Anti-Racism Resources
These resources are collected from a number of lists and sources online. They are run the gamut from articles and websites to books and syllabi. Pull requests welcome, or start an issue to leave suggestion.
LEARN
READ
Reading Lists
- Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List
- Black Anarchism: A Reader | The Anarchist Library
Books
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- 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
- 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
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- 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
- 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
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
Articles
- Understanding racism and inequality in America Washington Post
- We Need an Academic New Deal The Nation
- How White Supremacy turned Asian and Black Communities Against Each Other Next Shark
LISTEN
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
WATCH
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
- 13th | by Ava DuVernay (1:40:02)
TEACHING
- Difficult Knowledge, Trauma Informed Pedagogy and Safe-ish Spaces (UC Berkeley)
- Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma (Teaching Tolerance)
- Zinn Education Project Teaching Materials (Zinn Education Project)
Readers and Syllabi
- The Decolonizing Design Reader
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom(by bell hooks)
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed(by Paulo Freire)
- Tech and Media Art – Decolonize the Syllabus
- Decolonizing Games Reader
UCLA RESOURCES
- UCLA EDI “Acknowledging the Current Racial Crisis in the Classroom”
- Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)
- Staff and Faculty Counseling Center
- UCLA Student Legal Services
- UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
ACTIONS ONLINE
- Demand justice for black lives by signing petitions online. A good place to start is here.
- Digital Resources for a Movement Against Police Violence
- Email your representatives, senators, mayor, and city council members and demand justice and reform.
- https://peoplesbudgetla.com/
- http://tinyurl.com/defundLAPDasap
- Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor
- Ways To Help
GIVE
- Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
- People’s City Council Freedom Fund & Black Lives Matter LA
- LA Action Bail Fund (BLMLA’s partner for LA bail donations, 100% of donations go to the fund
- People’s City Council Freedom Fund
- Black Visions Collective
- Trans Justice Funding Project
- NationalResourcesList
- Summaeverythang Community Center
- Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
- Black Artist Party
- Gender Justice LA
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