Anti-racism Resources

Anti-Racism Awareness Resource List

This is a living document and will be continuously updated. 

Books

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

  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo 
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race and Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations About Race in an Era of School Resegregation by Dr. Beverly Tatum 
  • From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

  • How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi 
Articles
Projects/Histories

The 1619 Project – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Rosewood, Florida, marks 100 years since race massacre. Here’s what happened | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/us/rosewood-massacre-florida-what-happened-reaj/index.html

The Red Summer of 1919 – HISTORY
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/chicago-race-riot-of-1919#section_2

Elaine Massacre of 1919 – Encyclopedia of Arkansas
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elaine-massacre-of-1919-1102/

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre – Tulsa Historical Society & Museum (tulsahistory.org)
https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/

A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance | National Museum of African American History and Culture (si.edu)
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Tulsa Race Massacre – Facts, Photos, Coverup – HISTORY
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/tulsa-race-massacre  

Hundreds of Black men, women and children burned alive, shot, lynched by white mobs during Red Summer ignored century later
https://thegrio.com/2019/07/23/hundreds-of-black-men-women-and-children-burned-alive-shot-lynched-by-white-mobs-during-red-summer-ignored-century-later/

Movies/Documentaries

Amend

Race: The Power of an Illusion

Malcolm X

Watchmen (TV series)

Eyes on the Prize (Documentary series)

Bamboozled

Amistad  

I Am Not Your Negro

Roots (Mini-series)

Rosewood

Dark Girls

When They See Us

Do The Right Thing

Murder on a Sunday Morning

Fruitvale Station

Mississippi Burning

13th

Slavery by Another Name

The Black List: Volume One

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross