Resources on Race & Anti-Racism

On this page, you will find resources on Race and Anti-Racism. If you have additional resources that you would like to submit for consideration for this page, please email diversegwu [dot] edu.

Race

• Module 2: History of Race and Racism by Project READY
• Module 3: Defining Race and Racism by Project READY
• The Understanding Race Project
• 11 Step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege
• A History: The Construction of Race and Racism
• Historical Foundations of Race
• Race in Science, Society, and History
• Video: The Origin of Race in the USA  
• RaceSci: The History of Race in Science by MIT
• The U.S. Census and the Formation of Racial Categories
• Audio Documentary: The Invention of Race 
• How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate of the 21st Century
• The Meaning of Race and Ethnicity
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan Metzl
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen 
• So, You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King 
• Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Richard Rothstein 
• Race Matters by Cornel West 
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

Anti-Racism

• Fighting White Supremacy Within Yourself/Your Group
• White Awake: Self Education Resources
• Resources for Anti-Racist Education and Organizing
• Anti-Racism Resources Google Doc
• Anti-Racism Resources by the University of South Florida
• How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi 
• Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds 
• What is Anti-Racism?
• Talking About Race – Being Antiracist  Anti-Racism Guide by Simmons University Library
• Anti-Oppression LibGuide: Anti-Racist Resources by New York Institute of Technology Library
• Anti-Racist Toolkit
• Fortune’s Anti-Racist Resource Guide 
• Anti-Racist Resources by Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley

Systemic Racism

• Racial Equity Tools: Structural Racism
• Institutional Racism Graphic Example
• The Many Ways Institutional Racism Kills Black People
• How Institutions Think by Mary Douglas
• What is Systemic Racism? Here’s What it Means and How You Can Help Dismantle It
• Types of Racial Inequality 
• Advancing Health Equity: Addressing the Role of Structural Racism
• America’s Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism
• 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism is Real
• 25 Charts That Show Systemic Racism in America  
• Video: Systemic Racism Explained
• Implicit Bias and Structural Racism by Ohio State University
• MUSE in Focus: Confronting Structural Racism Free Texts 
• How Structural Racism Works Lecture Series by Brown University  
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington 
• The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
• A Perilous Path Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Ifill, Lynch, Stevenson & Thompson
• The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Flynn, Holmberg, Warren & Wong
• Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Charles V. Hamilton  
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America: by Ibram X. Kendi 

White Supremacy

• Anti-Defamation League’s Definition of White Supremacy
• Challenging White and Male Supremacy Curriculum 
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad 
• Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America by Antoine J. Banks 
• American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate by Pete Simi
• Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racism’s Past and Present by Moon-Kie Jung
• Beyond Redistribution: White supremacy and Racial Justice by: Kevin M. Graham
• Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind
• Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Lowen 
• Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
• The Year in Hate and Extremism 2019
• Hate on Display Hate Symbols Database
• Tanenbaum White Supremacy Fact Sheet and Resources
• Life After Hate