Anti-Racism Resources & An Author Special with Candice Brathwaite The High Low

This week’s episode is focused on the resources we can access to educate ourselves on racism. These lists are not exhaustive but may provide a starting point. We also interview the creator of Make Motherhood Diverse, Candice Brathwaite, about her searing new book I Am Not Your Baby Mother.
 
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Non-Fiction
Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
How To Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Good Immigrant compiled by Nikesh Shukla
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Women Race and Class by Angela Davis
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Brit-ish by Afua Hirsch   
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay 
Slay In Your Lane by Elizabeth Uviebinené & Yomi Adegoke
A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri 
Taking Up Space: The Black Girls Manifesto For Change by Chelsea Kwakye & Ore Ogunbiyi 
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad 
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Aint I a Woman: Black Women & Feminism by bell hooks 
Why You Need To Stop Saying “All Lives Matter” by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle for Harper’s Bazaar https://bit.ly/3gG8rgq
Ibram X. Kendi’s reading list for The New York Times https://nyti.ms/3gKL8lH
 
Fiction
Beloved by Toni Morrison 
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker 
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Ordinary People by Diana Evans 
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
On Beauty and White Teeth by Zadie Smith 
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Citizen: An American Life by Claudia Rankine
 
Social media
@theconsciouskid
@taranaburke
@galdemzine
@tamikadmallory 
@privtoprog 
@blklivesmatter
 
Donate
George Floyd’s Memorial Fund 
Black Lives Matter
Black Protest Legal Support UK
Liberty
Stop Hate UK
The Stephen Lawrence Trust 
The Innocence Project 
Show Racism The Red Card 
Black Visions Collective
 
Mentorship
Routes
Girls Out Loud
Fluid
 
Kids resources
diversebooks.org
Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey 
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Brad Meltzer’s Ordinary People Can Change The World series on Rosa Parks & Harriet Tubman 
A Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
 
Other links
Petition to update GCSE reading list https://bit.ly/2U6foOl
1619 podcast by The NY Times

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