RESOURCES - Older written ones

NOTE:  On February 6, 2022 - a new - listing - including all that is below entitled: "Resources (Again)" was begun:   http://www.workingtowardsendingracism.org/2022/02/resources-again.html

Resources - added beyond 2/6/2022 - are not listed below

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At the Dark End of the Street – Danielle McGuire

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom - Derecka Purnell

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein - Incredible Incredible book

Florynce "Flor" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical - Sherie M Randolph

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference - Adam Rutherford

How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi

LOVING: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy - Sheryll Cashing

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies - Resma Menakem - Brilliant!

The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness - Michelle Alexander

NOBODY: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill

 THE PURPOSE OF POWER: How We Come Together When We Fall  Apart - Alicia Garza - A Must Read!

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America – Jennifer Harvey

Say Their Names:  How Black Lives Came to Matter in America - Curtis Bunn, Michael H Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston

So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo - great "starter book"

The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal - And How To Set Them Right - Adam Harris

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South - Catherine Fosl

The Sum or US: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - Heather McGhee - a Must read!

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism– James W Loewen - A book that totally made me aware of how little I know and understand.  This book added greatly to my understanding of the history of horrific racism outside of the South as well as one reason why big city ghettos developed with few black people in smaller cities and towns in the North.   I had never heard of "Sundown Towns" before I read this book (since then made visible in he movie Green Book - see below).

TEACH ME! Kids Will Learn WHEN OPPRESSION is the Lesson - Murray Levin

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements – Charlene A Carruthers - Excellent
when they call you a terrorist: a black lives matter memoir - patrisse khan-cullors & asha bandele

White Evangelical Racism:  The Politics of Morality in America - Anthea Butler

WHITE FLIGHT: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism - Kevin M Kruse - Excellent

White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo - Excellent

White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing – Gail Lukasik - the story of a woman finding out that her mother has "passed" as white for many years - very, very good!
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"  Beverly Daniel Tatum, PH.D
The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us - Paul Tough- Excellent

Resources for Youth on Racism and Sexism

----    BLOG WRITINGS:  Working Towards Ending Racism

* Can Black People Be Racist? - 

* Can I Believe - Regarding White Fragility -  - Irony galore -  a poem - the creator of this blog brought up "White Fragility" at a gathering he organized where three other (white) members of his high school class - responded to his suggestion that they see the video White Fragility - very disheartening (proving some of the points Robin DiAngelo made in the video)

Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong - The Dalai Lama shows us a better way. - Dr. David Campt - incredibly good

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The Hate U Give - I don't like to say one "must" see a movie, however this is a movie - that ALL - white people, who profess to care about racism issues at all - should definitely see!   The movie is intense, sad, deep and also uplifting - wonderful - shows how black and white people often see things very differently

Green Book - Oscar winner - has been justly criticized, but is still helpful for white people, particularly

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THE BIAS DETECTIVE:  Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt explores the roots of unconscious bias- and its tragic consequences for U.S. society - an incredible researcher on bias's effects supporting racism

Claudine Rankine on Whiteness - incredible

Lace on Race (on Facebook)- An interesting source for white people particularly, who want to work on their racism  It presents its perspective forcefully, not tolerating dissent (which is a weakness from my perspective).

Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation (OWMCL) – A national network mobilizing white men to learn, grow and take action against white supremacy and patriarchy.

The Real 'Green Book': in Chicago

Showing Up For Racial Justice  (SURJ) - SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.