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In an essay for the New York Times, acclaimed professor, award-winning author, and director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi dove into the topic of how to combat racism:

"No one becomes "not racist," despite a tendency by Americans to identify themselves that way.
We can only strive to be "anti-racist" on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to the lifelong task of overcoming our country's racist heritage."
"No one becomes "not racist," despite a tendency by Americans to identify themselves that way. We can only strive to be "anti-racist" on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to the lifelong task of overcoming our country's racist heritage.

We learn early the racist notion that white people have more because they are more; that people of color have less because they are less. I had internalized this worldview by my high school graduation, seeing myself and my race as less than other people and blaming other blacks for racial inequities.

To build a nation of equal opportunity for everyone, we need to dismantle this spurious legacy of our common upbringing."
In order to do this, we have to educate ourselves. We can learn about covert white supremacy, follow organizations leading the way for racial equity and justice, watch films, listen to podcasts, and read books.
This doesn't need to be seen as a chore, but can instead be seen as an opportunity - an opportunity to better understand ourselves, love our neighbors, and become the change we wish to see.
This list was adapted from the Anti-racism Resources for White People Google Doc compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein. Because the document was being shared by so many people so quickly, the link to the document from our viral post kept breaking.For those having problems accessing the document, we've pasted here.
Any resource additions made based on community feedback are indicated with a *. We've linked to Amazon for maximum accessibility, but if you're able, please support local (Black-owned) bookshops by using Bookshop.org. Some links are affiliate links - 100% of commissions from this page during the month of June will be donated directly to organizations doing important work for racial justice and equality. (Here are the receipts) Leave a comment on if you have more recommendations.
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Best anti-racist books to read to learn about antiracism:

1. Anti-racist books for beginners:

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2. Next level anti-racist books

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Resources for white parents to raise antiracist children:

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Articles for Parents to Learn About Antiracism

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Best films & TV series about the history of racial justice and equality:

13th (Ava DuVernay)

American Son (Kenny Leon)

Dear White People (Justin Simien)

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)

Selma (Ava DuVernay)

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)

Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)

King In The Wilderness

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc)

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)

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Racial justice organizations to follow on social media & donate to:

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- How to Support Creators of Color with Aundre Larrow‍
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"Eloquent Rage follows in the line of classics in the genre..." -- The New York Times

"[A] proud, energetic reclamation of anger, via memoir and pop cultural analysis... forceful and smart and joyous all at once...It was an inspiration to me." --Rebecca Traister, The Cut

"Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." --America Ferrera

"[ Eloquent Rage] is distinct both for its telling as the author's own journey and for its--yes--eloquent personal voice, which, between her erudition (she is a professor at Rutgers) and her command of vernacular, is funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." --Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic

"A dissertation on black women's pain and possibility; an autobiography of a black woman's complicated dance with feminism, overcoming otherness as a big black girl in a skinny-white-girl world, her mother's triumph over violence, and her own journey from disappointment to black joy." --Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan

"A powerful examination of Black women's anger, the cost for Black women who choose to be angry, and how all of this is rooted in misogynoir - or, racist and sexist oppression. Cooper gives us hope, reminding us that we can be powerful and we don't have to settle for less." -- Signature

"Cooper's Eloquent Rage is a fearless, phenomenal memoir of finding her voice as a black woman." -- The Root

"A breakthrough... this force of nature is becoming one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African-American thinkers." -- Essence

"With straight-up vulnerability and humor sprinkled in, Cooper reminds readers that feminism, in essence, is about loving women...a for-us-by-us handbook tailor made to obliterate the idea of post-racialism in the Trump era." --Bust Magazine

"[Cooper's] ardent book reminds us that what you build is infinitely more important than what you tear down--and that rage makes great mortar." -- Ms. Magazine

"Cooper says there's power in being mad as hell." -- Cosmopolitan

"An ambitious, electrifying memoir. Recommended for readers seeking contemporary social commentary that's unrelenting yet humorous." -- Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Sharp and always humane, Cooper's book suggests important ways in which feminism needs to evolve for the betterment not just of black women, but society as a whole. A timely and provocative book that shows 'what you build is infinitely more important than what you tear down.'" -- Kirkus Reviews

"Cooper is both candid and vulnerable, and unwilling to suffer fools." -- Publisher's Weekly

"[Cooper's] words resonate beyond the limit of the page; her call carries forth indefinitely." --Mark Anthony Neal, NewBlackMan (in Exile)

"In 2015, [Cooper and I] were part of a panel at Harvard on race and the media (Panama Jackson and Kimberly Foster from For Harriet were also there). Within the first five minutes of the conversation, I wanted to get up and take a seat in the audience. That's how long it took for me to realize that everything I planned to say and every point I'd try to make, Brittney could say better and more powerfully, and somehow more succinctly and more descriptively." --Damon Young, The Root

"Written with grace mixed with blunt honesty...readable, accessible, entertaining, brave, and important." --Corvus Strigiform, The Weightless State Between Here and There

" Cooper personifies what Sonia Sanchez called "homegirl and hand-grenade" -- here, like the homegirl she is, Cooper gives us the uncensored truth about how America has become what it is today, and reminds us in no uncertain terms that Black people, and particularly Black women, have the brilliance, foresight, and vision to bring a different America to fruition, should we choose to use our powers for good rather than evil." --Alicia Garza, Special Projects Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter

" Brittney Cooper is a national treasure. Eloquent Rage is as exhilarating as it is vulnerable, a crucial book that tackles friendship and feminism, Hillary Clinton and Sandra Bland, violence and family, sex and faith and race and gender, all with vibrant grace and honesty. Cooper is a generous writer, affording even those she rages against good humored compassion, but never letting any of us fully off the hook. This book is just so good." --Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies

"Brittney Cooper is not just one of the leading black feminist public intellectuals of the day, she is the Black Feminist Prophet we urgently need. Her work is the most rigorous, honest, heartfelt, compassionate, and challenging of any cultural critic out there because she does not shy away from the areas of black life too long considered taboo. In taking the lives of black women and girls seriously, Eloquent Rage succeeds where too many have failed. For those still searching for ways to discuss black women's lives with nuance and love, Brittney Cooper's fiery brilliance is ready to light your path." --Mychal Denzel Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching

"I was waiting for an Ida Wells, an Anna Julia Cooper, a bell hooks, a Patricia Hill Collins--an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story and that of the race and the nation. I was waiting and she has come--in Brittney Cooper." --Melissa Harris Perry

"Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud even as she kicks the clay feet out from under your cherished idols." --Michael Eric Dyson

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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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" Heavy is a gorgeous, gutting book that's fueled by candor yet freighted with ambivalence. It's full of devotion and betrayal, euphoria and anguish, tender embraces and rough abuse...the liberation on offer doesn't feel light and unburdened; it feels heavy like the title, and heavy like the truth...Salvation would feel too weightless--as if [Laymon] could forget who he is and where he has been. This generous, searching book explores all the forces that can stop even the most buoyant hopes from ever leaving the ground."
--New York Times

"With echoes of Roxane Gay and John Edgar Wideman, Laymon defiantly exposes the 'aches and changes' of growing up black in this raw, cathartic memoir reckoning with his turbulent Mississippi childhood, adolescent obesity, and the white gaze."
--O Magazine

"[ Heavy] take[s] on the important work of exposing the damage done to America, especially its black population, by the failure to confront the myths, half-truths, and lies at the foundation of the success stories that the nation worships. In the process, Laymon ... dramatize[s] a very different route to victory: the quest to forge a self by speaking hard truths, resisting exploitation, and absorbing with grace the cost of being black in America while struggling to live a life of virtue...You won't be able to put [this memoir] down, but not because [it is] breezy reading. [It is], in Laymon's multilayered word, heavy--packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities."
--The Atlantic

" Heavy is one of the most important and intense books of the year because of the unyielding, profoundly original and utterly heartbreaking way it addresses and undermines expectations for what exactly it's like to possess and make use of a male black body in America ... the book thunders as an indictment of hope, a condemnation of anyone ever looking forward."
--LA Times

"Staggering ... Laymon lays out his life with startling introspection. Heavy is comforting in its familiarity, yet exacting in its originality ... Laymon subtitled his book, 'An American Memoir, ' and that's more than a grandiose proclamation. He is a son of this nation whose soil is stained with the blood and sweat of his ancestors. In a country both deserving of his love and hate, Laymon is distinctly American. Like the woman who raised him and the woman who raised her, he carries that weight, finding uplift from sorrow and shelter from the storms that batter black bodies."
--Boston Globe

"Stunning...Laymon is a gifted wordsmith born and educated in the land of Welty and Faulkner, and his use of language, character and sense of place put Heavy neatly into the storied Southern Gothic canon. Yet the defining elements of his art -- cadence, dialogue, eye for detail, mordant wit -- are firmly rooted in the African-American experience. Laymon has created Gothic's not-so-distant black relative...for a book that has the author's disturbing childhood as a metaphor for African-Americans' pursuit of unattained happiness and perhaps unattainable racial freedom, Heavy is surprisingly light on its feet."
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Heavy is a compelling record of American violence and family violence, and the wide, rutted embrace of family love ... Kiese Laymon is a star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful. Heavy is at once a paean to the Deep South, a condemnation of our fat-averse culture, and a brilliantly rendered memoir of growing up black, and bookish, and entangled in a family that is as challenging as it is grounding."
--NPR.org

"Staggering ... a heartbreaking narrative on black bodies: how we hurt them, protect them, and try to heal them."
--Elle.com, Best Books of 2018

"Weight is both unavoidably corporeal and a load-bearing metaphor in novelist-essayist Kiese Laymon's sharp, (self-)lacerating memoir, addressed to the single teen mom turned professor who raised him to become exceptional...a deeply personal book, where race, class, and the scars of sexual violence are front and center."
--New York Magazine

"Laymon's memoir is a reckoning, pulling from his own experience growing up poor and black in Jackson, Mississippi, and tracking the most influential relationships, for better or worse, of his life: with his brilliant but struggling single mother, his loving grandma, his body and the ways he nurtures and punishes it, his education and creativity, and the white privilege that drives the world around him...with shrewd analysis, sharp wit, and great vulnerability -- Laymon forces the reader to fully consider the effects of the nation's inability to reconcile its pride and ambition with its shameful history."
--Buzzfeed

"This memoir from Kiese Laymon, whose previous books include the novel Long Division, looks at what it's like to grow up different in the American South. "
--Town & Country

"Laymon revisits the abuse he suffered growing up both black and obese in Mississippi, as well as his complex relationship with his mother. A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay's memoir Hunger."
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Laymon examines his relationship with his mother growing up as a black man in the South, exploring how racial violence suffered by both impacts his physical and emotional selves."
--Time

"Laymon provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot."
--Entertainment Weekly

"[Laymon] unleashes his incendiary truth-seeking voice on a memoir that leaves no stone unturned in his examination of a life surrounded by poverty, sexual violence, racism, obesity and gambling. But Heavy is also about the lies family members tell each other and the heartache of growing up in Mississippi the son of a complicated mother."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Kiese Laymon is one of the most dazzling, inventive, affecting essayists working today, and his memoir lives up to the dizzyingly high expectations set for it. In Heavy, Laymon explores his tumultuous relationship with his brilliant mother, what it meant to grow up as a fiercely smart, rebellious black man in Mississippi, and his trouble with addiction in various forms. Laymon is fearless in his willingness to go to the darkest, the most tender, the most raw spaces of his life, and of our shared lives in the fragile experiment that is America. His writing will shock and comfort you, make you realize you are not alone, and stun you with its insights about desire, need, and love."
-- Nylon.com
"Weight is both unavoidably corporeal and a load-bearing metaphor in this novelist-essayist's sharp and (self-) lacerating memoir, addressed to the single teen-mom-turned-professor who raised him to become exceptional, sometimes using a belt ... Race, class, and the scars of sexual violence are front-and-center, a constant pressure and threat, but its effects are registered at ground level, a space too complex and for pop sociology."
-- Vulture

"Kiese Laymon's intense, layered Heavy is a provocatively personal look at racism and oppression in America ... Laymon's prose positively sings, helped by the humanity and humor he brings to this astonishing memoir."
--The A.V. Club

"Laymon provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot."
-- EntertainmentWeekly.com

"In Heavy, Laymon has written a memoir that feels like a body blow ... Through it all, Laymon's love for language and words drives his intellectual curiosity. Laymon's reputation as a writer grows with each piece he produces. Heavy will cement his reputation as one of America's best writers."
-- Signature Reads

"Stylish and complex ... Laymon convincingly conveys that difficult times can be overcome with humor and self-love, as he makes readers confront their own fears and insecurities."
--Publishers Weekly, starred

"A challenging memoir about black-white relations, income inequality, mother-son dynamics, Mississippi byways, lack of personal self-control, education from kindergarten through graduate school, and so much more. Laymon skillfully couches his provocative subject matter in language that is pyrotechnic and unmistakably his own ... Far more than just the physical aspect, the weight he carries also derives from the burdens placed on him by a racist society, by his mother and his loving grandmother, and even by himself. At times, the author examines his complicated romantic and sexual relationships, and he also delves insightfully into politics, literature, feminism, and injustice, among other topics. A dynamic memoir that is unsettling in all the best ways."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred

"Spectacular ... So artfully crafted, miraculously personal, and continuously disarming, this is, at its essence, powerful writing about the power of writing."
--Booklist, starred
"Laymon's profound memoir reflects on his childhood in Jackson, Miss., and shows how his pursuit of excellence was a means to survive. Touching on everything from the racism he encountered to the physical and sexual abuse he endured, Laymon compares his childhood memories with how he feels in middle age, and offers a complex, nuanced portrayal of his mother."
--The New York Times, New in Paperback

"In a searing memoir addressed to his mom, Laymon examines his Mississippi upbringing and the roles race, seuxal abuse, and obesity have played in his life."
--People, New in Paperback
"The most exciting kinds of memoirs are the ones that throw you into the story of a life even while encouraging you to step back and consider the art of its framing. Heavy is one of the best of the bunch. Kiese Laymon's writing about size and race, addiction and ambition in America is nothing less than thrilling -- every sentence sings."
--Maris Kreizman, Vulture, 6 New Paperbacks You Should Read Right Now

"Laymon won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for this harrowing but tender memoir, in which he untangles his complex relationships with his mother and his Southern family roots."
--David Canfield The 25 Best New Paperbacks to Check Out This Spring
"Oh my god. Heavy is astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered. Wow. Just wow."
-Roxane Gay, author of Hunger

"What I have always loved about Kiese Laymon is that he is as beautiful a person as he is a writer. What he manages to do in the space of a sentence is unparalleled, and that's because no one else practices the art of revision as an act of love quite like Kiese. He loves his mother, his grandmama, Mississippi, black folks, his students, his peers, and anyone else willing to embrace his love enough to give us this gorgeous memoir, Heavy. This reckoning with trauma, terror, fear, sexual violence, abuse, addiction, family, secrets, lies, truth, and the weight of the nation and his body would be affecting in less capable hands, but with Kiese at the helm it is nothing short of a modern classic. These sentences that he so painstakingly crafted are some the most arresting ever printed in the English language. Kiese's heart and humor shine through, and we are blessed to have such raw humanity rendered in prose that begs for repeat readings. We do not deserve Heavy. We do not deserve Kiese. That he is generous enough to share is testament to his commitment to helping us all heal.
-Mychal Denzel Smith, author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching

"There are those rare writers in the world whose work unearths the stories that have been buried in and around us for so long. They force us to confront all that we would be rather not see, and ask us to reckon with why we have failed to see it for so long. Kiese Laymon is one such rare writer. Heavy is a memoir, yes, but it is also a testament to a sort of truth and self-reflection that is increasingly rare in our world today. If for some reason you were not already convinced, there should no longer be any doubt that Kiese Laymon is one of the important writers of our time."
-Clint Smith, author of Counting Descent

"With Heavy, Laymon has outlined the wretched shape of our relentless national lie with duty and precision, breathing and pouring into it to shine the light ever brighter on its contours and limits. Heavy is an intimate excavation, a diagnosis, and a prescription for a cure for the terrifying dishonesty of the American body politic. I did not want to remember what I have found necessary to forget. Ready or not, Heavy remembers for me, and for us all, with the exquisite black southern precision of a post-soul blues. Its brilliance is in its intimate and firm reminder that we are more than what has been done to us by others and by this nation, and that we can and must unburden ourselves as we move towards freedom. With Heavy, Laymon, the chief blues scribe of our time, writes and plays us a path through the weight of things."
-Zandria Robinson, author of This Ain't Chicago

"Kiese Laymon's new book is an emotional powerhouse. He fearlessly takes the reader into the dark corners of his interior life. Wound, grief, and enduring pain reside there. But this book is a love letter. And, as we all know, love is a beautiful and funky experience. Thank you, Kiese, for this gift."
-Eddie Glaude, author of Democracy in Black

"Kiese Laymon has done nothing less than write the autobiography of the first generation of African-Americans born after the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and the Black Power ethos of the 1970s. His story of grappling with love and violence and language and our bodies is this generation's story, and it is as moving and heartbreaking and heartwarming as you would expect. And then some."
-Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight

" Heavy is an act of truth telling unlike any other I can think of in American literature, partly due to Laymon's uniquely gifted mind--his ability to pursue the ways we lie to each other while also loving each other, or, not, and the humility he brings to bear while doing so, this consistently brings us back to life, to what matters in this world. Heavy is a gift to us, if we can pick it up--a moral exercise and an intimate history that is at the same time a story about America."
--Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"On the low, many in these United States of America imagine that to be black means that whiteness, whether in its feigned supremacy or brutal imaginings, should be the center of every black story. But nah, that's meager. In Heavy, the Kiese Laymon remembers how people who loved each other or might of loved each other, nearly shattered everything around them with hurt and then struggled to piece it all back together. Kiese crafts the most honest and intimate account of growing up black and southern since Richard Wright's Black Boy. Circumventing the myths about blackness, he writes something as complex and fragile as who we is. An insider's look into the making of a writer, Heavy is part memoir and part look into the books that turned a kid into a story teller. Heavy invites us into a black South that remembers that we loved each other through it all. In "Nikki-Rosa," Nikki Giovanni wrote that 'black love is black wealth.' This book is the weight of black love, and might we all be wealthy by daring to open up to it."
--Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of A Question of Freedom

" Heavy heaves, sings, hums, and runs all night to make it clear that there's an alternative, that Black history's first premise is mutuality. That mutuality isn't perfect, ain't safe, it's dangerous, in fact, and Heavy moves in a terrible and beautiful and so gentle proximity to that--at crucial times our primary--danger, the ones we love and who love us the most. I was with Kiese the whole damn heavy-floating way, word for word in laughter and tears, in recognition, refraction and revelation. But, way more than any of those, sentence by sentence, I was with Kiese in thanks."
--Ed Pavlic, author of Another Kind of Madness

"In Heavy, Kiese Laymon asks how to survive in a body despite the many violences that are inflicted upon it: the violence of racism, of misogyny, of history -- the violence of a culture that treats the bodies of black men with fear and suspicion more often than with tenderness and attentive care. In prose that sears at the same time as it soars, Kiese Laymon breaks the unbearable silence each of these violences, in their peculiar cruelty, has imposed. Permeated with humility, bravery, and a bold intersectional feminism, Heavy is a triumph. I stand in solidarity with this book, and with its writer."
-Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Other Side and The Reckonings

"How appropriate Kiese Laymon's stunning memoir is titled, Heavy. Not only are the stains and hurt highlighted here, heavy, but also the writer's capacity to revive graveyards of ghosts who haunt and seemingly will continue to haunt the protagonist. Laymon is a fearless writer, our writer, who's willing to expose and explore his most vulnerable interiors so that we might get closer to our truths. This is a southern book for backroads and cornbread, for Cadillacs and collard greens, for big mamas and moonshine. Heavy is full of our beautiful and ugly histories, and a declaration of how we might seek redemption. The colorful and complicated characters here speak a blues and poetry that is both nostalgic and familiar. This is the book we need right now. We should all be thankful for this ultramodern weighty testament of heartache, catharsis, and utter brilliance."
--Derrick Harriell, author of Stripper in Wonderland and Ropes

"You do not just read Kiese Laymon's work. It does a reading of you too--one that unburies the stories you thought you would never be able to tell truthfully, and reminds you of your voice to tell them. Heavy marks this quality in its highest definition yet. Written with as much devastating poignance as a humor only the Black South could inspire, Heavy asks readers not just to observe Laymon's courageous journey to understand even the most frightening complexities of life in an anti-Black, sexist, fatphobic society, but to embark on it with him. In doing so, Laymon's gorgeous wordsmithing moves us beyond simple binaries of pleasure and pain, joy and trauma, toward a deeper love for communities too often flattened into one dimension. Heavy is a book for the ages."
--Hari Ziyad, author of Black Boy Out of Time

"Heavy is beautiful, lyrical, painful, and really brave. It is both exigent and timeless. Laymon's use of juxtaposition--of the political and personal, the many stories of dishonesty and history, violence, everything--is all-world."
--Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People

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Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir--winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize--genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon "provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot" (Entertainment Weekly).

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE

"A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."--John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times -USA Today - O: The Oprah Magazine - Publishers Weekly - Salon - Newsday -The Daily Beast

In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.

With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker - The Washington Post - The Economist - Boston Globe - San Francisco Chronicle - Chicago Tribune - Entertainment Weekly - Philadelphia Inquirer - The Guardian - The Seattle Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Christian Science Monitor

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"A landmark piece of nonfiction . . . [Isabel Wilkerson's] closeness with, and profound affection for, her subjects reflect her deep immersion in their stories and allow the reader to share that connection."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"A brilliant and stirring epic, the first book to cover the full half-century of the Great Migration . . . Wilkerson combines impressive research . . . with great narrative and literary power. Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."--John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal

"[A] massive and masterly account of the Great Migration . . . a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah's couch."--David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review

"[A] deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book . . . This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isn't argument at all; it's compassion. Hush, and listen."--Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

"Told in a voice that echoes the magic cadences of Toni Morrison or the folk wisdom of Zora Neale Hurston's collected oral histories, Wilkerson's book pulls not just the expanse of the migration into focus but its overall impact on politics, literature, music, sports--in the nation and the world."--Lynell George, Los Angeles Times

"[An] extraordinary and evocative work."--The Washington Post

"Mesmerizing."--Chicago Tribune

"Scholarly but very readable, this book, for all its rigor, is so absorbing, it should come with a caveat: Pick it up only when you can lose yourself entirely."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"[An] indelible and compulsively readable portrait of race, class, and politics in twentieth-century America. History is rarely distilled so finely."--Entertainment Weekly

"Astonishing . . . Isabel Wilkerson delivers! . . . With the precision of a surgeon, Wilkerson illuminates the stories of bold, faceless African-Americans who transformed cities and industries with their hard work and determination to provide their children with better lives."--Essence

"Profound, necessary and an absolute delight to read."--Toni Morrison

"A sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden twenteith-century history. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation."--Tom Brokaw

"A seminal work of narrative nonfiction . . . You will never forget these people."--Gay Talese

"This book will be long remembered, and savored."--Jon Meacham

"A masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!"--Cornel West

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a prolific writer and anthropologist who depicted the cultural nuances of the African American experience. Informed by her Southern upbringing, Hurston's work often explores race, spirituality and self-liberation. In 1921, she published her first story "John Redding Goes to Sea," which appeared in Stylus, a literary magazine at Howard University. The author's career spanned more than 30 years and produced multiple plays, essays and novels including Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and inspired a generation of writers including Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God, a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance, continues to inspire the next generation of students.Freshman Common Read: Manchester Community College --among others

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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America a book by Ira Katznelson

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Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers

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106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

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Thank you to the Obama Foundation for their online referral. Their recognition of our work has enabled us to engage with more participants throughout the United States and Canada.

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Monique W. Morris)

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Oprah's Book Club) (Isabel Wilkerson)
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) (Claude M. Steele)
Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Richard Rothstein)

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (Paul Kivel)

White Kids Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (Margaret A. Hagerman)

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Princeton University Library Recommendations

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In October 2017, Fractured Atlas began meeting in race-based caucuses . Several months later, we shared a list of the resources that the White Caucus had been reading and discussing in the hopes that that resource list could help other white people on the long journey of anti-racism.

Many of the resources we originally shared came from Tiffany Wilhelm, the White Caucus guest facilitator from July through December 2017. Nicola Carpenter brought together the first iteration of this list in May 2018 and we've updated it in July 2020.

Now, in 2020, we're seeing a new urgency around anti-racism. Frankly, a lot more white people are realizing how much work we have to do to understand the ways that racism structures our world, and the part that we have to play in dismantling it.

For everyone realizing just how much they don't know, a reading list can offer direction. But even the best-intentioned anti-racist reading lists have their limits . Reading lists like this one (and like the one we shared about anti-racism in the arts and nonprofits ) are jumping-off points.

We want to be clear that when we talk about what it means to "do the work" of anti-racism, reading lists aren't "the work." Reading lists are for catching yourself up to speed, for educating yourself so that when you go into spaces (professionally, personally, politically) to do the work, you understand the context of your own actions and of the broader history of racism. Reading lists are like the required summer reading before school starts.

A lot of the resources we looked at early on came from white thinkers and white organizers. It's important for white people to take on a lot of this educational labor. But if white people are only ever reading resources written by and for white people, we've only reified whiteness as the central concern in racism. White people who want to become more anti-racist need to seek out Black radical voices.

Here are some of the resources that have been important to members of the White Caucus at Fractured Atlas from 2017, plus a few additions that we've added over time. We encourage you to read the resources that resonate, recognize that no document is perfect, and that ultimately they are all best thought of as tools to give you and your white peers a shared vocabulary for talking about racism.

The Role of White People in Anti-Racist Work

White Supremacy

Race-Based Caucusing

Anti-Racist Facilitation

Talking about Racism

Historical and Cultural Context of Racism

We sincerely hope that these resources can give you and your peers (professionally or personally) a useful framework for beginning anti-racist work. As our White Caucus continues to meet and as we as an organization recognize our responsibility to address racism in the arts, in nonprofits, and in our own workplace, we are growing and changing.
You can follow what we've been writing about anti-racism , including pay transparency as anti-racism and next steps for organizations looking to become more anti-racist .

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Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism

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How to make meaningful change

If you're a white woman who is watching the world burn because of police murder against Black people, and you don't know what to do, I wrote you a guide.

1️⃣ Buy and read some anti-racist texts. And sit with the discomfort. Maybe invite a few other white women to be in a book club with you 📌

I curated this collection just for you. 😘

An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

How To Be Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi

How To Be Less Stupid About Race, Crystal M Fleming

Killing Rage, bell hooks

So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

They Were Her Property, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

White Tears, Brown Scars, Ruby Hamad

Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (UK-centric)

If you want to understand how tech is complicit in perpetuating systems of oppression:

Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble

Rage Inside The Machine, Rob Smith

Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher

You'll notice I didn't link them. I encourage you to do some work to support someone other than the world's first trillionaire. Find a local bookstore that might still be able to deliver/do curbside pickup. Look on IndieBound or Bookshop if you truly don't have local options or are stuck. Part of doing this work is not always taking the first, most convenient option.

I previously had included texts White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo) and Invisible Women (Caroline Criado-Pérez). Both of those texts have been shown to do harm to the communities they purport to support. If you'd like to read more why, here are a couple of perspectives:
What's Missing From "White Fragility" > Caroline Criado-Perez is a TERF
I regret that I included them to begin with but I don't want to erase the mistake and perpetuate harm. I apologise for any harm that I caused Black folks and trans (and especially Black trans folks) by including them in these lists. I ask that if you choose to read these texts anyway, to examine them critically through an anti-racist, pro-Black, pro-trans perspective.

2️⃣ Reflect upon all of the women in your life 📌

Examine your friend group. Who attends your brunches? Who was in your wedding party?

What traits set you each apart from each other?

Who are the women of colour in your life? Who are the queer women in your life? Who are the disabled women in your life? Who are the trans women in your life?

If they are your friends, how do those aspects of their identities come up?

Do they talk to you about the oppression they face?

Why or why not?

If they do, what has been your reaction?

3️⃣ Consider your weapons 📌

White women's weapons are microaggressions and a direct line to the police murder hotline.

Compliments: When you complimented another woman, what is your expectation? How have your compliments been racialised? Have you complimented a Black woman's hair and asked to touch it? Have you complimented an Asian woman's youthful skin? Have you referred to a Black/brown woman friend as exotic? Have you started or ended your compliments with "OMG I hate you." Have your compliments toward disabled women been infantilising? Have you perpetuated Westernised white beauty standards?

Tears: Have you ever cried to get your way? Who paid for it?

The Police: You have a nation state that will murder for your tears and your fear, real or not. Do you consider the weight of this power?

Aggressive/Bitchy/Not-A-Team-Player: Have you ever used these words to describe another woman colleague? Reflect on their identity and how those terms carry weight.

4️⃣ Examine how you leave Black and brown women behind, particularly those who are disabled, trans, immigrants, and queer 📌

White women experience oppression from the patriarchical aspects of the kyriarchy. But you simultaneously benefit from the white supremacist aspects of it. If you're abled, cis, and straight, you experience those benefits as well. Throughout history, every white feminist movement has explicitly excluded Black and brown women. Your idols like Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were racists.

Resist the urge to:

Question/deny our lived experiences. Listen.

Ask us if it's our race or our gender. It's both, we can't necessarily parse out which parts are affected by what.

Centre yourself. Society already forces us to centre everything around your feelings.

Erase us from the narrative; if you're speaking about reproductive health and you don't mention how Black women are at much higher risk or issues, or when you speak about the gender pay wage gap, don't ignore the fact that Latinx and Black women make far less than white and Asian women; if you're speaking about assault, don't forget to mention that Indigenous women and girls are at the highest risk.

Step over us on the way to the top. Employing traditionally masculine behaviours will intrinsically mean employing white supremacist behaviours; using your power over us is aligning with the privilege of your whiteness, not the solidarity of our womanness.

Participate in all white women panels/events/publications/etc. If you do, then at least insist on getting it called White Women in Tech or STEM because it is a falsehood to call it a Women's Event. Not All Women, Karen.

Be a nasty TERF and deny the womanhood of trans women. Trans women are real women.

On your own time, reflect upon your privileges within the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Embrace your privileges with regards to race, gender expression, physical ability, neurological ability, orientation, socioeconomic status, generational wealth, nationality. How are you using those privileges?

5️⃣ Collect your white women friends 📌

White men can be called out by everyone because they possess the most power with regards to race and gender. White women, however, cannot be called out by everyone because you have less power than white men. So, the best person to call you out is other white women.

If you see a white woman friend or colleague engaging in weaponised behaviour (see above), do something about it. You are in the highest position of privilege to speak up without ramifications, particularly as far as the police state is concerned. (Consider how white women are taught to cry their way out of police engagements.)

Never allow yourself to stay comfortable. Comfort is complicity. Discomfort means change. Sit with it.

For the white dudes in your life: Don't worry, wrote a white guyde too!
Also, if you're feeling burnout, I have strategies for systemic change.

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We'll be adding more resources to this page soon. In the meantime, Political Research Associates has additional research and analysis of white nationalism and neo-fascism here: www.politicalresearch.org.

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The killing of George Floyd, an unarmed, handcuffed African American man, by a police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, has sparked mass protests in cities across America. Despite the lingering threat of coronavirus, thousands have taken to the streets to march in demonstrations, often confronted by police wielding tear gas and rubber bullets.

They're not only marching for Floyd, either; his death closely followed news about the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery and 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, shot in separate incidents; a black transgender man, Tony McDade, was also fatally shot by police on Wednesday, May 27.

Many more activists and supporters have expressed their solidarity online, sharing ways to be an ally to those engaged in direct action, or signing a record-breaking petition to arrest the four ex-officers involved in Floyd's death (the officer directly responsible has since been charged with third-degree murder).

While Floyd's death, and the subsequent videos on social media of burning buildings and shattered windows, feel like a tipping point in some ways, what we're seeing is also unfortunately a familiar narrative in the US. A clip of the activist Angela Davis from the 70s, for example, shows her discussing protest and violence in a way that still resonates with the situation almost half a century later.

"Because of the way this society is organised," she says, "because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions."

Davis's discussion of the exacerbation of this violence by authority figures is also echoed by Donald Trump's words in the days following Floyd's death, including the president's inflammatory May 29 tweet that reads: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."

But that history of similar struggles can also serve the present. Books, films, and articles charting race relations and their wider history are a vital tool to inform activists and allies today, and inspire visions for an alternative system. Here, we've collected a list of resources to help stay educated and informed.

Angela Davis on violence and revolution: pic.twitter.com/P16X5jQyfS
- twigs gf (@meIonthefeIon) May 28, 2020

FILMS AND TV

The aforementioned interview with Angela Davis is taken from the 2011 documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, which also includes commentary from the likes of Erykah Badu and Talib Kweli. The Black Power Mixtape also features in Dazed's 2018 round-up of powerful docs about race and criminal justice, alongside films about the LA riots and the war on drugs.

Ava DuVernay has also shared a relevant clip about riots and police brutality from her 2016 documentary 13th in the wake of Floyd's death.

And Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro (2016) is a documentary told solely in the words of the black homosexual writer James Baldwin, recited by Samuel L. Jackson.

The Criterion Collection has recently lifted its paywall on all titles from Black filmmakers and documentaries about Black experience, in support of Black Lives Matter. The titles available to stream for free include Leilah Weinraub's 2018 documentary about a Black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, , Maya Angelou's only feature length film, 1998's Down in the Delta, and Cheryl Dunye's 1996 debut, Watermelon Woman.

Before you say those things that you don't truly understand or think that thought you've been trained to think, listen to this and dig deeper. #13th#JusticeForGeorge pic.twitter.com/VQtcCe508y
- Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 30, 2020

BOOKS
Consider - as the journalist and author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge, suggests - getting a book from your local library and donating the cost to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a non-profit providing bail support for protesters.
Toni Morrison, who passed away in August last year, was a masterful writer of fiction that explores racism and the African American past woven with feminist narratives, from The Bluest Eye to Beloved.

Audre Lorde's seminal poems also take an intersectional approach to talking about race and feminism. (Read more political poems here, as chosen for Dazed by eleven of the most exciting contemporary poets). Lorde's essential non-fiction texts are also gathered in the 1984 collection, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches.

In terms of nonfiction, the #BecauseWeveRead project has reshared a syllabus on "police, prisons, and abolition" following Floyd's death. The book list includes texts that outline the problems with authority and pose potential solutions, suggesting what a post-abolition society could look like.

Michelle Alexander's 2010 book, The New Jim Crow,also examines the role of the justice system in "the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States", which has seen millions of African Americans placed behind bars.

Robin Diangelo's White Fragility examines the institutions, cultural representations, media, school textbooks, movies, advertising, and dominant discourses that insulate white people from the stresses of race, and how this insulation can make any small amount of race-based stress they areexposed to intolerable, provoking defensive - and often violent - responses.

Layla F. Saad's Me and White Supremacy encourages readers to dismantle their own privilege, teaching them how to be an ally and engage in anti-racist efforts.

Ibram X. Kendi's How to be an Antiracist explains that it's not enough to just not be racist. "I wrote this book for this moment," Kendi says in a May 27 Twitter post: "For this moment to become a movement, for the movement to transform us as we transform this country." (Kendi has also recently shared his own "antiracist" reading list).

Readers have also shared recommendations through Noname's online book club.

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- Noname Book Club (@NonameBooks) May 27, 2020

ARTICLES

Writer Kemi Alemoru, in an article for gal-dem, discusses the act of sharing images and videos of police brutality. "When it comes to something as viscerally distressing as a video of a person being murdered," she writes, "perhaps there need to be more ground rules and decorum around their dissemination."

For the New York Times, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor directly reflects on the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, pointing to the government repeatedly failing black people to explain the severity of the protests.

The New York Times' " 1619 Project " looks at things from a slightly wider angle. The ongoing initiative (which is also available as a podcast) traces the consequences of slavery to the modern day.

A final article hones in on the word "intersectionality" in relation to both race and gender. Written in 2019, " The Intersectionality Wars " includes a conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw, an academic who coined the phrase 30 years ago.

I personally can't watch these videos of us being murdered anymore. So I wrote about the politics of viral police brutality, lazy RTs, the trauma they cause and how weird it is that for black people to prove racism people need to *see* our blood spill. https://t.co/rNyJPAeLNL
- Kemi Alemoru (@kemioliviax) May 26, 2020

PODCASTS

Having coined the term "intersectionality", Kimberlé Crenshaw also hosts the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, where she discusses her specialist subjects: race theory and civil rights. Recent episodes have tackled the construction of narratives during a disaster and state violence.

Seeing White is a 14-part documentary series that was released in 2017, but the themes discussed with leading scholars - including white supremacy, police shootings, and racial inequity across many institutions - are just as relevant today.

NPR's Code Switch features a diverse team of journalists "fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting". Recently, they've covered police brutality and race in relation to coronavirus.

COMMENTATORS, ORGANISATIONS, AND ACTIVISTS

Organisations like Black Visions Collective, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and Reclaim the Block have been working to support protesters, spread awareness, and confront the establishment.

The North Star Health Collective provides healthcare, resources, and training to help activists or other organisations stay safe during protests and events. "We stand in solidarity with the need for diverse strategies and tactics," reads a statement on its website. "We will not denounce fellow activists or organizations."

Showing Up For Racial Justice (@ShowUp4RJ) specifically aims to organise white people for racial justice, holding Zoom calls and educational seminars online.

Black Women's Blueprint promotes and organises black liberation through a feminist lens, writing: "Our purpose is to take action to secure social, political and economic equality for Black women in American society now."

Black Lives Matter have coordinated protests in Minnesota over the past few days, but also in other US cities such as Los Angeles. You can follow your local group on social media to see when other marches are planned.

Other prominent Twitter users, such as the How to be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi, have supported activism by sharing information, analysis, and other users' threads detailing first-hand experiences.

OTHER RESOURCES

The racial justice educator, lawyer, and author Rachel Ricketts has shared a variety of anti-racism resources, curating materials to help address white privilege, promote racial equity, and consider the disproportionate effect of other events on race, such as the coronavirus pandemic.

More resources for white people to learn how to discuss race and racism can be found via Fractured Atlas, or on tech writer and engineer Tatiana Mac's website.

On Instagram, the artist Mimi Zhu has also shared new, text-based artwork aimed at raising awareness among white people and non-black people of colour. "Non-black people must do better," she writes. "Keep in mind that black people are not obligated to teach us how to care for them. Look into your honest self. Your discomfort, your learned anti-blackness and your family history. Move beyond the internet to show your outrage and grief. Take action and do not remain complicit."

The Atlanta rapper Killer Mike has also publicly spoken out around George Floyd's death, as he has done before, with past instances of police brutality. In a video, he tells protesters: "It is your duty to fortify your own house, so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organisation. And now is the time to plot, plan, strategise, organise, and mobilise."

The whole country needs to stop right now and listen to Killer Mike. He's verbalizing what a lot of us don't know how to express pic.twitter.com/yiBEaicRGT
- ment (@mentnelson) May 30, 2020

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As a society, public discussions about race and racism have increased in volume and intensity. Educators feel a sense of responsibility to bring these topics into their classrooms-because young people want to be part of the conversation and should be. If handled effectively, these discussions provide opportunities for timely learning. From police-involved deaths of Black and Latinx men to everyday racism to Confederate flag controversy with sports figures and celebrities getting involved in the conversation, there is a lot to grapple with and discuss.

Educators sometimes feel hesitant to raise these topics because it may be uncomfortable, strong emotions can emerge and teachers may feel they don't have enough information or background to teach the topic well. Below are suggestions and strategies for having classroom conversations with young people about race and racism. Prior to these discussions and throughout the process, teachers will benefit from doing their own self-reflective personal work around race and racism-whether this takes the form of professional development, reading and reflection, conversations with colleagues and others-to be aware of their own triggers and sensitivities and be willing to not only be uncomfortable but be a learner alongside their students.

1. Set Up a Safe and Respectful Classroom Environment.

In order to set the stage and tone for productive discussions around race and racism, make sure that you develop ground rules as a class that promote safety, inclusiveness and respect. Help to establish trust in the classroom by doing group building activities and find ways for students to talk and get to know each other in different configurations (pairings, small groups, whole class, etc.). Teach and encourage students to disagree respectfully, ask questions, share their own feelings and listen to the feelings of others. Use ADL's Creating An Anti-Bias Learning Environment for additional strategies.

2. Consider the Racial Composition of Your Classroom.

Be mindful of the racial composition of your classroom and consider who is in the room when engaging in conversations about race. You might think differently about how to approach this topic if there are few, many or no students of color. If you don't have any students of color in your classroom, find ways to include other voices by using social media, videos, books and articles or organize a Skype panel discussion to get diverse voices in the room. At the same time, do not assume students of color want to share their experiences or are knowledgeable and skilled in talking about race. Further, do not place those students in the position of being the "authority" or main possessor of knowledge about race.

3. Define Terms.

It is important to spend some time defining terms. Students need to be aware of the terminology around race and bias, including the distinctions between certain words. For example, there is a difference between prejudice, bias, stereotypes and discrimination and knowing what makes each of those unique is an important foundation for having constructive conversations on race and racism. Similarly, it is critical to understand how implicit bias manifests itself differently than overt forms of discrimination which were more prevalent in the past. Microaggressions is another term that is used frequently but not necessarily widely understood. Bias and prejudice displayed in interpersonal interactions is different than those which are structural in nature. Use ADL's glossary of education terms to help guide your work with students to understand the language of bias.

4. Connect the Past to the Present.

Racism in the United States has a long and appalling past. From slavery to Jim Crow and segregation, there is a lot to teach about race and racism. When you discuss current incidents of racism and injustice, it is often helpful to ground the discussions in an historical context. Where relevant, provide historical background to connect the past to the present. For example, the murder of nine parishioners at a Charleston church necessitates a history lesson about the Confederate flag because the perpetrator was associated with white supremacy ideology and the Confederate flag; a public conversation about the flag's meaning and historical connection to slavery took place following the incident. This can provide a positive motivation for reluctant history students to learn about the past as a way to more deeply understand the present.

5. Understand Perspective.

Perspective is a person's individual way of regarding situations and facts, their point of view. Help students understand that one's perspective is shaped by their own racial background as well as other aspects of their identity, their peers, family, life experiences, what they are exposed to in the media, etc. Understanding that people have different perspectives on incidents and situations is helpful in deconstructing that one person may see the same situation differently than someone else. This is especially important to understand with racial situations because white people and people of color may not see the situation in the same light; within racial groups there will also be diversity of perspective.

6. Think Critically About the Media.

Encourage students to be critical viewers of media, including print, television, internet, video, social media and other digital spaces. Assist them in analyzing media portrayals of racial incidents in the news by thinking critically about what they read, hear and see. This includes exposing them to a wide variety of sources that illustrate different perspectives and opinions along the political spectrum. In addition to traditional media, blogs and social media are good sources for this. Encourage students to ask questions that go beyond the surface: How do I know what I know? What is the perspective of the person writing or speaking? What influences their point of view? What are their biases? What don't I see? Use video clips and excerpts in class to show students how media can perpetuate stereotypes and racism. In addition, reflect on the implicit messages you convey to young people about race by what's on the walls and bulletin boards in your classroom, the books you assign and read together, the people and holidays that you talk about.

7. Talk About Structural Racism and White Privilege.

White privilege, the unearned and often unrecognized advantages, benefits or rights conferred upon people in a dominant group, is an important piece of the puzzle when talking about racism. The flip side of white privilege is structural racism which oppresses and marginalizes people of color through societal institutions like education, law enforcement, voting, employment and other systems. Reflecting upon what white privilege means helps students understand how some people receive unearned privilege while others are disadvantaged based simply by their race. Addressing white privilege and structural racism are advanced skills. Therefore, it is critical that teachers have done their own individual reflection and possess the background and skills to discuss it with students so it doesn't backfire or lead to defensiveness. Think carefully about your comfort with the topic and do not address it unless you feel comfortable and skilled in doing so. Consider using a new MTV documentary film called White People to facilitate the discussion.

8. Encourage Empathy.

Compassion and empathy go a long way in helping students understand race and racism. Provide opportunities for students to hear the thoughts and feelings of people most impacted by racism through in-person conversations/interviews, narratives, videos, photos and recordings. Have students reflect on these experiences and focus especially on the feelings of others. In this way, you help students be sensitive to what people are going through in these situations and promote empathy. Allow and help students express their range of emotions (anger, rage, frustration, sadness, hopelessness) about what's happening as well as listen with compassion to the feelings of others.

9. Inspire Hope and Activism.

When we uncover bias, discrimination and injustice with students, it's important we don't leave them with overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and despair. It can easily happen when you consider the monumental task of making the world more equitable and just. At the same time, we don't want to fill their heads with false or empty hope. It is useful to convey a sense of " critical hope" that sustains positive expectations and inspires action and activism. One way to do this is by teaching about small and large efforts of social change movements and how they brought about progress throughout history. Provide examples of social justice triumphs won through the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary and extraordinary people. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." Help your students exemplify that sentiment.

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Racial Equity Tools Glossary

Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. We discovered that even the most frequently used words in any discussion on race can easily cause confusion, which leads to controversy and hostility. It is essential to achieve some degree of shared understanding, particularly when using the most common terms. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.

Language can be used deliberately to engage and support community anti-racism coalitions and initiatives, or to inflame and divide them. Discussing definitions can engage and support coalitions. However, it is important for groups to decide the extent to which they must have consensus and where it is okay for people to disagree. It is also helpful to keep in mind that the words people use to discuss power, privilege, racism and oppression hold different meanings for different people. For instance, people at different stages of developing an analysis tend to attach different meanings to words like discrimination, privilege and institutional racism. Furthermore, when people are talking about privilege or racism, the words they use often come with emotions and assumptions that are not spoken.

Many of the terms in this glossary have evolved over time. For example, given the changing demographic trends in the United States, the word "minority" no longer accurately reflects the four primary racial/ethnic groups. The terms "emerging majority" and "people of color" have become popular substitutes. Also, the terms used to refer to members of each community of color have changed over time. Whether to use the terms African American or Black, Hispanic American, Latinx or Latino, Native American or American Indian, and Pacific Islander or Asian American depends on a variety of conditions, including your intended audiences' geographic location, age, generation, and, sometimes, political orientation.

SOURCE: Project Change's "The Power of Words." Originally produced for Project Change Lessons Learned II, also included in A Community Builder's Toolkit - both produced by Project Change and The Center for Assessment and Policy Development with some modification by RacialEquityTools.org.

The main source for each definition is noted with its term below. Some definitions are paraphrased or updated. If you plan to use a couple of the terms in your materials, we encourage you to keep the SOURCE citation(s) that we have listed for them.

You can download a PDF version of this glossary . Please feel free to share the RET Glossary PDF or post a link on your site. We request that you use the following citation: Racial Equity Tools Glossary, MP Associates, Center for Assessment and Policy Development, and World Trust Educational Services, July 2022.

For guidance on evaluation terms in particular, see .

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Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.