Education Tools: How To Be Anti-Racist
As ULC works to divest from systems that contribute to racial injustices, and to reinvest in communities that are targeted for market-rate development, we are also taking time to educate ourselves to be better allies to our Black and Brown communities. Here are some resources our team is working through:
YouTube Clips
OWN Spotlight, Where Do We Go From Here? (Part I)
Trevor Noah re: Racism and the Social Contract
Articles
The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Understanding Our New Racial Reality Starts with the Unconscious, Greater Good Magazine (John A. Powell)
Eight Ways to Stand Up to Hate, Greater Good Magazine (Elizabeth Svoboda)
Books
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)
The Color of Law: A forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Mehrsa Baradaran)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
Films
Roots (2016 remake)
Just Mercy (available for free in June)