Resources- Becoming Anti-Racist
Curated by Rebecca Lynn Davis, LCSW, LiCSW
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Dear audience member,
If you’ve made it to this link, it’s because you had a curiosity about learning more about the themes and ideas presented in Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over. We’re delighted to give you the opportunity to learn more. Here are some assorted resources that might support you on your way to passing over. Please know that we are all on a learning journey, and there is always more we can do to learn, know, and grow. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, but it’s a starting point.
Print Books
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.powells.com/book/stamped-from-the-beginning-9781568585987
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.powells.com/book/how-to-be-an-antiracist-9780525509288
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
https://www.powells.com/book/me-and-white-supremacy-9781728209807
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
https://www.powells.com/book/sister-outsider-9781580911863
Rest Is Resistance A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
https://www.powells.com/book/rest-is-resistance-a-manifesto-9780316365215
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
https://www.powells.com/book/this-here-flesh-9780593239797
Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northop
https://www.powells.com/book/12-years-a-slave-9780007580422
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
https://www.powells.com/book/teaching-community-a-pedagogy-of-hope-9780415968188
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir of Essays by Damon Young
https://www.powells.com/book/what-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-blacker-9780062684318
History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
https://www.powells.com/book/history-of-white-people-9780393339741
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
https://www.powells.com/book/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle-9781642591682
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
https://www.powells.com/book/notes-of-a-native-son-9780807006238
Another Country by James Baldwin
https://www.powells.com/book/another-country-9780679744719
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
https://www.powells.com/book/giovannis-room-9780345806567/1-0
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
https://www.powells.com/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-9780060838652
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
https://www.powells.com/book/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-9780807057834
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
https://renieddolodge.co.uk/books/
The Case for Reparations
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Podcasts/Video Material
Seeing White by Scene on Radio
https://sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
Code Switch by NPR
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham
https://www.hellablackpod.com/
How to Survive the End of the World by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown https://endoftheworldshow.org/
Speaking of Racism Podcast by Tina Strawn and Jen Kinney
The Difference between being “not racist” and anti-racist -TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw
How Racism Makes Us Sick - TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzyjDR_AWzE
Black Americans more prone to health issues because of racism- 60 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbdxwXRQF8
The Heritage of Slavery and the Cognitive Dissonance Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOIkjWOdlzQ
Malcolm X – Interview at Berkeley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZMrti8QcPA
American Slaves in 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEmPzlyf4OI
Genealogist who Tracks Down Modern Day Slave Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXbJHsKB3I
Rare Audio of enslaved people connects history to the present- ABC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cb_-jw_NEI
Educational Websites
NAACP
Harvard University Anti-Racism Resources https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/antiracismresources/allies/podcasts
(divorcing) White Supremacy Culture
https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/
The 1619 Project https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
Center for Racial Justice and Education
Anti-Racism Tools by Trying Together
https://tryingtogether.org/community-resources/anti-racism-tools/
Resources for Teaching about Race and Racism with the New York Times
Anti-Racism Resource List by AAMC https://www.aamc.org/about-us/equity-diversity-inclusion/anti-racism-resources
