Resources

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:

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

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Podcasts: 

The Promise (Nashville specific)

Code Switch

Politically Reactive

Our National Conversation about Conversations about Race (backlog)

Articles:

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Legacies of Resistance: White Anti-Racist Activism, A Resource of the Catalyst Project – Compiled by Danni West

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

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