Anti-Racism Resources
The following is a list of books, films, articles, videos, and other resources that will help to educate all those who want to become a part of the solution to the problem of racism.
Anti-Racism Content
Explore our working compilation of anti-racism content.
by Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community鈥攁nd all of us鈥攖o place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
In the Deep South of the 1950鈥檚, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.
Policing the Black Man
by Angela Davis
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing.
Rise of the Warrior Cop
by Radley Balko
The last days of colonialism taught America鈥檚 revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades, America鈥檚 cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as an other-an enemy.
by Maya Schenwar
What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?
They Can鈥檛 Kill Us All
by Wesley Lowery
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
White Fragility
by Robin Diangelo
Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
White Rage
by Carol Anderson
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 鈥榖lack rage鈥, historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 鈥榳hite rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,鈥 she wrote, 鈥榚veryone had ignored the kindling.鈥
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn鈥檛 commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship鈥攁nd transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Rising Out of Hatred
by Eli Saslow
Rising Out of Hatred tells the story of how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the White House through the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost.
by Monique Morris
Black Stats鈥攁 comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans鈥攊s an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation.
The Central Park Five
by Sarah Burns
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the 鈥淐entral Park jogger鈥 crumpled in a ravine. She鈥檇 been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled with fierce public outcry, exposed the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time. The minors were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect.
White Like Me
by Tim Wise
this deeply personal polemic reveals how racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere.
Fire Shut Up In My Bones
by Charles Blow
Charles M. Blow鈥檚 mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery鈥檚 legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to 鈥渓ove that blurred her vision and bent the barrel.鈥 Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his 鈥渄o-right鈥 mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After鈥攖he day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. The story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of America鈥檚 most innovative and respected public figures is a stirring, redemptive journey that works its way into the deepest chambers of the heart.
by Ibram X. Kendi
The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
How to be an AntiRacist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism鈥攁nd, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.
by Layla Saad
A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on black, indigenous and people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Songs and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
by Dr. Jessica B. Harris
The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South听
by Michael Twitty
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
by Toni Tipton-Martin
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.听
by Ashant茅 M. Reese
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement听
by Monica M. White
An African American and Latinx History of the United States听
by Paul Oritz
Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy听
by Darryl Pinckney
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class听
by Ian Haney L贸pe
So You Want to Talk About Race听
by Ijeoma Oluo
The Emotion Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness听
by Paula Ioanide
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race听
by Jesmyn Ward
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics听
by George Lipsitz
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind听
by Harriet A. Washington
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors听
by Carolyn Finney
Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage听
by Dianne D. Glave
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors听
by James Edward Mills
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America听
by Richard Rothstein
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection听
by Dorceta Taylor
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility听
by Dorceta Taylor
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape听
by Lauret Savoy
Ain鈥檛 I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism听
by Bell Hooks
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment听
by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower听
by Brittney Cooper
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity听
by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the听Foundations of a Movement听
by Angela Davis
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation听
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot听
by Mikki Kendall
Sister Outsider听
by Audre Lorde
We Should All Be Feminists听
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women, Race, and Class听
by Angela Davis
- 13th听(Netflix)
- Dear White People听(Netflix)
- I Am Not Your Negro听(Netflix)
- Just Mercy
- LA 92听(Netflix)
- Moonlight听(Netflix)
- Pose
- Self Made
- Shut Up & Dribble听(Showtime)
- Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (BET)
- Teach Us All
- The Hate U Give
- When They See Us听(Netflix)
- Whose Streets?
Written by: Ari Shapiro
NPR听| June 9, 2020
Written by Courtney Ariel
Sojourners听| April 16, 2017
TheZinn Education Project
Written by Hayley Maitland
Vogue听| May 31, 2020
Written by Monica Webb Hooper; Anna Mar铆a N谩poles; Eliseo J. P茅rez-Stable
JAMMA Network听| May 11, 2020
Written by Kristin Moe
Medium听| May 14, 2020
Written by Lorgia Garcia-Pena and Mordecai Lyon
Boston Review听| June 2, 2020
Written by Corinne Shutack
Medium听| Aug 13, 2017
Written by Juan Vidal
NPR听| June 6, 2020
Written by Allison Aubrey
Medium听| Aug 13, 2017
Written by Olive Pometsey
GQ听| June 3, 2020
Written by Kiara Goodwin
The Everygirl Media Group听| June 1, 2020
Written by: Peggy McIntosh | Department of Psychology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Written by: Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
May 2020
Written by: Katrina Michie
Pretty Good听| Oct 13
Issuu听| December 17, 2014
Balanced Black Girl
鈥淏alanced Black Girl is a podcast dedicated to helping you feel your best. Tune in for approachable health, self-care, personal development, and well-being advice from Black women wellness experts.鈥
Brown Girl Self-Care
鈥淛oin Bre, aka The Self-Care Pusher from Southern California, as she shares life experiences, weighs in on current events, amps up her wellness/health habits and finds clean(ish) products to try all for the sake of taking her physical, spiritual and emotional well-being to the next level and (hopefully) inspiring other women of color to do so as well. It鈥檚 time to become obsessed with our self-care!鈥
Code Switch
鈥淲hat鈥檚 CODE SWITCH? It鈥檚 the fearless conversations about race that you鈥檝e been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society 鈥 from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation 鈥 because we鈥檙e all part of the story鈥
hey, girl.
鈥渉ey, girl. is a podcast that unites the voices of phenomenal women near and far. Created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind, author Alex Elle sits down with people who inspire her. From friends to family members and strangers, the hey, girl. guests give us a peek into their stories through candid and intimate conversations.鈥
Intersectionality Matters!
鈥淚ntersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberl茅 Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.鈥
Pod Save the People
鈥淥n Pod Save the People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.鈥
Therapy for Black Girls
鈥淭he Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Join your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, as she offers practical tips and strategies to improve your mental health, discusses the latest news and trends in mental health, pulls back the curtain on what happens in therapy sessions, and answers your listener questions.鈥
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- – Vanity Fair: June 3, 2020 – Written By Christopher Rosen