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 diversegwu [dot] edu.

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
• 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 Persons with Privilege

• 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