Resources on Allyship

On this page you will find resources on Allyship. If you have additional resources that you would like to submit for consideration for this page please email [email protected].

Allyship

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• A Guide to Allyship
• Allies & Anti-Racism by Project Ready
• Ally and Accomplice: Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Allyship/Activism Resources for the Black Community
• Anti-Oppression LibGuide: Allyship-Take Action by New York Institute of Technology Library
• Dear White People: Use Your Words. Use Your Actions. Use Your Power
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
• Moving from Actor – Ally – Accomplice Chart
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Resources for White People to Understand Race and Racism
• Seeing White & The Seeing White Study Guide
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debbie Irving
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race by Robin DiAngelo
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Allyship Opportunities for White People

• How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• Guide to Allyship
• White Lies We Tell Our Children
• Concrete Ways to Be an Actual Ally to Black People
• Diversity - The First Work is Within
• 5 Tips for Being An Ally
• Becoming an Anti-Racist White Ally: How a White Affinity Group Can Help
• Navigating the conflict zone and becoming any Ally - ToolKit
• Black Lives Matter, Black Power, and the Role of White Allies

Books on How To Be An Ally

• Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, 2nd Edition (2015) Glenn Singleton
• Race Amity: A Primer on America’s Other Tradition, Natl Center for Race Amity
• White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, Paula Rothenberg
• Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice, Eric Mason
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
• On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson
• Privilege: Power and Difference, Allan Johnson
• Privilege: A Reader, Michael Kimmel & Abby Ferber
• Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
• America’s Original Sin: America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis
• Slavery By Another Name, Douglas Blackmon
• When Affirmative Action Was White, Ira Katznelson
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• The Color of Law: The Forgotten Story of How Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White, Daniel Hill
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert
• Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
• The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, Calvin Schermerhorn
• The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
• Excerpt from Privilege, Power and Difference
• A Freedom Bought With Blood