♥ Indicates a resource that has been used to stimulate discussions during a meeting of the LLED Antiracist Caucus.
Accessible Resources
Uncomfortable conversations with a Black man. By Emmanuel Acho.
“This fantastic series is described as ‘a safe place to have the uncomfortable conversations about race that many white people have never been able to have.’ There are currently 10 episodes in the series, each is about 15 minutes. The conversations are open, honest (with sometimes strong language!), and generative.” Maureen Kendrick
White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not. By Robin DiAngelo (2019, January 16)
Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that’s gotten us. By Roxane Gay (2018, December 27)
Avoiding racial equity detours. By Paul Gorski (2019)
“In this brief on racial equity, Gorski highlights four racial equity detours commonly embraced in schools by educators and administrators. He then offers several equity principles that are meant to help avoid these detours and build a more transformational racial equity approach. This is a quick but poignant read that highlights the harmful consequences when there is little investment in addressing racial inequity in educational settings.” Meike Wernicke
So you want to talk about race. By Ijeoma Oluo (2019) [UBC link]
“Oluo mines the many awkward, exasperating, and repetitive conversations she has had with well-meaning people about race, and forges something truly useful out of them; a better framework for thinking and talking about race. The UBC library actually has this available as an audio book.” Ashley Moore
How to be an antiracist. By Ibram X. Kendi (2019). [UBC link]
Experience workplace racism first-hand: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180723-this-film-lets-you-experience-workplace-racism-first-hand?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook
Images of whiteness: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/11/images-of-whiteness-photography-photo-essay
Inverted racial dynamics between white women and women of color: https://qz.com/1009338/in-a-photo-series-for-o-magazine-racial-dynamics-between-white-women-and-women-of-color-are-flipped/
Other Resources
Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists. By Sara Ahmed (2009). [UBC link]
White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism. By Robin DiAngelo (2018). [UBC link]
“Robin DiAngelo’s 2018 book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, draws on the author’s experiences with diversity training in academic and non-academic contexts. The concept of ‘white fragility’ refers to the discomfort and defensiveness often evident or explicilty expressed by a white person when confronted with questions about race. The article, ‘White Fragility,’ in the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy offers excerpts from the book and centers on the concept of white fragility. A critique of the book by John McWhorter, Professor at the University of Columbia, appeard July 15th, 2020 in The Atlantic, raising questions about appropriation, allyship, as well as who is being spoken to and how.” Meike Wernicke
Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. By Audre Lorde (1984). [UBC link]
Half and half: Writers on growing up biracial and bicultural. By Claudine C. O’Hearn (1998).
Decolonizing antiracism. By Bonita Lawrence & Enakshi Dua (2005). [UBC link]