Anish Bensdira writes about her experience growing up as a person of colour in a predominately white culture. “Years of living in a small town nearly ‘white-washed’ me,” she writes. “Then BLM came along. Getting involved with activism made me realize who I am.”
Read MoreCorinne Shutack is Working towards a world where pain and suffering isn’t caused by a fellow human. Here she offers 103 very specific things that white people can do for racial justice. Form a group and start working through the list. As Corinne says, “Our work to fix what we broke and left broken. The work isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done.”
Read MoreLayla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encourage people who hold white privilege to examine their (often unconscious) racist thoughts and behaviours through a unique, twenty-eight-day reflection process complete with journaling prompts. This guided journal, which is to be used in tandem with the book, is the perfect place to continue your antiracism journey.
Read MoreAre you interested in the intersection of race and work? Listen to this interview between Jeff Shinabarger and Austin Channing Brown for new insights on what it looks like to pursue racial justice in our work for social good. It comes to us from ‘Plywood Presents’.
Read MoreAustin Channing Brown writes that she is “not interested in love that is aloof, in a love that qualifies the statement, “Black lives matter,” because it is unconvinced this is true. I am not interested in a love that refuses to see systems and structures of injustice, preferring to ask itself only about personal intentions. I need a love that is troubled by injustice.”
Read MoreI’m Still Here, is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God's ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness--if we let it--can save us all. It is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words.
Read MoreHere is a work book to accompany the reading of White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo, developed by DeAngelo and Ozlem Sensoy. It was created so that groups can read and reflect on the book together, working through each chapter with questions for consideration.
Read MoreIn this video, University of Washington professor Dr. Robin DiAngelo reads from her book "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism," explains the phenomenon, and discusses how white people can develop their capacity to engage more constructively across race.
Read MoreThe Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network has taken up the challenge of resourcing and accompanying communities of faith in their journey toward truth and reconciliation. This resource zeros in on White privilege as an essential aspect of anti-racism work. Racism is one expression of the White privilege and supremacy that is present in day-to-day interactions and built into systems and church structures. It is impossible to do anti-racism work without examining White identity and the unearned power and privilege that flows from that identity.
Read MoreLayla Saad’s book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. It takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.
Read MoreFrom Sojourners, comes this steady advice to white people about how to be good allies to BIPOC people., written by Courtney Ariel. Based in the Christian tradition and a person of colour, Ariel responds to white friends asking, ‘how can we become better allies?" Her advice is clear, steady, and accessible. Read what she writes. Do what she does. White people need to be part of the solution.
Read MoreHow to be a good ally? It's about actively being inclusive of diversity across the spectrum - from lgbt+ folks, black and brown folks, disabled and neurodiverse folks, and people from other marginalized groups. But here are a few ways that we can work to unlearn our natural prejudice, recognize our privilege, and work to make the world more equitable in spite of them.
Read More‘To Ally’ is to take intentional action, like listening, learning and uplifting those around you to ensure all voices are heard and respected. Chescaleigh offers 5 Tips for Being An Ally delivered with wit and humour. We can all be allies, whoever we are. Ally is a noun and a verb.
Read MoreAs America marks 400 years since people of African descent were first brought to our shores in chains, some politicians, academic institutions, communities of faith, and individuals are beginning to wrestle with the atoning possibility of reparations. The institution of the church is uniquely positioned to shape this movement of reckoning.
Read MoreYou can’t think about something if you can’t talk about it, says Eula Biss. The writer helpfully opens up lived words and ideas like complacence, guilt, andopportunity hoarding for an urgent reckoning with whiteness. This conversation was inspired by her 2015 essay in The New York Times, White Debt. This podcast is from On Being with Krista Tippett, in Conversation with Eula Biss, 'Talking about Whiteness'.
Read MoreSpoken word artist Matthew Strange shares a powerful spoken word poem about his experiences as a white man with a black wife and mixed children. Strange uses his platform and privilege to write a wake-up call to white people in Dear Caucasia. The piece he wrote in 2016 is as real and relevant as ever.
Read MoreWhat if white people led the charge to end racism? Diversity fatigue is real: people of color are tired of leading the fight. White allies are tired of being told they're doing it wrong. No wonder we don't have equity yet! In this inspiring talk, Nita Mosby-Tyler explains why we need "unlikely allies" in the fight for justice, and why people who are experiencing inequality first hand must be willing to accept the help.
Read MoreIn the iceberg model, the piece of the structure that appears above the surface represents a single “event.” Just below the surface, a deeper level of examination reveals patterns of events, or “trends.”
Racism and particularly Anti-Black Racism works in the same way as the iceberg model - what appears on the surface can be dramatic and shocking, but what happens beneath is deep and damaging.
Read MorePeggy McIntosh, founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, which seeks Educational Equity & Diversity in the USA, writing way back in 1989 observed: “I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions. . . ”
Read MoreRobin DiAngelo’s bestselling book White Fragility has provoked an uncomfortable but vital conversation about what it means to be white. As protests organized by the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the world, she explains why white people should stop avoiding conversations about race because of their own discomfort, and how 'white fragility' plays a key role in upholding systemic racism.
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