Anti-Racism Resources
To Learn More About Racism in America
“God has made of one blood all the people of the earth.” Acts 17:26
This is by no means an exhaustive list of resources, but a starting point for white people to learn more about how racism was created, how it continues and how to dismantle it.
“God has made of one blood all the people of the earth.” Acts 17:26
This is by no means an exhaustive list of resources, but a starting point for white people to learn more about how racism was created, how it continues and how to dismantle it.
Books and Authors
- Waking Up White by Debby Irving
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism by Allen Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung
- The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation (Justice and Peacebuilding) by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Jodie Geddes
- Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation by Jennifer Harvey
- Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama by Tim Wise
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Grove Boys and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
- Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
- March Series - John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Graphic Novels)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 - Christopher Paul Curtis
- Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship - Irene Latham and Charles Waters
- Authors - Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon Draper
- Pink and Say - Patricia Polacco (true sad Civil War story- picture book)
- Refugee - Alan Gratz (Three stories of refugees, through time and connection)
- The Breadwinner - Deborah Ellis (This is about a family in Afghanistan during Taliban rule)
Movies and Documentaries
- I Am Not Your Negro
- 13th
- When They See Us
- Selma
- Mudbound
Radio Recordings
- An interview with Robin DiAngelo, the author of White Fragility
- NPR interview of author Jennifer Harvey who wrote the book, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
- On Point Radio: How To Talk To Your Kids About Race, Racism And Police Violence. In the immediate aftermath of the Amy Cooper video and the murder of George Floyd, Andrew and Melissa spoke with Christian Cooper and host Meghna Chakrabarti about how to talk to kids about race, racism and police violence.
Recorded Webinars from EmbraceRace
All our webinars feature conversations with our guests followed by an audience Q & A. After the event, registrants receive links to the recording, a transcript and a list of resources.
All our webinars feature conversations with our guests followed by an audience Q & A. After the event, registrants receive links to the recording, a transcript and a list of resources.
- “Rays of Hope”: Supporting the leadership & activism of our young people (June 11)
- “I [STILL] can’t breathe”: Supporting kids of color amid racialized violence (June 5)
- "How do I make sure I'm not raising the next 'Amy Cooper'?" (June 2)
- How the COVID crisis can spur us to advance authentic, multiracial democracy (May 26)
- Asian Americans, racism, and antiracism in the COVID era (May 14)
- How we can help our children to be "disaster-resilient" & why we must(April 22)
- What the COVID-19 crisis tells us about structural racism (April 16)
- Supporting children in the struggle against COVID-19 (March 24)
Action Guides from EmbraceRace
Short bits of practical, research and experienced-informed guidance from expert practitioners. (Find archived action guides in English and Spanish here.)
Short bits of practical, research and experienced-informed guidance from expert practitioners. (Find archived action guides in English and Spanish here.)
Online Learning and videos
- Implicit Bias Training - Free! - The Ohio State University, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Race in America - a history of Racism in America by Phil Vischer for Holy Post
More resources curated by EmbraceRace
- On Point Radio: How To Talk To Your Kids About Race, Racism And Police Violence. In the immediate aftermath of the Amy Cooper video and the murder of George Floyd, Andrew and Melissa spoke with Christian Cooper and host Meghna Chakrabarti about how to talk to kids about race, racism and police violence.
- The racial impacts of COVID-19. A regularly curated list of news articles documenting the racial impacts of the COVID crisis. Categories include Asian Americans, Black Americans, Latinx/Hispanic Americans, Tribal Nations, Immigrants and Refugees, and Other Racialized Groups.
- COVID-19: In color, by the numbers. Each of these monthly set of facts highlights both the disparate racial impacts of COVID and the underlying, structural inequities that help account for them.
- COVID resources that take race seriously. A collection of resources that center the circumstances of Black, Indigenous and People of Color and other racialized communities.