As part of CCSI's commitment to understanding and working to break the cycle of systemic racism, we’ve pulled together a list of Anti-Racism resources including articles, videos, webinars/training, podcasts, books, films/TV series, and much more. We hope you'll find these resources helpful in learning more about how to eliminate racism.
Articles
Videos
Webinars/Trainings
Podcasts
Books
Christian Resources
Films/TV Shows
Social Media Accounts to Follow
Scholarly Articles
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Articles to read:
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Ways to be in Action Against Anti-Black Racism (June 1, 2020)
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- 26 Ways to be in Struggle Beyond the Streets (December 18, 2014)
- How to Make Antiracist Work a Part of your Recovery (June 5, 2020)
- The 8 R's of Talking about Race: How to Have Meaningful Conversation (June 3, 2020)
- First Lady Michelle Obama Urges All of Us to Have the Difficult Conversations in Our Communities (July 27, 2020)
- 158 Resources to Understand Racism in America (June 4, 2020)
- Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others
Videos to watch:
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- The Danger of a Single Story by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
- July '64
- Redlining in Rochester
- Racist Policy and Resistance in Rochester video and accompanying resources
Webinars and Trainings:
- Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race (CTAC)
- How Racism Impacts those We Serve and How We Serve: Are We Meeting Participants Where They Are? (CTAC)
- Race-based Traumatic Stress and Psychological Injury (CTAC)
- Race and Trauma:The Role of Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy (CTAC)
- Race, Poverty & Trauma: Microaggressions and the Therapeutic Alliance (CTAC)
- Identity, Bias, and Cultural Humility: Connecting to Ourselves and Others (CTAC)
Podcasts to subscribe to:
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Black Boys and Men: Changing the Narrative
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
Books to read:
- Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Revised Edition: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy DeGruy
- 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
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- 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 - 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 Colorby Cherríe Moraga
- 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
- Black Man White in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
- White Like Me by Tim Wise
- Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- What Does It Mean To Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Christian Specific Resources
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
- Dear Church: a Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Demonination in the US by Lenny Duncan
- Dear White Christians For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation by Jennifer Harvey
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Films and TV series to watch:
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Organizations and Individuals to follow on social media:
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- 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
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: 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
- Time Wise: Twitter | Facebook
- Shelly Touchluk: Website | Twitter | Facebook
Scholarly Articles
- A Long Night in the Emergency Department during the Baltimore, Maryland (USA) Riots [2015]
- Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing [2020]
- Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting [2020]
- The Anger Gap [2020]
- At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State [2018]
- Baltimore’s Unrest: Perspectives From Public Health and Emergency Physician Leaders [2015]
- Becoming Free, Becoming Black [2020]
- Benign Bigoty [2012]
- Beyond the Rope [2016]
- Birthright Citizens [2018]
- Black Rage: On Cultivating Black National Belonging [2016]
- Blind Justice: “Seeing” Race and Gender in Cases of Violent Crime [2007]
- Body Cameras, Big Data, and Police Accountability [2018]
- Can Violent Protest Change Local Policy Support? Evidence from the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot [2019]
- Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State [2014]
- Civil Rights and Reactive Countermobilization [2012]
- The Coevolution of Public and Private Security in Nineteenth-Century Chicago [2018]
- Conceiving the Multitude: Eighteenth-Century Popular Riots and the Modern Language of Social Disorder [2011]
- Creating Criminals: Race, Stereotypes, and Collateral Damage [2020]
- Criminal Justice Profiling and EU Data Protection Law: Precarious Protection from Predictive Policing [2019]
- Dangerously Divided [2020]
- Digging Deeper: Population-Level Racial Disparities, Exposure to Police Victimisation and Psychological Trauma [2017]
- Discrimination Laundering [2017]
- Do All Black Lives Matter Equally to Black People? Respectability Politics and the Limitations of Linked Fate [2019]
- The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values [Late 2000s]
- Ending the School to Prison Pipeline [2018]
- Fragmented Democracy [2018]
- Gentrification, Affordable Housing [2019]
- The Geography of Law Enforcement Malpractice: National Patterns of Official Misconduct in the United States, 1989–1999 [2004]
- Governing with Words [2016]
- The Hidden Rules of Race [2017]
- How Social Movements Die [2015]
- The Identity Prism: How Racial Identification Frames Perceptions of Police Contact, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness [2020]
- Incarceration Nation [2016]
- In Battle for Peace During ‘Scoundrel Time’ [2019]
- The Learning Model of Use-of-Force Reviews [2020]
- Living Histories of White Supremacist Policing [2018]
- Make Labor Organizing a Civil Right [2019]
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Long Social Gospel Movement [2018]
- The Modern Prison Paradox [2013]
- News, Television, and Performance: The Case of the Los Angeles Riots [2009]
- Permitted for Law Enforcement Purposes but Prohibited in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Case of Riot Control Agents and Expanding Bullets [2016]
- The Police as Place-Consolidators: The Organizational Amplification of Urban Inequality [2020]
- Police Shootings and Race in the United States: Why the Perpetrator Predation Perspective Is Essential to I-O Psychology’s Role in Ending This Crisis [2018]
- Police Work, Unbounded [2020]
- Policing Democracy: Race, Riots and Protest [2015]
- Policing in American History [2020]
- Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches [2018]
- The Political Power of Protest [2013]
- Punishment and Race [1997]
- Race, Justice, Policing and the 2016 American Presidential Election [2016]
- Race, Law Enforcement, and the Beloved Community [2018]
- Reconceptualizing Political Knowledge: Race, Ethnicity, and Carceral Violence [2019]
- Red Zones [2019]
- Segregation by Design [2018]
- Surrogate Champions for the Poor [2018]
- Suspect Citizens [2018]
- The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America [2020]
- What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter [2019]
- “What Should His Sufferance Be?” Protesting Injustice in Shakespeare’s Venice and the Age of Black Lives Matter [2019]
- When More than Property Is Lost: The Dignity Losses and Restoration of the Tulsa Riot of 1921 [2016]
- Whitelash [2020]
- Withdrawing and Drawing In: Political Discourse in Policed Communities [2020]
Tools
More anti-racism resources to check out:
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Project
- Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
- Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
- Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
- Showing Up For Racial Justice Resources
- “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
- Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
- Approaching Racism with Compassion and Humility
- Traumatic Impact of Racism on Young People
- Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom
- Racial Equity Tools
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- How to Manage When Things Are Not Okay (And Haven't Been for Centuries)
Page last updated: 5/19/22