Anti-Racism Resources: When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

Published on June 10, 2020 by GirlieGirlArmy   ·   5 Comments

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When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression ~ Anonymous

The journey through life isn’t supposed to be easy; it’s supposed to be real ~ Lama Surya Das

When my dear friend, art therapist and the Director of Pratt’s Graduate Creative Arts Therapy Program shared this compiled resource with me, I asked her to please let me share. What a wealth of knowledge. One dive into these resources, and a heart may be helped, or perhaps a racist could be unborn. Feel free to share what you believe is missing from this resource in the comments below.

Health and Safety Resources:

• Ethel’s Club
• Therapy Resources for People of Color (Google Spreadsheet)
• Black Mental Health Resources (Twitter Thread)
• HealHaus: Receive unlimited monthly or daily access to both online yoga and meditation classes with HH practitioners for just $20/month with CODE: Pratt2020 or $10/class drops ins.
• How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid (Wired)
• Liberate App: A meditation app for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color which has free and reduced options.
• Pod Mapping Resource (Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective)
• Psychology Today: To find therapists of your same race/ethnicity
• Supporting Black LGBTQ Youth Mental Health (Trevor Project)
• Therapy for Black Girls
• Therapy for Black Men
• What do to if you’re exposed to tear gas (PopSci) 
• 12 Ways You Can Be an Activist Without Going to a Protest
• Crisis Text Line | Text HOME To 741741 free, 24/7 Crisis Counseling
• Tips for Self-Care: When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media Is Enough
• Emotionally Restorative Self Care: People of Color – Black People – African Americans
•  Building your resilience
• How to Be an Anti-Racist Ally
• 101 ways to take care of yourself when the world feels overwhelming.
• Tips to Support Individual and Community Healing
• 4 Self-Care Tips After the Pulse Tragedy

Document: Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources 

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources

 Community Organizations

• ○      Black, Disabled and Proud: A website for Black disabled college students
• ○      Black Futures Lab
• ○      Black-Owned Brooklyn
• ○      Black Lives Matter (National Organization)
• ○      Center for Non-Violent Communication
• ○      Communities United for Police Reform
• ○      Justice Committee: Cop Watch
• ○      Made in NYC (Website / Instagram): Currently calling on local manufactures to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) to people who wish to exercise their right to peacefully and safely demonstrate.
• ○      Movement 4 Black Lives
• ○      Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) NYC

Resource Lists:

• ○      Anti-Racist Resources (Google Doc)
• ○      Anti-Racist Resource Guide – Definitions (Google Doc)
• ○      National Resources List (Google Doc)
• ○      Organizing Resource Guide (Google Doc)
• ○      Resources from Adrianne Keene’s Critical Race Theory graduate course at Brown University
• ○      Street Mobilization Guide – NYC (Google Doc)
• ○      Support Black Business (Google Doc)

Articles to read:

• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex (Indigenous Action)
• An Antiracist Reading List (New York Times)
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (E-book)
• Blackout Tuesday sees Instagram users not posting in solidarity with Black Lives Matter (ITV)
• The Case for Reparations (GQ)
• Check-in on Your Black Employees, Now (New York Times)
• DeRay Mckesson on the 8 Reforms That Could Dramatically Reduce Police Violence (GQ)
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Free E-book)
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (JSTOR)
• Greater Good Magazine
• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus (JSTOR)
• Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot (Medium)
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (Book)
• The Story Behind the Photograph of Protesters Outside of Trump Tower That Resonated Around the World (Time)
• Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Book)
• Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not (Refinery 29)
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• Racism’s Psychological Toll
• Psychological Impact of Traumatic News: Coping While Black: A Season Of Traumatic News Takes A Psychological Toll
• Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans: The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans

More anti-racism resources to check out:

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Project
• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
• Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• Save the Tear1.       Altman (2000). Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders Race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10(4):589-605. https://bit.ly/2UfsSHn

Black Joy

• BlackHistory (Instagram)
• Catch Me If You Can (Instagram account of the first Black woman to travel to all 190 UN approved countries)
• Hill House Vintage (Instagram page of a Black British woman and her life on her estate. Flowers, vintage dressing, architecture, cute dog. Just a happy space!)
• Jessamyn Stanley
• Instagram
• The Underbelly (her yoga app)
• R29 Unbothered (Refinery 29’s Black Culture section) Website or Instagram
• UrbanThrowbacks (Instagram)
• Follow the hashtags: #blackboyjoy #blackgirlmagic #blackgirljoy
• Every hobby has a black following! Search the hashtag: #blackbirdwatching #blackbeer etc and follow it. Open your own communities.

Videos to watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• 13th (Netflix and free on YouTube)
• Code Switch Podcast (NPR)
• Make America Safe Again Directed by Caran Hartsfieldaran (Instagram)
• “When did my baby become a threat to you?” (YouTube)
• Seeing White Podcast
• Spike Lee Releases ‘3 Brothers’ Short Linking George Floyd, Eric Garner and ‘Do the Right Thing’s’ Radio Raheem (Variety)
• Teaching While White Podcast

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (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)
• Nine podcasts that don’t whitewash race
• Seeing White  

Books to read:

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
  by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
•  White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials”
• Article: Decolonizing Mental Health by Karina Zapata Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system
• Book: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks: Fanon, Frantz, Philcox, Richard: 9780802143006
• Post: Embodied Antiracism: A brief somatic guide for white people (let me know if this is not accessible and I would happy to save as PDF’s to send) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3VFI0jpy6/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
• Book: The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha :  The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics):    Bhabha, Homi K.: 9780415336390
• Book: African Experiences of Cinema (related to BIPOC representation in film) African Experiences of Cinema (9780851705118): Cham, Mbye B., Bakari, Ishaq Imruh: Books

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

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

   Community Actions:

• Call the Louisville Districts Attorney’s office
• Call the Louisville Office of the Mayor
• Consider organizing with your local community to divest from local police departments like the students at the University of Missouri
• Donate to Bail Out Funds by state
• Donate to the George Floyd fund
• Donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund
• Donate to the National Bail Out
• Donate to the National Directory of Bail Funds
• Follow and support the Black Visions Collective
• Letters for Black Lives: Includes translations in multiple languages to initiate conversations with non-English speaking family and friends
• Minneapolis Attorneys Office
• Petition to Repeal 50A (New York State)
• I will Make Four Calls to #Repeal50-a
• Sign a Petition BYP100
•  #WeAreDoneDying, an initiative by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Hey White Therapists, Here’s Where we Start
• Advice for White Folks in the Wake of the Police Murder of a Black Person
• Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
• 12 Ways to Be a White Ally to Black People

General Advice:

 International/Undocumented folks: Do not risk your status by going to a protest. You can still show support in other ways.

We are still under a pandemic. Please wear masks and social distance as much as you can.

Resources for white parents:

Books:

• RESilience Books
• https://www.apa.org/pubs/magination/441B228?fbclid=IwAR2E60Kr3o6fJNOrJ-TUpSWWDFUJZ28-nVGtxx6Y42_Ak_xIaLpcouen-kw
• APA Resilience Program Uplifting Youth Through Healthy Communication About Race: https://www.apa.org/res/
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

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
• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
• Your Age-by-Age Guide to Talking About Race
• https://bit.ly/2Y9wufp
• APA List of Books About Race and Ethnicity
• APA Resilience Program Uplifting Youth Through Healthy Communication About Race

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