Anti-Racism Resources

• What can I do and where can I start?

• Talking about race

• Things white people can do for racial justice

• Racial equity organization list

• 158 resources to understand racism in America

• Interrupting bias

• John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation

• A conversation on race and privilege (Video: Angela Davis and Jane Elliott)
• Code Switch (NPR Podcast)
• Deconstructing white privilege (Video: Dr. Robin DiAngelo)
• How to be an antiracist (Video: The Aspen Institute)
• President Obama speaks in Selma (complete speech - a reminder of hard fought civil rights history and hope for more change in the future)
• TED Talks to help you understand racism in America
• "White fragility" (Video: Dr. Robin DiAngelo)
• 1619 (New York Times Podcast)

• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Safiya Umoja Noble
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States - Paul Ortiz
• Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
• Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America – Jennifer Harvey
• Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth - Dána-Ain Davis
• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• The Other Americans – Laila Lalami T
• They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us – Hanif Abdurraqib
• We Cast a Shadow – Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America - Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robyn DiAngelo

Please check the University at Albany libraries for availability or consider ordering from a bookstore such as Sister's Uptown Bookstore, the oldest black and family-owned bookstore and community cultural center in Washington Heights/Harlem dedicated to nourishing the minds, hearts and souls of the community with present and past works of gifted African American, Latinx, and other great authors and intellectuals.

• Netflix: 13th (Ava DuVernay)
• Netflix: American Son (Kenny Leon)
• Netflix: Dear White People (Justin Simien)
• Hulu: If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
• HBO: King In The Wilderness

• Project Implicit (participate in a Harvard study on implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control)

• Training on implicit bias (from the Ohio State University)

• Implicit bias prevention resources (from the Society of Human Resource Management)

• Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue (statement from APHA discusses recommendations for authorities to center community safety and prevent law enforcement violence)

• How Does Racism Affect Health? (APHA Press)

• The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation (webinar series from APHA that examines the impact of racism on health and disparities in the United States)

• Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health (American Journal of Public Health)

• Tackling racism as a “wicked” public health problem: Enabling allies in anti-racism praxis (Social Science & Medicine)

• Culture, Race, and Health: Implications for Racial Inequities and Population Health (The Milbank Quarterly: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Population Health and Health Policy)

• ACLU (the ACLU works tirelessly in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the Constitution’s promise of liberty for everyone in our country)

• Astraea (the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe)

• Black Visions Collective (a Black-led, Queer and Trans centered organization dedicated to organizing powerful, connected Black communities and dismantling systems of violence)

• Colorlines (a daily news site offering award-winning reporting, analysis, and solutions to today’s racial justice issues)

• Equal Justice Initiative (works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality)

• NAACP (the nation's first and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization)

• The National Urban League (the mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights)

• Black Lives Matter

• MPower Change (Muslim-led grassroots movement working to build social, spiritual, racial and economic justice for all)

• NAACP (the nation's first and largest grassroots–based civil rights organization)

• RAICES (stories of immigrant children, families and refugees)

• SisterSong (The National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective)

• The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights coalition)

• Center for Antiracist Research (convenes researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice)

• Color of Change (designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back)

• Equal Justice Initiative (works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality)

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (a network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice)

• United We Dream (empowers people to develop their leadership, their organizing skills, and to develop campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people)

• Adopting an Anti-Racism Public Health Curriculum Competency: The University of Washington Experience

• Anti-racism toolkit for academic units

• Critical practices for anti-bias education

• Examples of microaggressions

• How to make your teaching more inclusive

• NIH's scientific approach to inclusive excellence

• Race equity and inclusion action guide

• Safe spaces and brave spaces

• Teaching race and racial justice

• The importance of teaching history of inequities in public health programs

• Institutionalized racism: a syllabus

• Best practices for maintaining diverse laboratories

• Diversity and Equity in the Lab: Preparing Scientists and Engineers for Inclusive Teaching in Courses and Research Environments

• Lab heads should learn to talk about racism

• Race matters

• Racism in the research lab

• A decade of studying implicit racial/ethnic bias in healthcare providers using the implicit association test

• A safe haven for the injured? Urban trauma care at the intersection of healthcare, law enforcement, and race

• Area racism and birth outcomes among Blacks in the United States

• At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil: Residential segregation and cardio-metabolic risk factors in the BrazilianLongitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

• Biocultural citizenship and embodying exceptionalism: Biopolitics for sickle cell disease in Brazil

• Exploring how prison-based drug rehabilitation programming shapes racial disparities in substance use disorder recovery

• Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia

• Institutional racism in public health contracting: Findings of a Nationwide survey from New Zealand

• Making a difference in medical trainees' attitudes toward Latino patients: A pilot study of an intervention to modify implicit and explicit attitudes

• Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discrimination

• Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research

• “We black women have to kill a lion everyday”: An intersectional analysis of racism and social determinants of health in Brazil

• Segregation and mortality over time and space

• State-level immigration and immigrant-focused policies as drivers of Latino health disparities in the United States

• Structural racism in the workplace: Does perception matter for health inequalities?

• The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA

• The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia

• Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education

• Counseling Center

• Office of Diversity and Inclusion

• Grief is a direct impact of racism: Eight ways to support yourself

• Healing action toolkit (Black Lives Matter)

• Healing Justice Podcast

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma And The Pathway To Mending Our Broken Hearts And Bodies – Resmaa Menakem

• National Day of Racial Healing

• Restorative justice

• The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systematic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing – Annealiese A Singh, PhD, LPC

• The On Being Project

• Truth, racial healing, and transformation (Association of American Colleges and Universities)

• We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope

• 8 ways you can practice self care in the face of daily racism