Here are some of the resources we find helpful for learning about racism and how to dismantle white supremacy.
Books:
Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton
Films:
Podcasts:
The Promise (Nashville specific)
Our National Conversation about Conversations about Race (backlog)
Articles:
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally-Industrial Complex
“We’re all just different!” How Intersectionality is Being Colonized by White People
Collections
A Fraternal Order of Police Syllabus
Send any suggested resources to surjnashville@gmail.com
Thank you!