Podcasts

TOPIC	RESOURCE	AUTHOR	AUTHOR'S IDENTITY	DATE OF PUBLICATION
Whiteness in the US	Seeing White	John Biewen, Scene On	White Cis Man	2017
Slavery	1619	Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times	Black Cis Woman	2019
Intersectionality	Intersectionality Matters	Kimberlé Crenshaw, The African American Policy Forum	Black Cis Woman	2018-current
Racism in the US	Code Switch	Shereen Marisol Meraji & Gene Demby	POC woman & Black man	2016-current
School to prison pipeline/ chicago	This American Life: Harper High School	This American Life
Prison System	Your Body Being Used	NPR: Hansi Lo Wang & Kumari Devarajan	POC Man & Black Woman	2019
Racial (In)Equity	When Civility is Used As A Cudgel Against People of Color	NPR: Karen Grigsby Bates	Black Woman	2019
Diversity and Inclusion	Chasing Diversity and Inclusion	Olanike Ayomide-Mensah	Black Cis Woman	2020
Latino Immigration and American Democracy	Democracy Works	Guest: A.K. Sandoval-Strauss	Cis Man	2020
Equity at school	Leading Equity	Dr. Sheldon Eakins	Black cis man
White supremacy movement	Motive: Season 3	Frank Main		2020

Books

TITLE	AUTHOR	AUTHOR'S IDENTITY	DATE OF PUBLICATION
Parable of the Sower	Octavia Butler	Black woman	1993
Parable of the Talents (sequel to ^)	Octavia Butler	Black woman
Binti	Nnedi Okorafor	Black woman	2015
The Souls of Black Folk	W.E.B. Du Bois	Black man	1903
Dreams from My Father	Barack Obama	Black man	1995
Another Country	James Baldwin	Black man	1962
Black Girl Magic	Anthology	Black women	2018
White Privilege	Anthology	Various	2005
When We Are Bold	Anthology	Various	2016
From Sweetback to Super Fly: Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop	Gerald Butters	White man	2015
Feminism and Race	Anthology	Various	2001
Me and White Supremacy	Layla F. Saad	Black woman	2019
So You Want to Talk About Race	Ijeoma Oluo	Black woman	2019
How to Be An Anti-Racist	Ibram X. Kendi	Black man	2019
The New Jim Crow	Michelle Alexander	Black woman	2010
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	Black woman	1970
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?	Beverly Daniel Tatum	Black woman	2017
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide	Crystal Fleming	Black woman	2018
BREATHE: A Letter to My Sons	Imani Perry	Black woman	2019
White Fragility	Robin DiAngelo	White straight cis woman	2018
Citizen	Claudia Rankine	Black Woman	2014
For White Folks Who Teach In The Hood	Christopher Emdin	Black Man	2016
Gentrifier	John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont	3 white men	2017
There Goes the 'Hood (about gentrification)	Lance Freeman	Black Man	2007
Barrio America	A.K. Sandoval-Strauss	Cis Man	2019
Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms	H. Richard Milner IV	Black man	2015
Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson	Black man	2014
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon	Eduardo Obregón Pagán	Brown man	2003
Interrupting Racism: Equity & Social Justice in School Counseling	Alicia Oglesby & Rebecca Atkins	Black woman & White woman	2018

Guides/Toolkits

TOPIC	RESOURCE	AUTHOR	AUTHOR'S IDENTITY	DATE OF PUBLICATION
Anti-Racism	LINK	Victoria Alexander	Black woman	June 2020
White identity/privilege	LINK	Encompass Staff	Encompass is led by POC	March 27, 2020
White nationalism	LINK	Nora Flanagan, Jessica Acee, Lindsay Schubiner	Multiple	2019
Racial injustice	LINK	Multiple	Multiple	2020
Collection of anti-racist books	LINK	Multiple	Multiple	Ongoing
Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance)	LINK	Many	Multiple	Ongoing
Historical themes/current topics	LINK	Many, inspired by the work of Howard Zinn	Multiple	Ongoing
BLM at School	LINK	Many	Many
Black Queer Feminist Curriculum Toolkit	LINK
BLM Instructional Library	LINK
Bystander Intervention Training	LINK	Multiple	Asian-American

Articles

TOPIC	RESOURCE	AUTHOR	AUTHOR'S IDENTITY	DATE OF PUBLICATION
Action steps	Professional do-gooders, here's 14 ways to be in action against anti-black racism	Jennifer Lenter	White(?) woman	June 1, 2020
Action steps	8 ways white folks can support people of color	Aryenish Birdie	Queer woman of color	August 17, 2017
Animal protection	An Analysis of Diversity in Nonhuman Animal Rights Media	Corey Lee Wrenn	White woman	April 2016
Animal protection	The Under-Representation of African American Employees in Animal Welfare Organizations in the United States	Sue-Ellen Brown	White(?) woman	May 18, 2005
Animal protection	Vegan Consciousness and the Commodity Chain: On the Neoliberal, Afrocentric, and Decolonial Politics of “Cruelty-Free”	Breeze Harper	Black woman	2013
BLM + the media	How Black Lives Matter Changed the News	Multiple	Multiple	2019
COVID-19	Experts: Racism, misinformation fuel N.C.'s high coronavirus rate among blacks, Hispanics	Aaron Sánchez-Guerra & Adam Wagner	Mexican man	April 12, 2020
Education	Black children are more likely to be disciplined than white kids for the same behavior	Brett Arends	White(?) man	October 16, 2019
Education	Why people of color and white folks think about race differently	Aryenish Birdie	Queer woman of color	September 14, 2017
Education	The Angry Black Woman: The Impact of Perjorative Stereotypes on Psychotherapy With Black Women	Wendy Ashley	Black woman	2014
Education	Using Social Justice to Promote Student Voice	Lorena Germán	Domincan American	August 11, 2020
Environmental racism	North Carolina's history is littered with racial injustice	Brentin Mock	Black man	October 7, 2018
Movement making	Unapologetically Free Charlene Carruthers Gives Us A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements	Charlene Carruthers	Black queer woman	2018
Policing	Minneapolis PD 150 Years Report	Many contributors		2017
Policing/police brutality	The End of Policing	Alex S. Vitale	White male	October 10, 2017
Racism/policy	The Color of Law	Richard Rothstein		May 2017
Statements	Why Mercy For Animals Must Mean Mercy For Everyone	Leah Garcés	Latinx woman	June 2020
Statements	What Racial Justice Means to Us	David Coman-Hidy & THL	White man	June 10, 2020
Statements	Statement on the Murder of George Floyd and the Ensuing Social Unrest	Encompass Staff	Encompass is led by POC	June 1, 2020
Statements	Critical Design Lab Statement on Design Commitments to Abolishing White Supremacy	Critical Design Lab	A collective of "non-Black POC and disabled white people"	June 2, 2020
White supremacy	The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture	Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun		2001
White nationalism	How Teachers Are Fighting the White Nationalists Brainwashing Their Students	Tess Owen	White woman	September 13, 2019
White(-Passing) Privilege	Recognizing Being White-Passing as a Privilege	Hareer Al-Qaragolie	White-passing Arab Muslim woman	June 1, 2020
White(-Passing) Privilege	Understanding White Privilege	Francis E. Kendall	White(?) woman	2002
Zero-Tolerance Policy	Why zero-tolerance policies on racism aren't enough	The Institute of Leadership & Management	Unclear; CEO is white man	Unclear
Racial (In)Equity	Black Girl Does Grad School	Ravynn Stringfield	Black Woman	Ongoing (Blog)
White Privilege	Who Gets To Be Afraid In America?	Ibram X. Kendi	Black Man	May 12, 2020
Racial (In)Equity	The Coronavirus Was An Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying	Adam Serwer	Man of Color (Multi-Ethnic)	May 8, 2020
Racial (In)Equity	The 1619 Project (An Umbrella That Contains Lots of Great Resources and Reads)	Multiple (The New York Times)	Multiple	2019
Insurrection of US Capitol	Resources for teachers on the days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol	Jennifer Bradley		2021
Insurrection of US Capitol	Responding to the Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol			2021
Insurrection of US Capitol	Classroom resource: Three ways to teach the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol	David Cutler

Social Accounts

NAME	DESCRIPTION	INSTAGRAM	FACEBOOK	TWITTER
Rachel Cargle	Educator and activist	@rachel.cargle
Ericka Hart	sex educator/ racial/social/gender justice	@ihartericka
Monique Melton	anti-racism educator and speaker	@moemotivate
Noname	rapper, who amplifies abolition and Black liberation a lot	@nonamehiding		@noname
kinfolkkolective	blog specifically for black folks to discuss topics and have community. lots of community support networks and a great place for non Black POC and white folks to learn and center black women		Kinfolk Kollective
Adrienne Maree Brown	Author, focuses a lot on rest/pleasure as activism	@adriennemareebrown
Minaa B	Social worker/therapist - posts various prompts and suggestions for navigating convos about race, reflecting on internalized biases, etc.	@minaa_b
Patrisse Cullors-Brignac	One of the founders of Black Lives Matter	@osopepatrisse
Wardell Julius Clark	Chicago Organizer within the Arts Community	@wardelljuliusclark
Nicole Byer	The host of Nailed It... posts a lot about BLM and Black bodies	@nicolebyer

Videos

TOPIC	RESOURCE	AUTHOR	AUTHOR'S IDENTITY	DATE OF PUBLICATION
Police brutality/systemic racism	Trial By Media, ep "41 shots" (Netflix)	Exec. Prod: George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Jeffrey Toobin		May 1, 2020
Mass incarceration/systemic racism	13th (Netflix documentary)	Ava DuVernay	Black woman	2016
Systemic racism	Dear White People (Netflix series)	Justin Simien et al.	Black man	2017-2020
Systemic racism/history	How can we win? (YouTube video)	Kimberly Jones	Black woman	June 1, 2020
Systemic racism/history	How can we win? Edited for language version (YouTube video)	Kimberly Jones	Black woman
Systemic racism/history	The Origin of Race in the USA	Origin of Everything PBS		April 3, 2018
Systemic racism/history	How the US stole thousands of Native American children	Vox Missing Chapter		Oct 14, 2019
Systemic racism/history	Racist History of Illegal Immigration	Splinter Racist American History		Jan 14, 2019
Systemic racism/history	Racism in American Housing	Fusion		Dec 2, 2016
Systemic racism/history	The Disturbing History of American Medicine	Splinter Racist American History		Jan 25, 2019
Systemic racism/history	The dark history of "gasoline baths" at the border	Vox Missing Chapter		Jul 29, 2019
Systemic racism/history	Ugly history: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho	Ted-Ed		Oct 1, 2019
Systemic racism/history	What is Environmental Racism?	AJ+		Jan 29, 2016
Systemic racism	Systemic Racism Explained	act.tv		Apr 16, 2019
Mass incarceration/systemic racism	Mass Incarceration, Visualized	The Atlantic		Oct 2, 2015
Systemic racism/History	The New Jim Crow Museum	Jim Crow Museum		Apr 29, 2013
Identity/personal bias/white privilege/colorism/prejudice	A Class Divided	Frontline		Jan 18, 2019
Identity/bias/lived experience	A Conversation With White People On Race	New York Times Op Docs		Jul 9, 2015
Identity/bias/lived experience	A Conversation With Native Americans on Race	New York Times Op Docs		Apr 15, 2018
Identity/bias/lived experience	A Conversation With Latinos on Race	New York Times Op Docs		Mar 7, 2016
Identity/bias/lived experience	A Conversation With Black Women on Race	New York Times Op Docs		Dec 3, 2015
Identity/bias/lived experience	ASIAN \| How You See Me	Soul Pancake How You See Me		Oct 31, 2016
Identity/bias/lived experience	A Conversation About Growing Up Black	New York Times Op Docs		May 8, 2015
Identity/entitlement/privilege	Lessons in White Privilege from a Light-Skinned L’nu	TEDx Talks		Apr 12, 2019
White exceptionalism/white guilt/shame	Workshop Offers Candid Talk On Race, Privilege And Being White	NBC News		Dec 28, 2018
White savior trope	How White Savior Movies Hurt Hollywood	Insider		Mar 5, 2019
Allyship	White People, Enough: A Look at Power and Control	TEDx Talks		Mar 23, 2017
ReThinking Race	Colorblind: ReThinking Race	WYCC PBS Chicago		Aug 21, 2012
How to engage	Get comfortable with being uncomfortable	TED		Jan 2, 2018
How to engage	How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race	TEDx Talks		Nov 15, 2011
How to engage	I grew up in poverty. Here’s why I recognize my white privilege	TEDx Talks		May 19, 2017
History	Reconstruction: America After the Civil War	PBS	Black man	2019
Media Influence on Perception/Stereotypes	Ted Talk: The Danger of a Single Story	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Nigerian Woman	2009
Racial (In)Equity	Ted Talk: Racism Has a Cost for Everyone	Heather McGhee	Black Woman	2020
Racial (In)Equity	Ted Talk: Let's Get To The Root of Racial Injustice	Megan Ming Francis	Black Woman	2016
Allyship	Ted Talk: How To Overcome Our Biases	Vernā Myers	Black Woman

Miscellaneous

TOPIC	RESOURCE	CREATOR	CREATOR'S IDENTITY
Protesting	Guide for a new protestor
Anti-racism training	Anti-Racism Training	Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
Anti-racism + design	Decolonize Design
History of Racism and intro to Anti-Racism training	Slides of Module 1	Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso	Facilitated by a white person; endorsed by Texas Poor People's Campaign, Brown Berets del Chuco, and the Red Handed Warrior Society,
What is Bias? Module 2	Slides of Module 2	Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
Mod 3: White Privilege and Allyship	Slides of Module 3	Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
Works Cited	PDF of El Paso Course	Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
HUGE Chicago Resource List	Chicago Community Resources
Implicit Bias	Implicit Bias Tests	Project Implicit

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