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THE FOLLOWING LIST HAS BEEN ADAPTED FROM THE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES GOOGLE DOC COMPILED BY SARAH SOPHIE FLICKER & ALYSSA KLEIN AND FROM THE FRACTURED ATLAS

This list is intended to serve as a resource to deepen your anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Start where you are, with what you have, and approach this journey with curiosity and humility. Feel free to share this list on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

For everyone realizing just how much they don’t know, a reading list can offer direction. But even the best-intentioned anti-racist reading lists have their limits. Reading lists like this one are starting points. 

We want to be clear that when we talk about what it means to “do the work” of anti-racism, reading lists aren’t “the work.” Reading lists are for catching yourself up to speed, for educating yourself so that when you go into spaces (professionally, personally, politically) to do the work, you understand the context of your own actions and of the broader history of racism. Reading lists are like the required summer reading before school starts.

Articles

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists)

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

• A Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (June, 2014)

• How to Reduce Online Racism by Mark Holden

  Videos

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Pod For The Cause from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)

• Seeing White

Books

MORE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES TO CHECK OUT:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• Anti-Racism Project

• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources

• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

The Role of White People in Anti-Racist Work 

• What is the Role for White People Working for Racial Justice in This Current Period? by the Organization for Black Struggle and the Anti-Racist Collective

• Racism, Whiteness, and Burnout in Antiracism Movements: How White Racial Justice Activists Elevate Burnout in Racial Justice Activists of Color in the United States by Paul C. Gorski (Equity Literacy Institute) and Noura Erakat (George Mason University)

• White People Hate Protest zine by Mariame Kaba

• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice Edited by Jonathan Osler

• From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Life-long Journey Tema Okun

• The Work Is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community by Catherine Jones

• Whites Only: SURJ And The Caucasian Invasion Of Racial Justice Spaces by DiDi Delgado, Black Lives Matter-Cambridge

Talking about Racism

• Detour-Spotting for White Anti-Racists by jona olsson

• Talking Points — Effective Strategies for Confronting Racism in Conversation by WHAT’S UP?! Pittsburgh

• White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement by Robin DiAngelo

• SURJ Guide to Talking White Supremacy

• Calling In: A Quick Guide on How and When by Sian Ferguson
  

Historical and Cultural Context of Racism

• How to Cool It, interview with James Baldwin after MLK’s assassination

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle, speech by Angela Davis

• Slavery By Another Name, directed by Samuel D. Pollard

• 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay

• Uncivil podcast, hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika

• Code Switch podcast, hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby

• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah Jones (plus, they have a podcast!)