31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance

 

 

Anti-Racism Resources

Adapted from “Anti-Racism Resources for White People” by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein

 

Get Involved:

 

• White Accomplices - Practical ways to take action

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - from Medium

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) - National network of groups & individuals working towards racial justice

• Anti-Racism Project - NY-based organization offering workshops, & professional development

• Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life - from Teen Vogue

 

Social Media Accounts to Follow:

 

• Antiracism Center: Twitter

• Audre Lorde Project: 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

• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

 

Recommended Viewing & Listening:

 

Film & Television:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — rent

• King In The Wilderness  — HBO

• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — rent

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — rent

 

Videos:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives (50:48)

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" (18:26)

 

Podcasts:

 

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• 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

 

Recommended Reading

 

Books:

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You by Jason Reynolds

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

 

Articles:

 

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” | Atlantic

• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” | NYT Mag 

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• “The Intersectionality Wars” | Vox

• “How You Can Be an Ally in the Fight for Racial Justice” | TED

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” 

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” | Atlantic 

• An Educator's Guide to This Movement