Antiracist resource list
Being an ally is a lifelong process. The work never ends. Fortunately, there are many resources! These books are great places to start your antiracist research.
This list is always in progress -- if you know of a great book that is not on here, email me and tell me about it!
This list is always in progress -- if you know of a great book that is not on here, email me and tell me about it!
Articles
- The dream of thriving in academia is still a nightmare for many Black professors -- D. Watkins, Salon, 2021
- Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist lab -- by Bala Chaudhary and Asmeret Berhe
- White Folks: It's Too Late for 'Allies' - Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rose Spaulding, Colorlines, 2020
- What Black scientists want from colleagues and their institutions -- by Virginia Gewin, Nature, 2020
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic, 2020
- How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors' Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates, Sex Roles, 2019 (cross-post with feminist resources)
- Antiracism starter kit, L. Glenise Pike, 2019
- The 1619 Project, The New York Times, 2019
- Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring, Science, 2019 (cross-post with feminist resources)
- Double Jeopardy: Gender Bias Against Women of Color in Science, 2014 (cross-post with feminist resources)
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh, 1988
Books
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- a 28 day journaling process to help you uncover how white supremacy works in society and in you.
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? by Joe Macaré, Alana Yu-Lan Price, and Maya Schenwar, foreword by Alicia Garza
- So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
Podcasts
- In the Dark: season 2 from APM reports
- Explores the six trials of Curtis Flowers by the same district attorney in Mississippi.
- Examination of the racial inequities in our justice system.
- Uncivil from Gimlet Media
- Stories you weren't told in high school about the U.S. Civil War
- Code Switch from NPR
- Discussions about race and identity
- Discussions about race and identity
