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What does it mean to be antiracist? How do we overcome white supremacy?

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." - Lilla Watson, Aboriginal elder, activist and educator

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  • American Whitelash

    a Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

    Lowery, Wesley, 1990-
    A correspondent for CBS News and 60 Minutes examines the use of dog whistles and subtle and not so subtle racism to build a backlash against social justice movements.
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, [2023] — 305.80097 L9179a 2023
  • Read This to Get Smarter

    About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More

    Imani, Blair,
    Imani takes concepts from the theoretical to the practical, providing thoughtful and well-researched information around racial and class disparity, family and relationships, gender identity and sexual orientation, and disability rights.
    BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Press, [2021] — 303.372 I319r 2021
  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Saad, Layla F.
    Be prepared to do some deep work and some soul-searching as you read and interact with this workbook on confronting your own privilege and learn about how you can build a more just society.
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  • The author provides advice on going beyond the often ill-defined role of “allyship” to the action of building coalitions for change.
    BookNew York : Harper Perennial, [2021] — 305.8 D112w 2021
  • Combining powerful theory, personal stories, and beautiful language, Kendi lays out what it means to be an antiracist.
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  • Racism Without Racists

    Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

    Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo
    "...beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book…
    Downloadable AudiobookOld Saybrook : Tantor Audio, 2017. — Libby Audiobook
  • Oluo shares from her own experience and writes with magnificent clarity on topics like microaggressions and cultural appropriation. It's incredibly helpful for having the difficult conversations that we cannot afford to shy away from.
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  • Sway

    Unravelling Unconscious Bias

    Agarwal, Pragya,
    BookLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020. — 177.5 A261s 2020
  • Biased

    Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

    Eberhardt, Jennifer L.
    Learn how to confront your own bias head-on with this readable and compelling book combining research studies and personal accounts.
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  • A powerfully intimate memoir of how the personal is always political, this book is so much more than a history of the Black Lives Matter movement. This is required reading for our time!
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  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You

    Reynolds, Jason,
    To understand systems of oppression, one must understand the history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today.
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  • Good White People

    The Problem With Middle-Class White Anti-Racism

    Sullivan, Shannon
    "Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as white middle-class goodness, an orientation she critiques for being more…
    eBookAlbany : State University of New York Press, 2014. — Electronic book
  • "Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted."
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  • White Negroes

    When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

    Jackson, Lauren Michele, 1991-
    "...a crucial account of the people, stories, and culture that create the hilarious, crazy wonder that is life in the 21st century. It is also a wake up call. White Negroes wants to peel open still beating heart of interracial antagonism…
    BookBoston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019] — 306.0973 J134w 2019
  • In the Shadow of Statues

    A White Southerner Confronts History

    Landrieu, Mitch
    In his final year as mayor of New Orleans, Landrieu wrote this memoir focusing largely on his developing awareness of racial issues that eventually led to his involvement in removing four controversial public statues.
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  • Waking Up White

    and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

    Irving, Debby,
    The author interrogates her own biases and misperceptions about race and shares the story of her continuing evolution, embracing her cringe-worthy mistakes with an openness that will help readers examine their own biases.
    BookCambridge, MA : Elephant Room Press, [2014] — 305.800973 I723w 2014