Racial Justice Library

Articles to Read

• "America's Racial Contract Is Killing Us" by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020) (opens in new window)
• "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011) (opens in new window)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine (opens in new window)
• "The Intersectionality Wars" by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019) (opens in new window)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD (opens in new window)
• "Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?" (opens in new window) by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh (opens in new window)
• "Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020) (opens in new window)
• Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good (opens in new window)
• Safe Place for Youth: Take Action Against Racism (opens in new window)

Videos to Watch

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48) (opens in new window)
• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26) (opens in new window)
• George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show (18:12) (opens in new window)

Podcasts to Listen

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

Books to Read

• A Colony in a Nation (opens in new window) by Chris Hayes
• A People's History of the United States  (opens in new window) by Howard Zinn
• Black Feminist Thought (opens in new window) by Patricia Hill Collins
• Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery (opens in new window) by Dr. Na'im Akbar
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (opens in new window) by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Can You Hear Me Now? (opens in new window) by Michael Eric Dyson
• Heavy: An American Memoir (opens in new window) by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist (opens in new window) by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (opens in new window) by Maya Angelou (opens in new window)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave (opens in new window) Girl by Linda Brent
• Just Mercy (opens in new window) by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy (opens in new window) by Layla F. Saad
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (opens in new window) by Paulo Freire
• Price of the Ticket  (opens in new window) by James Baldwin
• Raising Our Hands (opens in new window) by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness (opens in new window) by Janet Mock
• Savage Inequalities  (opens in new window) by Jonathan Kozol
• Sister Outsider (opens in new window) by Audre Lorde
• The Bluest Eye (opens in new window) by Toni Morrison
• The Community of Self (opens in new window) by Dr. Na'im Akbar
• The Fire Next Time (opens in new window) by James Baldwin
• The Future of the Race (opens in new window) by Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Cornel West
• The Goddess Blackwoman (opens in new window) by Akil
• The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (opens in new window) by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
• The Mis-Education of the Negro (opens in new window) by Carter G. Woodson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (opens in new window) by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (opens in new window) by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois
• The Warmth of Other Suns (opens in new window) by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Willie Lynch Letter: Making of a Slave (opens in new window) by Willie Lynch
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (opens in new window) by Zora Neale Hurston
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (opens in new window) by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (opens in new window) by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• White Rage by Dr. Carol Anderson, PhD.
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria  (opens in new window) by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatun, PhD
• 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
• Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or 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 for free in June in the U.S.
• 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
• They've Gotta Have Us - Netflix
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Resources for White Parents to Raise Anti-Racist Children

Books

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults (opens in new window)
• 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance (opens in new window)

Podcasts

• Parenting Forward podcast episode 'Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt' (opens in new window)
• Fare of the Free Child podcast (opens in new window)
• Integrated Schools podcast episode "Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey" (opens in new window)

Articles

• PBS' Teaching Your Child About Black History Month (opens in new window)
• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good (opens in new window)
• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram (opens in new window)  and consider signing up for their Patreon (opens in new window)

Organizations on Social Media

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