Antiracism resources for self-education

Books

Begin Again, by Eddie Glaude
Our Time is Now, by Stacey Abrams
Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson also, The Warmth of Other Suns
The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee
My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow,Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeomo Oluo
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by Brittney Cooper
Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson. It is a mix of memoir and critical race theory..
Thick and Other Essays by Tressie Macmillan
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Movies and TV

13th, Netflix
The Hate U Give, Hulu and other
Colin in Black and White, Netflix
Just Mercy, Prime

Podcasts

The 1619 Project podcast and New York Times Magazine.
Code Switch, National Public Radio show and podcast is the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between.
Nice White Parents podcast from the NYT
This Land: How a string of custody battles over Native children became a federal lawsuit that threatens everything
from tribal sovereignty to civil rights.
Ally Henny's podcast Combing the Roots provides an in-depth look at the issues surrounding racism, justice, and racial healing from a black woman’s perspective. In each episode, host Ally Henny explores and exposes the nature of America’s race problem drawing on history, culture, and other sources to provide thoughtful and engaging insight into a deeply contentious issue.
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi imagines what an antiracist society might look like and how we all can play an active role in building one. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the author of How to Be an Antiracist
School Colors is a narrative podcast from Brooklyn Deep about how race, class, and power shape American cities and schools.
Southlake podcast from NBC News tells the story of how one idyllic Texas city became the test case for a new political strategy with national repercussions.

Resources for White People

The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person, by Frederick Joseph
White Supremacy and Me, by Layla Saad
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin Diangelo 2021, Beacon Press Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized, and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm.

Site Content

Bibliography from Rev. Dr. Herman Haller Recommended Books for Truths, Insight and Enlighte

Grateful, Diana Butler Bass
Black in White Space, Elijah Anderson
The 1619 Project, Created by Nikole Hannah
Between the World and Me, TA-Nehisi Coates
My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglas
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
African America Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, Kreven Young
Race Matters, Cornel West
From Slavery to Freedom, Hope Franklin
Hidden In Plain Sight, Yoshiahu and Huldah David
Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey, Mpho Tutu Van Furth
Necessary Risks: Challenges Privileged People Need to Face, Teri McDowell Ott
Body Becoming A Path To Our Liberation, Robyn Henderson Espinoza
Confronting Whiteness: A Spiritual Journey of Reflection, Conversation, and Transformation, W. Benjamin Boswell
Black Theology: A Documentary History 1966-1979, Gayraud S. Wilmore and James Cone
The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in A Post-Religious America, Jim Wallis
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation, Jennifer Harvey
The Souls of Black People, W. E. B. Du Bois
The Fire Next Time, Writings of James Baldwin
The Christian Century-Acting Against Racism-14 Page Conversation Guide. Free at the Christian Century location in Chicago.

Bibliography from Rev. James Coran

Robin Diangelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2018.

Shelby Steele, White Guilt, How Blacks And Whites Together Destroyed The Promise Of The Civil Rights Era, Harper Perennial, New York, New York 2006.

Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Antiracist, One World, (Penguin Random House LLC.) New York, New York, 2019.

Reggie Dabbs & John Driver, “Not So Black And White: An Invitation To Honest Conversations About Race and Faith”, Zondervan Books, Grand Rapids, MI, 2021.

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Bold Type Books, New York, New York, 2016.

Tom Burrell, Brainwashed, Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, Smiley Books, New York, New York, 2010.

Dr, Joy Degruy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, America’s Legacy Of Enduring Injury & Healing, Uptone Press, Printed in the USA, 2005.

Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston, Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came To Matter In America, Grand Central Publishing, New York, new York, 2021.

James H. Cone, Black Theology & Black Power, (50th Anniversary Edition) Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 1969/2018.

Jemar Tisby, The Color Of Compromise: The Truth About The American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Zondervan Reflective, Grand Rapids, MI, 2019.

Join Us: A Community Conversation on Race

Join us for a Community Conversation on Race: a partnership between Women Confronting Racism and Juneteenth in the WB 3/29/24

Friday, March 29 at 630PM at the WBHS Media Center

Pre-View Movie as we will be discussing the film and the themes of race and representation. For more info contact info@juneteenthwb.org. or 248-227-0096.

Learn more about Women Confronting Racism.

American Fiction March 29, 2024

AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents-- a conversation 3/14/2024

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a global phenomenon of epic proportions. Inspired by the New York Times best-seller “Caste."