Podcasts
How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together?, and interview with Claudia Rankine and Krista Tippett (see unedited version)
Why Your Liberation is Bound Up with Mine, a talk and Q & A by Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Seeing White podcast with John Biewen, from Scene on Radio. A fourteen-part documentary series exploring whiteness in America—where it came from, what it means, and how it works.
MEN podcast with John Biewen and Celeste Headlee: What’s up with this male-dominated world? How did we get sexism, patriarchy, misogyny? How can we get better at seeing it, and what can we do about it? (Esp. Part 4: Feminism in Black and White)
DeRay McKesson and Brené Brown discuss joy, privilege and discomfort with Pastor Amy live from the Riverside Church in NYC. (Conversation starts at 25:45)
Brené Brown talks about privilege, perspective-taking and power in the wake of Charlottesville
The World is Our Field of Practice: Rev. angel Kyodo williams on On Being
Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love: Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson on On Being
Black Boys & Men: Changing the Narrative podcast
White Fragility episode from the Call Your Girlfriend podcast
Let’s Talk About Whiteness, and interview with Eula Biss and Krista Tippett
Videos, Apps & Other Digital Resources
Awaken: Meditations on Love, Justice and Healing app
Dear White Women: A Social Syllabus by Rachel Cargle
Rachel Cargle on Instagram
Chimamanda Adichie’s TED talk, The Danger of a Single Story
Me and White Supremacy workbook by Layla F. Saad
Emily Quinn’s TED talk, The Way We Think About Biological Sex is Wrong
Stella Young’s TED talk, I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s TED talk, The Urgency of Intersectionality
Articles & Essays
Power & Heart: Black and Buddhist in America from the March 2019 issue of Lion’s Roar
Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People, by Kelsey Blackwell
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack © 1989 Peggy McIntosh
Where I Make Sense by Finn Enke
“I Got Kicked Out Of A YMCA Locker Room — Twice — Because I’m Trans” by Branson LB
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit—the original article and the book
Whose Story (and Country) Is This? By Rebecca Solnit
The Male Glance by Lili Loofbourow
“The Culture of Power” by Paul Kivel
A Collar in My Pocket: Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise by Jane Elliott, and the original documentary video of her classroom experiment
White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed—and what can never be repaid—for racial privilege by Eula Biss
Books
An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
What Does It Mean to Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens and Jasmine Syedullah
The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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