kid
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
• Families Belong Together
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
• MPowerChange
• Muslim Girl
• NAACP
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• RAICES
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
• SisterSong
• United We Dream
  

More anti-racism resources to check out:

• A Guide to White Privilege
  
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
  
• Anti-Racism Project
  
• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
  
• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
  
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
  
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
  
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
  
• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
  
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
  

Donate:

• To take immediate action to fight for Breonna Taylor, please visit FightForBreonna.org.
• The Loveland Foundation. This organization provides financial assistance to Black women and girls nationally seeking therapy.
• Color of Change
• Minnesota Freedom Fund
• George Floyd Memorial Fund

Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.