A Guide to Anti-Racism
America’s history has a longstanding relationship with racism & white supremacy. It is our duty to put an end to it and educate ourselves to dismantle both in order to create a better and brighter future. These are some of the resources I’ve come across that have helped me learn more:
10 MUST-Read Books
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Women, Race, and Class | Angela Davis |
| Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women White Feminists Forgot | Mikki Kendall |
| White Rage: The Unspoken Truth Of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander |
| Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance | Dr. Moya Bailey |
| Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, & Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century | Dorothy Roberts |
| Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontent | Isabel Wilkerson |
| White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color | Ruby Hamad |
| Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | Marilyn Kern Foxworth |
| Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla F. Saad |
Racism 101
Racism is not simply “disliking someone for the color of their skin”. That definition is very limited and only addresses overt, interpersonal acts of racism while minimizing or downright ignoring the harms of racism at the internal, systemic, and institutional level. Here are some resources to broaden your understanding of racism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy.
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