Resource List for Learning About Racism & Privilege

This is a list of books, documentaries, films, & podcasts to educate ourselves & our friends/family about racism and privilege. I challenge you to diversify your bookshelves and media consumption by supporting Black authors and creators. This list is just a start. For transparency, I have not read/listened to everything on this list, however I am personally making it a priority to read and listen to as many of these as possible. I am also making it a priority to support more Black-owned businesses, bookstores, authors, & creators directly and encourage you to do so when possible as well. Links were live at time of posting, but may change over time.

Books on STEM & Race

• Algorithms of Oppression

• Weapons of Math Destruction

• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Books on Race, Police Brutality, & Social Justice

• How to Be an Antiracist

• Hood Feminism

• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

• The End of Policing

Children's Books

• The Day You Begin

• Something Happened in Our Town

• Separate is Never Equal

• Let it Shine: Stories of Women Freedom Fighters

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

• Little Leaders: Brave Men in Black History

Parents, please check out the following resources!

• https://www.theconsciouskid.org/ (@theconsciouskid on IG)

• https://www.embracerace.org/ (@embracerace on IG)

Documentaries & Films

• 13th (Netflix)

• I Am Not Your Negro http://www.iamnotyournegrofilm.com/watch-at-home

• The Black Power Mixtape (Buy or Rent on YouTube)

• Crime + Punishment (Hulu)

• The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix)

• Explained: Racial Wealth Gap (Free on YouTube)

Podcasts

• Code Switch (NPR)

• 1619 (NY Times)

• Pod for the Cause (The Leadership Council on Civil & Human Rights)

• Seeing White (Scene on Radio)

• The Nod (Gimlet Media)