Resources for Becoming Actively Anti-Racist

This guide was created in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The guide is intended to serve as a starting point for education, action, and reflection. If you have questions or comments, please direct them to the guide's creators in the box at the bottom left.

Articles & Essays

• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer | The Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas | The New York Times Magazine (June 22, 2011)
• Prepping for Parole by Jennifer Gonnerman | The New Yorker Magazine (November 25, 2019)
• Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the "White" Problem in American Studies by George Lipsitz | American Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (September 1995), pp. 369-387
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
• The 1619 Project | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism by Adrienne Green | The Atlantic (January 21, 2016)
• The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• The Rise of Latino Lawyers: New Study Reveals Inspiring Successes, Lingering Obstacles by Maria Chavez | ABAJournal (October 1, 2011)
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Books 

• A Different Mirror | Ronald Takaki
• Black Feminist Thought | Patricia Hill Collins
• Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America | Kathleen Belew
• Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration | Emily Bazelon
• Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment | Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker
• Custer Died for Your Sins | Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul | Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon
• How to Be an Antiracist | Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson
• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration--and How to Achieve Real Reform | John Pfaff 
• Me and White Supremacy | Layla F. Saad
• More Beautiful and More Terrible | Imani Perry   
• Punishment and Inequality in America| Bruce Western
• Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor Systems Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal | Alexandra Natapoff 
• Racial Formation in the United States | Michael Omi and Howard Winant
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Raising Our Hands | Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness | Janet Mock 
• Say the Right Thing: How to talk about Identity, Diversity, and Justice | Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow
• Sister Outsider | Audre Lorde
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Douglas A. Blackmon
• So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo
• Solitary | Albert Woodfox
• Stamped from the Beginning | Ibram X. Kendi
• The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison
•  The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein
• The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Greg Grandin
• The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin
• The History of White People | Irvin Painter
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century | Grace Lee Boggs
• The Poverty of Privacy Rights | Khiara Bridges
• The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson
• The White Racial Frame | Joe R. Feagin
• Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color | Cherríe Moraga
• Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Road to Repair | Danielle Sered
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America | Ira Katznelson
• White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race | Ian Haney Lopez,
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race | Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

Authors

• Angela Davis
• bell hooks
• James Baldwin
• Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Vincent Harding
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
•  Maya Angelou
• Janet Mock 
• Audre Lorde

• 13th | (Ava DuVernay) Netflix
• American Son | (Kenny Leon) Netflix
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers | (National LGBTQ Task Force) Youtube
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 | (Göran Olsson) Youtube, Amazon (rental)
• Clemency | (Chinonye Chukwu) Hulu
• College Behind Bars | (Ken Burns) PBS
• Crime and Punishment | (Stephen Maing) Hulu, Youtube
• Dear White People | (Justin Simien) Netflix
• Fruitvale Station | (Ryan Coogler) Netflix
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary) | (Raoul Peck) Netflix
• If Beale Street Could Talk | (Barry Jenkins) Hulu
• Just Mercy | (Destin Daniel Cretton)  Hulu
• King in The Wilderness | (Peter Kunhardt) HBO/Amazon/Hulu
• RACE: The Power of an Illusion | PBS
• See You Yesterday | (Stefon Bristol) Netflix
• Selma | (Ava DuVernay) PlutoTV, available to rent
• Slavery By Another Name | PBS
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | (Stanley Nelson Jr.) Amazon
• The Hate U Give | (George Tillman Jr.) Available to rent
• When They See Us | (Ava DuVernay) Netflix

Ted Talks

• A Prosecutor’s Vision for a Better Justice System | TedTalk by Adam Foss
• The Danger of a Single Story | TedTalk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Facing Race, Elevating Democracy | FRED Talks by Michelle Alexander
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Immaculate Perception | TedTalk by Jerry Kang
• The Urgency of Intersectionality | TedTalk by Kimberle Crenshaw
• We Need to Talk About an Injustice | TedTalk by Bryan Stevenson

Podcasts

• Uncivil | Gimlet Media
• Momentum | A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod for The Cause | The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
• Pod Save the People | Crooked Media
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
• Profile on the Criminal Justice System in Cleveland | Serial Season 3
• Justice in America | hosted by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint S
• How Whiteness Distorts Our Democracy | The Ezra Klein Show with Eddie Glaude, Jr. (episode)
• 1619 | New York Times
• About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Code Switch | NPR
• Seeing White |  John Biewen, Scene On Radio
• The Appeal | Adam Johnson

Other

• Michelle Alexander and Ruby Sales in Conversation
• Dog Whistle Politics | Ian Haney Lopez interviewed by Bill Moyers 

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