Anti-Racism Committee and Book List

The Anti-Racism Committee is currently inactive, for information please email eboard@arisia.org

Mission Statement

As part of our acknowledgement that Arisia has ongoing work to do in welcoming Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) we created this web page. We seek to help members of the community recognize our shared history of being not as inclusive as we have promised, and to move toward a practice of active anti-racism.

The Anti Racism Committee (ARC) has put together a series of books, online training resources, and videos so that members of the Arisia community can do self-guided learning on how to be anti-racist and learn new internal, interpersonal, institutional and ideological practices.

Recommended Books, Short Reviews, and How to Find Them

Highlighted in red are those that are part of a lending library the ARC has created, curated by Jan Dumas; these books are available for loan. Please send an email to arc@arisia.org.

We have also curated a list at the ARC's goodreads page which we welcome members of our community to use as a guide to self-education.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/125015102

Difficult Conversations: how to discuss what matters most

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen

How to have that difficult conversation

Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

Me and White Supremacy

Layla F Saad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_White_Supremacy

Me and White Supremacy Discussion Prompts

Layla F Saad

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow

Building a Movement to End The New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

Daniel Hunter

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Olou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Want_to_Talk_About_Race

White Fragility

Robin Diangelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility

White Rage: The unspoken Truth of our racial Divide by Carol Anderson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rage

Stamped from the Beginning: A definitive history of racist ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamped_from_the_Beginning

How to be an Anti-racist

Ibram X. Kendi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Be_an_Antiracist 

When they call you a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Patrisse Cullors  

Tears We Can Not Stop: A Sermon to White America

Michael Eric Dyson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_We_Cannot_Stop

The Fire this Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_This_Time_(book)  

White Like Me

Tim Wise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Like_Me  

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

The Voting Rights War (ARC Lending Library)

Gloria J. Browne Marshall  

White Flight:Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (ARC Lending Library)

Kevin M. Kruse  

The Wages of Whiteness:Race and the making of the American Working Class

David R. Roediger

Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants became White

David R Roediger 

Shaping School Culture:Pratfalls, Paradoxes, & Promises

Terrence E. Deal / Kent D. Peterson

Training and Workshops

White People Challenging Racism

Based in Cambridge MA https://www.wpcr-boston.org/ 

"21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge"

From the Knoxville Bar Association https://www.knoxbar.org/index.cfm?pg=RacialEquityChallenge

The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond: PISAB

Based in New Orleans
https://pisab.org/ 

Martha’s Vineyard Radio - diversity project

https://mvyradio.org/diversity 

Mel King Institute for community building

Boston based training group
https://melkinginstitute.org/

race forward

https://www.raceforward.org/ 

IMPACT Boston

Boston arm of multi-city organization
http://impactboston.org/classes/online-classes/

Articles

The Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) Racism In Kids' Lit

https://time.com/4876091/racism-childrens-books-kids-lit/
By Sarah Begley July 27, 2017  

'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873375416/there-is-no-neutral-nice-white-people-can-still-be-complicit-in-a-racist-society
By Ari Shapiro, June 9, 2020