Anti-Racism Resources

Websites:

Anti-racism resources for white people

75 things white people can do for racial justice

Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life

Showing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/ 

 White anti-racism: Living the legacy: https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/white-antiracism-living-the-legacy

 Decolonize Social Work: http://decolonizesocialwork.org/

SWCAREs: Social Work Coalition for Anti-Racist Educators: https://www.swcares.org/

 MD150 Report, an “initiative [that aims] to shift the discussion of police violence in Minneapolis from one of procedural reforms to one of meaningful structural change.” 

Books/articles/reading resources:

Uprooting Whiteness [Supremacy & Domination] – Resources compiled by William Frey, PhD student in the Columbia University School of Social Work

Resmaa Menakem’s book, My Grandmother’s Hands:  Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies. Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press. 2017

What’s my complicity: Talking white fragility with Robin D’Angelo: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer-2019/whats-my-complicity-talking-white-fragility-with-robin-diangelo

How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi 

So You Want to Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla Saad

Mindful of Race, Ruth King

The Hate You Give, Angie Thomas

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

White Privilege:Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.  Essay by Peggy McIntosh. Additional resource: National SEED Project http://nationalseedproject.org/

Video Resources:

McIntosh TED Talk on privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BY9UEewHw

 TED Talk “The Power of Privilege” by Tiffany Jana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0acvkHIiZs

TED Talk, “There is No Neutral” by Michelle Johnson, https://youtu.be/VEJ_F8NCD2Q

Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, DVD at VCU library … and also you can find some clips on youtube 

How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time

Race: The power of an illusion. https://vcu.kanopy.com/video/race-power-illusion-0

Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative, Just Mercy book and film) interview: https://www.pbs.org/video/bryan-stevenson-clbexe/

Other social justice-related films that SSW faculty put together in a google doc (several are focused on race/racism). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D6_YaqrCdkJK0Nu1tNYe17e1qorBWH5-uAyxPGjRsas/edit  

Implicit Bias: How it affects us and how we push through (Ted Talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8G7MtRNlk