Listen
“Seeing White” podcast (we recommend listening to the entire series)
“Intersectionality Matters” podcast by Kimberle Crenshaw - The Story of Us (Part 1 + 2)
NATAL podcast episode 2 The Roots of the Black Birthing Crisis (25 minutes). Listening to the intro and episode one of the podcast is also highly recommended.
Read
Read What is White Supremacy by Betita Martinez
Read Structural Racism & Community Building (Feels long, however, there are many charts)
Review Four Levels of Racism (2 pages)
Segregated by Design from Zinn Education Project
What Is White Privilege, Really? by Cory Collins
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (2 pages) Peggy McIntosh. After reading this article, journal about 10 things you have in your knapsack.
Skillful Means: Addressing Racism, White Supremacy and Privilege with other White Individuals (rooted in the work of Paul Kivel)
White Fragility - Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about racism Dr. Robin de Angelo
Remember the 5 Rs when you have been unskillfull
Agreements for Multicultural Interactions Adapted from Visions Inc.
Don’t be Nice, be Kind by Akaya Winwood
Full Length version of White Supremacy Culture article
Emergent Strategy Principles by adrienne marie brown
Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide
Read Psychology Today interview with Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands.
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
Why you can’t save the world without addressing racism and classism (2 pages)
Integrity by Larry Yang
Facing Our Other Crises with Lessons from Covid-19
Black Lives Matter: A Resource List for Midwives (read their letter to white midwives)
How to Be an AntiRacist, (full book), by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility, the full book by Robin DiAngelo
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Watch
A window into the invention of whiteness: (5 minutes) youtube video
A window into racist policies and laws in the US: (5 minutes) youtube video
Grand Midwives of Georgia teaser video (5 minutes) youtube video
The Treatment of Black women in American medicine (8 minutes)
What is Intersectionality? (5 minute video)
Deconstructing White Privilege by Dr. Robin DiAngelo video (22 minutes)
Highly recommended: the movie 13th, by Ava DuVernay
Documentary: Cracking the Codes by World Trust (rent for $10 to support World Trust) https://vimeo.com/263840297
Bryan Stevenson's Remarkable Speech On How To Change the World - (13 minutes)
Toni Morrison youtube ( 6 minutes)
Ibram Kendi’s short video “5 Steps to being an Anti-Racist”
Robin DiAngelo mp3 file on White Fragility (1 hour 42 min - this is her talk on the book White Fragility)
13th, the documentary by Ava DuVernay, which traces moder mass incarceration to the 13th amendment
Film: Aftershock streaming on Hulu on Disney+