This is by no means a definitive list and I will be adding to it constantly. I’ve tried to keep the focus mostly on the UK but there are also links to US based resources.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
(Credit to Georgetown University Library)
Antiracist: A conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily. These choices require ongoing self-awareness and self-reflection as we move through life. In the absence of making antiracist choices, we (un)consciously uphold aspects of white supremacy, white-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society. Being racist or antiracist is not about who you are; it is about what you do. (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Taking about Race)
BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, the term is used to highlight the unique relationship to whiteness that Indigenous and Black (African Americans) people have, which shapes the experiences of and relationship to white supremacy for all people of color within a U.S. context. (The BIPOC Movement)
In the UK the acronym BAME is currently more commonly used but there are some issues this these terms as detailed here.
Cultural Appropriation: Theft of cultural elements for one’s own use, commodification, or profit—including symbols, art, language, customs, etc.—often without understanding, acknowledgement, or respect for its value in the original culture. Results from the assumption of a dominant (i.e., white) culture’s right to take other cultural elements. (Colours of Resistance Archive)
Implicit Bias: Also known as unconscious or hidden bias, implicit biases are negative associations that people unknowingly hold. They are expressed automatically, without conscious awareness. Many studies have indicated that implicit biases affect individuals’ attitudes and actions, thus creating real-world implications, even though individuals may not even be aware that those biases exist within themselves. Notably, implicit biases have been shown to trump individuals’ stated commitments to equality and fairness, thereby producing behavior that diverges from the explicit attitudes that many people profess. (The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Implicit Bas Review)
Individual Racism: Occurs between individuals. These are public expressions of racism, often involving slurs, biases, or hateful words or actions. (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Taking about Race)
Institutionalised Racism: Occurs in an organization. These are discriminatory treatments, unfair policies, or biased practices based on race that result in inequitable outcomes for whites over people of color and extend considerably beyond prejudice. These institutional policies often never mention any racial group, but the intent is to create advantages. Example: A school system where students of color are more frequently distributed into the most crowded classrooms and underfunded schools and out of the higher-resourced schools. (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Taking about Race)
Intersectionality: A prism to see the interactive effects of various forms of discrimination and disempowerment. It looks at the way that racism, many times, interacts with patriarchy, heterosexism, classism, xenophobia—seeing that the overlapping vulnerabilities created by these systems actually create specific kinds of challenges. (Critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw to them. magazine)
Microagression: Brief, commonplace, subtle, or blatant daily verbal, behavior, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color. (University of Washington Racial Equity Glossary)
WATCH: Nova Reid‘s TEDx talk
POC: People of Color, often the preferred collective term for referring to non-white racial groups, rather than “minorities.” Racial justice advocates have been using the term “people of color” (not to be confused with the pejorative “colored people”) since the late 1970s as an inclusive and unifying frame across different racial groups that are not white, to address racial inequities. While “people of color” can be a politically useful term, and describes people with their own attributes (as opposed to what they are not, eg: “non-white”), it is also important whenever possible to identify people through their own racial/ethnic group, as each has its own distinct experience and meaning and may be more appropriate. (Race Forward, “Race Reporting Guide”)
Structural Racism: The overarching system of racial bias across institutions and society. These systems give privileges to white people resulting in disadvantages to people of color. Example: Stereotypes of people of color as criminals in mainstream movies and media. (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Taking about Race)
WATCH: This powerful video by Kimberley Jones
White Fragility: A state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium. (White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo )
READ: Why We Need To Talk About White Fragility by Nova Reid
White Privilege: Refers to the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits, and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it. (“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh)
READ: ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh and What Is White Privilege, Really? by Cory Collins
White Supremacy: A form of racism centered upon the belief that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds and that whites should politically, economically, and socially dominate non-whites. While often associated with violence perpetrated by the KKK and other white supremacist groups, it also describes a political ideology and systemic oppression that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical, and/or industrial White domination. (Race Forward, “Race Reporting Guide”)
Also check out more extensive glossaries from The Anti-Racist Educator here and from Racial Equity Tools here
DONATE & SUPPORT
The first ACTION we can take is to actively support organisations tackling racial injustice by donating money.
UK CHARITIES
Stop Hate UK is one of the leading national organisations working to challenge all forms of Hate Crime and discrimination, based on any aspect of an individual’s identity. Stop Hate UK provides independent, confidential and accessible reporting and support for victims, witnesses and third parties.
SARI: Stand Against Racism – SARI provides support for victims of any type of hate crime including racist, faith-based, disablist, homophobic, transphobic, age-based or gender-based.
Runnymede Trust generate intelligence to challenge race inequality in Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement.
Show Racism the Red Card provide educational workshops, training sessions, multimedia packages, and a whole host of other resources, all with the purpose of tackling racism in society.
Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust was founded on the premise that inequality must be tackled in all its forms. This includes inequality of access, and of opportunity, wherever it occurs.
US CHARITIES
Black Lives Matter whose aim is to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate black people, and end white supremacy forever
Follow this link here for petitions collated by Black Lives Matter including petitions for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others.
Split a donation between bail funds across the USA here.
IT STARTS WITH EDUCATION
The Black Curriculum is a social enterprise founded in 2019 by young people to address the lack of Black British history in the UK Curriculum. We believe that by delivering arts focused Black history programmes, providing teacher training.
Petition here to make white privilege and systemic racism a compulsory part of the British education course
Also write to your MP here about the making Black histories mandatory in the national curriculum, find a template here.
SUPPORT BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES
Read about why you should support Black owned businesses here
Join in on Black Pound Day! A solution-based approach set up to support the growth of the UK Black economy. The next one is 1st August 2020.
Starting with one day per month, Black Pound Day encourages everyone to spend money with local and online UK Black-owned businesses. Replacing your usual purchases with services and products from Black-owned businesses. The day is also an opportunity to find out how everyone can support Black businesses over the long-term.
Black Makers Matter: Instagram
Independent Black businesses: Instagram
Black Owned Business UK: Instagram
Janet’s List: Instagram
RIOT GEAR EXPORTS
Petition here to suspend UK export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields to USA.
Write to your MP about sales of rubber bullets, tear gas, and riot shields to the US, condemning Trump and addressing BAME COVID deaths. You can write directly to your MP here: https://www.writetothem.com
You can find a template here (make sure you personalise it/vary the language so it’s not seen as spam)
LISTEN
1619 podcast from The New York Times (hosted by Nicole Hannah-Jones) tells the story of how slavery transformed America. It is part of the The 1619 Project, which is an ongoing initiative thats aims to “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
About Race podcast by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Mixed Up podcast by Emma Slade Edmondson and Nicole Ocran
READ
It is our job (not the job of black people & POC) to educate ourselves on the history of systemic racism and white privilege.
NON-FICTION BOOKS
Even though some of these links go through to Amazon (boo hiss I know) If you’re buying books about anti-racism consider buying from a Black-owned bookshop such as Seveonoaks Bookshop, New Beacon Books, Jacaranda, Round Table Books and No Ordinary Bookshop
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of an Empire by Akala
This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Black and British by David Olusoga
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Millenial Black and Anti-Racist Ally by Sophie Williams
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
How to Argue With a Racist by Adam Rutherford
FICTION
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabri
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ARTICLES
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
“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
DOCUMENTARIES
13th (Ava DuVernay) – YouTube
13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay — Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available on Mubi or Amazon
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin) – 2017 — Available to rent on Amazon
FILMS
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent on Amazon
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) – 2014 — Available to rent on Amazon
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) – 2018 — Available to rent on Amazon
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) – 2018 — Available to rent on Amazon
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
TV SERIES
Insecure — Now TV
Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
OTHER
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)“How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
ANTI-RACISM COURSES
#DoTheWork 30 day free course by Rachel Cargle
(Also please consider signing up to Rachel’s Patreon page The Great Unlearn)
Anti-Racism Daily (daily actions to dismantle white supremacy)
Anti-Racism and White Privilege Course by Nova Reid
Check out Eventbrite’s Online Racial Equity classes
SOCIAL MEDIA
ORGANISATIONS
Everyday Racism: Instagram
Anti Racism Daily: Instagram
Black Lives Matter: Instagram
BLM UK: Instagram
Black History for White People: Instagram
Ask a POC: Instagram
Volted Voices: Instagram
The Black Curriculum: Instagram
Educate To Change: Instagram
Fill In The Blanks: Instagram
Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
From Privilege to Progress: Instagram
Attn: White People: Instagram
Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Check Your Privilege: Instagram
We The Urban: Instagram
Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Language Matters: Instagram
Pull Up For Change: Instagram
Black Minds Matter: Instagram
Stand Up to Racism UK: Instagram
Wear Your Voice: Instagram
UK Black Pride: Instagram
The Daily Show: Instagram
Stephen Lawrence Trust: Instagram
So You Want to Talk About: Instagram
The Great Unlearn: Instagram
No White Saviors: Instagram
Shifting the Culture: Instagram
INDIVIDUALS
Rachel Ricketts: Instagram
Rachel Cargle: Instagram
Sassy Latte: Instagram
Official Millennial Black: Instagram
Holiday Philips: Instagram
Blair Imani: Instagram
Brandon K Good: Instagram
Munroe Bergdorf: Instagram
Erica Courdae: Instagram
Nova Reid: Instagram
Brittany Packnett Cunningham: Instagram
Layla F Saad (author of Me And White Supremacy): Instagram
Candice Brathwaite (author of I Am Not Your Baby Mother): Instagram
Tiffany Jewell (author of This Book is Anti-Racist): Instagram
Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race): Instagram
MORE RESOURCES
A very useful checklist to help you keep track of what actions you’ve taken
Anti-racism resources by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES
Anti-racism resources by Leonie Dawson: https://leoniedawson.com/racism/