Recommendations from Ford Fellows
- Google Doc on “Anti-Racism resources for white people”. Great places to start:
- Ibrahim Kendi’s “How to be an Anti-Racist”
- “White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism” by Robin D’Angelo.
- “How to Be Less Stupid About Race” By Crystal Fleming. Here is the Amazon link. Here is the link to the reader’s guide. Here is the book’s website with other resources.
- The Auntie Way by Michelle M. Jacob https://auntieway.com and link to the product page on Amazon in case it is helpful. In the book, the author has an essay about Academic Aunties and it celebrates the ways academics resist the structures of oppression in our institutions. The book also encourages folks to take care of themselves.
- Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
- From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, by Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor
- From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture, by Koritha Mitchell
- Crook County: Racism & Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court, by Nicole Gonzalez van Cleve
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson
- Article: How to Check In On Your Black Friends and Coworkers
- Article: What You Can Do *Now*: A Black Veteran’s Perspective on George Floyd
- Beyond Roses – An Obligation to Speak (Finding Voice for Conversations) by Judi Moore Latta. A hands on guide designed to prick the conscience and help folks find their voices to tell their stories and listen to others.
- Campaign Zero – Campaign to end police violence
- Data for Black Lives – Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minnesotans. Includes link to every fatal police involved encounter in Minnesota since 2000
- Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
- Medical Apartheid by Harriett A. Washington
- 26 Ways to be in the Struggle – link
- Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus via JStor link
- Article: What is an Anti-racist Reading List For? link
Recommendations from Others
- Justice in June: This resource is designed to help you focus on issues of race and racism for 10, 25, or 45 minutes per day for the month of June (i.e., one month). It includes education components and action components.
- Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Gau and Priya Vulchi (Ted Talk by authors). The book includes a story from our John Bermel, Carleton’s Director of Security.
- https://www.amazon.com/Racist-America-Current-Realities-Reparations/dp/0415704014
- Click here for a list of what you can do to help related to Black Lives Matter. It includes petitions to sign, organizations to donate to, phone numbers to call, templates for contacting your local government, and information for protestors.
- Here is a list of 9 items to help George Floyd Protesters
- Click here for volunteer effort to reform the justice system
- The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege by Ken Wytsma. This book is from a faith-based perspective.
- Follow the writing and twitter of Dr.Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Her medium & Her twitter.
- Article: How to Check In On Your Black Friends and Coworkers
#ScholarsStrike Antiracism Videos
- A Conversation about Growing Up Black
- The link between racist, anti-Black policing and racist, anti-Black education
- Redlining, education, and anti-Black racism
- Racist depictions mask racist assumptions
- Mass Incarceration Visualized
- Race and tech
- There are plenty of other videos on the ScholarStrike youtube page
For Faculty
- Kishimoto, Kyoko. (2018). Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21:4, 540-554, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1248824
- Characteristics of white supremacy culture: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html
- Ash, Allison N.; Hill, Redgina; Risdon, Stephen; and Jun, Alexander (2020) “Anti-Racism in Higher Education: A Model for Change,” Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice: Vol. 4 : No. 3
Ways to Take Action During COVID
- https://colorofchange.org/campaigns/active/ (good place that has petitions and other resources, only downside about petitions is the emails so make sure to unsubscribe from the first ones you get or use an email address that you don’t use much)
- https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-for-black-lives-matter.html (list of places to donate, nice way to find and research a certain place you want to donate to)
- Just continuing to be as aware as possible, being eager to learn more, and having those difficult conversations
- https://www.racialequitytools.org/glossary (good way to take time to educate yourself on a lot of those terms out there, and even diving deeper into a certain subject)
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