Anti-racism resources

The following resources have been arranged according to different styles of learning. This list is meant to serve as an initial list of resources to visit in order to guide you into understanding and dismantling internalized and institutional racism. Antiracism is not something that can be checked off a list; nor cured within an individual or an institution through occasional learning. Dismantling racism must be a regular and intentional process that is done throughout the course of our lives. Unlearning racism and becoming antiracist is a lifelong, ongoing process; we encourage you to continue unlearning racism after using these resources. Over time, we will add to the list to address different intersections of racial oppression.

For more trainings and courses on diversity and equity for various groups, see the UC Davis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion pages for Unit and Department Trainings, Diversity Courses, Diversity Awareness Workshop, and other trainings.

Articles
Books
- Nonfiction
- NEW Fiction
Documentaries
Movies (non-documentary) and film series
Short videos
Podcasts
Resources for engaging with youth
Webinars
Other resource collections

Articles

Compiled by UC Office of the President LINK.

97 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice, Corinne Shutack.
Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How, Michelle Kim.
Black Trans Men Face a Constant Threat of Police Violence, Ash Stevens
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hiring a Chief Diversity Officer Won’t Fix Your Racist Company Culture, Nadia Owusu
How Higher Ed Can Fight Racism: ‘Speak Up When It’s Hard’, Francie Diep
My White Friend Asked Me On Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest, Lori Lakin Hutcherson
On George Floyd and the Struggle to Belong, Denise Herd
Police: Sixth-leading cause of death for young Black men, Morgun Sherburne
The Answer to Police Violence is Not ‘Reform’; It’s Defunding, Here’s Why, Alex Vitale
We’re in a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope, john a. powell
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? Ibram X. Kendi
Why You Need to Stop Saying ‘All Lives Matter’, Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay—Chances Are They’re Not, Danielle Cadet

Provided by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias, Rhonda Magee
Why Telling Our Own Stories is So Powerful for Black Americans, Andrea Collier
Five Ways to Have Better Conversations Across Difference, Adrian Michael Green
How to Fight Racism Through Inner Work, Jill Suttie

Books

Nonfiction

NEW A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, Benjamin Madley
How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
We Are the Land: A History of Native California, William J. Bauer
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
NEW Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, Helen Zia
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
NEW Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney Cooper
Farewell to Manzanar, James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia, Sabrina Strings
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Davis
NEW History of Asian Americans: Strangers From a Different Shore, Ronald Takaki
NEW The Making of Asian America: A History, Erika Lee
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saayed
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Redefining Realness, Janet Mock
NEW Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, Lisa Low
NEW Model Minority Imperialism, Victor Bascara
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
There, There, Tommy Orange
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison
Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northrup
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk To White People About Race, Robin DiAngelo
White Tears, Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, Ruby Hamad
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
NEW Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear, John Kuo Wei Tchen

Fiction

NEW Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So
NEW All The Things I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
NEW Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
NEW America is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo.
NEW The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
NEW The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi W. Durrow
NEW Kindred, Octavia Butler
NEW The Leavers, Lisa Ko
NEW No-No Boy, John Okada
NEW Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
NEW Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler.
NEW The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.
NEW Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
NEW The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis
NEW The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennet
NEW The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Documentaries

NEW Asian Americans, Ham Tran
13^th, Ava Duvernary
The Black Power Mixtape, Gorän Olsson
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Stanley Nelson Jr.
NEW Call Her Ganda, PJ Raval
Disclosure, Sam Feder
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, Shola Lynch
Gather, Sanjay Rawal
I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck
Kimu Hina, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson
Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992, John Ridley
4 Little Girls, Spike Lee
Lorena, Light-footed Woman, Juan Carlos Rulfo
The Murder of Fred Hampton, Howard Alk and Mike Gray
NEW The Problem With Apu, Hari Kondabolu
NEW Stateless, Duc Nguyen
Whose Streets? Sabaah Folayaan

Movies (non-documentary) and film series

Belle, Amma Asante
Black Panther, Ryan Coogler
Blindspotting, Carlos López Estrada
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Yves Simoneau
NEW The Farewell, Lulu Wang
NEW Double Happiness, Mina Shum
Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler
The Great Debaters, Denzel Washington
If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
NEW Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King
Just Mercy, Destin Daniel Cretton
Marshall, Reginald Hudlin
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins
Malcolm X, Spike Lee
NEW Minari, Lee Isaac Chung
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins
NEW The Namesake, Mira Nair
Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho
Pose, various directors
NEW Queen Sugar, various directors
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Saving Face, Alice Wu
Selma, Ava Duvernay
NEW Tigertail, Alan Yang
When They See Us, Ava Duvernay

Short videos

NEW Asian American 101: ‘Positive’ Stereotypes Cause Harm. Arizona State University. ~2.5 minutes
NEW Asian: How You See Me, SoulPancakeYoutube channel. ~4 minutes
NEW Atlanta Shootings Reveal Violence of Anti-Asian Stereotype, Yoonj Kim. ~5.5 minutes
4 Black Lives Matter Myths Debunked, Francesca Ramsey. ~4 minutes
NEW A Conversation with Latinos on Race. The New York Times,~7 minutes
A Conversation with Native Americans on Race, The New York Times, ~6 minutes
Dark Skinned Girls on Colourism, BBC Three, ~4 minutes
Don’t Be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks, Barnard Center for Research on Women, ~4 minutes
First Thanksgiving, Linda Coombs, ~12 minutes
How do you handle a racist joke? Francesca Ramsey. ~5 minutes
NEW How Indians Have Been Stereotyped by Hollywood, IndiaTimes. ~ 5 minutes
NEW How the Model Minority Myth Hurts Asian-American Elders, NBC Asian America. ~5 minutes
Indigenous People Review Native American Characters in Film and TV. Buzzfeed Video, ~8 minutes
Light Skinned Privilege, Franchesca Ramsey, ~6 minutes
6 Misconceptions About Native American Culture, Teen Vogue, ~3 minutes
7 Myths About Cultural Appropriation Debunked, Francesca Ramsey. ~6 minutes
Native American Girls Describe the Real History Behind Thanksgiving, Teen Vogue
One Word Playlist: Thanksgiving and Native American
NEW The Struggles of Being An Asian American, Refinery29 Youtube channel. ~4 minutes
5 Things You Should Know About Racism, Francesca Ramsey. ~6 minutes
What Dark-Skinned People Will Never Tell You, Buzzfeed Video, ~5 minutes
What is Performative Allyship? ~2 minutes
NEW What Led to the Decline of Japanese-American Farmers in California? AJ+. ~9 minutes.
What’s the Difference Between Hispanic, Latino, and Spanish? Bustle, ~4 minutes
Which is Better: Latino or Latinx? Pero Like, ~10 minutes
Why Colorblindness Will NOT End Racism, Francesca Ramsey. ~6 minutes
Why Racism Isn’t Just a Southern Problem, Francesca Ramsey. ~5 minutes

Podcasts

1619, Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times
About Race, Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda, and Tanner Colby
All My Relations, Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene
NEW Asian Americans Talk About Racism, and We Listen, Emily Yoshida and Parul Sehgal
Black&, Jonathan Perkins and April Perkins
NEW But Where Are You Really From? An Asian American Struggle, Angela Lin and Jesse Lin
Code Switch, National Public Radio
NEW Flood Lines, The Atlantic
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
While Black
Who Belongs? UC Berkeley
Intersectionality Matters! Kimberlé Crenshaw
Scene On Radio: Seeing White, John and Dr. Kumanyika
The Afro-Latinx Experience is Essential to our International Reckoning on Race, Felix Contreras, Anaïs Laurent, Marisa Arbona-Ruiz, Jasmine Garsd
Latino USA, National Public Radio
NEW What Happened to the Property of the Japanese American Community During World War II? Capitol Public Radio