Race & Ethnicity Resources

Here on this page are resources regarding Race & Ethnicity. Some of these resources are gathered from the United Methodist Women and the United Methodist Church & Society websites. Other resources are from University of North Carolina and GoodGoodGood.co (linked at the bottom of the page).



Articles to Read

“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists)

”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

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

The Combahee River Collective Statement

“The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

“Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

4 Ways to Apply Your Anti-Racism Efforts to Virtual Environments by Marcelius Braxton | Presence (September 3, 2020)

10 Documentaries to Watch About Race Instead of Asking a Person of Colour to Explain Things for You by Ben Clay | DocPlay.com (June 3, 2020)

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

29 Movies, Shows, and Documentaries to Watch to Educate yourself on Racial Injustice by Ashley Selleke | Theeverygirl.com (June 4, 2020)

America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists by Tim Wise | Medium.com (June 16, 2020)

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies by Courtney Ariel | Sojo.net (August 16, 2017)

How Did We Get Here? by Gillian B. White | The Atlantic (June 16, 2020)

How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting Than Black Lives by Rachel Miller | Vice.com (June 3, 2020)

How to Talk to your Children About Protests and Racism by Sandee LaMotte | CNN.com (June 2, 2020)

How to Turn White Privilege Into Antiracist Allyship | WGPH.org (June 5, 2020)

How White Managers Can Respond to Anti-Black Violence by Michael W. Kraus (Yale University) (June 1, 2020)

How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism by Elly Belle | teenvogue.com (August 2, 2019)

How White Women Can Use their Privilege to End Racism by Tikia K. Hamilton, PhD | Zora.medium.com (May 28, 2020)

The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

Is it a Microaggression? by Myron R. Anderson, PhD, and Kathryn S. Young, PhD

Is Your Company Actually Fighting Racism, or Just Talking About It? by Kira Hudson Banks and Richard Harvey | Harvard Business Review (June 11, 2020)

Message to White Allies from a Black Racial Dialogue Expert: You’re Doing it Wrong by Dr. David Kempt | Medium.com (April 27, 2020)

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

Racial Equity at Work Isn’t Rocket Science by Dorianne St. Fleur | Medium.com (June 14, 2020)

Racial Microaggressions: Examples and Phrases for Productive Dialogue by Kristen Rogers | CNN (June 6, 2020)

Ready to Be an Ally for Black Academics: Here’s a Start by Ebony O. McGee | The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 11, 2020)

Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

What Black Scientists Want From Colleagues and their Institutions by Virginia Gewin | Nature (June 22, 2020)

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Why You Should Stop Saying, “I Don’t See Color” by Dawn Porter | msn.com (June 7, 2020)

Videos

Films and TV Series

Netflix

13th (Ava DuVernay)

American Son (Kenny Leon)

Dear White People (Justin Simien)

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)

Selma (Ava DuVernay)

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)

Hulu

Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)

via Cinemax

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)

via Cinemax

HBO

King In The Wilderness

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s FIght for Equality*

Rent

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)

Free in the U.S. in June

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc)

Also available on Kanopy via your library

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)

Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

Books to Read

Books to Start With:

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (Bookshop.org)

How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (Bookshop.org)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Bookshop.org)

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Bookshop.org)

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Bookshop.org)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Bookshop.org)

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD (Bookshop.org)

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown* (Bookshop.org)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD* (Bookshop.org)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas* (Bookshop.org)

A Kids Book About Racism*

Next Level:

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins (Bookshop.org)

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper (Bookshop.org)

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Bookshop.org)

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold (Bookshop.org)

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Bookshop.org)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (Bookshop.org)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Bookshop.org)

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Bookshop.org)

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs (Bookshop.org)

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Bookshop.org)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Bookshop.org)

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (Bookshop.org)

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (Bookshop.org)

Additional Books:

Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

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

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

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

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Podcasts

Resources for Raising Anti-Racist Children

Additional Resources

The [White] Shift on Instagram“

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

The 1619 Project Curriculum | Curriculum

Accountability Statement | Robin DiAngelo, PhD

The AntiRacist Table (30 day challenge)

Anti-Racism Project

Beyond This Moment virtual series: Doing Our Work: White Folks Engaged in the Movement for Racial Equity (Zoom recording)

Black Americans are Twice as Likely to Die from COVID-19 than White Americans | Nursefly

The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History

Center for Urban Education (CUE) Racial Equity Tools | w/USC’s Race & Equity Center (Laying the Groundwork, Defining the Problem, Creating Solutions Through Inquiry, Scaling & Sustaining the Work)

Crises as a Catalyst: A Call for Race Equity & Inclusive Leadership | ProInspire

Histories of Home: A Walk with Northside Neighbors

Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)

Keep It Real-Diverse2 (games/cards to be used as tools for difficult conversations)

Medium.com

Mindfulness Project (EP of meditations about allyship, racism and lovingkindness)

NYTimes.com Race/Related

Race Matters: Eradicating Racism in the Corporate World: A webinar series | Korn Ferry

Race Matters: What Can I Do Infographic | Korn Ferry

Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources

Racism in the Workplace (statistics and tips) | Fingerprintforsuccess.com

Resources for White Allies | UNC Athletics’ Heels at Home

Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac

Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits

Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)

Teaching While White | Blog

TED Talks

Women Advancing Together Blog

Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy: An Open Dialogue with White and Black Women | Insight Into Diversity

Why is this happening? — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie

Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials