Learning Resources
Learning Resources
Terms & Definitions
Whiteness
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: Article
- White Fragility – short video summarizing the book by Robin DiAngelo
- Book: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- De-Centering Whiteness (6 min reading)
- A Word About Centering (from UUA Report: Widening the Circle) Scroll down to the header.
White Supremacy Culture
- What is White Supremacy?, by Elizabeth “Betitia” Martinez
- White People: Let’s Talk About White Supremacy
- How to Explain White Supremacy to a White Supremacist. (Video)
- What every American needs to know about White Supremacy Article
- The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (and antidotes)
- On White Supremacy Culture and Why I Use These Words
The Roots of White Supremacy
- Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans – 9 min video
- Roots: The Middle Passage – 3 min video
- Life Aboard a Slave Ship – 5 min video
- A Brief History of Slavery That You Didn’t Learn in School – NYT Video
- The 1619 Project, New York Times, podcast, magazine, videos.
- Untold History: The Survival of California’s Indians – Article by W. Kamau Bell, CNN
- America’s Caste System- Fresh Air, Interview w/ Isabel Wilkerson
Systemic Racism
- Systemic Racism Explained – 5 min
- Documentary: The 13th, by Ava DuVernay
- Book: The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
- Redlining was banned 50 years ago. It’s still hurting minorities today. By Tracy Jan, Washington Post
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
- How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It – Unpack that 9 Min Video from The Root
Anti-Racism Work
- Love as the Practice of Freedom, by Bell Hooks
- “The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist”, Ted Talk by Ibram X. Kendi.
- SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Document about Police Brutality Protests
- Resources for your Racial Equity Journey
- Book: How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
- Book: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel
UUs & Anti-Racism Work
- Anti-Racism Matrix for Congregations
- White Supremacy Culture in Organizations: From the Centre for Community Organizations
- Widening the Circle of Concern: Report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change
- 2019 General Assembly Report from Allies for Racial Equity
- Allies for Racial Equity (ARE) – A UU organization building an antiracist movement of white UUs.
Beloved Community & Multiculturalism
- Beloved Community: Origin of the phrase Beloved Community (reading, 5 mins) Scroll a short way down the page to the header Beloved Community
- Multiculturalism from a UU Perspective (2 min reading)
- Ted Talk: Chris Jackson, newly named editor-in-chief of Random House’s One World imprint (20 mins) shares five reasons why we need multicultural literature.
Reparations
- The Case for Reparations, essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Slavery Reparations: How would it work? (CNN)
Implicit Bias
- Implicit Bias Tests: Teaching Tolerance
- Implicit Bias 101 Training (Kerwin Institute)
- Ted Talk: How racial bias works –and how to disrupt it, Jennifer Eberhardt (14 min)