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Anti-Racism Resources


PC(USA)

Facing Racism

https://facing-racism.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/facing_racism/facing-racism-study-guide.pdf


Things White Folks Can Do

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-05-31/black-owned-restaurants-in-los-angeles?utm_source=sfmc_100035609&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+-+What+You+Missed+ +0606&utm_term=Read+more+Block+2&utm_id=7931&sfmc_id=1566971

https://parade.com/1045096/jessicasager/how-to-be-anti-racist/


Doing the Inner Work:

                Layla Saad, “Doing the Inner Work of Dismantling White Supremacy”

            Kikanza Nuri-Robins, “Fish Out of Water”


Realize that being “woke” is not a trend:

https://blavity.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woke/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woke?category1=opinion


Words must be backed by actions:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-violence-black-community-activism-ally_n_5ed01d2ac5b6b6261ab53962


Call out but don’t take up excess space:

            https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/white-people-emotions-tears/


White Supremacy = A White Problem.  Organize white People:

https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/anti-racism-workshops-classes/


Empower other by risking power:

https://www.1953movement.com/ideas-on-power-sharing/

 

 

Reading against racism reading list: 

'White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide' by Carol Anderson, Ph.D.


'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness' by Michelle Alexander


'How to Be an Antiracist' by Ibram X. Kendi


'Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century' by Monique W. Morris


'The Invention of the White Race' by Theodore W. Allen


'Between the World and Me' by Ta-Nehisi Coates


'Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II' 

by Douglas A. Blackmon


'Choke Hold: Policing Black Me' by Paul Butler


'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism' by Robin DiAngelo


'Citizen: An American Lyric' by Claudia Rankine


'Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Inequality in America' by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva


'So You Want to Talk About Race' by Ijeoma Oluo


'How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America' by Moustafa Bayoumi


'Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America' by Michael Eric Dyson


'The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America' by Richard Rothstein


'The History of White People' by Nell Irvin Painter


'They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement' by Wesley Lowery