Anti-Racism

Please take a moment to read the statement Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, as it informs so much of what you’ll find on this anti-racism page.

The following anti-racism resources are from voices that we trust. As with all resources, we will likely be challenged and encourage ongoing relationship and dialogue.

Racial Righteousness & Lament - Spotify Playlist by Dominique Gilliard

Anti-racism resources for white people - this list is fairly comprehensive

Courses:

• Interrupting Racism for Children (through Child Advocates)

• Racial Equity Training and Cultural Competence Training (through Favorite Part of My Day)

Posts/ArTicles:

• Inclusion School Resources from Little Allies

• Nice White Parents by The New York Times

• Black History Month Recommendations

• Dr. Veronica Gilliard: “Ive had enough of # Solidarity”

• Courtney Ariel, “For our White Friends Desiring to be Allies”

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• 10 Common Thing s Well-Intentioned Allies Do that Are actually Counterproductive

• Asian Americans: 10 Warning Signs you are siding with Whiteness 

• 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show up for the Black Community

• 12 ways to be an Ally to Black People, Janee Woods 

• Alyssa Storrs, “Pandemic Lynchings & Sitting With My White Body”

• “The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture” from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001

• The the White Parents of my Black Son’s Friends

• Here’s my challenge to white parents this school year

• Mother of two black and three white kids’ post on racism

• Dear Parents of My Kids’ White Friends: Here’s Why They Can’t Always Hang Out

• Opinion: As a black parent, I need to update “the talk” I’ve had with my kids about police

• Crisis Contemplation - Center for Action and Contemplation

• Indigenous Reads (list) by Indigenous Writers

Community Groups, Voices/PODCASTS, and News:

• Faith in Indiana

• Indy10 Black Lives Matter

• Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper

• Little Allies

• Kheprw - local resources are listed on this page

• Ally Henny FB page

• Roll Call - Austin Channing Brown (and her FB page)

• Official Black Wall Street

• Andre Henry

• Culturally Fluent Families (FB page/requires permission to join)

• Prophetic Resistance Podcast

• Pass the Mic: “After Whiteness” with Dr. Willie James Jennings

Books:

• Me and White Supremacy (and guided journal) by Layla Saad

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh

• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi

• Stamped, Reynolds and Kendi

• Unsettling Truths, Charles and Rah

• So you want to talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo

• The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James Cone

• I’m Still Here, Austin Channing Brown

• Rethinking Incarceration, Dominique DuBois Gilliard

• The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• Native, Kaitlin B. Curtis

• The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, Willie James Jennings

• An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (for young people), Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

• My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem

• Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age, Mae Cannon

• Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Reconciliation, David Swanson

• White Awake, An Honest Look at What it Means to Be White, Daniel Hill

• The Conscious Kid - book subscription program to receive and return books about and by people of color

• See The Englewood Review of Books’ Antiracism Books for Christians - A Reading Guide

• The Land is Not Empty, Sarah Augustine

• First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament

• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

• See No Stranger, Valerie Kaur

• They Called Us Enemy, George Takei

• Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Alexander Ramsey

Videos:

• Asian Americans - PBS series

• The Black Church - PBS series

• Just Mercy

• When They See Us

• 13th

• The Color of Compromise - video series

• “The Doctrine of Discovery” explained by Soong-Chan Rah