As a learning organization, our YMCA is providing resources to our staff, volunteers and the community to help us all create access and opportunities for all. Below are additional resources for the follow-up to Groundwater and other anti-racism initiatives.
Books
Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram Kendi
Begin Again: James’s Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons For Ours, Eddie Glaude
Belonging: A culture of Place, Bell Hooks
Caste: The Origins of our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson
Remaking Black History, Ashley Farmer
How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith
How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibram Kendi
Inclusion on Purpose, Ruchika Tulshyan
The Anti-Racist Organization, Shereen Daniels
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, Tricia Hersey
Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts
DEI Deconstructed, Lily Zheng
Wake-up, Michele MiJung Kim
Good Talk, Mira Jacobs
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
But Some of us are Brave, Patricia Bell Scott
Articles
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
Being Antiracist
Not Racist is Not Enough, Eric Deggans
Childbirth is Deadlier for Black Families even when They are Rich, Study Finds: NYT, February 12, 2023
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Anti-Black Colorism
Discrimination Seeps into Every Aspect of Home Buying for Black Americans: NYT November 29, 2022, Kim, D
Videos
Black Boys, Sonia Lowman
Driving While Black, Gretchen Sorin, Ric Burns
Race. Are we so different?, Minnesota Museum
My name is Pauli Murray, Julie Cohen, Betsy West
California Newsreel, newsreel.org
I am not Your Negro, James Baldwin
Systemic Racism
Podcasts
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge (NPR): Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Seeing White
The Kinswoman Project
The 1619 Project
Code Switch (NPR)
Black History for White Black People
