Anti-Racism Resources
What is Anti-racism?
The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist” - it’s “anti-racist.” - Ibram X. Kendi
Anti-racism is the policy or practice of actively, vocally, and continually identifying, opposing, and eliminating racism. Anti-racism is implemented in many ways, and includes individual behaviors as well as systemic changes such as altering systems, organizational structures, policies and practices, and addressing attitudes and stances of those around you in order to redistribute power more equitably.
The redistribution of power is a necessary aspect of anti-racism, as non-racialized/white individuals have long benefitted from unearned privileges - commonly referred to as white privilege or a culture of white supremacy.
THIS IS A WORKING DOCUMENT - UPDATED 8/3/2020
Please email us if you have a resource to add or believe something should be edited.
Each resource, if reposted elsewhere, should be credited to the individual or organization that created or compiled it, credit info is noted with each link. If you find them useful, please make a donation, become a member, buy something directly, or support the organizers in a tangible way.
There will be some overlap, every effort has been made to be as comprehensive as possible.
A solid foundation for Anti-Racist work starts with educating yourself through the words of Black Revolutionary voices.
* Black Revolutionary Texts - (google drive folder - pdf downloads) incredible collection made available by Alijah Webb (who has requested those who find these resources helpful should donate to bail funds & legal help - information to do so: Bail Funds/Legal Help by City)
*Black History Library - @_CharlesPreston / https://www.charlesapreston.com/
+ Black Liberation Reading List - The Schomburg Center
Founded in 1925 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2017, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences, featuring diverse programming and collections spanning over 10 million items that illuminate the richness of global black history, arts, and culture.
+ The Radical Database
This website was created by Angelina Ruiz, an artist, writer, and activist. She currently resides in Puerto Rico. When she’s not working on TRD, you can find Angelina working on her art, reading, or having her 3rd sandwich of the day. Find her on Instagram here.
The Radical Database is here to stay. Share it with your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and especially that one person that just needs a little push. This list is growing and there’s something for everyone. From reading lists to petitions, career help to mental health resources, you’ll find what you’re looking for. It’s free, so no excuses. Happy Reading!
+ Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
Document created by: Anna Stamborski, M. Div Candidate (2022), Nikki Zimmermann, M. Div candidate (2021), Bailie Gregory, M. Div, M.S. Ed.
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible. We will continue to add resources.
+ Anti-Racist Resource Guide
Created by Victoria Alexander, MEd.: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website
This document was created to be used as a resource for anyone looking to broaden their understanding of anti-racism and get involved to combat racism, specifically as it relates to anti-Blackness and police violence. Within this guide, please find a variety of resources to explore practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity, white supremacy, police violence, and injustice.
Please share widely to your friends, family, students, and colleagues.
Contents:
Structural Racism vs Individual Racism
Understanding Implicit Bias
Steps to Becoming Anti-Racist
Organizations to Connect With
How to Find Protests and Rallies
Where to Donate, Sign Petitions, Contact Reps.
Prepare for Election Day, This November
Articles to Read
Books to Read
Videos to Watch
TV Shows and Movies to Watch
Podcasts to Listen to
Black Businesses to Support
Children’s Anti-Racist Resources
+ Antiracist Allyship Starter Pack
compiled by Tatum Dorrell, Matt Herndon, Jourdan Dorrell
RESOURCES & TOOLS REGARDING RACISM & ANTI/BLACKNESS & How to be a Better Ally
+ Anti-racism resources for white people
Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
To take immediate action to fight for Breonna Taylor, please visit FightForBreonna.org
+ SCPL Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Lexicon
Developed by: EDI Committee Members- Alyson Banda, Christina Fuller-Gregory, Susan Havird, Jess Herzog, Derrick Lawson, Gretchen Maultsby, Erik Shofner, Retney Wilkins
An excellent lexicon/glossary of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion terms and concepts developed by the EDI commitee from Spartanburg County Public Library.
+ A List For Those Considering Diversity When Complacency Wasn't Enough
This list was made with the contributions of Emanuel Admassu, Anita Batment, Becci Davis, Odette England,Sarah Pfohl, Sarah Smith, Jay Simple
This is a list of questions that can be used by institutions as they further their desires to critically engage in issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the artistic endeavors that they promote and curate. It can also be used for individuals who generally want to begin the work of questioning themselves and how they can understand their own positionality in relation to issues of inclusion, equity, and diversity. This is only a starting point and is in no way an exhausted list which will lead to an ultimate enlightenment. As the final question in the list suggests, such a state will only come from a consistent practice of including these, and more, thought processes into one's daily life.
Also this list is not only geared towards white artists, curators, institutions, etc. It can also be used to tease out the work that each of us, regardless of cultural grounding, can do to dismantle conscious and unconscious perpetuation of oppression and denial of space, agency, and voice.
This list will continually be updated and if you have any suggestions, thoughts, or comments please contact PhotoGreenBook@gmail.com or send a DM via Instagram at @PhotoGreenbook.
+ Anti-racist and Anti-oppressive Readings and Resources for Archivists
This resource list is a living document started by the Inclusion and Diversity Committee of the New England Archivists. Additions, corrections, and feedback are always welcome. Be in touch: diversity@newenglandarchivists.org
An excerpt from the New England Archivist’s statement (for full statetent and resources please view their resource document):
The Executive Board of the New England Archivists (NEA) unequivocally states that Black Lives Matter. We condemn the police brutality that violently ended the lives of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and innumerable others. We condemn the violence committed against Ahmaud Arbery and other community members by people whose views and actions are entangled with the systems and institutions that perpetuate racism. We recognize that the history of the United States--and the history of so many archival collections that we steward--is rooted in slavery, genocide, and oppression. We stand in solidarity with all Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC), as well as their communities.
We acknowledge not only that structural racism exists, but specifically that archivists and archival work have played a role in perpetuating many oppressive systems. We recognize that archivists can be agents for change, but that reparative and diversity-focused efforts cannot be the sole responsibility of our BIPOC colleagues. Anti-racist actions must be taken by all archivists. NEA affirms its commitment to cultivating a more inclusive archival profession: one that values and preserves the evidence of human experiences, while also working to dismantle damaging archival practices that compound historical erasure and harm.
+ Just What is Critical Race Theory and What’s it Doing in LIS? Workshop Compass
By Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight via We Here.
This Compass (“Here, instead of a syllabus, we offer this compass to guide us in our time together.”) is from the recent workshop facilitated by Leung and López-McKnight.
"Guiding Questions
What is CRT and what’s it doing in LIS?
How does LIS construct race? (law constructs race)
How does white supremacy structure racial inequities through libraries + archives?
What is the purpose of LIS in this settler nation state?
Learning Hopes
Gain familiarity with foundational concepts and the origins of CRT and LIS;
Analyze, interrogate, and reimagine relations of race, power, knowledge, and domination;
Begin to apply CRT to LIS practice.”
+ Call to Action: Archiving State-Sanctioned Violence Against Black People
“We are Black memory workers committed to documenting the Black experience during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the current uprisings brought about by racist police violence against Black people. Our work is imperative, especially as we witness this dual assault white supremacy has unleashed on Black people. We offer this call to action to ethically and comprehensively archive during this moment, to ensure that we shine light onto the oppressive systems that disproportionately subject Black people to generational pain and suffering.
We invite other Black memory workers to join us in this call to action. To add your name to the list and take part in our organizing efforts, please complete this form.”
+ The Anti-Racist Preservationist’s Guide to Confederate Monuments (their past and a future without them)
Created by: Michael Diaz-Griffith | Readers: Collier Calandruccio, Katherine C. Hughes, Tiffany Wade Momon | Design: Abigail Muir | Drawings: Alonso Diaz Rickards
+ Jarrett M. Drake on Medium
Thoughtful and searing commentary about organizing for and through abolition, fighting for the caring community, and “studying how communities in the US are using memory projects in the fight against state violence” through an archival and anthropological lens.
+ Resources for Photographers and Beyond on Anti-Racism
The Authority Collective is a group of more than 200 womxn, non-binary and gender expansive people of color working in the photography, film and VR/AR industries. Our mission is to empower marginalized artists with resources and community, and to take action against systemic and individual abuses in the world of lens-based editorial, documentary and commercial visual work.
Resources for Photographers and Beyond on Anti-Racism (Ver. 06/02/20) - https://bit.ly/AntiRacistPhoto
AC x PhotoShelter - https://resources.photoshelter.com/photographers-guide-inclusive-photography/
Other projects - https://authoritycollective.org/WHAT-WE-DO
+ Letters to Photo Orgs in the South
Drafted by: Ally Christmas, Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, William Major
Here are five open letters to four Photographic organizations in the American South - The Humid (https://www.thehumid.com), Looking at Appalachia (https://lookingatappalachia.org), The Do Good Fund (https://thedogoodfund.org/), Aint-Bad (https://www.aint-bad.com/).
The first is a letter with demands addressed to all four organizations. The four following letters are addressed specifically to each of the organizations.
Please sign here to support the letters and the demands in them - https://bit.ly/2P6u7Gd
+ Hire Black Photographers - Black Photographers covering protests and a national list of Black Photographers
compiled and crowdsourced by Samantha Xu and others
TO BE ADDED: Professional photographers and emerging photographers interested in being added to the database fill out
THIS FORM: https://forms.gle/mAkyAeMNcBNoKohA9
+ Art + Feminism George Floyd Uprisings Collaborative Resources List
Black. Lives. Matter. Black men, women, children, non-binary and trans lives matter. An approach we often take with our work is collaboration and with that in mind have started this document. We recognize the uprisings are about much more than George Floyd, but invoke his name as we address this moment. We value and honor Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and all the other lives lost due to systemic racism and oppression.
We know we have work to do internally, as we continue to learn and unlearn about what it means to be anti-racist. We recognize that this list of resources isn’t exhaustive or complete. We invite you to contribute more resources below and Wiki folx, we encourage you to help with articles and images about the uprisings. #Blacklivesmatter #GeorgeFloyd #TonyMcDade #BreonnaTaylor #AhmaudArbery
+ 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack
A sample of these actions:
#50 Write to your college/university about implementing all or some of these diversity strategies that effectively promote racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity on campus. Write to the public universities your tax payer dollars support about implementing these diversity strategies.
+ Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives
This is a live document compiled by Carlisa Johnson on 5/27/20 click here if you wish to credit.
Updated daily as more resources and information becomes available.
**Submit updates and additions to resistancerevivalatlanta@gmail.com
Seeking justice means putting in the work. Say their names, share their stories, but first and foremost, take action. We must help the families of Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the many other Black Americans unjustly murdered by protectors of white supremacy.
+ Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists By JLove Calderon and Tim Wise
“This document was initially created several years ago. In light of recent events, we felt it would be helpful to revise and re-release it in the hopes of engaging white Americans about how to show up in the Movement for Black Lives and racial justice.”
+ A Guide to Allyship
Black Lives Matter & Why “All Cops are Bastards”
All credits are posted below each entry
Some topics addressed in this document:
What you shouldn’t do
Donations for Victims’ Families and the BLM Movement
Petitions to Demand Justice
Contact People in Power
Why “All Lives Matter” Is Harmful
Why “All Cops are Bastards” (Why We Say There Are No Good Cops)
Why Riots Work
What Asians can do to show up for the Black community
How non-Black people can support Black communities
How you can avoid calling the cops
+ Support Black-owned Businesses
Nile is a digital community that connects consumers with Black-owned brands online.
Apps to help locate Black-owned businesses:
In Asheville, NC
+ Further Self-education:
https://www.dismantlingracism.org/
Their RESOURCES section is robust and detailed
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/12-documentaries-about-police-brutality-in-america.html
Black Revolutionary Texts - (google drive folder - pdf downloads) incredible collection made available by Alijah Webb
+ LEARN CYBER
Resource by Alison Falk
“This page is a non-exhaustive list of resources that I found helpful or have been recommended by trusted sources on my own security journey. I put this together because I often have a lot of folks DM me to know some ways they can become more familiar with “cybersecurity.” This is not a curriculum or guide. I called this Learn Cyber because most would agree that “cybersecurity” is an umbrella term and these are resources to “learn” from- but it’s important to note that the meaning of words are always evolving so I also put a little vocab list below of some words I’ve seen frequently used over the last couple weeks in regards to protesting, safety, accountability, and intelligence gathering.”
+ 5 ways to better support the movement by Marcus Board Jr.
Justice is not an individual crusade, instead it is a community agenda with shared goals, risk, and effort.
+ Talking About Race - National Museum of African American History and Culture
Talking about race starts with personal reflection:
When were you first aware of your race?
What do you remember from childhood about how you made sense of human differences? What confused you?
What childhood experiences did you have with friends or adults who were different from you in some way?
How, if ever, did any adult give you help thinking about racial differences?
+ Links to websites for diverse recruiting
Latinx Americans:
Overall Diversity:
African Americans:
Asian Americans:
+ Alternatives to Policing: info and flyers
Images are free to download, no need for credit.
If no credit feels weird to you, my name is Amber Hughson and my IG is @conflicttransformation
Ruth Wilson Gilmore explains “Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prisons became the solutions to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons;” abolition is the work of building anti-oppressive culture and ways of addressing harm that center care. Abolition as a political practice is grounded in Black liberation; liberation from slavery, Jim Crow, policing, and incarceration. The term abolition as a confrontation with policing and prisons was popularized most notably by former Black Panther Party member and scholar-activist Angela Davis.
A sample of these alternatives:
“You don't realize but your brake lights aren't working. Imagine... ...a city employee signals for you to pull over & says, "Hey - How about I replace those lights for you right here so no one gets hurt?" An hour later, both lights work & you're at home. Isn't that public safety?”
“Some folks are sleeping on benches in the park. Imagine... ...a city employee comes by & checks in to see if they need a place to sleep, food, water, or health care. An hour later, those who want a different place to sleep have one. Isn't that public safety?”
“You are experiencing intimate partner violence. Imagine... ...texting a number & a trauma informed crisis intervention specialist meets you in a safe place. An hour later you are working together to make a plan that will keep you safe long term. isn't that public safety?”
+ Mapping Police Violence
Police killed 1,098 people in 2019.
Black people were 24% of those killed despite being only 13% of the population.
This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database.
We believe the data represented on this site is the most comprehensive accounting of people killed by police since 2013. A recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated approximately 1,200 people were killed by police between June, 2015 and May, 2016. Our database identified 1,106 people killed by police over this time period. While there are undoubtedly police killings that are not included in our database (namely, those that go unreported by the media), these estimates suggest that our database captures 92% of the total number of police killings that have occurred since 2013. We hope these data will be used to provide greater transparency and accountability for police departments as part of the ongoing campaign to end police violence in our communities.
+ Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
Frank Edwards, Hedwig Lee, and Michael Esposito
Police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in the United States. Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police. Risk of being killed by police peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for men and women and for all racial and ethnic groups. Black women and men and American Indian and Alaska Native women and men are significantly more likely than white women and men to be killed by police. Latino men are also more likely to be killed by police than are white men.
+ Natl Resource List #GeorgeFloyd+
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjZMORRVuv-I-qo4B0YfmOTqIOa3GUS207t5iuLZmyA/mobilebasic
(doc version)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fpdRY5fwoyt04Il6y9bToWjv4wUaIoMAQERoE2A140U/edit#gid=0
(spreadsheet version)
This Google document contains links to community bail funds, memorial funds, political education resources, organizations to put on your radar as well as general advice/tips for people attending protests or using social media as an organizing tool.
Credit: You do not need my permission to share the document on social media or to include the link in your bio or other Docs compiling information. To credit me, please use my Twitter or Instagram
Some quick access links from this document:
On Twitter, someone created a twitter thread of alternative actions people without the means to donate can take. Here is that thread.
This document was written a number of years ago for people who cannot protest, whatever the reason may be.
I want to encourage everyone to write to Joshua Williams, who was arrested when he was 18 during the Ferguson Uprising. He's up for parole in June. Details here.
YouTuber Zoe Amira is donating 100% of her ad revenue from this video to bail funds and memorial funds.
*****You cannot skip the add for this to work properly!A non-official Black Lives Matter "Ways you can help" page.
A Twitter thread that has compiled petitions to sign.
Amplify Movement for Black Lives and their mutual aid work.
A Master List of Companies’ Support for BLM
+ List of Bail Funds for Protestors across the Country
https://bailfunds.github.io/
This list is intended to be comprehensive. We worked with National Bail Fund Network to ensure the validity of these. If there is something missing, please email info@communityjusticeexchange.org or make a pull request on the github repository.
+ Resources to support the Minneapolis protests
This document is intended for those who would like to support the Minneapolis protests against police violence and demand justice for George Floyd through the arrest of ALL of the officers involved and systematic change to the criminal justice system. This is by no means an exhaustive list of resources, but it is a place to start. We also ask for patience if there are errors/edits to be made, as this is a very fluid document, and we are updating it frequently.
Also check out the Justice for George Floyd Toolkit and A Guide to Allyship. All resources, contact info, and contact templates have been gathered thanks to the work of many others sharing them on social media and through the Google Form. If you have an additional resource that you’d like to share, an edit to information already in the document, or a suggestion for how to improve this document, you can let us know through this Google Form. Where possible, please include links to original sources of information.
MORE RESOURCES FORTHCOMING. Please email us if you have a resource to add or believe something should be edited.