A non-exhaustive list of anti-racism resources for those who are ready and willing to learn

This includes ourselves too

Before we begin, a note on anti-racism educators:

We at Tick That Box are not anti-racist educators, nor will we try to be. We will not be reproducing (note, stealing) their work and posting it here, nor will we claim to have any understanding of what it is like to move through this world as a black individual. Both of us admins are women of colour, but neither of us identify as black and we have plenty of our own anti-racism education to be getting on with. We will be doing that work as we always have; privately and off social media because that is what feels most genuine to both of us. For you to do the actual work, we recommend using these lists as a springboard into your journey, and it’s very likely you’ve heard of some, if not most, of these resources already.

Anti-racism educators/accounts:

• Every Day Racism (@everydayracism_)
• Aja Barber (@ajabarber)
• Nova Reid (@novareidofficial)
• Layla F. Saad (@laylafsaad)
• Reni Eddo-Lodge (@renieddolodge)
• Rachel Elizabeth Cargle (@rachel.cargle)
• The Other Box (@_theotherbox)
• The Great Unlearn (run by Rachel Cargle) (@thegreatunlearn)
• Ogurchukwu (@ogurchukwu)
• Candice Brathwaite (@candicebrathwaite)
• No White Saviours (@nowhitesaviours)
• Seeding Sovereignty (@seedingsovereignty)

Books:

Non-Fiction

• How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• So you want to talk about race, Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• I Am Not Your Baby Mother, Candice Brathwaite
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
• Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the 21st Century, Monique W. Morris
• The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen
• Don’t Touch My Hair, Emma Dabiri
• The Good Immigrant, Nikesh Shukla (editor) & others
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War 2, Douglas A. Blackmon
• Choke Hold: Policing Black Me, Paul Butler
• Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
• How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America, Moustafa Bayoumi
• Biased, Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
• Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad (there has been a free online pdf of the ‘Me and White Supremacy Workbook’ being shared by influencers and others on social media right now. Please read Saad’s post explaining that this was a pdf with limited availability and should not be being shared and downloaded any longer — buy her book, which offers even more than the pdf.)

Fiction

• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
• Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
• Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Other Amercians, Laila Lalami
• The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
• We Cast A Shadow, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
• Beneath a Ruthless Sun, Gilbert King
• The Travelers, Regina Porter
• Copperhead, Alexi Zentner
• If You Want To Make God Laugh, Bianca Marais
• White Girls, Hilton Als

Podcasts:

• Code Switch (NPR)
• 1619 (The New York Times & Nicole Hannah-Jones)
• Yo, Is This Racist? (Andrew Ti & Tawney Newsome)
• Pod Save The People with DeRay (DeRay Mckesson)
• Seeing White (Duke University Centre for Documentary Studies, Chenjerai Kumanyika & John Biewen)
• Mixed Company (Simeon Coker & Kai Deveraux Lawson)
• Higher Learning (Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay)
• The United States of Anxiety (Kai Wright)
• Still Processing (Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris)
• Come Through (Rebecca Carroll)
• Growing up with Gal-dem (Gal-dem)
• The Missionary (iHeartRadio)
• About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
• Intersectionality Matters (The African American Policy Forum & Kimberlé Crenshaw)

Film and TV:

• 13th
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Whose Streets
• LA92
• Who Killed Malcolm X
• When They See Us
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
• Dear White People (the film and the TV series)
• Selma
• Get Out
• The Hate U Give
• 12 Years a Slave
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Fruitvale Station
• Moonlight
• BlacKkKlansman
• Just Mercy
• Rodney King
• Freedom Riders
• The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson
• Soundtrack for a Revolution
• Injustice
• Black and Scottish
• Dark Girls
• Farming

Other:

• Open access courses on African American History, at Yale University (online)
• The Great Unlearn (an anti-racism course) by Rachel Cargle on Patreon
• Online courses on Anti-Racism, Allyship and White Privilege by Nova Reid