Additional Training Resources
- The UNtraining (Oakland/Berkeley): Unlearning White Liberal Racism: untraining.org
- Creating Freedom Movements (Oakland): www.creatingfreedommovements.org
- People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond: www.pisab.org
- Catalyst Project: www.collectiveliberation.org
- Visions Inc. http://visions-inc.org/
- Luna Jimenez Seminars: https://lunajimenezseminars.com/
Books
- The Body is not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Heart and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe
- Waking Up White: Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- What Does It Mean to Be White in America? Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives by Gabrielle David, Sean Forbes
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- How Race Survived US History by David Roediger
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz
- Uprooting Racism – Paul Kivel
- Born to Belonging by Mab Segrest
Films
- Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible by Shakti Butler*
- Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity by Shakti Butler*
- The House We Live In (long version) from Race the Power of an Illusion
- Race: The Power of an Illusion, California Newsreel
- Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Videos
- Aamer Rahman
- Whitesplaining Whitesplaining from MTV Decoded
- Drive to Understand featuring Gregory – Beyond Separation founder Gregory in conversation with a conservative Anthony Dorazio
- A Conversation with Native Americans on Race – amazing video series from NY Times
- White Fragility in the Workplace – humorous video about workplace diversity
- The House We Live In – extended clip about 20th century redlining
- A History of Lynching – from the Equal Justice Initiative. See videos link on EJI page for more excellent videos.
- Police Brutality – The New York Times is maintaining this catalog of videos of well-publicized instances of police violence against people Black people.
- The Invention of Whiteness – john powell outlines the moment in early America when whiteness was first being institutionalized.
- Nice White Lady – comedy sketch from Mad TV
Podcasts
- Scene On Radio – Seeing White Series
- Politically Reactive with Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu hilarious and super woke podcast
- NPR’s Code Switch
- Positivity Tribe Radio episode featuring our own Gregory Mengel.
Other websites to check out
- The Body is Not an Apology – Sonya Renee Taylor’s online magazine.
- Gregory Mengel’s blog: http://cosmologyofwhiteness.blogspot.com/
- The White Privilege Conference: http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/
- Race the Power of an Illusion online companion
- Race Forward – Racial Justice advocacy research org. Puts on the Facing Race conference
- To Take the Harvard Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/tablet.htm
- 15 Tools and Resources – a collection of resources from Compass Point
Articles
- White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun http://www.cwsworkshop.org/pdfs/CARC/Overview/3_White_Sup_Culture.PDF
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
- White privilege and American Buddhism: http://whitepriv.blogspot.com/2012/04/segregated-sanghas-how-spirituality-is.html
- Article on The History of Whiteness: http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/spl/thandekawhiting.html
- Articles by Gregory Mengel:
- Article about whiteness & indigeneity: http://bayoakomolafe.net/project/dear-white-people/
Facebook Pages
- The Body is Not an Apology: https://www.facebook.com/TheBodyisNotAnApology
- Beyond Separation: https://www.facebook.com/beyondseparation/
- ColorLines Media: https://www.facebook.com/colorlines
Organizations that could use our financial support