Understanding racial history and advocating for justice and equity is a lifelong journey. If you’re a white person like I am and you’re new to these topics—or if you have doubts about their importance—I suggest that you start with the information directly below, and that as you develop stronger muscles and more resilience you dig into the following sections, which are more challenging and may be daunting for those just beginning their journey. For those interested in anti-racist resources based on Christianity, the last section below is provided.
If you’re Black, Indigenous, a person of color, or in any way directly harmed by racism or discrimination, as you review this information please be sensitive to how it affects you and may trigger emotions and memories of harm, and care for yourself.
Finally, if you have additional resources not included below, pass them along to me.
Getting Started
This is such a big and important topic that it can be hard to know where to start. The links below will give you points of entry.
Quick Reads
- Bias
- Colorblindness
- Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People about Racism
- Race + Justice Essentials
- Asian Women are Living in Fear
- Inequities in Health and Health Care in Black and Latinx/Hispanic Communities: 23 Charts
Short Videos
- First Contact
- Why is Everything White?
- 7 Myths about Cultural Appropriation Debunked
- Divided States of Bias
- Calling In vs. Calling Out
- Reclaiming Native Truth
Feature Length Films
- Coco (2017 Pixar Film)
- Just Mercy (2020 film adapted from book by Bryan Stephenson)
- 13th (2016 documentary film by director Ava DuVernay)
Books
- So You Want to Talk about Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Digging Deeper
If you’ve gone through the links above and you still have questions, the following information will take you deeper.
Quick Reads
- Stop Centering Yourself
- The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility
- Transforming White Fragility into Courageous Imperfection
- Map of Native American Tribal Lands
- Time Magazine on Teaching Asian American History
- How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate of the 21st Century
- Library of Congress Latinx Resource Guide
- How to Talk to Kids about Race
- Settler Colonialism
- Association on American Indian Affairs
- National Congress of American Indians
- National Indian Education Association
Learning with Video
- Ibram X. Kendi on the Ultimate Diversion (Instagram link)
- Reclaiming Native Truth
Self-Assessment
- Harvard University Implicit Bias Test (Select “Race IAT”)
Podcasts
- Scene On Radio’s Seeing White (Fourteen episode series)
Feature Length Films
- The Hate U Give (2018 film based on the novel by Angie Thomas)
Books
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
- The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois
For the Free and the Brave
Ready to be challenged? (Warning, some links contain strong language.)
Quick Reads
- Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed
- Being an Ally Isn’t about Me
- Note to My White Self
- Reconstructing the American Tradition of Domestic Terrorism
- Rachel Ricketts on Giving Up White Comfort
- Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Illuminative
- NDN Collective
Learning with Video
Books
- How to be an Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
- I’m Still Here – Austin Channing Brown
- Between the World and Me – TaNehisi Coates
Faith-Based Resources
Quick Reads
Learning with Video
- Diversity in the Church, presentation by Dr. Christina Cleveland
- Racialization / Nationalization of the Image by Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
Podcasts
- Be the Bridge (ongoing podcast)
Books
- The Third Option – Miles McPherson
- Be the Bridge – Latasha Morrison
- Let Justice Roll Down – John M. Perkins
