Anti-Racism Resources

What’s the point of not being a racist if you’re not doing anti-racist work?

This might be an uncomfortable question. But the very fact all I have to face is discomfort is the definition of privilege.

I am learning that all white and white passing people benefit from racism, regardless of how against racism they might be.

I am learning that if I choose to remain ignorant on this topic then I am essentially complicit.

I am learning that the best way is to amplify the voices of Black people and other people of colour.

I am learning that I shouldn’t speak for others, it’s my time to listen, donate, share and commit to doing better.

Don’t be so afraid of messing up that you do nothing. Just do more than yesterday and keep going.

Be honest with yourself.

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I have compiled this list from many different sources as I’ve been learning, I’ll continue to add to it.

Please don’t ask Black people and POC to do more free labour for you, do your own research, find the answers to your own questions and most importantly LISTEN.

If you feel defensive, great, figure out why and learn more about that subject.

Don’t pour your guilt and tears over the people who have been oppressed, process this without giving them your emotional burden.

Please PAY PEOPLE when you benefit from their work.

If you think I have made any mistakes or you’d like to add to the list, please email me.

FILMS AND TV 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

  • Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker

  • Top Boy

  • Gentefied

  • Noughts and Crosses

  • School Daze

  • Roxanne Roxanne

  • Mudbound

  • Selma

  • Blackkklansman

VIDEOS

PODCASTS

ARTICLES

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz

  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper 

  • Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask, by Anton Treuer 

  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

  • Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equity in Evanston by Mary Barr

  • 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

  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • Lies my Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen

  • The Making of Asian America, by Erika Lee

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

  • Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, by Derald Wing Sue

  • A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn

  • Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

  • 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

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations about Race, by Dr. Beverly Tatum

  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

  • 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

  • Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

  • Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

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BOOKS FOR TEENANGERS

  • All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

  • Black Boy, White School by Brian F.Walker 

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  • Dear Martin by Nic Stone

  • Electric Arches by Eve Ewing

  • Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

  • How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

  • I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal & Kimberly Jones

  • Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

  • Monster by Walter Dean Myers

  • Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

  • The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

  • When You Ask Me Where I’m Going by Jasmin Kaur

  • Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore

  • A Few Drops of Red: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Clare Hartfield 

  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 

  • In The Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • March: Book One by Jon Lewis , Andrew Aydin and Illustrated by Nate Powell

  • Obviously, Stories from My Timeline by Akilah Hughes

  • The Self-Love Revolution by Virgie Tovar

  • Stamped; Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X.Kendi

  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

  • We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

  • White Privilege by M.T. Blakemore

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BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

  • Blended by Sharon M. Draper

  • From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks

  • A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Marie Ramee

  • It All Comes Down to This by Karen English

  • My Hair Is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

  • New Kid by Jerry Craft

  • One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

  • The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

  • Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

  • Appreciating Diversity by Rita Santos

  • Are You Being Racially Profiled by Alexandra Hanson-Harding

  • Race in America series by various authors

  • A Ride to Remember by Sharon Langley

  • Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon

  • Standing Up to Hate Speech by Alison Morretta

  • Understanding Identity by Rita Santos

  • What’s Racism by Amy B. Rogers

 

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