UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMIC RACISM
Learning about the complex system of American racism is the first step toward dismantling it. Below are just a few resources to start you on your journey.
ARTICLES
The Bold Italic: “Commonly Asked Questions about BLM”
The Atlantic: “Who Gets to be Afraid in America?”
Peggy McIntosh: “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Fortune’s “Anti-Racist Resources”
The Atlantic: “America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us”
Jennifer C. Nash: “The Intersectionality Wars”
The Combahee River Collective Statement
The New York Times Magazine: “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant”
BOOKS
If you can, remember to buy from independent, Black-owned book stores!
Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race
Ta-Nahesi Coates: Between the World and Me
Ibram X. Kendi: How to Be an Antiracist
Ira Katznelson: When Affirmative Action was White
Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Janet Mock: Redefining Realness
James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Patricia Hill Collins: Black Feminist Thought
Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns
Layla F. Saad: Me and White Supremacy
Kiese Laymon: Heavy: An American Memoir
Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage
Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement
Jenna Arnold: Raising Our Hands
Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility
PODCASTS
Movies & TV