Anti-Racism Education: A Resource Guide

As a result of the recent protests, many people have begun learning more about racism in America and unlearning internal biases and prejudices, both necessary aspects of anti-racism work. We wanted to take some time to share a number of resources that could help you on your anti-racist journey. Below you will find a number of sections reflecting different ways of approaching this learning. We have divided our resources into the following categories: books, articles, podcasts, film, Instagram accounts to follow, courses to take, and organizations to support. We hope you are able to take some time to digest a selection of these resources. While this list is by no means comprehensive, we have found each of these to be helpful in our own understanding of racism and the path of anti-racist work.

Books:

- When Affirmative Action was White by Ira Katznelson
- The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas Sugrue
- Living for Change and The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Highest Potential by Vanessa Siddle Walker
- The Detroit School Busing Case: Milliken V. Bradley and the Controversy Over Desegregation by Joyce Baugh
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- How to be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn, Susuan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by
Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Black Food Geographies by Ashanté M. Reese
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by
Mehrsa Baradaran
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi

Articles:

“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
“Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times
“This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN
The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project, particularly this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones
“You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black,” by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate, for the Washington Post
“It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha for Elle
“The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
“Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathis in New York Times, T
“I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak in Politico
“Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
“I’m Black. My Mom is White. This Is The Talk We Had To Have About George Floyd’s Killing,” by Kimberly J. Miller for The Huffington Post
A project from Harvard University about implicit bias
“The Law Isn’t Neutral,” by Boston University School of Law dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig in Slate
Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans