WHITENESS
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ANTIRACIST
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Information for Everyone
Here you will find articles, books, and video resources in support of your interest in learning more about bias, Cultural Humility, Racism and Antiracism, and Whiteness. There are so many, yet never enough. This list is not all-inclusive and only represents some information I’ve come across in my efforts to understand better my own cultural conditioning biases, the ways whiteness has shaped me, my perceptions of the world, and what I know and don’t know about myself, what I can know and can’t know. I’ve also referred to many of these resources in facilitating Cultural Humility and anti-racism affinity practice groups with fellow white folx. If you have resources that have been important to you, please contact me, and I’ll add them!
Knowing where or how to start can be intimidating. My suggestion is to pick anywhere and start. Follow your interest. Pick one article, book, or video (long or short) and then follow wherever that takes you next unless anxiety encourages you to retreat. Don’t retreat. Retreat causes harm. It allows whiteness to continue to blind white folx and allows racism to carry on. Courage can help us be part of what makes the world a safer place for everyone.
Bias
Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them by Shakil Choudhury
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji
Project Implicit @ Harvard University
Implicit Bias @ UCLA
How to Protect Your Mental Health While Fighting Racial Injustice by Online Counseling Programs
Overcoming Racism & Racialized Trauma
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa Menakem: Somatic Abolitionism | Sounds True
Teach.com 65 Resources for Racial and Health Equity
White Settler Colonialism World-Wide
Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
Racism in the United States
Systemic Racism Explained by ACT.TV
Is Racism Over? by Lacey Green 6 minutes
Racism in the United States. Racism by the Numbers by vlogborthers 4 minutes
Whiteness or White Racial Identity
Understanding Whiteness by The CARED Collective (Calgary Anti-Racism Education)
Whitney Dow on Whiteness Project with AOL Build 28 minutes
Deconstructing White Privilege by Robin DiAngelo 22 minutes
Waking Up To Race from White Awake
Who Invented White People by Gregory Jay
White Racial Identity Development Stages by Janet Helms
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
Birth of a White Nation with Jacqueline Battalora 36 minutes
Why Talk About Whiteness? By Emily Chiarello in Teaching Tolerance
Theory by Audrey Thompson
What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
History of White People By Neil Irvin Painter
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk
Working Toward Whiteness by David R. Roediger
Waking up White by Debbie Irving
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son By Tim Weiss
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Weiss
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity by Tim Weiss
How Structural Racism Works by Tricia Rose 55 minutes
#BlackLivesMatter vs #AllLivesMatter & Checking My White Privilege by Gabbie Hanna 8 minutes
Blacks and Whites See Racism in the United States Very Very Differently by Ryan Struyk, CNN
Race and Class in the United States
The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness byTA-NEHISI COATES
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation by Derald Wing Sue
An Indigenous Peoples' History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An African American and Latinx History of the United States By Paul Oritz
Cultural Appropriation and the Arts by James O. Young
Wellbriety Journey to Forgiveness (edit) produced by Don Coyhis (Mohican) and Marlin Farley (Ojibwe) 37 minutes
Stories (Novels, Short Stories, Etc.)
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal
Trainings
Healing from Internalized Whiteness with Sandra Kim / Re-Becoming Human
Racial Affinity Group Development Program
Organizations
Surj (Showing up for Social Justice)