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RESOURCES FOR ANTI-RACISM
& A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF RACIAL STRUGGLE
Intended for those seeking a better understanding of racism, how to move beyond ignorance, prejudice,
and misinformation regarding race, and how to make lasting change
New resources will be in RED and in BOLD for easy identification
VIDEO
"Blackish" clip every American should see
VIDEO
Being Black by Jane Elliot
Trevor Noah on our broken social contract
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Systemic Racism explained
Baratunde Thurston's TEDx talk on how to decontruct racism
one headline at a time
PODCASTS | BOOKS | VIDEOS, MOVIES & TV SERIES
MUSEUMS & THE ART WORLD / EXHIBITIONS | ORGANIZATIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA | ACTIVISTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR WHITE PARENTS TO RAISE ANTI-RACIST CHILDREN | ARTICLES & NOTABLE COLLECTIONS OF RESOURCES
PODCASTS
The 1619 Project - Six-part series from the New York Times on how slavery has transformed America, includes suggested readings
About Race
Code Switch - Weekly from NPR, a multi-racial, multi-generational team of NPR journalists covering race and identity.
Co-Conspired Conversations: For Checking Your Privilege
Fare of the Free Child podcast
Hear to Slay: For Community - by subscription, free trial available
Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Seeing White
The Stoop: For Stories on the Black Experience
The United States of Anxiety: For Lessons in History
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BOOKS
Links are to publisher or author sites when possible. To find at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library, search here .
Purchase from Black-owned bookstores: Local Online
Memoirs/History/Biography
Assata: an Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Marxism: The Making of Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson
Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs - Download or Read Online
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
My Vanishing Country: a Memoir by Bakari Sellers
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
When They Call You A Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors with Asha Bandele
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
Fiction
All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color by Jina Ortiz
Americannah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange - Teacher's guide
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - Link includes a teacher's guide
King Hedley II by August Wilson - Just one of the plays in Wilson's Century Cycle
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines - Link includes a teacher's guide
Native Son by Richard Wright - Reading guide
Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison - Literary criticism
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
A Taste of Honey by Jabari Asim
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Non-Fiction/Essays
Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis - Downloadable PDF
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Breathe: a Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
Citizen: an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: a New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Tears We Cannot Stop: a Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
They Can’t Kill Us All: the Story of the Struggle for Black Lives by Wesley Lowery
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverley Daniel Tatum
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
Words of Fire: an Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
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VIDEOS, MOVIES & TV SERIES
Links to full-length film/video when possible. Trailers otherwise. Streaming options noted.
Videos
1619: The Legacy of Slavery in America - From Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of New York Times’ “1619 Project”
Being Black by Jane Elliott - One simple question
Confederate Monuments Must Come Down - The top ten states with Confederate monuments are responsible for over 4,000 lynchings from 1877 to 1950,
History of Policing - From NPR's Throughline, a history of policing in the United States
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History - How the United Daughters of the Confederacy propagandized our history to look more favorably on the South after the Civil War - from monuments to school textbooks
Myths About Confederate Monuments - ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffrey Robinson exposes Confederate monuments for what they really are
The Segregation Myth - Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law , debunks the myth behind modern segregation
The Unseen Police Violence Against Black Women - TED talk from Dr, Kimberle Crenshaw
What is the Significance of 1619? - Three events that changed America
Wilmington, NC: When White Supremacists Overthrew the Government - the true story of the 1898 overthrow of Wilmington's elected government by armed white supremacists; part of Vox's Missing Chapter series on history
Dramatic Feature Films/Series
American Son - Based on the Broadway play, directed by Kenny Leon — Netflix HBOMax
Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent film, originally titled "The Clansman"
BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee's Academy Award winning film - Available for purchase
Blindspotting - Carlos López Estrada's 2018 comedy/drama — Available for rent or with subscription: YouTube , Hulu , GooglePlay , Amazon Prime , and more
Clemency - 2019 feature film directed by Chinonye Chukwu — Available to rent or with subscription: YouTube, Hulu , GooglePlay
Dear White People - Award-winning film and TV series created, directed and produced by Justin Simien — Available to rent or with subscription: Film - YouTube , iTunes , Amazon Prime and more, TV Series on Netflix
Fruitvale Station - Feature film based on a true story directed by Ryan Coogler— Available to rent or with subscription: Netflix ,Hulu , YouTube , Amazon Prime and more
The Hate U Give - George Tillman Jr.'s drama based on the best-selling novel — Available to rent or with subscription:Hulu with HBO , HBOMax , YouTube , Amazon Prime and more
If Beale Street Could Talk - 2018 feature film based on James Baldwin's book of the same name — Available to rent or with subscription: Hulu , YouTube , GooglePlay , Amazon Prime and more
Just Mercy - Feature film based on Bryan Stevenson's bestselling book — Available to rent: Amazon Prime , GooglePlay , YouTube
See You Yesterday - Sci-fi, teen actors, strong social message - Produced by Spike Lee — Available with subscription to Netflix
Selma - Ava DuVernay's drama based on the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights — Available to rent: Amazon Prime , YouTube , Google Play and more
Watchmen --- HBO alternative history drama series based on the DC Comics - Available to purchase and with subscription to HBO: Amazon Prime , HBOMax , Hulu , YouTube and more
When They See Us - Ava DuVernay's series based on the true story of the Central Park Five — Available with subscription to Netflix
Documentaries
13th - Oscar-nominated documentary on the prison system from director Ava DuVernay— Available with subscription: Netflix
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Documentary of the Black Panther Party with archival footage and interviews with surviving members— Available to rent: iTunes , Amazon Prime
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 - 2011 documentary film, directed by Göran Olsson — Available to rent: YouTube , iTunes , GooglePlay
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock --- PBS documentary on Civil Rights activist Daisy Bates -- Available for purchase from the filmmaker's website
Dreamland: Little Rock’s West 9th Street – PBS documentary on Little Rock's West 9th Street district
I Am Not Your Negro - Documentary based on James Baldwin's book — Available to rent or on Kanopy : YouTube , Amazon Prime , GooglePlay and more
King In The Wilderness - Feature length documentary film of the last 18 months in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. — Also available to rent or with subscription: Hulu , HBOMax, Amazon Prime , YouTube and more
Nine from Little Rock - Restored award-winning short film documentary from 1964 -- Also available with subscription: Amazon Prime
Teach Us All - S onia Lowman's documentary look at the lingering inequalities in American schools -- Available with subscription to Netflix
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MUSEUMS & THE ART WORLD / EXHIBITIONS
AAM (American Alliance of Museums) Facing Change Initiative - Advancing diversity and inclusion for museum boards
Against the Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance - the PBS documentary provides a profound historical context for the formidable obstacles faced by African American artists in the 20s and 30s
Maxwell Anderson, Expressions of empathy are not enough – it’s time for US museums to act , Apollo Magazine, June 4, 2020
Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey 2018 , from the Mellon Foundation
Black-Owned Galleries to Support Across the United States
Corner Office: Creating the Modern Museum, How will museums change in the years ahead? - NYTimes conversation with Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources - an actively growing resource of articles organized by theme
Empathetic Museum - Workshops and metrics, such as their Maturity Model , to measure institutional change
Exhibiting Inclusion: an Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Museum Participation - by Alexandra Olivares & Jaclyn Piatak, International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
Fashion and Race Database - an online platform to challenge misrepresentation within the fashion system, and its sister site The Fashion and Race Syllabus
Incluseum - Seattle-based project providing "critical dialogue, community building, and collaborative practice," such as:
Kerry James Marshall on Museums - Marshall confronts art institutions about the unignorable absence of Black artists
Let's Talk Dammit: Combating Racism in Charlotte and Beyond - a panel discussion for Black creatives
MASS Action (Museum as Site for Social Action) Toolkit - one of many resources from this site
Modernity + Coloniality - a free online summer course on coloniality and decoloniality
Dr. Porchia Moore, Cartography: a Black woman's response to museums in the time of racial uprising , The Incluseum, June 10, 2020
Kelli Morgan, To bear witness: real talk about white supremacy culture in art museums today, Indianapolis Recorder [newspaper], June 23, 2020
Museum Hue - Providing networking and resources to advance "Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color in the cultural field." Institutional and individual memberships available.
Museums & Race: Transformation & Justice - a movement to challenge and re-imagine institutional policies and systems that perpetuate oppression in museums
Museums Are Not Neutral - the digital and real-life community - See #MuseumsAreNotNeutral on Instagram and Twitter
NC Black Artists for Liberation - a manifesto, petition, and GoFundMe for this intiative
Oppression: a Museum primer , from the Incluseum, February 24, 2015
Resource Roundup - Museum Activism and Social Justice , from Museum Workers Speak
SEAMD (Southeast Art Museum Directors) Resources
SEMC (Southeast Museums Conference) Anti-Racist Resources
Benjamin Sutton, 10 nonprofits you can support to amplify Black voices in the arts , artsy.net, June 17, 2020
Unmasked: We Can't Breathe - a conversation hosted by the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture
Will Counts: The Central High School Photographs
ORGANIZATIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Antiracism Center : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Audre Lorde Project : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Ben & Jerry’s: We Must Dismantle White Supremacy
Black Lives Matter : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Black Women’s Blueprint : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Color Of Change : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Colorlines : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Conscious Kid : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Patreon
Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Families Belong Together : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Free Black Womens Library : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Justice League NYC : Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
MPower Change : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
NAACP : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
National Domestic Workers Alliance : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
RAICES : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
SisterSong : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
United We Dream : Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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ACTIVISTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Austin Channing Brown: Website | Instagram | Twitter
Rachel Cargle: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon
Brittany Packnett Cunningham : Website | Instagram | Twitter
Ericka Hart: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Courses
Blair Imani: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon
Ibram X. Kendi: Website | Instagram | Twitter
DeRay Mckesson: Website | Instagram | Twitter
No White Saviors: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon
Ijeoma Oluo: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon
Rachel Ricketts: Website | Instagram | Patreon
Layla F. Saad: Website | Instagram | Patreon
Bryan Stevenson: Website | YouTube
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FOR WHITE PARENTS TO RAISE ANTI-RACIST CHILDREN
Books
Anti-Racist Baby - by Ibram X. Kendi
Big List of Beloved Book s from the Natural Start Alliance
Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young ad ults
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
Diverse and Inclusive Books to Support Nature-Based Learning from Wonderkin
Early Childhood: Activism and Organizing - this selection from Social Justice Books also includes a guide for selecting anti-bias children's books
31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
Podcasts
Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
Fare of the Free Child podcast
Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
Articles
PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
Social Media
The Conscious Kid: Instagram | Patreon
ARTICLES & NOTABLE COLLECTIONS OF RESOURCES
All Stories - from the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality - Powerful personal stories about adultification and bias
Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages - from Dr. Nicole Cooke, University of South Carolina
Brendan Beck, The Role of Police in Gentrification , from theappeal.org, August 4, 2020 - and its role in the murder of Breanna Taylor
Ben & Jerry's, 7 ways we know systemic racism is real - More articles from Ben & Jerry's
Brene Brown, The system is not broken, it was built this way , Unlocking Us, Facebook post, May 31, 2020
Carmen Collins, Now's the Time to Replace Authenticity with Empathy , PR News, Dec. 7, 2020
Kimberle Crenshaw, Why Intersectionality Won't Wait , from The Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2015
Diversity Resources - from dharma.org, includes faith-based resources
The Emptiness and Inertia of "Having Conversations" - from Jezebel.com
5 Japanese American Women Activists Left Our of U.S. History Books - by Nina Wallace, yesmagazine.org
From here I saw what happened and I cried, The Slowdown podcast, June 15, 2020
Michael Harriat, A timeline of events that led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising , The Root, May 30, 2020
Brian Lamb, Our Path Forward to Advance Racial Equity, from Ozy.com
Sabrina Mahli, Anti-Blackness Goes Back to Ancient Times, from juggernaut.com
Jon Meacham, The South's Fight for White Supremacy,
Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community - from Sunshine Behavioral Health - STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Lyra Monteiro, How a Trump Executive Order Aims to Set White Supremacy in Stone , Hyperallergic, January 12, 2021
Racial Equity Tools - from racialequitytools.org
Rebuilding Pathways: How DEAI and Creative Aging Intersect at the Speed Museum - from AAM
Robert Reich, Healthcare to the Electoral College: Seven Ways 2020 Left America Exposed, from The Guardian
Lawrence R. Samuel, Why Isn't Age Part of Diversity and Inclusion? , from Psychology Today
Barbara Smith, How to Dismantle White Supremacy - from The Nation, September 2020
Caroline Randall Williams, You want a Confederate monument? My body is a Confederate monument, NY Times. June 26, 2020
What Lies Between Us: a Virtual 5-week Anti-Racism Educational Course - Tuesdays, 8pm start Aug 4- $$ (Staff recommendation)
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack , by Peggy McIntosh
White Supremacy Culture , from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001
Zaira Zamindar, Looting is a revolt of the oppressed , Hyperallergic, June 5, 2020
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What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? / Or fester like a sore-- / like a syrupy sweet? / Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. / Or does it explode? - Langston Hughes
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