Resources

These are just a few of the resources that I've found helpful along the way

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Books

• “Black on White: Black Writers on what it means to be white” by David R. Roediger

• “White Lies: Race and the Myth of Whiteness” by Maurice Berger

• “White: Whiteness and race in contemporary art” by Maurice Berger

• “Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture” by Martin Berger

• “White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness” by Ruth Frankenberg

• “A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present” by Howard Zinn 

• “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Ibram X. Kendi 

• “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo

• “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo

• “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi

• “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland” by Jonathan M. Metzl

• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander 

• “Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum

• “Waking up White” by Debbie Irving

• “The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind” Edited by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, Max King Cap

• “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein

• “White Rage” by Carol Anderson

• “When They Call You a Terrorist” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

• “White Feminity: Race, Gender and Power” by Katerina Deliovsky

• “Transforming Communities” by Sandhya Rani Jha

• “The LIttle Book of Restorative Justice” by Howard Zehr

• “Memoir of a Race Traitor” by Mab Segrest

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Podcasts

• Seeing White (Scene on Radio)

• Code Switch (NPR)

• 1619 Project Podcast (New York Times)

  • *Note: This is part of the larger 1619 Project from NYT

• ​Eyes on Whiteness

• Intersectionality Matters! (with Kimberle Crenshaw)

• Hear to Slay (with Roxanne Gay and Tressie MacMillan Cottom)

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Articles

• The Cost of Racism to White People by Paul Kivel

• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun

• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

• Anti-Racism Resource Guide compiled by Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Tasha K. Ryals and Melyssa Griffin

• The Combahee River Collective Statement by Combahee River Collective

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• What White Children Need to Know About Race by Ali Michael and Eleonora Bartoli in the Summer 2014 of the National Association of Independent Schools Magazine​

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Film/Video

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

• I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck) — Netflix

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• Get Out (Jordan Peele) -- available to rent

Projects/Misc

• 1619 Project from NYT

• My White Friends by Myra Greene

• Dirty White Matter by Meg Stein

• Black on Black Project

• Young, Gifted & Broke

Training/Workshops

• Racial Equity Institute based in Greensboro, NC

• Dirty White Matter (Community Discussions) by Meg Stein

• Finding Freedom Workshop facilitated by Evangeline Weiss and Kari Points

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Organizations (relevant to NC and Durham)

• Triangle SURJ

• Durham for All

• Durham Beyond Policing

• Southerner’s on New Ground

• Down Home NC

• Emancipate NC

• Siembra NC

• Mijente

• Youth Organizing Institute

• Carolina Jews for Justice

• Resource Generation

• NC NAACP

• ACLU NC

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last updated September 2020