Over the past few weeks, there have been many resources shared on race, racism, and antiracism. Libraries have been working to find solutions to the meet the demand for antiracism books.
This list below is just a start. There are many resources to be found, in Duke University Libraries and beyond, to educate, inspire, and call to action. Please feel free to email Jacquie Samples (jacquie.samplesr@duke.edu) with any additional resources you find helpful, and I will add them to the list.
Statement from Duke University Libraries
Videos:
Exploring the Emotions of White Racism and Antiracism
Taking a Stance Against Racism and Discrimination
TED Talks to Help You Understand Racism in America
The Thirteenth Amendment and Civil Rights
White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Articles:
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies by Courtney Ariel
Here’s how to teach Black Lives Matter
How NOT to be an Ally – Part 1 “Centering the Privileged”
How NOT to be an Ally – Part 2 “He-peat, Re-white, and Amplification”
How NOT to be an Ally – Part 3 “Spoken-Language Microaggressions”
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
Understanding Our New Racial Reality Starts with the Unconscious
White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy
Books:
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph
West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? by Suzanne Model
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories
