- Understanding Privilege Systems
- Tools for Challenging Racism & Colonization
- Tools for Having Difficult Conversations about Systems of Oppression
- Resources for Parents & Teachers
- Understanding and Challenging Systemic Violence
- Understanding White Nationalist and Supremacist Groups
- Criminal Justice, Policing & Prisons
- Understanding and Challenging Islamophobia
- Gender Identity & Gendered Violence
- Helping/Saving (Industrial and Psychological) Complexes
- Microaggressions
- Cultural Appropriation
- Halloween/Costumes
- Thangstaken/Thanksgiving
- Media Literacy and Parody
- Current Events Analysis
- Resource Collections
- Anti-Oppression Training, Organizing, and Movement Building
- Herstories addressing whiteness and female socialization
- White Noise Collective’s Blog Archive
Resources for Analysis, Action, Reflection, Alliance
This is meant to be an evolving document. Please contact us at whitenoisecollective [at] gmail [dot] com if you notice any broken links or would like to suggest an addition to this list. – WNC
White Noise Shared Understandings
Understanding Systems of Privilege & Oppression
- White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women’s studies, (an essay frequently referred to as “The Invisible Knapsack”) by Peggy McIntosh.
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo in International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
- White Privilege as an Addiction by Gail K Golden
- What is Systemic Racism by Race Forward
- Racism 101 by SURJ
- White Women, Patriarchy and White Superiority by Tilman Smith
- Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy by Andrea Smith
- Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks
- 10 Conversations I’m Sick Of Having With White People
- The Problem with “Privilege” by Andrea Smith
- White Supremacy (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
- White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun
- Colonialism (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
- Power (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
- Unraveling the Armor of Privilege by Vanissar Tarakali
- En/countering Whiteness List of Resources
- Whites Educating Whites
- The Distress of the Privileged
- When White Women Cry: How White Women’s Tears Oppress Women of Color by Mamta Motwani Accapadi
- The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial and the Costs of Inequality by Tim Wise
- Film: White Like Me by Tim Wise & Media Education Foundation
- Rachel Dolezal Syndrome (as a case study in white racial identity development) by Ali Michael
- The Infallibility of Miss Ann (Or, the Last Rachel Dolezal Thinkpiece Ever) – discussion of the White Female Fragility Complex by Jamilah Lemieux
- #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen On Feminist Solidarity and Community: Where Do We Go From Here? by Mikki Kendall
- A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
- The Unequal Opportunity Race
- Your Internalized Dominance is Showing
Tools for Challenging Racism & Colonization
- Tools for White Anti-racist Organizing by Catalyst Project
- Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice: Moving from Actor –> Ally –> Accomplice
- Revolutionary Solidarity: A Critical Reader for Accomplices
- There is Honor in Struggle There is Honor in the Work: S.O.N.G. (Southerners On New Ground) on the role of white people in the movement at this time
- Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequality by Shakti Butler
- 15 ways to strengthen anti-racist practice by Catalyst Project
- Accomplices not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex by Indigenous Action
- 5 Ways White Feminists Can Address Our Own Racism
- The Costs of Racism to White People by Paul Kivel
- Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism-from Ferguson to Charleston
- Challenging White and Male Supremacy Curriculum
- Catalyzing Liberation Toolkit: Anti-Racist Organizing to Build the 99% Movement
- Love, Race, & Liberation: ‘Til The White Day is Done edited by JLove Calderon and Marcella Runell Hall
- Processes of Decolonization by Poka Laenui
- Pedagogies of strategic empathy: navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education by Michalinos Zemblyas in Teaching in Higher Education. Routledge.
- Racism and Anti-Racism: Why They Matter To SlutWalks
- 5 Tips For White Allies in the Occupy Movement
- Barriers to working with other anti-racist white people, by Joanie Mayer.
- Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism by Sara Ahmed, University of Lancaster. Borderlands.
- Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice
- 28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors by Debra Leigh
- 8 Ways Not To Be An Ally: A Non-Comprehensive List by Black Girl Dangerous
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally by Mikki Kendall
- 5 Tips For Being An Ally by Franchesca Ramsey
- Checklist for white allies against racism by John Raible
- 8 Lessons from The Future of Solidarity: How White People Can Support the Movement for Black Lives from Catalyst Project
Tools for Having Difficult Conversations about Systems of Oppression
- “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race” by Jay Smooth at TEDx Hampshire College
- How To Tell People They Sound Racist – illdoctrine/Jay Smooth
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- Yo, Is This Racist?
- Colorlines: “5 Ways To Face Race at the Thanksgiving Table – and Not Choke On It”
- Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk.
- Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
- How To Talk To Someone About Privilege Who Doesn’t Know What That Is
- Building NVC Communities Where Everyone’s Needs Matter: Reflections of a White NVC Trainer on Creating Accessibility for People of Color by Marina Smerling
Resources for Parents & Teachers
- Talking About Policing and Violence with Youth: An Activity & Resource Guide
- For Whites (Like Me): On White Kids
- How to talk to your kids about the Violence in Charlottesville by Sonali Kohli
- Awkward Conversations with Toddlers about Race
- Yes, you do need to teach your son not to rape. Here’s how.
- “We’re” Not Raising Trayvon: The Difference Whiteness Makes
- There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times
- #CharlottesvilleCurriculum
- SPEAK UP: Opening a Dialogue with Youth about Racism by USC Rossier’s online master’s in school counseling program.
- No More Steubenvilles: How to Raise Boys to Be Kind Men
- How to Be an Anti-Racist Parent
- Black Lives Matter resources for educators:
- Listen, Learn, Participate: #BlackLivesMatter resources series from Oakland Public Library
- Teaching #BlackLivesMatter Libguide from San Francisco Unified Public Schools
- MLK Zine – connecting dots between Civil Rights and BlackLivesMatter
- White Privilege Conference Journal: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, Special Issue: Resistance to Teaching Anti-Racism
- Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children in a Multiracial World
- Raising Race Conscious Children: a resource for parents to talk about race with young children
- Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow: Teaching the Ongoing Murders of Black Men
Understanding and Challenging State Violence, including narratives of Criminal Justice, Policing & Prisons
- Department of Justice Action Kit
- Understanding Ferguson; Understanding White Supremacy by David J Leonard
- “Invisible No More” is a Chilling History of Police Violence Against Women of Color by Brandon Tensley
- Why I Don’t Call the Police by Emily Bazelon
- I Don’t Want to Be an Excuse for Racist Violence Anymore by Chloe Angyal
- WNC video: Foundations of Police
- It’s Time We Had a Talk About White People Calling the Cops on Black People by Brandon Patterson
- What To Do Instead of Calling the Police: A Guide, A Syllabus, A Conversation, A Process
- ‘White Caller Crime’: The Worst Wypipo Police Calls of All Time
- Black Feminists Respond to Ferguson on Colorlines
- Why Don’t We Hear About Women Victims of State Violence on Feministing
- From Anaheim to Oakland, Police Brutality Still Plagues California on Colorlines
- White Fear: The Single Greatest Killer of Black People in the US by Jenn M Jackson
- On Systemic Violence, at Home and Abroad
- Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis
- #BlackLivesMatter National Demands
- Resources on the Ferguson Movement Moment and Tools for Organizing White People from Catalyst Project
- #Charlestonsyllabus
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, from The Atlantic June 2014
- White Privilege in the Criminal Justice System
- Action Kit on Police Brutality put together by the SURJ Action Team
Understanding White Nationalist and Supremacist Groups (Historical, Systemic, Current Contexts)
- From Charlottesville
- Anti-semitism
- On antifa
- Clt-Alt-Delete: The Origins and Ideology of the Alt-Right Report by Political Research Associates
- PRA article: Skin in the game: How Anti-Semitism Animates White Nationalism
- Danica Bornstein on Anti-Semitism and white anti-racism after Charlottesville
- Jewish Fear, Love and Solidarity in the Wake of Charlottesville
- Jewish Voice for Peace on Fighting Anti-Semitism and Inaccurate and Misleading Definitions of Antisemitism
- Vice news episode on the leaders who called for the Unite the Right rallyand other groups who were there in Charlottesville.
- Audio from Suzanne Pharr’s presentation on The History of the Right Wingat Out South: A Gathering of LGBTQ Southern Leadership.
- America is Hooked on the Drug White Supremacy. And We’re Paying for that Today. By Carol Anderson, author of White Rage, linking the explicit white supremacy of Charlottesville with the more covert white supremacy of tough on crime policies and stereotypes of the ‘welfare queen’.
- Southern Poverty Law Center report on confederate monuments – amongst many findings, exposing that the construction of confederate monuments peaked not after the civil war but during times of increased white supremacist violence, during jim crow and the civil rights.
- Trump Is Using Old Jim Crow Tactics to Usher in a New Era of Racist Violence – article by Project South. The Trump administration is having a hard time governing by legislation so they are governing by racist suggestion, with dire consequences.
- Charlottesville started with a statue. Will Americans confront their history now? Linking the Unite the Right rally with historical white supremacy.
Ways to Take Action
- When violent White Supremacists show up to “protest” in your city, what will you do? By Malkia Cyril, 6 things to consider in figuring out how to respond and some tips on digital security to keep yourself safe.
- Don’t feed the trolls – how to combat the Alt-Right by Kazu Haga
- What Black Lives Matter Organizers Are Doing To Fight White Supremacy At Every Level from courageous conversations to pressuring elected officials.
- The Movement for Black Lives + The Majority: Confronting White Supremacy from Charlottesville to the White House – Action and Solidarity Kit – a toolkit to help groups vision, develop shared principles and orient towards long-term organizing.
- The Role of White People in This Time – a brilliant toolkit created by Southerners on New Ground, to help white people reflect, transform and act.
- PRA and ROP report: Up in Arms Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement is a groundbreaking report and toolkit designed to support local communities responding to armed militias and other Patriot movement groups. (This report focuses on Oregon but the lessons are useful nationally).
- Catalyst pamphlet: A Troublemaker’s Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the Face of State Repression – people resisting in this moment are being targeted by police and taken to court. Grand juries have regularly been used against people fighting racism and fascism. Here is a tool for all of us to think through how to be prepared for that and other kinds of repression.
Understanding and Challenging Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism
- Dear Non-Muslim Allies, Here’s How You Can Help by Sofia Ali-Khan
- SURJ Action Kit on Islamophobia
- Incredible compilation of resources for educators, teaching tolerance, context, diversity, including lesson plans and teaching tools for all grade levels from UC Davis, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
- What do you think when you look at me? TED talk by Dalia Mogahed
- Compilation of resources from Paul Kivel
- San Francisco’s anti-Muslim bus ads defaced with Kamala Khan, superhero graffiti
- Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America by Center for American Progress
- Latent and manifest Islamophobia: An inception of ideas by Hatem Bazian
- Islamophobia is an American Tradition by Karine Walther
- “Islamophobia is Part of a Long Colonial and Racist Process”: War Times Interview with Amer F. Ahmed
- Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire by Deepa Kumar
- Imperialist Feminism: A Historical overview talk by Deepa Kumar
- Good Muslim Bad Muslim by Mahmood Mamdani
- Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, by Lila Abu-Lughod. American Anthropologist.
- ‘No Means No’ – FEMEN’s Assault on Muslim Women by Huma Rashid
- Imperialist feminism redux by Saadia Toor
- The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- Edward Said on Orientalism: video directed by Sut Jhally
- Said argues that the Western (especially American) understanding of the Middle East as a place full of villains and terrorists ruled by Islamic fundamentalism produces a deeply distorted image of the diversity and complexity of millions of Arab peoples.
Media Stereotypes:
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- Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack Shaheen
- Media Education Foundation: Reel Bad Arabs film & Study Guide
- Planet of the Arabs by Jacqueline Salloum, trailer-esque montage illustrating Shaheen’s epic research
- Covering Islam: How Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward Said
- The Making of the Arab Menace by Rayan El-Amine
Organizations & Alternative Media Sources:
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- Network Against Islamophobia project of Jewish Voices for Peace provides support and resources for those interested in organizing against Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project
- Islamophobia and Civil Society Bullies video
- Annual International Islamophobia Conference held at UC Berkeley
- #MyJihad: Taking Back Islam from Muslim and anti-Muslim extremists
- Islamic Networks Group: educating for cultural literacy and mutual respect
- Common Dreams
- +972 magazine
- The Electronic Intifada
- Phyllis Bennis and Institute for Policy Studies
- Jadaliyya
- Democracy Now!
Comedy and humor:
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- #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast with Tanzila Ahmed & Zahra Noorbakhsh
- Thinking Twice: Uses of Comedy to Challenge Islamophobic Stereotypes by WNC member Zara Zimbardo in White Privilege Conference Journal: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, Special Issue: Resistance to Teaching Anti-Racism, Vol. 4 No. 2
- The Muslims Are Coming! comedy tour film by Dean Obeidallah and Negin Farsad
- Axis of Evil comedy
Gender Identity & Gendered Violence
- Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries – “Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)constructing Intersex, Transgender and Bisexuality” by Betsy Lucal, Indiana University South Bend.
- The Genderbread Person
- Gender (Lexicon Series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies)
- The Age of Hipster Sexism
- Transgender Basics: Gender Identity Project
- The GENDER book is a fun, colorful, community-based resource, which illustrates the beautiful diversity of gender – a sort of gender 101 for anyone and everyone.
- Evolutionary Psychology BINGO
- Katie Makkai, “Pretty”
- FemPop: An initiative of the Society for the Psychology of Women – feminist frameworks on popular culture that affect psychological development of girls and women
- We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists edited by Melody Berger.
- Adios Barbie: The body image site for every body
- Everyday Feminism: Transmisogyny: What Is It?
- Thirdwave Feminism in a Nutshell
- ‘Gendercide’ and Witch hunts
- Rape Culture 101
- Witch hunts and the War on Terror
- Women’s bodies and the Civil Rights Movement
- Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano.
Helping/Saving (Industrial and Psychological) Complexes
- Confessions Of A (Former) White Savior by Janice Erlbaum
- Nice White Lady: Mad TV parody of white savior teacher trope
- The Reductive Seduction of Other Peoples’ Problems – Courtney Martin
- A Journalists Guide to the White Savior Complex – David Adler
- The Ruling Class and The Buffer Zone by Paul Kivel
- The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole, The Atlantic March 2012
- Why Hollywood’s White Savior Obsession Is an Extension of Colonialism by Fariha Róisín
- Your White Savior Complex is detrimental to my development by TMS Ruge
- International Aid Worker Meets African Villager
- Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway Charity Single
- Stealing the Pain of Others: Reflections on Canadian Humanitarian Responses by Sharene Razack
- Wealth, Power and Class – Part 5: “The Buffer Zone” by Paul Kivel
- White women and the privilege of solidarity by Houria Bouteldja
- Decolonizing Restorative Justice by Denise C Breton
- Resources on Healthcare Disparities and Undoing Racism and Oppression in Healthcare and the Delivery of Healthcare by The Midwives Association of Washington State
- Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice – by Derald Wing Sue, Christina Capodilupo, Gina Torino, Jennifer Bucceri, Aisha Holder, Kevin Nadal and Marta Esquilin. Teachers College, Columbia University. American Psychologist.
- The Microaggressions Project
- The Many Faces of Homophobia: Microaggressions and the LGBTQIA+ Community
- On “Sh*t White Girls Say…”: Making Microaggressions Conscious by WNC
- Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls
- Sh*t White Girls Say…to Arab Girls
- Sh*t White Girls Say…to Brown (Desi/Indian) Girls
- Stuff Cis People Say To Trans People
- Sh*t Straight Girls Say…to Lesbians
- If Latinos Said The Stuff White People Say
“The thing about cultural appropriation is that the appropriator does not have to face the same consequences that we do for practicing our culture or faith. For them, it is an accessory that can be taken on or off at will, while for us, it is a way of life. …in a society where immigrants and communities of color are marginalized at every level, we can’t pretend that power relations do not exist when we have this conversation about appropriation. Sharing and exchanging cultural and spiritual practices is great, but it gets more complicated when we’re not all on equal footing. It gets more complicated when meaningful things are taken, commodified, and exploited for a profit, with little respect shown to the community they were taken from.” ~ Sonny Singh Brooklynwala, “Turbans on the Runway: What does it mean for Sikhs?”
General Understanding of Cultural Appropriation:
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- “The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation” by Jarune Uwujaren
- What Is Cultural Appropriation and Why Is It Wrong? by Nadra Kareem Nittle
- Cultural Appropriation in Spirituality zine from Reclaiming Witchcamp
- Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows by Amandla Stenberg
- What’s Wrong With Cultural Appropriation? 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm by Maisha Z. Johnson
On the Appropriation of Native Culture and Spirituality:
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- “For All Those Who Were Indian in a Former Life” by Andy Smith
- When Spiritual Searching Turns into Cultural Theft by Myke Johnson
- Sweat Lodges Part II: No, you can’t. Here’s why. by Native Appropriations
- NANAs – On Medicine Women and White Shame-ans: New Age Native Americanism and Commodity Fetishism as Pop Culture Feminism by Laura E. Donaldson.
- Reflections on Whiteness and the Ecospiritual Movement
- “An Open Letter to My Local Hipsters” by Sara Hunt
- White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men: documentary on the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual traditions by non-Indians.
- Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality
- When (Everybody Wants To Be An Indian) poem about Native American identity and stereotypes
- “my culture is not a trend.”
- Native Appropriations
- Eco-Feminist Appropriations of Indigenous Feminisms and Environmental Violence by Lindsay Nixon
- The Wolf I Feed, White Noise Collective blog
On Gender and Two Spirit Identity:
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- A Letter to White People Who Use the Term “Two Spirit” by WNC and others
- Toward an End to Appropriation of Indigenous “Two Spirit” People in Trans Politics: The Relationship Between Third Gender Roles and Patriarchy
- Rethinking Gender and Sexuality: Case Study of the Native American “Two Spirit” People
- Colonialism, Two-Spirit Identity, and the Logics of White Supremacy by Phoenix A Singer
- Two-Spirit People of the First Nations
- Two Spirit: My Journey Home
On Orientalism & the Appropriation of Eastern Forms of Culture and Spirituality
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- “Beyond Bindis: Why Cultural Appropriation Matters” by Jaya Sundaresh
- “Why I can’t stand white bellydancers” by Randa Jarrar
- “In Defense (Sort of ) Of Randa Jarrar” by G. Willow Wilson
- “Gentrifying the dharma: how the 1% is hijacking mindfulness” by Joshua Eaton
- Whiteness, Buddhism and Safe Spaces: Hands off our sitio y lengua! by Tassja
- Corporate mindfulness is bullsh*t: Zen or no Zen, you’re working harder and being paid less
- How to Decolonize Your Yoga Practice by Susanna Barkataki
- You Are Here: Exploring Yoga and the Impacts of Cultural Appropriation with nisha ahuja
- Are White People Ruining Yoga? by Sarah Han
- Ghosts of Yogas Past and Present by Prachi Patankar
Tools for Teaching About Cultural Appropriation:
On Día de los Muertos in the Bay Area:
- Costume Mirrors: Halloween and beyond – a blog from our collective that takes a critical look at the harm of the stereotypical representations and the ways they maintain oppressive norms and stigmas
- Liberate Halloween Action Kit!
- You Might Have a Racist Halloween Costume Checklist
- Indigenous activists take action: ‘Our culture is not a costume’
- The one stop for all your “Indian costumes are racist” needs! – an updated piece from the Native Appropriations site about the ways “Indian” costumes are hurtful and dangerous
- Seven Racist Costumes to Avoid This Halloween – from Colorlines
- Racy, Sexy, and Culturally Appropriate-y: It’s Halloween Again, Folks! – a dynamic piece breaking down some the patriarchy and racism that shows up in Halloween
- Things You Can Be On Halloween Besides Naked!!! by Emotistyle
- “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume”: recent poster campaign by Ohio University student group STARS (Students Teaching About Racism in Society)
- I Am Not Your Halloween Costume by à l’allure garçonnière
- How to Inform a Friend Their Halloween Costume Is Racist
- What Your Kid’s Halloween Costume Says About You
- SPARK Movement’s Action Against Sexualized Girls Costumes
- A Halloween Gender Binary from Sociological Images
- Intervene this Halloween: Raising Our Collective Halloween Imagination tumblr by the WNC
Thangstaken/Thanksgiving
- Don’t Celebrate Genocide AKA Thanksgiving
- National Day of Mourning 2012
- The Truth About Thanksgiving by Susan Bates
- No Thanks to Thanksgiving by Charlene Muhammad
- Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans by Gilbert Mercier
- Columbus What? Oh You Mean Happy Imperialist Resistance Day by The Angriest Black Man in America
- Why I’m not Thankful for Thanksgiving by Michael Dorris
- Rethinking Thanksgiving: Myths and and Misgivings by Vera Stenhouse
- Rethinking Columbus: Curriculum by Rethinking Schools
- The First Thanksgiving History Assessment by Stanford History Education Group
- The People vs. Columbus et al by Zinn Education Project
- Beyond the So-called First Thanksgiving: 5 Children’s Books that Set the Record Straight by Debbie Reese
- Hari Kandabolou’s Colombus Day Wish by Hari Kandabolou
- Illegal Immigrants by 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors
- How to Support Standing Rock and Confront What it Means to Live on Stolen Land by Berkley Carnine and Liza Minno Bloom
- Unsettling Settler Desires by Scott Morgenson
- Door Knocking for Reparations as a Rich Kid by Resource Generation Bay Area
- Thanksgiving Discussion Guide by SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
- Column: Black people: Call 1-800-TOO-WITE, report ‘suspicious’ white meddlers
- Feminist Frequency: Conversations with Pop Culture:
- Tropes vs. Women in Videogames
- About-face: Don’t fall for the media circus!
- How To Debunk Pseudo-Science Articles About Race In 5 Easy Steps
- Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing
- Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women by Jean Kilbourne
- Fotoshop by Adobé
- Riley on Marketing
- Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister by bell hooks, from “Black Looks: Race and Representation”
- White Women’s Workout
- Onion Video: White Girl Tried As Black Adult
- The Feminist Wire: Fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives
- Colorlines: News for Action
- Racialicious: Intersection of race and pop culture
- Everyday Feminism: Intersectional Feminism
- Colours of Resistance Archive
- Race Forward (formerly Applied Research Center): Racial Justice Through Media, Research and Activism
- Beyond Whiteness
- TransAwakening: News & Videos about Being Transgender
- Decolonizing Yoga: Where Spirituality Meets Social Justice
- Resource links for “Good White People (TM)” CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studies) A.W.A.R.E. (Awaken to Whiteness and Racism Everywhere) chapter
- Turning the Tide: The Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research and Education
- Racial Equity Tools: offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
- Challenging White Supremacy: Creating an Anti-Racist Agenda
- The White Stuff — A Reader: A set of resources compiled by White Noise Collective to support an interactive theater piece first conducted in SF in 2017 exploring the various manifestations of white privilege
Anti-Oppression Training, Organizing, and Movement Building
- Partners for Collaborative Change: democratizing research, planning and design – facilitating & coaching for equity and accountability
- Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy To Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto and Margot F. Boyer.
- Transformative Alliances LLC: Anti-Oppression & Inclusiveness Consulting
- Thrive Social Justice Consulting: Cultivating Abundance, Creating Change!
- Fierce Allies: Fostering deep partnerships across divides of power and privilege
- Hackman Consulting Group: Deep Diversity, Equity and Social Justice Consulting and Education for a Changing World
- The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond: Undoing Racism
- Start Dialog: Courses in Cultural Competency
- Paul Kivel: Educator, Activist, Writer
- S.O.N.G. (Southerners on New Ground): Building a political home across race, class, culture, gender & sexuality
- JLove Calderon: Educator, Producer, and Author of “That White Girl”, “Occupying Privilege” and more.
- Groundwork Madison
- AORTA Collective: Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance
- White Privilege Conference
- World Trust: Social Impact through Film and Dialogue
White Anti-Racist Organizations
- Anne Braden Program, Catalyst Project
- WWHAT’S UP: Whites Working and Hoping to Abolish Total Supremacy, Undermining Privilege
- AWARE-LA: Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere – Los Angeles
- SURJ: Showing Up for Racial Justice (formerly US for All Of Us)
- Culture Shifts: ways to shift white anti-racist culture, from Catalyst
- White Nonsense Roundup
Herstories Addressing Whiteness and Female Socialization
- A Letter to White Southern Women from Anne Braden
- Racism Review: scholarship and activism towards racial justice
- Narratives of White Women Used to Uphold Racism and Patriarchy: A Partial Timeline by WNC
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici.
- White Women Abolitionists: More 19th Century Freedom Fighters by Shaon Presley
- The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race & the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence by Susan M. Ryan.
- Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 by Peggy Pascoe.
- Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History by Vron Ware.
- Killers of the Dream and Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith.
- The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy In Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi.
- Sex, Race and Class–The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 by Selma James.
- The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters by Ruth Frankenburg.
- Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest.
- Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre.
- That White Girl by JLove Calderón.
I am wondering if you might add a link to Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education and/or the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee. Neither is exclusively “white” but both are committed to the struggle to uprooting white supremacy and to de-colonization. You can see something about the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee on a facebook page at facebook.com/intercommunalsolidarity. “Turning the Tide” has been published for almost 25 years by Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror.
Many thanks, Michael! Much appreciated.
I have a couple of recommendations for your readers. The first is an article called “White Adults Raising White Children to Resist White Supremacy”: one of the few pieces I’ve found on this topic.
http://loveisntenough.com/2009/08/05/white-noise-white-adults-raising-white-children-to-resist-white-supremacy/
The other is a book by one of the members of Feministing, called “Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists.” Author Courtney E. Martin is extremely attentive to issues of race, class, gender, and her own white privilege. She uses case studies of effective activists to humanize rather than lionise their work, and to help the reader wrestle with her own questions about doing meaningful work.
Fantastic! I like “humanize rather than lionize” – we will add these. Thank you, Alanya.
Amazing work as always! The Paul Kival resource The Ruling Class and the Buffer zone has a broken link btw~ Thanks much!
Thanks for letting us know – a lot of links to keep track of! Fixed.
Hi,
I was just at a spokescouncil meeting for organizing around MLK and there was a pamphlet explaining white white folks shouldn’t co-opt chants like “I can’t breath,” and “I am Michael Brown.” I wasn’t able to grab one. Is it on the website somewhere? I couldn’t find it.
Thanks for your time,
Eli
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“Things You Can Be On Halloween Besides Naked!!! by Emotistyle” should be removed from this list. It literally does not address cultural appropriation at all, and instead simply tells women that if they choose to wear revealing clothing on Halloween that they are wrong and classless. I am all about informing women especially teenagers they they don’t HAVE to wear revealing clothing (ever, Halloweeen or not) to be socially accepted, but to shame women for wearing what they want is just as messed up. This video does not communicate a “pro-outfit choice” attitude, instead it says “you should not wear this because it’s slutty and shameful” and “showing cleaving is wrong.”
Regarding: “For All Those Who Were Indian in a Former Life” by Andy Smith
I would consider removing this article since the author was just found to be pretending to be American Indian.
See link below.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/30/meet-the-native-american-rachel-dolezal.html
Some useful and informative web sites:
African American Intellectual History Society:
#Charlestonsyllabus reading list
Prison Culture; excellent blog on the harm of the prison industrial complex to Black and African Americans
RacismReview:
is intended to provide a credible and reliable source of information for journalists, students and members of the general public who are seeking solid evidence-based research and analysis of “race,” racism, ethnicity, and immigration issues.
Race Forward
The Center for Racial Justice Innovation:
advances racial justice through research, media and practice. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines and presents Facing Race, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.
Race Forward’s You Tube Channel:
Moving videos about systemic racism, life cycles of inequity, facing race plenaries
20 Things You Need to Read Before You Talk to Me About Race
Posted on April 9, 2015 by Crystal
Inside of the classroom, my goal is to create a safe space for my students to learn about and explore the uncomfortable and challenging topics of inequality, race and racism. Outside of the classroom, my goal is mostly to maintain my sanity through practices of self-care and spirituality, nurture my creative expression, drink good wine and engage in compassionate action in my relationships and communities.
While my role as an educator and researcher involves teaching and writing on race and social theory, in my civilian life as a writer and regular gal, I have no obligation whatsoever to engage people on issues of race. To the contrary, I have the right to set my own rules of engagement, establish my boundaries and clarify what is and is not acceptable for me. This is especially so given that “talking about race” (and more specifically, anti-blackness and white supremacy) is not merely some sport or hobby for most people of color. It’s a painful topic that speaks to relations of power that all too often result in unarmed black men, women and children being killed by “officers of the peace”, the everyday reality of racial bias and discrimination and the fact that blacks only have access to a tiny fraction of the wealth possessed by our white neighbors, friends and co-workers. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List
Riese 11-26-14
12 Books White People Should Read in Preparation for Becoming a Minority in Britain
by Adam Elliott-Cooper & Ashok Kumar
Facing History and Ourselves: Civil Rights Resource Collection
Despite the tremendous risk, African American women marched for suffrage, too
Michelle Bernard Washington Post 3-3-13
10 Black Feminists/Womanists Everyone Should Know
3-15-13 For Harriet
For More Than 100 Years, Historians Doubted the Autobiographies of Slaves
Henry Louis Gates joins the Academy to discuss slave narratives—what they’ve taught us and why scholars used to ignore them.
By Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Disparate impact
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Disparate Impact
19 Books On Intersectionality That Taylor Swift Should Read
After her kerfuffle with Nicki Minaj, “I’m sorry” is cool, but wouldn’t “I have learned” be even cooler?
Tracy Clayton BuzzFeed Staff
US Slave This site is for educational purposes. Slavery in the new world from Africa to the Americas.
An Exchange on “Nat Turner”
Anna Mary Wells, Vincent Harding, and Mike Thelwell, reply by Eugene D. Genovese 11-7-68
The Lie at the Center of Everything,”
Christina Sharpe 2014
Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?
NICHOLAS K. PEART 12-17-11
Class Action Lawsuit Challenges NYPD Patrols of Private Apartment Buildings
NYCLU
Operation Clean Halls subjects people to aggressive stop-and-frisk tactics and unjustified trespassing arrests 3-28-12
These are just a few helpful sites I’ve come across. There seems to be a wealth of literature available that many white people are not aware of.
WOW! None of the links were printed! Sorry! I imagine if you do a Boolean search you can locate these articles and sites.