“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” — Angela Davis

Like many people, we are heartbroken and angered over the recent events that have occurred in America. It’s not enough for white people to just say they’re not racist, we need to be proactively anti-racist. People of color need our active support. For too long, the burden of ending racism has been placed on those subjected to it, rather than the people who create, uphold and benefit from systemic racism. We need to do the work. We are fully aware of our privilege as white women. Talking about white privilege makes a lot of white people uncomfortable, and it should. Sit in that discomfort, question why it makes you feel uncomfortable.

In order to change the racist world we live in, white people need to do better. We have to raise better humans. We have to continually rededicate ourselves to the lifelong task of overcoming our country’s racist heritage. Each step we take needs to address a different stage of the journey toward destroying racism’s insidious hold on all of us.

Below, are some ways to make a start:

Books

1. Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance Macmullan
2. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
3. Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
4. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
5. How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
6. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

1. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
2. So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
3. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Ph.D.
4. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
5. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
6. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
2. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
3. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
4. The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Matt Wray, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica and Birgit Brander Rasmussen
5. Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
6. This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

Articles

• Frances E. Kendall, “How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege“
• Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack“
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations“
•  Ali Michael Org, “10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books For Racism and Sexism“
• Allan Johnson, “Excerpt from Privilege, Power and Difference“
• Margaret Biser, “I used to lead tours on a plantation. You wouldn’t believe the questions I got about slavery“
• Voices of WOC & Allies, “Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me!“
  
• Levana Saxon, “Allyship and Accountability Glossary“
• Ryan Struyk, “Blacks and whites see racism in the United States very, very differently“
• Matthew Hughey & W. Carson Byrd, “Born that Way: Scientific racism is creeping back into our thinking“
• NPR: Michel Martin, “Fear of the Black Man: How Racial Bias Could Affect Crime, Labor Rates“
• Ernest Owens, “10 Messages of Wisdom We Need to Give Black Youth Right Now“
• Alexis Madrigal, “The Racist Housing Policy that Made Your Neighborhood“
• Braden Goyette and Alissa Scheller, “15 Charts That Prove We’re Far From Post-Racial“
• Julie Turkewitz, “A ‘Historic Moment’ for Native Americans“
• Nicholas Kristof, “When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Parts 1-7“
• Joy Sewing, “Marrianne Williamson Asked White People To Apologize. She Got It Right“
• Tara Bahrampour, “They Considered Themselves White, But DNA Tests Told a More Complex Story“

Videos

• “White Lies We Tell Our Children,” Colin Stokes
• “The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality,” Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic
• “How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations on Race,” Amanda Kemp
• “The Future of Race in America (on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” Michelle Alexander
• “A Conversation with Black Women on Race,” The New York Times Op-Docs Series
• “A Conversation with White People on Race,” The New York Times Op-Docs Series
• “How Race Settled the Suburbs,” Upworthy (Adam Ruins Everything)
• “Equity vs Equality,” Carneades

Podcasts

• 1619 (The New York Times)
  
• About Race
  
• Code Switch (NPR)
  
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
  
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
  
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
  
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
  
• Seeing White
  
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
  

More Resources:

• Rachel Cargle’s ‘Do The Work’ course
• No White Saviors
• Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein’s ‘Anti-Racism Resources’
• The Conscious Kid

Also read:

Black & BIPOC Leaders, Teachers, and Activists We’re Learning From

If you have more resources you think our audience would find valuable, please email them to samantha.welker@glitterguide.com so that we can include them!