“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be antiracist”
— Angela Davis
Anti-Racism Resources
I’m committed to fighting racism in all forms and believe education is a key component in that. I am continually learning and know that one never “arrives” at being the perfect ally, we must continually practice anti-racism.. I also believe providing good information is part of being a strong leader and that as white people, it is incumbent upon us to seek out information and resources rather than rely on Black, brown and indigenous people to educate us.
Please note this is not an exhaustive list; if you have suggestions of items to include, please let us know.
Articles
“75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice” by Corrine Shutack for Medium
“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
“Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times
The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project
“It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha for Elle
“The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
“Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi for The Atlantic
"What is Whiteness?" by Nell Irvin Painter for the New York Times
Books
Rochester Public Library - Anti-Racism Books
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: the Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson by Michael Eric Dyson
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School by W.W. Norton & Co.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
From Margin to Center by bell hooks
White Rage by Carol Anderson
One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Assata by Assata Shakur
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bendele
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Why I”m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Words of Fire by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Caste, the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk
Videos/Movies
I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
Becoming, a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
The Hate U Give, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
The 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley
Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
The history of Confederate statues in Nat Geo’s America Inside Out
When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Exonerated Five
Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
Whose Streets?, a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
American Son, a Netflix movie about an estranged interracial couple awaiting news of their missing teenage son
Fruitvale Station, a Netflix dramatic rendering of the final hours of Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by the San Francisco Transit Police
I Am Not Your Negro , a James Baldwin documentary
If Beale Street Could Talk, Based on the novel by James Baldwin, a drama about a young couple fighting for justice in the name of love and more