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BLM B-town Anti-Racist Educational Reading & Viewing Lists
BLM B-town is compiling reading & viewing resource lists for all those interested in furthering their Anti-Racist education. The living lists will evolve overtime. Please check in periodically for updates. These resource lists are broken into specific topics as well.
MORE POLICE DOES NOT MAKE US SAFER: Reading & Viewing List
To add to our Make the Right Call Campaign we are also talking to people about how adding more police and law enforcement to situations, communities and in particular if those situation and communities are Black or of Color do not make us more safe. It in fact usually increases the chances for harm done to Black & Brown folks.
Please click here to see our resource list: NO MORE POLICE
Please click here to see our resource list: NO MORE POLICE
EDITING -Sorry for the mess still compiling our resource lists
Confronting and Dismantling White Supremacy: Reading & Viewing List
Books:
White Women -by Regina Jackson & Saira Rao
American Whitelash: Fear-mongering and the rise in white nationalist violence by Wesley Lowery
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahaway
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon (though not specifically about anti-racism it is an amazing intersectional resource)
Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System -edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
I'm Not Yelling by Elizabeth Leiba
Sweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with my white friends about race by William T Lewis Sr., MSW Phd
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, And Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World & Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors (a BLM Founder) and Asha Bandele
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love
How to be Less Stupid about Race by Crystal Marie Fleming
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo NOTE: this book has its own Whiteness Problems PLEASE ready critique articles to get a well rounded perspective of this book, which is not to say it doesn't offer good observations, but that it needs the critique to make it those work. READ HERE
White Women -by Regina Jackson & Saira Rao
American Whitelash: Fear-mongering and the rise in white nationalist violence by Wesley Lowery
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahaway
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon (though not specifically about anti-racism it is an amazing intersectional resource)
Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System -edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
I'm Not Yelling by Elizabeth Leiba
Sweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with my white friends about race by William T Lewis Sr., MSW Phd
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, And Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World & Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors (a BLM Founder) and Asha Bandele
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love
How to be Less Stupid about Race by Crystal Marie Fleming
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo NOTE: this book has its own Whiteness Problems PLEASE ready critique articles to get a well rounded perspective of this book, which is not to say it doesn't offer good observations, but that it needs the critique to make it those work. READ HERE
Articles: Click the titles
White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture by Heather Laine Talley
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The ‘American Whitelash’ Is Far From Over by Erin Aubry Kaplan
The whitelash against diversity, equity and inclusion, explained
Opinion: The furor over DEI is just the latest example of the historical phenomenon known as "whitelash." by Michael Harriot
The 71 Commands in 13 Mins: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols
Comforting Discomfort as Complicity: White Fragility and the Pursuit of Invulnerability by Barbara Applebaum of Syracuse University
Cracking the shell of White fragility: Priming employees for antioppressive/anti-racist learning by Martha Jansenberger
Black Fragility by Colman Hughes ( a counter opinion to all of White Fragility's Aims worth a read but taken with all other anti-racism work not entirely valid)
The Death of George Floyd, In Context, by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd by Alisha Ebrahimji
You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black, by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate
It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color? by Rita Omokha
I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem by R.T. Rybak
Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people by Ijeoma Oluo
The myth of the free speech crisis by Nesrine Malik
Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter? by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How White Feminists Oppress Black Women: When Feminism Functions as White Supremacy by Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP
My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest by Lori Lakin Hutcherson
Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
New Study Finds Black Teens Face Racial Discrimination 5 Times A Day On Average by Alyssa Curtis
Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight by Aleksandar Hemon on the Problem with Civility
One Million Black Families in the South Have Lost Their Farms
'Yes, you can still be racist even if you have mixed-race kids’
Would You Ever Give Up Your Whiteness? by Zaron Burnett III
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE SECTOR HAS AN INTERNAL RACISM PROBLEM BY ITZBETH MENJÍVAR
Women Have Always Been a Part of White Supremacy BY JENN M. JACKSON
"White Fragility" (the book mentioned above) has a Whiteness Problem AKA What’s Missing From “White Fragility” by Lauren Michele Jackson
White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard To Talk to White People About Racism. Here’s why white people implode when talking about race. by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture by Heather Laine Talley
OR Download PDF
The ‘American Whitelash’ Is Far From Over by Erin Aubry Kaplan
The whitelash against diversity, equity and inclusion, explained
Opinion: The furor over DEI is just the latest example of the historical phenomenon known as "whitelash." by Michael Harriot
The 71 Commands in 13 Mins: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols
Comforting Discomfort as Complicity: White Fragility and the Pursuit of Invulnerability by Barbara Applebaum of Syracuse University
Cracking the shell of White fragility: Priming employees for antioppressive/anti-racist learning by Martha Jansenberger
Black Fragility by Colman Hughes ( a counter opinion to all of White Fragility's Aims worth a read but taken with all other anti-racism work not entirely valid)
The Death of George Floyd, In Context, by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd by Alisha Ebrahimji
You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black, by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate
It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color? by Rita Omokha
I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem by R.T. Rybak
Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people by Ijeoma Oluo
The myth of the free speech crisis by Nesrine Malik
Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter? by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How White Feminists Oppress Black Women: When Feminism Functions as White Supremacy by Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP
My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest by Lori Lakin Hutcherson
Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
New Study Finds Black Teens Face Racial Discrimination 5 Times A Day On Average by Alyssa Curtis
Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight by Aleksandar Hemon on the Problem with Civility
One Million Black Families in the South Have Lost Their Farms
'Yes, you can still be racist even if you have mixed-race kids’
Would You Ever Give Up Your Whiteness? by Zaron Burnett III
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE SECTOR HAS AN INTERNAL RACISM PROBLEM BY ITZBETH MENJÍVAR
Women Have Always Been a Part of White Supremacy BY JENN M. JACKSON
"White Fragility" (the book mentioned above) has a Whiteness Problem AKA What’s Missing From “White Fragility” by Lauren Michele Jackson
White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard To Talk to White People About Racism. Here’s why white people implode when talking about race. by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Videos/Podcast/other Media: Click the titles
ALL of BLM BTOWN's Videos Click HERE
BLM Btown's Black Progressives Podcast Click HERE
Reparations & White Privilege Video with Trevor Noah from the Daily Show
Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school — and how to change that by Monique W. Morris
Ijeoma Oluo: "So You Want to Talk About Race" | Talks at Google
MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News
Why We Need To Talk About White Feminism
Brittney Cooper on Eloquent Rage in 2019
ALL of BLM BTOWN's Videos Click HERE
BLM Btown's Black Progressives Podcast Click HERE
Reparations & White Privilege Video with Trevor Noah from the Daily Show
Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school — and how to change that by Monique W. Morris
Ijeoma Oluo: "So You Want to Talk About Race" | Talks at Google
MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News
Why We Need To Talk About White Feminism
Brittney Cooper on Eloquent Rage in 2019
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Using tear gas on protesters helps spread coronavirus, experts warn
Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Using tear gas on protesters helps spread coronavirus, experts warn
Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa
BLM Teaching Resources
Black Lives Matter At School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education. We encourage all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year.
(click link below)
blacklivesmatteratschool.com/
BLM in School 2020 Curriculum Resource Guide
The national Black Lives Matter At School coalition’s brilliant Curriculum Committee worked this year to bring you lessons for every grade level the relate to the 13 principles of Black Lives Matter. Here is the 2020 Curriculum Resource Guide–free, downloadable lessons to challenge racism, oppression and build happy and healthy classrooms.
drive.google.com/open?id=1LGslwJwhXvpVnDgw0uC-n794l6EGzpuH
Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action 2019 Educator Reading, Viewing and Website List
This is a detailed reading list, educator and teaching list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iK5jswJghYYkbvHvKy-kHYuwKKpKp8XT7Iex9BZIgZA/edit?usp=sharing
Teaching for Black Lives
A NEW BOOK FROM RETHINKING SCHOOLS
https://www.teachingforblacklives.org/
(click link below)
blacklivesmatteratschool.com/
BLM in School 2020 Curriculum Resource Guide
The national Black Lives Matter At School coalition’s brilliant Curriculum Committee worked this year to bring you lessons for every grade level the relate to the 13 principles of Black Lives Matter. Here is the 2020 Curriculum Resource Guide–free, downloadable lessons to challenge racism, oppression and build happy and healthy classrooms.
drive.google.com/open?id=1LGslwJwhXvpVnDgw0uC-n794l6EGzpuH
Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action 2019 Educator Reading, Viewing and Website List
This is a detailed reading list, educator and teaching list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iK5jswJghYYkbvHvKy-kHYuwKKpKp8XT7Iex9BZIgZA/edit?usp=sharing
Teaching for Black Lives
A NEW BOOK FROM RETHINKING SCHOOLS
https://www.teachingforblacklives.org/
Black Thought & Identity Mainstream to Radical: Reading & View List
Books:
'Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower' by Brittney Cooper
'An African American and Latinx History of the United States' by Paul Ortiz
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
'Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower' by Brittney Cooper
'An African American and Latinx History of the United States' by Paul Ortiz
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
Articles:
9 Organizations Working to Save Black Mothers
From Words To Action: Showing Up for Black Trans Women
Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2019 -Many Women & Gender Non-Conforming People murdered this year are Black & other People of Color
“Black people” and “people of color” aren’t interchangeable. Ever. by Lecia Michelle
9 Organizations Working to Save Black Mothers
From Words To Action: Showing Up for Black Trans Women
Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2019 -Many Women & Gender Non-Conforming People murdered this year are Black & other People of Color
“Black people” and “people of color” aren’t interchangeable. Ever. by Lecia Michelle
Videos/Podcast/other Media:
Violence Faced by Transgender Women Video from Democracy NOW! with Ashlee Marie Preston
Brittney Cooper Breaks Down Black Feminism video on The Root
Life As Half Black Half Japanese High School Girl
Beyond Respectability: Centering Black Women as Agents of Change
Whiteness: The Meaning of a Racial, Social and Legal Construct
Violence Faced by Transgender Women Video from Democracy NOW! with Ashlee Marie Preston
Brittney Cooper Breaks Down Black Feminism video on The Root
Life As Half Black Half Japanese High School Girl
Beyond Respectability: Centering Black Women as Agents of Change
Whiteness: The Meaning of a Racial, Social and Legal Construct
Black History Collected Articles & Books
Books are listed for Articles: Click Titles
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Bone and the Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers & the Struggle for Equality by Anna-Lisa Cox
Haint Blue, the Ghost-Tricking Color of Southern Homes and Gullah Folktales by Katy Kelleher
The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1
Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem
Back in 1900, activist W. E. B. Du Bois was using infographics to challenge white supremacy by Laura Snoad
A Comprehensive Map of American Lynching by LAURA BLISS
HE LAST SURVIVING WITNESS TO THE TULSA RACE RIOT OF 1921 SHARES HER STORY: 'IT WAS A HORRIFYING THING'
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Bone and the Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers & the Struggle for Equality by Anna-Lisa Cox
Haint Blue, the Ghost-Tricking Color of Southern Homes and Gullah Folktales by Katy Kelleher
The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1
Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem
Back in 1900, activist W. E. B. Du Bois was using infographics to challenge white supremacy by Laura Snoad
A Comprehensive Map of American Lynching by LAURA BLISS
HE LAST SURVIVING WITNESS TO THE TULSA RACE RIOT OF 1921 SHARES HER STORY: 'IT WAS A HORRIFYING THING'
About People of Color in the movement: Reading and Viewing List
Books:
'The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority' by Ellen D. Wu
'This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror' by Moustafa Bayoumi
'The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority' by Ellen D. Wu
'This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror' by Moustafa Bayoumi
Articles: Click Titles
5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-BlacknessWhat Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me by TINA CURIEL-ALLEN
“Latinx” is growing in popularity. I made a comic to help you understand why.
Columbus Day Is Dying. Indigenous Peoples Day Is the Future by DELILAH FRIEDLER
5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-BlacknessWhat Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me by TINA CURIEL-ALLEN
“Latinx” is growing in popularity. I made a comic to help you understand why.
Columbus Day Is Dying. Indigenous Peoples Day Is the Future by DELILAH FRIEDLER
Videos/Podcast/other Media: Click Titles -Editing sorry for the mess
Vox Atlas E16 - America's cocaine habit fueled its migrant crisis
Vox Atlas E16 - America's cocaine habit fueled its migrant crisis
