The White Card Resources
ARTICLES
Frances E. Kendall, How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege
Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
Allan Johnson, Excerpt from Privilege: Power and Difference
Margaret Biser, I used to lead tours on a plantation. You wouldn’t believe the questions I got about slavery.
Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me!, Voices of WOC & Allies
Levana Saxon, Allyship and Accountability Glossary
Ryan Struyk, Blacks and whites see racism in the US very very differently
Matthew Hughey & W. Carson Byrd Born that Way: Scientific Racism is Creeping Back Into Our Thinking
NPR: Michael Martin, Fear of the Black Man, How Racial Bias Impacts Crime/Labor
Alexis Madrigal, The Racist Housing Policy that Made your Neighborhood
Goyette and Scheller, 15 Charts that Prove We’re Far From Post Racial
Julie Turkowicz, A ‘Historic Moment’ for Native American
Nicholas Kristof, When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Parts 1-7
Joy Sewing, Marrianne Williamson Asked White People To Apologize. She Got It Right
Tara Bahrampour, They Considered Themselves White, But DNA Tests Told a More Complicated Story
Pandemics: A history of discrimination by Shailesh Sharma
“Walking While Black” by Garnette Cadogan
Working from Home While Black by Laura Morgan Roberts and Courtney L. McClune
What is White Privilege, Really? By Cory Collins
How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues by Stephanie Creary
“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” by Audre Lorde
“When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels” by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
“White Women Doing White Supremacy in Non-Profit Culture” by Heather Lane Talley
“Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people” by Ijeoma Oluo
“Restorative Justice in the Workplace” by Ellie Mejia
“Whites Only: SURJ and the Caucasian Invasion of Racial Justice Spaces” by DiDi Delgado
BOOKS
Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, 2nd Edition (2015) Glenn Singleton
Race Amity: A Primer on America’s Other Tradition, Natl Center for Race Amity
White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, Paula Rothenberg
Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice, Eric Mason
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
Privilege: Power and Difference, Allan Johnson
Privilege: A Reader, Michael Kimmel & Abby Ferber
Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
America’s Original Sin: America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis
Slavery By Another Name, Douglas Blackmon
When Affirmative Action Was White, Ira Katznelson
So, You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: The Forgotten Story of How Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White, Daniel Hill
Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert
Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, Calvin Schermerhorn
The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
FILMS
13th, Ava DuVernay
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay
The Color of Fear, Lee Mun Wah
I’m Not Racist Am I?, Andre Lee
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business, PBS documentary
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, PBS based on book by Douglas Blackmon
Reconstruction, PBS based on book by Eric Foner
VIDEOS
White Lies We Tell Our Children, Colin Stokes
The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality, Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic
How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations on Race, Amanda Kemp
The Future of Race in America (on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
A Conversation with Black Women on Race, New York Times Op-Docs Series
A Conversation with White People about Race, New York Times Op-Docs Series
How Race Settled the Suburbs, Upworthy (Adam Ruins Everything)
Equity vs Equality, Carneades
TOOLKITS & RESOURCES
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations by the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications
Antiracism Toolkit for Allies by the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications
Harvard’s Implicit Association Test on race
20 Things Allies Can Do Right Now
The 7 Hallmarks of an Antiracist Organization by Tiffany Jana
“Welcome to the Anti-Racism Movement—Here’s What You’ve Missed”by Ijeoma Oluo.
“10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship” by Mireille Cassandra Harper.
“Non-Black People Need to Speak Up for Black Lives” by Allyson Smith.
“Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide” by Tatiana Mac.
Code Switch.
Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook.