Resources

Understanding Criminal Justice

Police Shootings Database 2015-2023 | Washington Post

Black Americans 2.5x More Likely Than Whites to be Killed by Police | Statista (2020)

Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? | Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (2020)

Understanding Systematic Racism

Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee  by Eric Reid | New York Times (2017)

What Do Terms Like Systemic Racism, Microaggression and White Fragility Mean? | ABC News (2020)

There is No Neutral: Nice White People Can Still Be Complicit in a Racist Society by Ari Shapiro | NPR (June 9, 2020)

Understanding Protests

Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Los Angeles Times (2020)

How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting than Black Lives by Rachel Miller | Vice (2020)

Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement by Courtney Martin | Medium (2020)

Understanding Privilege

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy McIntosh (1989)

6 Things White People Say That Highlight Their Privilege | Kelsey Borreson | HuffPost (2020)

Understanding Allyship

How to Be A Good White Ally, According to Activists by Emily Stewart | Vox (2020)

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man | Emmanual Acho (2020)

What I Am Learning From My White Grandchildren—Truths About Race | Anthony Peterson | TedX Antioch (2014)

Nice Racism & White Fragility | Robin DiAngelo (2022)

Talking about Racism

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla Saad (2020)

Study Guide: Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla Saad (2020)

Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership | Ed Gordan (2020)

How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi (2019)

So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeuma Oleo (2019)

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | Robin DiAngelo (2018)

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide | Crystal Marie Flemming (2018)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi (2017)

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race | Jesmyn Ward (2017)

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson (2017)

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2009)

Legal

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America | Ira Katznelson (2006)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein (2018)

Bias

Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives | Howard Ross (2014)

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do | Jennifer L. by Eberhardt (2019)

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) | Claude M. Steele (2011)

Biological Myth of Racial Differences

Race: Are We So Different? | Alan H. Goodman, Yolanda T. Moses, Joseph L. Jones (2012)

The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America | Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (2004)

Race in American History

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson (2020)

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland | Jonathan M. Metzl (2019)

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism | Jemar Tisby (2019)

Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning | Richard T. Hughes (2018)

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America | Jim Wallis (2017)

Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

Fiction

Dear Justyce | Nic Stone (2020)

A Burning: A Novel | Megha Majumdar (2020)

Dear Martin | Nic Stone (2017)

The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison (1970)

Puddn’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins | Mark Twain (1894)

Nice White Parents | New York Times

Pod Save the People | Crooked Media

Seeing White (Season 2)| Scene on Radio

1619 | New York Times

Code Switch | NPR

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Dismantling White Fragility | The goop Podcast

Eula Biss — Talking About Whiteness | On Being with Krista Tippett

Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest | Code Switch

Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment (Season 2, Episode 3) | Revisionist History

Just Mercy (2020)

When They See Us (2019)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

The Hate U Give (2018)

Dear White People (2017-2021)

I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

13th (2016)

Selma (2015)

Crash (2004)

Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003) *For streaming options, contact people3