Anti-Racism Resources

Defining Racism

• What is Racism? Racism Defined (Dismantling Racism Works)
• Whiteness Explainer for Dummies (Dissident Voice)
• Being Antiracist (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
• Defining Racism Beyond its Dictionary Meaning: A System of Power, Privilege, and Oppression (Race, Racism, and the Law)
• What is Racism? (Intercultural Development Research Association)

Explore Further

• The Case for Reparations (The Atlantic)
• [more here]

Lesson Plans and Activities for Teachers

Elementary-Level

• Looking at Race and Racial Identity Through Critical Literacy in Children’s Books - Lesson to talk about racial identity and the harmful potential of racial stereotypes.
• Different Colors of Beauty - Lessons to help students openly develop and discuss their racial or ethnic identities.
• Understanding Prejudice Through Paper Plate Portraits
• Black Youth Matter Coloring Pages
• It's Time to Talk About Dr. Seuss - Anti-Racism discussion with students, including Seuss' The Sneetches.

Secondary-Level

• Black Lives Matter Lesson Series (Morningside Center)
• Black Lives Matter - From Hashtag to Movement (Anti-Defamation League)
• Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
• Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach About Racial Profiling
• What is the School to Prison Pipeline? (Anti-Defamation League)
• What Happened in Ferguson and Why? (Morningside Center)
• Black Lives Matter - Continuing the Civil Rights Movement (The Choices Program)

Resources for Parents

• Talking About Race (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture)
• Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice (Tolerance.org)
• How to Talk to Your Children about Protests and Racism (CNN)
• How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids (Common Sense Media)
• So Get Me: Alphabet Rockers- Podcast for families making change
• Talking to Young Children about Race and Racism (PBS)

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times) - Examines the effects of structural racism on American society, starting when the first enslaved people African arrived in 1619.
• Seeing White (Scene on Radio) - Host and producer John Biewen takes a deep dive into questions like “Where did the notion of 'whiteness' come from?" "What does it mean?" and "What is whiteness for?", in this fourteen-part documentary series.
• Code Switch (NPR)
• FRONTLINE: Race, Police, & the Pandemic (PBS)
• There Is No Neutral: Nice White People Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society (NPR)
• TED Talk: The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist - with Ibram X. Kendi
• TED Talk: Racism Has a Cost for Everyone - with Heather C. McGee
• TED Talk: How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time - with Baratunde Thurston

Films

• [put these into the BiblioCommons booklist?]
• 13th - Examines how America's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration.
• FRONTLINE: A Class Divided
• Sesame Street: What is Racism?
• Systemic Racism Explained

Becoming an Anti-Racist

• TED Talk: How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them - with Vernā Myers
• Beyond Protests: 5 More Ways To Channel Anger Into Action To Fight Racism, (NPR)
• 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Medium.com)
• Guide to Allyship
• Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Why We Need to Talk About Race (Oprah.com)
• Bear witness, record, de-escalate: How race may affect what bystanders are called to do in cases like George Floyd's (Yahoo)

Toolkits & Discussion Guides

• RaceWorks (SPARQtools)
• Anti-Racism as Violence Prevention
• Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good Magazine
• Black Lives Matter Toolkits for Healing

Local Organizations

• African American Community Service Agency - ACCASA’s mission is to preserve the dignity and culture of a diverse African American Community, and provide supportive services.
• Islamic Networks Group - Peacebuilding organization providing education and engagement opportunities that foster understanding of Muslims and other misunderstood groups to promote harmony among all people.
• LEAD Filipino - LEAD Filipino seeks to advance the involvement and increase the representation of Filipino Americans in civics, public policy development, and public service.
• Silicon Valley NAACP - Local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People whose mission is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.
• More local organizations focused on racial & ethnic groups [link to new page with whole list]

National Organizations

• Black Lives Matter
• Campaign Zero - Platform of research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America.
• The National Police Accountability Project - Organization dedicated to ending law enforcement abuse through legal action and educational programming
• Color of Change
• Movement for Black Lives
• The Advocates for Human Rights
• National Urban League
• Race Forward
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund