Anti-Racism Resources

Here you will find a list of resources for engaging in and developing a practice of anti-racism. Please note that the majority of these resources are focused on anti-black racism and white supremacy within the United States.

Content Hubs

Eddie Moore Jr.’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge

MassArt’s Community Sourced Resources for Racial Justice

Resmaa Menakem Resource Page

Articles

‘What is Owed’ by Nikole Hannah-Jones

‘White Academia: Do Better.’ by Jasmine Roberts

‘Sixteen Words and Definitions to Kickstart Your Anti-Racism Journey’ By Renée Charez

‘Talking About Race’ from the National Museum of African American History & Culture

‘When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs’ by Tre Johnson, The Washington Post, 6/11/2020

‘White People Raised to Be Racially Illiterate’ by Robin DiAngelo

‘Things I Didn’t Know’ by James Mulholland

‘The Power of Teachers to Transform’ by Tauheedah Baker

Podcasts

Good Ancestor Project

Books

‘How To Be An Antiracist’ by Ibram X. Kendi

‘A Race Is A Nice Thing to Have’ by Dr. Janet E. Helms

‘Me and White Supremacy’ by Layla F. Saad

‘White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For While People To Talk About Racism’ by Robin DiAngelo

‘The Racial Healing Handbook’ by Anneliese A. Singh

Film / Video

Kimberly Jones, ‘How Can We Win’

“The Room of Silence,” 2016, dir. Eloise Sherrid, in collaboration with the student organization Black Artists and Designers (B.A.A.D.) and the organizing efforts of Olivia Stephens, Utē Petit, and Chantal Feitosa.

PBS, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Reverend Barber on White Supremacy

Antiracism and Academia, Education

Academics 4 Black Survival and Wellness

Steve Locke, @steve_locke, twitter thread, Jun 24, 2020

‘White Supremacy in the Age of Trump’, a syllabus by Professor Loretta J. Ross, Smith College, Spring 2020

‘White Academia: Do Better.’ by Jasmine Roberts

‘When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs’ by Tre Johnson, The Washington Post, 6/11/2020

‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ by Paulo Freire

‘Reproduction of White Privilege in Visual Art Education’ by Roberta S. Bennett

‘A Call to Action for White Educators who Seek to Be Anti-Racist’ by Larissa Wright-Elson

Thriving Classrooms, Summer 2020 workshop series, Sponsored by the Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET) in partnership with the Counseling & Wellness Center (CWC) at MassArt

Cultural Equity Learning Community

MassArt’s Anti-Racism Dialogues, hosted by JET (Justice, Equity, and Transformation)

‘The Power of Teachers to Transform’ by Tauheedah Baker

In Pursuit of Racial Equity in Arts’ by Lauren Williams

Antiracism and the Arts

Cultural Equity Learning Community

“The Room of Silence,” 2016, dir. Eloise Sherrid, in collaboration with the student organization Black Artists and Designers (B.A.A.D.) and the organizing efforts of Olivia Stephens, Utē Petit, and Chantal Feitosa.

Steve Locke, @steve_locke, twitter thread, Jun 24, 2020

‘Can Art Change the Future for Racial and Ethnic Identity? A Roundtable Conversation’ by Ellen Yoshi Tani, Jessica Backus and Olivia Jene-Fagon

‘Reproduction of White Privilege in Visual Art Education’ by Roberta S. Bennett

‘Decolonizing Art History’ by Catherine Grant, Dorothy Price

‘Racial and Ethnic Identity’ Artsy Category

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at Brooklyn Museum

‘Its time for the arts world to look hard at its own racism’ by Bidisha

‘Recovering and Reclaiming: The Art and Visual Culture of the Black Arts Movement’ by Shirley A. Bowen

‘Kerry James Marshall: Challenging racism in art history’ by Alastair Sooke

‘Reproduction of White Privilege in Visual Art Education’ by Roberta S. Bennett

Thriving Classrooms, Summer 2020 workshop series, Sponsored by the Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET) in partnership with the Counseling & Wellness Center (CWC) at MassArt

MassArt’s Anti-Racism Dialogues, hosted by JET (Justice, Equity, and Transformation)

‘In Pursuit of Racial Equity in Arts’ by Lauren Williams

Antiracism and Massachusetts

Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

Cultural Equity Learning Community

Thriving Classrooms, Summer 2020 workshop series, Sponsored by the Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET) in partnership with the Counseling & Wellness Center (CWC) at MassArt

MassArt’s Anti-Racism Dialogues, hosted by JET (Justice, Equity, and Transformation)

Antiracism Education and Organizations

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

Liza Talusan, PhD

Cultural Equity Learning Community