Library Guides: Anti-Racism Resources: Whiteness, White Privilege, and Allyship

Books @WWU

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad; Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781728209807

Publication Date: 2020

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780807047415

Publication Date: 2018

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
White Out: the Continuing Significance of Racism by Ashley W. Doane (Editor); Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 1283969858

Publication Date: 2013

What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life.
White Guys on Campus by Nolan L. Cabrera
Call Number: ebook

ISBN: 9780813599069

Publication Date: 2018

On April 22, 2015, Boston University professor Saida Grundy set off a Twitter storm with her provocative question: "Why is white America so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population?" White Guys on Campus is a critical examination of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among White male undergraduates.

Covert and Overt White Supremacy

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (2005) and adapted by Ellen Tuzzolo (2016)

How to be an ally

The Guide to Allyship
An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.
What is Performative Allyship?
"Being an ally means being able to engage, being able to act, and being able to listen." This is why it is so important to be more than a *performative* ally.
10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship (Vogue)
A word for white people, in two parts by adrienne maree brown
There Is No Such Thing as a ‘White Ally’
by Catherine Pugh. Chapter 1 of the There Is No Such Thing as a “White Ally” Series.
Get involved--SURJ (Showing up for Racial Justice)
SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice by Eddie Moore (Editor); Ali Michael (Editor); Paul C. Gorski (Foreword by); Eddie Moore (Editor); Marguerite W. Penick-Parks (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 1620362090

Publication Date: 2015

While we are all familiar with the lives of prominent Black civil rights leaders, few of us have a sense of what is entailed in developing a White anti-racist identity.

Web Resources

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Liabilities Of White Privilege: How White Privilege Hurts White People
How To Explain White Privilege Exists: 7 Common Arguments, Debunked
What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege
Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
White Fragility Self Test
Reading While White
Teaching While White
Resources Organized by Stages of White Racial Identity Development
Healing from Internalized Whiteness
Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
Dedicated to social justice and civic engagement, it is the personal website of educator and writer Jon Greenberg.

Podcasts

Seeing White
Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.