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As an organization, AzPA is committed to justice, equality, multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion. We will continue to educate and work to end systemic racism and violent brutality towards communities of color and ethnic minorities.
Listen:
Intersectionality matters! Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod for the Cause (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Parenting Forward podcast episode Five Pandemic
Parenting Lessons with Ciny Wang
Fare of the Free Child Podcast
Read:
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The Emperor Has No Clothes, by Tema Jon Okun
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work on Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tachluk
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Aniti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
Locking up Our Own by James Forman
The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torress
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Dreams of My Father, by Barack Obama
Analyzing American Racism in the Trump Era (Time magazine Sept 2018)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
True Allyship: Seeking, Speaking, and Enacting Truth (Psychology Today blog)
"America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us" by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement - Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
"My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant" by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22,
2011)
The Combahee River Collective Statement
"The Intersectionality Wars" by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
"Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?" by Courtney
Martin (June 1, 2020)
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
"Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Watch:
13th (Netflix)
American Son (Netflix)
Dear White People (Netflix)
If Beale Street Could Talk (HULU)
Malcolm X (Netflix)
King in the Wilderness (HBO)
See You Yesterday (Netflix)
The Hate You Give (Cinimax)
When They See Us (Netflix)
Skin (movie about Sandra Laing who is a South African woman designated as “White, then Colored, then White again and finally Colored again)
Crossing the Color Line: Overcoming Bias to Forge Relationships, Dr. Angela Kenzslowe on Ted.com
Any additional video on RACE on Ted.com
Racism is Real (Youtube)
RACE- The Power of an Illusion (PBS)
ALL major news sources no matter your political affiliation
Systemic Racism Explained (YouTube)
3 Psych Docs (Youtube)
The Birth of a Nation
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett,
Charlene Carruthers
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at
TEDxTimberlaneSchools
Act:
Understand your own implicit bias: Take the Harvard Implicit bias test at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Have difficult conversations with people who are different
Challenge friends and family who hold racial attitudes
Listen first
Donate to organizations that offer support to POC
Offer services (i.e. sliding scale) to organizations that support POC
Join boards that service POC
Write to your local and national politicians
Additional Resources:
Diversity Consult with Dr. Evelyn Burrell
- Recording and slides are available to AzPA members
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