Anti-Racism Resources
Books, videos, training, podcasts, and more.
Conversations are happening, many white people are waking up, maybe for the first time, to the daily, lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Two points that we have heard made continuously over this week from Black activists is 1) the need for white people to do their own work (have conversations, read books, and educate ourselves) and 2) don't let this become a hashtag moment, but rather step up and do the continual work of dismantling white supremacy in ourselves and in the systems around us. We know this can be stressful and filled with anxiety, and sometimes the fear that we are getting it wrong keeps white people from even trying. But you're here, you're looking, so keep going. Keep learning. Keep listening. Keep doing.
We hope these resources are useful for both education, prompting conversations, and acting.
We hope these resources are useful for both education, prompting conversations, and acting.
Training, Workshops, & Homework
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, 6- Week Anti-Racism Book Study
- Raising Antiracist Kids: Empowering the Next Generation of Changemakers, June 18th 5 pm EDT
- For White People [Something to Do] (Black Lives Matter Milwaukie Handout)
- White Homework with Tori Glass
Videos , Movies, & Web Series
- The Next Questions: Expansive Conversations about Racial Justice with Austin Channing Brown
- Abolition Can't Wait: A Teach-In with #8toAbolition - A Conversation about Abolishing Police and Prison Systems
- Systematic Racism Explained
- The Disturbing History of the Suburbs: Adam Ruins Everything (a video on the racist history of housing)
- The Hate U Give (Currently available for free on most streaming platforms)
- 13th (Documentary available on Netflix)
- Pushout: A documentary on the criminalization black girls in school
- Explained Episode: Racial Wealth Gap
Articles
- On Oregon's Racist History
- A House Still Divided by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Why We Never Talk about Black-on-Black Crime: An Answer to White America's most Pressing Question by Michael Harriot
- The First White President by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Fighting Racism Requires an Actual Fight by Andre Henry
Podcasts
Books
History of Racism in America
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi ( A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for teens and youth)
- So You want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Racism, Education, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Deconstructing Racism and White Supremacy
Autobiographies
- North Clackamas School District Resource Page
- Are Kids to Young to Talk About Race? (Graphic with a breakdown of how and why you talk about race at different ages)
- Your Kids Aren't too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi (Pre-order)
- Talking Race with Young Kids (20 minute podcast conversation)
- Explaining Systemic Racism to Kids (or even adults)
- Follow Curious Parenting on Instagram
- Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Support Black-Owned Businesses
Fiction by Black Authors
For Kids
For Middle Grade
For Teens and Young Adults
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- I Wanna Be Where You are by Kristina Forest
- All-American Boy by Jason Reynolds
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- On the Come up by Angie Thomas
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Odd One out by Nic Stone
- The Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell
- You Should See Me in A Crown by Leah Johnson
For Adults
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
- Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Warn
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
- Roots by Alex Haly
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Leaders to Read/Follow/Listen To
- Rev. Lenny Duncan
- Brandi Miller
- Dr. James Cone
- Dr. Christena Cleveland
- Rev. Howard Thurman
- Ekemini Uwan, M. Div
- Delores S. Williams
- Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD
- Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
- Dr. Drew Hart
Books on Racism, White Supremacy, & Religion from Black, Indigenous, and Writers of Color
- Dear Church by Lenny Duncan
- God is A Black Woman by Christena Cleveland
- Becoming Rooted by Randy Woodley
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
- Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: An Native American Expression of the Jesus Way by Richard Twiss
- Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong-Chan Rah