Don’t just sit there, learn something!
Books
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism by Joe Faegin
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Uprooting Racism: How White People can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
Take Back the Land by Max Rameau
Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine Fosl
Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave by Benita Roth
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary
Exile and Pride by Eli Clare
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Melissa Alexander
Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen
Walleye Warriors: An Effective Alliance Against Racism and for the Earth by Rick Whaley, Winona LaDuke, & Walter Bresette
All about Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
Trauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk
Storming Caeser’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought their own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck
Videos
The Color of Fear
If These Halls Could Talk (like Color of Fear, but with college students)
The Message (about being a black student at the UW, a majority white institution)
Last Chance for Eden (like Color of Fear, but about race AND gender)
In Whose Honor? (Native American imagery and sports mascots)
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAljja0vi2M
Articles
Word to the Wise: Unpacking the White Privilege of Tim Wise http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/word-wise-unpacking-white-privilege-tim-wise/
“Whose Ally?: Thinking Critically about Anti-Oppression Ally Organizing” by Michelle O’Brien
“If They Only Knew”: Color Blindness and Universalism in California Alternative Food Institutions by Julie Guthman http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Sociology%20929-assignments-2010_files/iftheyonlynewcolorblindfood.pdf
“The Work Is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community” by Catherine Jones http://ebookbrowse.com/jones-the-work-is-not-the-workshop-doc-d113666237
Lectures
“The Unbearable Whiteness of Alternative Food” by Julie Guthmanhttp://www.havenscenter.org/audio/julie_guthman_incredible_whiteness_alternative_food
Websites and Blogs
Racialicious racialicious.com
Micro-Aggressions http://microaggressions.com/
Feministing http://feministing.com/
Color Lines http://colorlines.com/
Social Justice Training Institute http://www.sjti.org/
Angry Asian Man http://blog.angryasianman.com/
Take Back the Land http://takebacktheland.org/
People of Color Organize http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/
Beyond Victoriana http://beyondvictoriana.com/
Queer Zine Archive Project http://www.qzap.org/v6/index.php
Zines
“The Prison Industrial Complex Is…” http://chicagopiccollective.com/resources/pic-zine/
Artists
Poets:
Beau Sia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Sia
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai http://www.yellowgurl.com/
Dessa (Spoken word artist from Minneapolis)
Musicians:
The Coup http://www.myspace.com/thecoupmusic
Dead Prez http://www.deadprez.com/
Climbing Poetree/ Alixa + Naima http://www.climbingpoetree.com/
Guante http://www.myspace.com/elguante
Rebel Diaz http://rebeldiaz.mvmt.com/
Lah Tere http://www.reverbnation.com/lahtere
Invincible http://emergencemedia.org/invincible
Visual Artists:
Emory Douglas
Aaron Douglas
Frida Kahlo
*This list is ever growing—feel free to suggest new resources for us to add
