A Toolkit for Anti-racism Allies
James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Eradicating racism requires deep and meaningful personal and systemic change. Here are some resources that illuminate systems of race, privilege, and power as well as how to enact change in ourselves and our institutions. This list contains ebooks, downloadable audiobooks, and streaming videos. Annotations provided by Kirkus Reviews, unless otherwise noted. (Created May 2020)
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. A local author who won the Washington State Book Award in 2019 for Nonfiction.
Format: eBook
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. A local author who won the Washington State Book Award in 2019 for Nonfiction. (Always available)
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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Backlash
When George Yancy penned a New York Times article entitled "Dear White America," he knew that he was courting controversy. Here, Yancy chronicles the ensuing blowback as he seeks to understand what it was that created so much rage among so many white readers. (Publisher)
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Uprooting Racism
Explores the manifestations of racism in politics, work, community, and family life. (Publisher)
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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"
Tatum illuminates ``why talking about racism is so hard'' and what we can do to make it easier, leaving her readers more confident about facing the difficult terrain on the road to a genuinely color-blind society.
Format: eBook
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When They Call You A Terrorist
A founder of Black Lives Matter chronicles growing up sensitive and black in a country militarized against her community.
Format: eBook
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Between the World and Me
The powerful story of a father’s past and a son’s future.
Format: eBook
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How to Be An Antiracist
A combination memoir and extension of Atlantic columnist Kendi’s towering Stamped From the Beginning (2016) that leads readers through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action.
Format: eBook
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Stamped From the Beginning
An accomplished history of racist thought and practice in the United States from the Puritans to the present.
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Stamped
Award-winning author Reynolds (Look Both Ways, 2019, etc.) presents a young readers’ version of American University professor Kendi’s (How To Be an Antiracist, 2019, etc.) Stamped From the Beginning (2016).
Format: eBook
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