Race & Ethnicity

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Resources for Adults

Non-Black POC/Immigrant Allyship

• 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now 

Translations

• Letters For Black Lives (Translations to assist in talking to non-English speaking relatives. Languages include: Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Bengali, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hindi, Hmong (Green dialect), Hmong (White dialect), Farsi, French, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese, and more )
• How to respond to common initial reactions to the above letters ( helpful prompts, even for non-immigrant families)

Reading Lists

• Anti-Racist Reading List [Chicago Public Library, compiled by Ibram X Kendi]
• An Antiracist Reading List [New York Times, also by Ibram X Kendi]
• Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List [Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective]
• 13 Books You Should Read About Black Lives [The Cut]

Books

• Black Feminist Thought By Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower By Dr.Britney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir By Kiese Laymon
• How to be an AntiRacist by Iram K. Kendi
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness By Austin Channing Brown
• Lies my Teacher told me By James W. Loewen
• Redefining Realness By Janet Mock
• Sister Outsider By Audre Lorde
• Stamped By Ibram K. Kendi
• The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century By Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth Of Other Suns By Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color Cherrie Moraga
• White Fragility By Robin DiAngelo
• White Rage By Carol Anderson
• Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
• How to be an Anti-Racist [Ibram X. Kendi]
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do [Jennifer Ebidhardt]
• The Person You Mean to Be [Dolly Chugh]
• Algorithms of Oppression [Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble]
• Between the World and Me [Ta-Nehisi Coates]
• So You Want to Talk about Race [Ijeoma Oluo]
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [Michelle Alexander]
• Assata: An Autobiography [Assata Shakur]
• Women, Race and Class [Angela Davis]
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement [Angela Davis]
• Just Mercy [Bryan Stevenson]
• Men We Reaped: A Memoir [Jesmyn Ward]
• All About Love: New Visions [bell hooks]
• Americanah [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]
• We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation [Jeff Chang]
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]
• The End of Policing [Alex Vitale] (Free ebook through Verso Books)

Books specifically about race and medicine

• Black & Blue by John Hoberman
• Black Man In A White Coat By Damon Tweedy M.D.
• The Health Gap By Michael Marmot
• Unmasking Racism in Health Care: Alive and Well By Marie Edwige Seneque
• Just Medicine: A Cure For Racial Inequality In American Health Care By Dayna Bowen Matthew
• Medical Apartheid By Harriet A. Washington

Articles:

• The BMI Is Racist And Useless
• What it means to be anti-racist, Vox, Anna North
• Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue, APHA
• The 1619 Project, The New York Times
• Why We Published the 1619 Project
• I am So Tired, Robert M Sellers (University of Michigan Chief Diversity Officer)
• Amy Cooper Knew Exactly What She Was Doing, Huffington Post, Zeba Blay
• Far Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War, Vice News, Tess Owen
• Bail reform, which could save millions of unconvicted people from jail, explained, Vox News, Stephanie Wykstra
• TED Talk: What if We Ended the Injustice of Bail?
• Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide, Slate News, Matthew Dessem (includes videos of police escalating violence)
• Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US, The Verge, T.C. Sottek
• Minneapolis Restaurant Owner Says ‘Let My Building Burn, Justice Needs to Be Served’, Eater
• A Decade Of Watching Black People Die, NPR Code Switch
• Twitter Thread on Research-Based Solutions to stop Police Violence [Sam Sinyangwe]
• 18 Transgender Killings This Year Raise Fears of an ‘Epidemic’, New York Times, Rick Rojas and Vanessa Swales
• A puzzling number of men tied to the Ferguson protests have since died, Chicago Tribune, Jim Salter
• The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. Here's why, The Guardian, Alex Vitale
• This Is How Much Major Cities Prioritize Police Spending Versus Everything Else, GQ, Luke Darby
• Police militarization fails to protect officers and targets black communities, study finds, PBS, Nsikan Akpan
• Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City’s Police After The Death Of George Floyd, Buzzfeed News, Molly Hensley-Clancy
• No, We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd’s, Jacobin, Peter Gowan
• America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress, CityLab, Bryan Lee Jr.
• #BlackDisabledLivesMatter, The Nation, Britney Wilson
• Why police can violate your constitutional rights and suffer no consequences in court, Vox, Ian Millhiser
• 100 Years of Tear Gas, The Atlantic, Anna Feigenbaum
• Creating Dialogue About Racism and Discrimination

Websites

• Mapping Police Violence
• The Sentencing Project
• Prison Policy Initiative
• Vera Institute of Justice
• The Counted (The Guardian database)
• Fatal Force (The Washington Post database)
• Use of Force Project
• Global Social Theory
  Quick intro to Critical Race Theory
• Disability Visibility Project: Disabled People of Color
• The Trans Obituaries Project: Honoring the Trans Women of Color Lost in 2019
• Insight into Diversity

Podcasts

• The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast: Police Shootings: Epidemic of Trauma
• Code Switch, NPR
• 1619, The New York Times
• Momentum, Race Forward
• Seeing White, John Biewen
• Intersectionality Matters, Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Jeremy Mills Podcast- Rashad Norris Interview
• Yo, Is This Racist?, Andrew Ti and Tawny Newsome

Movies/TV

• Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
• I am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck)
• When They See Us (2019, dir. Ava DuVernay)
• If Beale Street Could Talk… (2018, dir. Barry Jenkins)
• Malcolm X (1992, dir. Spike Lee)
• 13th (2016, dir. Ava DuVernay)
• Clemency (2019, dir. Chinonye Chukwu)
• Selma (2014, dir. Ava DuVernay)
• American Son – Kenny Leon
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
• Dear White People – Justin Simien
• Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler
• I Am Not Your Negro – James Baldwin Documentary
• Just Mercy – Destin Daniel Cretton
• See You Yesterday – Stefon Bristol
• The Black Panthers – Vanguard of the Revolution
• The Hate You Give – George Tillman Jr.
• When They See Us – Ava Duvernay

Podcasts

• About Race
• Intersectionality Matters!
• Pod For The Cause
• Pod Save The People
• Seeing White
• Speaking Of Racism
• The Diversity Gap

Organizations

• Antiracist Research & Policy Center
• Appalachian Community Fund
• Audre Lorde Project
• Black Womens Blueprint
• Color of Change
• Colorlines
• CommunityWise Resource Centre
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Families Belong Together
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
• Muslim Girl
• MPowerChange
• NAACP
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• PAALF
• Race Forward
• RAICES
• Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
• SisterSong
• United We Dream

Resources for Children or Talking to Children About Racism:

Talking to Children about Racism

• Interactive Slide Deck for talking about protests with your kids (made by a NYC public school teacher)
• Talking With Children About Racism, Police Brutality and Protests [Aha! Parenting]
• The Conscious Kid
• From our friends at Sesame Street
• Teaching Tolerance

Talking with children about racial violence

• Center for Racial Justice in Education: Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids
• New York Times: Talking to Kids About Racial Violence, By Haig Chahinian
• University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education: Talking to children after racial incidents

Talking with children about race and COVID-19

• National Association of School Psychologists: Countering COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Stigma and Racism: Tips for Parents and Caregivers
• National Geographic: Talking to kids about xenophobia, By Leslie Hsu O

Websites and Instagram Pages for speaking to children about racism

Teaching Tolerance
Instagram: @teaching_tolerance

The Conscious Kid
Instagram: @theconsciouskid

Here Wee Read
Instagram: @hereweread

Read with Mocha Books
Instagram: @readwithmochabooks