Books to Read
- How to be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin
- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander - They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement By Wesley Lowery
- The Condemnation of Blackness By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes can affect us and what we can do By Claude M. Steele
- So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeomo Oluo
- Medical Apartheid By Harriet A. Washington
- Evicted By Matthew Desmond
- Are Prisoners Obsolete By Angela Davis
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of HOw Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein
- 38 books for those open to changing themselves, and their world.
Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children:
Books:
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
- 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You By Ibram X. Kendi
Podcasts:
- Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
- Fare of the Free Child podcast
Articles:
- PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
- Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
Social Media pages:
Films and TV series to watch:
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- Segregated by Design (Mark Lopez and Richard Rothstein)
List compiled by Taniqua Huguley, OCA’s Outreach Director, and includes resources compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May 2020.